Valérie-Jeanne Mathieu

Películas

The Wasp
Production Design
Simone single-handedly runs a seedy motel, day and night, day after day. She is raising money for her 17-year-old daughter’s education. But when a stranger checks in, everything changes. He doesn’t fit in: he is well-dressed, he has money, and he wants a room for several days. But worst of all, this strangely familiar man seems a bit too interested in Simone’s daughter…
On My Way
Art Direction
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.
Without Havana
Art Direction
Leonardo, a ballet dancer, and Sara, an ambitious lawyer, are young black Cubans desperate to leave their country. They realize that their ticket off the island is for Leonardo to seduce one of the foreign students at the salsa school where he teaches. Dreams collide when they meet a lonely Iranian-Canadian woman who is seeking adventure and passion in paradise.
Woodpecker
Art Direction
More than a decade after she abandoned him, Émile accepts his mother Fanny’s invitation to come work with her on an isolated logging camp. While he foolishly expected a joyful reunion, the boy is pitted against an hostile environnement and a woman with a distinct lack of maternal instinct.
Aniksha
Art Direction
In the wake of her arranged marriage, a young woman in Mauritius begins a job at a call centre. Her first steps toward independence have repercussions no one could have expected.
Fraternidad
Production Design
Mohamed es un pastor endurecido que vive en el campo tunecino con su esposa y sus dos hijos. Cuando su hijo mayor, Malek, regresa de Siria con una joven que lleva nicab, se siente profundamente perturbado y empieza a desconfiar. La creciente tensión entre padre e hijo alcanza el punto de no retorno. Cortometraje nominado al Premio Oscar al Mejor Cortometraje de Ficción en 2022.
Delphine
Production Design
Delphine is an ode to childhood, but also an examination of the wounds it can cause.
Happy Face
Production Design
Montreal 1992 —Estranged from his cancer-stricken mother, Stan, a quixotic 19-year-old, dons a disguise and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her.
The Worm
Art Direction
Inheriting the family home is a chance for Jules and his partner, Alice, to write their own page in his family history. But they are thwarted by a strange force that spreads insidiously throughout the house. Is nostalgia driving Jules into madness?
Born in the Maelstrom
Production Design
Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.
Stray
Costume Design
A meek nine-year old girl struggles to find an object for her tenderness inside the confines of a hard-nosed home environment and post-industrial town.
Stray
Production Design
A meek nine-year old girl struggles to find an object for her tenderness inside the confines of a hard-nosed home environment and post-industrial town.
Dive
Art Direction
Dive is an urban fairy tale about a self-destructive man who can't feel anything. From the moment he sets eyes on a mysterious young woman, something inside him stirs. Unbeknownst to him, she is part of the White Eye community, a marginalized group of hyper-sensitive beings inhabiting the same world as humans. When her true identity is revealed, his destructive nature reaches its peak as he contemplates a drastic escape from his melancholy.