Meet Béatrice

Béatrice Richer (Writer/Director) is a passionate French-Canadian filmmaker currently based in Berlin, soon to be based in Toronto from September onwards. She graduated with First-Class Honours BA in Practical Filmmaking from MetFilm School. She also gained valuable industry experience working at german film production, Fruitmarket GmbH, where she worked as a production assistant on Netflix’s true crime docuseries The Soering Case (2023), which reached international chart-topping success. In addition, she contributed as a transcriber and editing assistant on the docuseries Capital B (2024).

In the summer of 2024, Béatrice made her directorial debut with Tire-toi une bûche, a French-canadian short film that began as her graduation project but quickly evolved into a fully realized, micro-budget independent production. Designed as a bold first step into the professional film industry, Béatrice not only wrote and directed but among other produced and edited the film, bringing her vision to life from start to finish. The project is a deeply personal reflection on mother-daughter relationships, girlhood, and identity. There are crumbs of her Québécois roots, the layered experiences of motherhood and womanhood, the journey of grief throughout, with nostalgia and the longing for home as recurring themes.

Béatrice is fluent in French, English, and German. Though proudly and fully Canadian, during her childhood she spent most of the year in Germany due to her father’s professional hockey career, which took him from the NHL to the German league, while off-season being in Canada. Raised in the world of hockey, this international upbringing has given Béatrice a unique, global perspective, making her a versatile filmmaker with a rich cultural understanding.

What first drew her to cinema wasn’t just storytelling—it was the profound, almost alchemical way films could reach into the heart, stir empathy, and make people feel seen. From a young age, she found herself mesmerized by that invisible thread between the screen and the audience. The kind that lingers long after the credits roll. Inspired by world renowned Québec’s cinematic voices like Denis Villeneuve and Jean-Marc Vallée, she’s currently particularly committed to telling quebecois stories that capture emotional truth and cultural specificity, close to her own roots. While Béatrice’s ultimate ambition is to write and direct feature films, she is equally inspired by television and serialized formats, offering rich opportunities for deep character exploration and expansive, layered storytelling. Béatrice is deeply passionate about emotionally driven cinema, where complex, rich characters navigate bold, immersive worlds. Unbound by genre or medium, she is drawn to stories that embrace the full scope of the human experience and the intricate layers of emotion and human connection, captured with the depth only cinematic landscapes can provide. Her driving force is to create stories that invite audiences to fully immerse themselves—just as the films that shaped her left a lasting imprint on her own life.

  • I'm from Québec, Canada. To be more specific, my whole family comes from the stretch between Gatineau and Montréal.

  • I’m currently based in Berlin, Germany, but my location doesn’t limit my availability. As a frequent traveler with ties to Canada, I’m equally based there and ready to travel wherever work takes me.

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