Jonathan Decoste

Movies

Margot's Sister
Director of Photography
When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.
Goddess of the Fireflies
Director of Photography
Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her social life is no better as bullies and boys add to the pressure of growing up in the chaotic '90s.
Jouliks
Director of Photography
Vera and Zak meet by chance and it's crazy love. The two lovebirds settle in a decayed house at the end of a row, where little Yanna comes into the world. They raise their child in a spirit of total freedom, without constraint. Zak often leaves his family to find his family, gypsies who do not like him to meet a woman from the city. When Vera's parents arrive unexpectedly at home, they will jeopardize the already fragile balance of the trio.
The Mirage
Director of Photography
Le Mirage is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" becomes the band-aid to a meaningless existence. Stuff fills the void of the existence we weren't meant to lead.
Roche papier ciseaux
Director of Photography
Four men are each looking for a way out. Their fates collide one night.
Synthétiseur
Director of Photography
Sophie takes a trip to the suburbs of Montreal to get away and hopefully find a boyfriend. This film is a humorous and quirky tale about what to do when you are depressed, have no money and desperately need to make a change.
Training session
Cinematography
Through the specificity of certain gestures and movements, we find five different athletes training. What seemed to be only a simple workout routine becomes a ballet in which all athletes are transformed into notes of a musical score of a symphonic movement where the notes fit together and where the rhythmic repetition punctuate their movements and accord at a dance.
HAPPINESS TO ALL
Cinematography
At the bedside of his dying friend, a man recalls their shared memories, some funny, others heavy with emotion, as a backdrop, the St. Lawrence River, the rain and wind...