What We Have
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| director = Maxime Desmons
| producer = Maxime Desmons
Damon D'Oliveira
Sally Karam
| writer = Maxime Desmons
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| starring = Maxime Desmons
Roberta Maxwell
Alex Ozerov
Kristen Thomson
| music = Elizabeth Dehler
| cinematography = Daniel Grant
| editing = Kye Meechan
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| released = {{Film date|2014|09|18|Cinéfest}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English
French
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What We Have ({{langx|fr|Ce qu'on a}}) is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Maxime Desmons.[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roberta-maxwell-alex-ozerov-board-561824 "Roberta Maxwell, Alex Ozerov Board Maxime Desmons' 'What We Have'"]. The Hollywood Reporter, June 3, 2013. It was the first feature film ever made under Telefilm Canada's new microbudget funding program.
The film stars Desmons as Maurice Lesmers, a gay French expatriate living in North Bay, Ontario who takes a job tutoring Allan (Alex Ozerov), a high school student, in French while auditioning for a stage production of Molière's The Miser.[http://www.dailyxtra.com/vancouver/arts-and-entertainment/plus-%C3%A7a-change-abuse-and-attraction-in-north-bay-125855 "Plus ça change: abuse and attraction in North Bay, ON"]. Daily Xtra, August 20, 2015. Drawn to protect and defend Allan from the bullying that he faces at school for being gay, their student-teacher relationship is soon complicated when Allan falls in love with Maurice, in turn triggering Maurice's own repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.
The film had its theatrical premiere in 2014 at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[http://www.thesudburystar.com/2014/08/20/sudburys-cinefest-to-offer-diverse-lineup "Sudbury's Cinefest to offer diverse lineup"]. Sudbury Star, August 20, 2014. but wider release was delayed until 2015 due to producer Damon D'Oliveira's commitments to the promotion of the television miniseries The Book of Negroes. It won the juried award for Best Canadian Film at the 2015 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.[http://playbackonline.ca/2015/06/01/what-we-have-takes-best-canadian-feature-at-inside-out/ "What We Have takes best Canadian feature at Inside Out"]. Playback, June 1, 2015.
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{{Inside Out Best Canadian Film}}
Category:Canadian LGBTQ-related films
Category:2010s LGBTQ-related drama films
Category:2014 LGBTQ-related films
Category:Films set in Northern Ontario
Category:Canadian Film Centre films
Category:2014 directorial debut films
Category:Films shot in North Bay, Ontario
Category:French-language Canadian films
Category:English-language Canadian films
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