Here are 5 new faces of Quebec cinema who burst onto the screen this year

This year, Quebec cinema introduced us to several young talents who moved us, made us laugh and dazzled us with their acting and their presence on screen. Here are five new faces who shined on the big screen in 2024:

Marguerite Laurence

Antoine Bertrand is full of praise for this young 11-year-old actress who played alongside him in the family film Miss Bottinegoing so far as to compare her acting and her screen presence to the legendary performance of Charlotte Laurier in Good riddance. “Marguerite has this intangible je ne sais quoi which means that when she is on screen, we want to watch her,” the actor told us last month, before the release of this rereading of the famous Tale for everyone: Bach and Bottine. Discovery on the small screen in the TV series 5^e rangMarguerite Laurence is the daughter of the singer and author Stéphanie Lapointe and the director Dominique Laurence.

Juliette Bharucha

Even though this is her very first role on screen, this young 13-year-old actress impresses alongside Gildor Roy in the film The little one and the old manan adaptation of the novel of the same title by Marie-Renée Lavoie. Disarmingly natural, she illuminates every scene with her brilliant gaze and spontaneous acting. As soon as he saw her in an audition for the first time, director Patrice Sauvé was blown away by her immense potential: “I had the impression that if we were able to transpose her energy and her personality on screen, there would be something magical in his acting,” he revealed to us at the time of the film’s release.

Rémi Brideau

After making a few appearances on the small screen, this young 14-year-old actor made his cinema debut last summer by playing the lead role ofAbabouiné, the new dramatic comedy from filmmaker André Forcier (Hot water, cool water; An invented story). Rémi Brideau aptly embodies the character of Michel, a 12-year-old boy suffering from polio who decides to organize a revolt against the clerical order, in the tired Faubourg of the 1950s.

Jeanne Bellefeuille

It’s not easy to stand out in the middle of a cast bringing together several of Quebec’s greatest actresses, from Geneviève Schmidt to Guylaine Tremblay, including Pierrette Robitaille and Anne-Élisabeth Bossé. The young actress Jeanne Bellefeuille achieved this feat by brilliantly defending the role of Linda Lauzon in Our Sisters-in-Lawthe film by René Richard Cyr adapted from the famous play by Michel Tremblay. Aged 19, Jeanne Bellefeuille grew up in the theater world as she is the daughter of the actress Nathalie Mallette and the playwright and director Robert Bellefeuille.

Isak Guinard Butt

Released last March, the family film Echo to Delta, by director Patrick Boivin, unfortunately did not get the attention it deserved. Too bad because the young actor Isak Guinard Butt delivers a surprising performance in the guise of a 10-year-old boy with an overflowing imagination, who tries to prove to his friends that the disappearance of his 7-year-old brother was caused by aliens.