Denis Côté (born November 16, 1973) is a Canadian independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin.
At the end of May 2010 at the Festival TransAmériques, he created a video accompaniment for the play Cendres directed by Jérémie Niel (based on Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi).
At the end of October and beginning of November 2010, the Viennale presented a retrospective of his work, as did the Festival de La Rochelle in 2011.
[6] Vic and Flo Saw A Bear was screened in about 90 film festivals, was released in a dozen countries and to this day, Denis Côté's work has been offered more than 20 retrospectives around the world.
A Skin So Soft (Ta peau si lisse) features six real-life bodybuilders and had its world premiere on August 4, 2017, at the 70th Locarno International Film Festival.
Shot in winter 2018 but screened in Competition at Berlinale 2019, Ghost Town Anthology is a return to a more narrative version of Côté's signature.
Côté has described his own filmmaking style in interviews by stating that he has no ambitions to make "consensual" movies that everybody loves, and has claimed that he does not consider one of his films to be successful unless at least a few people walk out of the screening.