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 practice is rooted in non-fiction cinema and shaped by a background in sound creation, focusing on how sonic environments influence perception, space, and lived experience.
His film Others’ Gold (2011) was screened at DOK.fest München and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018) won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Best Sound Award at the Gala Québec Cinéma in 2019. His exploratory short documentary Forests (2022) was presented at festivals including the Krakow Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as well as at the Hong-Gah Museum in Taiwan. The film received the Art and Experimentation Award at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Jury Award at Trento Film Festival in 2023. Seeing Through the Darkness (2024) was screened at RIDM and won Best Social Documentary Award at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá. His latest film, Cranes and Voices, is expected to be released in 2026.
