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Édith Jorisch

Canadian filmmaker

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Édith Jorisch was a film director.

Édith Jorisch is a Canadian filmmaker from Quebec. She is most noted for her films The Heir (L'héritier), which won a Prix Gémeaux in 2017 and the Michael Moskovitz Award for a Film from the Joseph Isaac Segal Awards for Jewish Literature in 2018, and Mothers and Monsters, which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2023.

She is the daughter of artist and illustrator Stéphane Jorisch, and an alumna of the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Filmography Les Interdits - 2011 The Heir (L'héritier) - 2016 Awe - 2019 Tibbits Hill - 2021 Plastisapiens - 2022 Mothers and Monsters - 2023

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