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Hinter the wheel of his small car, Nicky seems to be on a mission. The roads fly by, but the thoughts in his head remain unfathomable and desperate. A meal, the discovery of a rifle, chance encounters: the mystery remains unsolved.

In the 1990s, he directed around fifteen short films, then worked as a journalist and film critic before directing his first feature film, Les états nordiques, in 2005. His fourth feature film, Carcasses (2009), was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, while Curling won honours at the Locarno Festival in 2010. Vic+Flo Saw a Bear (2013) won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in Germany for its innovation. He has presented four feature films in the Official Competition at the Berlinale. Denis Côté's unique films have been shown at hundreds of film events and have been the subject of some forty retrospectives around the world.