Denis Côté, born in 1973 in New Brunswick, started creating short films after his cinema studies. He made his first feature, Drifting States, in 2005, winning the Golden Leopard Award at Locarno Film Festival. He gained recognition for directing Curling in 2010 and received acclaim for films like Carcasses (2009), Vic + Flo Saw A Bear (2013), Social Hygiene (2021), and That Kind of Summer (2022), presented at festivals like Cannes and Berlinale. Côté is a prominent Quebec filmmaker, delving into themes of solitude, fears, and alienation through both fiction and documentaries, while continuously pushing his formal boundaries.