| Breathe | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Onur Karaman |
| Producer: | Patrick Bilodeau Onur Karaman |
| Starring: | Amedamine Ouerghi Frédéric Lemay Mohammed Marouazi |
| Music: | Frédéric "Paco" Monnier |
| Cinematography: | Simon Lamarre-Ledoux |
| Editing: | Onur Karaman |
| Studio: | UGO Média Karaman Productions |
| Distributor: | K Films Amérique |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
Breathe (French: Respire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Onur Karaman and released in 2022.[1] The film centres on a Moroccan family of immigrants to Quebec, who have fallen on hard times when patriarch Atif (Mohammed Marouazi), a professional engineer, cannot secure a job in his field due to his lack of Canadian work experience and has been reduced to managing a restaurant; one day, however, his teenage son Fouad (Amedamine Ouerghi) is drawn into a racially-motivated conflict with Max (Frédéric Lemay), a pure laine québécois who blames immigrants for his lot in life.[2]
The cast also includes Claudia Bouvette, Vincent Fafard, Guillaume Laurin, Roger Léger and Houda Rihani.
The film premiered at the Cinemania film festival on November 7, 2022,[3] before going into commercial release on January 27, 2023.[2]
At Cinemania, it won the award for Best Quebec Film.[4]
Marouazi received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[5]