Born in Montreal in 1976, Maxime Giroux is a French Canadian director whose third feature
Felix and Meira (2014), a love story between a forty-year-old loner and a young Hasidic wife and mother, was met with international acclaim.
Maxime Giroux started his film-making career in 2002 by directing shorts (
Le rouge au sol (2006),
Les jours (2006)), commercial and music videos (for
Louise Forestier, Corneille, The Dears and others). Before 'Félix et Meira', Giroux had already made two feature-length movies,
Demain (2009), the portrait of a new generation brushed through a young woman taking care of her diabetic mother, and
Jo for Jonathan (2010), a meditation about doomed brotherhood.