Pierre-Yves Beaulieu is a documentary filmmaker from Montreal, now based in Berlin. Through intimate encounters, his films question rituals, roots and social norms, highlighting the contrasts that co-exist in our dislocated society.

His short films have notably been screened at Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke, Ethnografilms (Paris) and Regent Film Festival (Toronto). In 2018 and 2019, he won the Best Documentary award from Festival du Film Étudiant de Québec two years in a row, for his shorts FLOYD and LA NUIT DES KRAMPUS. FLOYD also won the Best Documentary award at Ottawa International Short Films Festival. His work has been broadcasted on tou.tv (Canadian national TV), UNIS TV (Canada), Savoir Média (Canada) and Samansa (Japan/Korea). Since 2019, he is making his first feature documentary film, FISTERRA - THE END OF THE WORLD.

As an editor, Pierre-Yves has worked on the German episodes of ARTE's FRAGMENTE web series, as well as other web and TV projects.

He speaks French, English, German and Spanish. He holds a filmmaking bachelor's degree from UQÀM and completed the intensive documentary director training at Montreal's Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS). He also acts as a local team organizer for the Berlin Video Consortium local chapter, which aims to connect non-fiction filmmakers from abroad with the local German industry.