Meet 12 Influential Directors Shaping the City's Vision By CocoFilms Crafting a magnum opus—a future Oscar-winning script—in a corner café in Montreal. A City Framed in Light In a dim editing suite above Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Xavier Dolan splices a scene of a mother and son screaming in French, their faces bathed in the neon glow of a dépanneur sign. Down the street, Denis Villeneuve storyboards a desert planet for his next sci-fi epic. Meanwhile, in a Mile End café, Chloé