Mara Joly

Acting

Quebec, Canada

4 movies

Biography

Mara Joly is a French Canadian actress, writer, director and producer. Her mother is African American and her white is father. She studied Arts, Literature and communication – option Theatre at Collège Lionel-Groulx and graduated in 2010. She and Miryam Charles are the co-founders of a Montreal-based production company, Zama Productions Inc.

🎬 Mara Joly's Filmography

4 movies sorted by popularity

A fortuitous life-changing encounter between a young boy and a Muslim woman in a Montreal park.

Sacred Hair

2017

Beth is 31 and, since yesterday, single. She lives alone with an old cat found in her alleyway and barely makes a living working at her sister's café. Beth is also a robot. Beth is in a strange place, really.

Robeth

2016

1.0

A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.

Montréal Dead End

2018

6.0

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.

The Yellows

2014