Sophie Farkas Bolla

Nacimiento : , Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Historia

Sophie Farkas Bolla is a Canadian film editor based in Montreal, Quebec.

Películas

Adventures in the Land of Asha
Writer
Adventures in the Land of Asha
Director
Coyote
Editor
A cook in his heyday, Camilo is now a worn-out fifty-year-old who works for a cleaning company. We can guess a personal failure in the past of this solitary Mexican living in Montreal. However, Camilo wants to get back on track and an opportunity to recover his culinary passion finally presents itself. Everything is in place for this new beginning when Camilo receives a visit from his daughter Tania, with whom he had cut ties because of her drug addiction. She tells him that he is a grandfather and asks him to take care of the child while she undergoes her umpteenth rehab. The arrival of this grandson will upset Camilo’s plans. There will be a new beginning for him, certainly, but not as he imagined it.
Miette
Editor
Through the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships.
On My Way
Editor
Winter storm’s night. In his last breaths of life, Jules (35 y/o) imagines himself at home, taking one last look at his daughter. As he gaze around, he notices Sara (9 y/o) is immersed in reading a comic book. Jules feels that he doesn’t have much time left. He knows this moment with Sara will be his last, and it will be short. Too short. But all he wants, is to take his time.
The Gig Is Up
Editor
A very human tech doc, uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. From delivering food and driving ride shares to tagging images for AI, millions of people around the world are finding work task by task online. The gig economy is worth over 5 trillion USD globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people in this shadow workforce? It brings their stories into the light. Lured by the promise of flexible work hours, independence, and control over time and money, workers from around the world have found a very different reality. Work conditions are often dangerous, pay often changes without notice, and workers can effectively be fired through deactivation or a bad rating. Through an engaging global cast of characters, it reveals how the magic of technology we are being sold might not be magic at all.
Desplazados
Editor
En 1937, decenas de miles de haitianos y dominicanos de ascendencia haitiana fueron exterminados por el ejército dominicano, basándose en el odio contra los negros fomentado por el gobierno dominicano. En 2013, la Suprema Corte de la República Dominicana despojó de la ciudadanía a cualquier persona con padres haitianos. El fallo dejó a más de 200.000 personas apátridas. Una joven abogada llamada Rosa Iris monta una campaña, desafiando la corrupción electoral y abogando por la justicia social.
Beans
Editor
Beans, de doce años, está al límite: dividido entre la niñez inocente y la adolescencia temeraria; forzada a crecer rápido y convertirse en la dura guerrera Mohawk que necesita ser durante la Crisis de Oka, el turbulento levantamiento indígena que desgarró Quebec y Canadá durante 78 tensos días en el verano de 1990.
The Music Lesson
Editor
Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.
The Internet of Everything
Editor
A disillusioned early adopter and internet evangelist, feels a sense of responsibility to engage with the problems the internet has created and wants to see where we went wrong. 'The Internet of Everything' is a documentary that examines the hype and hubris hurtling towards the next frontier in the Internet's evolution.
Roads in February
Editor
Una mujer joven lucha por reavivar su relación con su abuela paterna y su país de origen mientras llora la muerte de su padre.
Pôle Sud
Editor
La respiration de l'abeille
Editor
Violette (60 years old) has a hoarding disorder. Barbara is a social worker. She visits Violette to help her. But what if the one who needs help isn’t the one we think of?
Wild Skin
Editor
A woman finds a baby python in her apartment and has a strange connection with it. Together, both snake and woman begin a transformation into something new.
Inuit enfadado
Editor
Con "sealfies" y las redes sociales, una nueva generación de inuit conocedores de la tecnología se adentra en el mundo del activismo, utilizando el humor y la razón para enfrentarse al agresivo vitriolo de los derechos de los animales y defender sus prácticas tradicionales de caza. La directora Alethea Arnaquq-Baril se une a sus compañeros activistas inuit mientras desafían las percepciones obsoletas de los inuit y se presentan al mundo como un pueblo moderno que necesita urgentemente una economía sostenible
Letters to the Prime Minister
Editor
In the heart of the Montreal district of Parc-Extension, a poet of Haitian origin settles in a café to collect the stories, requests, and dreams of neighbors. Why? Because voters decided to write to their MP, now the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Fragments
Editor
Chloe, a straight talking film director, tries to convince her friend Sam to be an actor in her next short film. Just after finding out that he once again didn’t get into medical school, Sam meets Alex, a hypochondriac 18 year old. A love triangle forms in these self-reflexive, humoristic fragments filled with sex talk , set in New Orleans.
When Monsters Were Real
Editor
It is said that long, long ago, the wild children were bestowed the gift of eternal youth. But one day, one of them started growing up and according to legend, grew so much he turned into a monster. Ravenous, he ate the smallest children and spread terror in his wake. Forced to seek protection, the village chief decided to banish the children who had become too tall before they had a chance to transform. The forest emu would come get them and escort them to the world of monsters, where they disappeared forever.
When Monsters Were Real
Screenplay
It is said that long, long ago, the wild children were bestowed the gift of eternal youth. But one day, one of them started growing up and according to legend, grew so much he turned into a monster. Ravenous, he ate the smallest children and spread terror in his wake. Forced to seek protection, the village chief decided to banish the children who had become too tall before they had a chance to transform. The forest emu would come get them and escort them to the world of monsters, where they disappeared forever.
When Monsters Were Real
Director
It is said that long, long ago, the wild children were bestowed the gift of eternal youth. But one day, one of them started growing up and according to legend, grew so much he turned into a monster. Ravenous, he ate the smallest children and spread terror in his wake. Forced to seek protection, the village chief decided to banish the children who had become too tall before they had a chance to transform. The forest emu would come get them and escort them to the world of monsters, where they disappeared forever.
Amazing Grace
Editor
Montreal, December 31, 1933. Inside the storefront window of the grand Ogilvy store, a young worker watches passersby with envy. Tonight, she has nowhere to go. When the store closes, she finds herself outside admiring a party in a neighboring house. She notices a young man. In spite of the cold, she doesn’t move, looking at the young man, and she is softly swept away into a world of dreams.
Antoine
Editor
A sensitive depiction of the real and imaginary worlds of a little six-year-old boy, who is lucid, confident and blind.
Trophy
Editor
Dominique, a shy and introverted teenager, wants just one thing: to become the best hockey player in her league. Her father, acting as her personal trainer, expects no less. But when she secures a coveted trophy, whose win is it?