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'', June 3, 2013. It was the first feature film ever made under

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's new microbudget funding program. The film stars Desmons as Maurice Lesmers, a

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French expatriate living in North Bay,

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who takes a job tutoring Allan (

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), a high school student, in

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while auditioning for a stage production of

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's ''

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''."Plus ça change: abuse and attraction in North Bay, ON"
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'', August 20, 2015. Drawn to protect and defend Allan from the

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that he faces at school for being gay, their student-teacher relationship is soon complicated when Allan falls in love with Maurice, in turn triggering Maurice's own repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The film had its theatrical premiere in 2014 at the

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, but wider release was delayed until 2015 due to producer

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's commitments to the promotion of the television miniseries '' The Book of Negroes''. It won the juried award for Best Canadian Film at the 2015

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."What We Have takes best Canadian feature at Inside Out"
'' Playback'', June 1, 2015.

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* 2014 films Canadian drama films Canadian LGBTQ-related films 2010s LGBTQ-related drama films 2014 LGBTQ-related films Films set in Northern Ontario Canadian Film Centre films 2014 directorial debut films Films shot in North Bay, Ontario 2010s Canadian films French-language Canadian films English-language Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub