Simon in the Tshiuetin train

Simon Plouffe is a filmmaker based in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. He studied screenwriting at UQAM and film production at Concordia University. His work is grounded in non-fiction cinema and shaped by a background in sound creation and sonic experimentation, with particular attention to how sonic environments influence perception, space, and lived experience.

His first feature documentary, Others’ Gold (2011), premiered and screened at festivals including DOK.fest Munich and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018) won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and received Best Sound in a Documentary at the Gala Québec Cinéma in 2019. His exploratory short documentary Forests (2022) was presented at the Krakow Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and the Hong-Gah Museum in Taiwan. The film received the Art and Experimentation Award at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Jury Award at the Trento Film Festival in 2023.

In 2024, Seeing Through the Darkness won the Best Social Documentary Award at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá, and it received a nomination for Best Sound Design in a Feature-Length Documentary at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards. His latest film,  Cranes and Voices, is set for release in 2026.