Simon Plouffe

Sound

Simon Plouffe lives and works as a filmmaker in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. He studied screenwriting at UQAM and film production at Concordia University. His film Others’ Gold (2011) was screened at Dok.Fest Munich and Big Sky Film Festival. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018) won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Best Sound at the Gala Québec Cinéma in 2019. His exploratory short documentary Forests (2022) was presented at festivals including Krakow Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as well as the Hong-Gah Museum in Taiwan. It received the Art and Experimentation Award at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Jury Prize at the Trento Film Festival in 2023. Seeing Through the Darkness (2024) was screened at the RIDM and won Best Social Documentary at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá. His latest film, Cranes and Voices, is expected to be released in 2026.