Where I'm From (French: D'où je viens) is a 2014 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Claude Demers, exploring his childhood in the working class city of Verdun, Quebec and contrasting his experiences with life today in Verdun, now a multi-cultural borough of Montreal.
The film explores the changing face of Verdun as well as the filmmaker's anger and unhappiness as a child, due in part to his being adopted.
It followed on two films that he was inspired to make after finally meeting his biological mother, which were inspired by the broader cultural contexts in which his birth parents lived but were not as directly personal, and preceded two much more personal essay films about his birth parents as individuals.
Demers' follow up film, Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu), was about Quebec singer Michel Louvain and his legion of mostly female fans from his mother's generation.
[6] Demers subsequently also directed A Woman, My Mother (Une femme, ma mère), an essay film about his efforts to learn more about his birth mother after her death,[7] and Diary of a Father (Journal d'un père), which explored his own relationship with the concept of fatherhood through the lens of both his birth and adoptive fathers, as well as his own relationship with his youhg daughter.