''On Your Head'' () is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by

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and Geneviève Lefebvre and released in 2001.

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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 43. The film stars Arianne Maheu as Simone, a young blind girl living with her single father Marc (

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) who is scheming to set him up with a single woman in their town, Céline (

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), so that she can have a new mother. The cast also includes

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as Céline's irascible anarchist father Gaby; Daniel Fanego as Diego, an Argentine pilot who is a rival for Céline's affections; David Boutin as Marc's best friend Fred on whom Simone has a schoolgirl crush; and

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as Florent, the town's parish priest. Osvaldo Montes received a

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nomination for

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at the

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, for the song "La niebla del tiempo".Katherine Monk, "Inuit film takes Genie lead". ''

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'', December 12, 2001.

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