What We Have (French: Ce qu'on a) is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Maxime Desmons.
[1] It was the first feature film ever made under Telefilm Canada's new microbudget funding program.
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[2] The film had its theatrical premiere in 2014 at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[3] 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.