Joe Balass

Iraqi-Canadian film director

January 1, 1965 (60 years old)

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Calorie

Can. 2025. Drama by Eisha Marjara with Ellora Patnaik, Anupam Kher, Ashley Ganger. The past and present of three generations of women collide during a summer in India.

Runtime: 107 min.

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The Affairs of Lidia

Can. 2022. Sex comedy by Bruce LaBruce with Skye Blue, Vanna Bardot, Sean Ford. A model discovers that her boxer husband is having an affair with a photographer.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Venus

Can. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Eisha Marjara with Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Pierre-Yves Cardinal. A Montreal designer of Indian origin, reluctant to reveal his decision to change his sex to his traditional family, meets a teenager who claims to be his biological son.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Joy! Portrait of a Nun

Can. 2012. Documentary by Joe Balass. Documentary about Mish, aka Sister Missionary Position Delight, a bearded sixty-year-old who co-founded a congregation of male nuns advocating for gay rights in 1979.

Runtime: 72 min.