Félix et Meira won best Canadian feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014.
The film, set mostly in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood, sensitively depicts the unusual love story between a young Hasidic woman and a Quebecois man. It is the third feature film for Giroux, who studied at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenhiem School of Cinema from 1996 to 1998.
Sara Mishara, BFA (film production) 99, was Félix et Meira’s director of photography.
The selection is just the latest piece of good news for the French, Hebrew and Yiddish film, which was produced by Montreal’s Metafilms. Félix et Meira won best Canadian feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, and has already received 20 prizes and screened at more than 50 international film festivals.
The long list for best foreign-language film — which included nine entries last year — will be revealed in late December, and the short list of five films will be announced January 14. The 88th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on February 28.