Question: Do both The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches (Film) and A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence films have the directors from the same country?

<P0-S0> Simon Lavoie( born May 15, 1979) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. <P0-S1> He is best known as codirector with Mathieu Denis of" Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves( Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'o nt fait que se creuser un tombeau)", which won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including for Best Picture and Best Director. <P0-S2> He made a number of short films — including" Une chapelle blanche", which won the Prix Jutra for Best Short Film in 2006 — before making his feature film debut in 2008 with" Le déserteur". <P0-S3> He first collaborated with Denis on the 2011 film" Laurentie", and followed up with" The Torrent( Le Torrent)" in 2012. <P0-S4> His next project," The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches( La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)", a film adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017. <P0-S5> It received an honorable mention for Best Canadian Film, and received a nomination for Best Motion Picture at the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards. <SEP> <P1-S0> Marcel Giroux is a Canadian film producer. <P1-S1> He co-founded the company GPA Films in Montreal with André Pelletier in 1983, using it to make documentary films, advertisements, music videos and other productions. <P1-S2> In 1989, after Pelletier died, Giroux shifted the company's focus to feature films and television. <P1-S3> In 1997, he was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Live- Action Short Film for" Zie 37 Stage". <P1-S4> While many producers considered the novel" The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches" by Gaétan Soucy a poor choice for basing a film on, Giroux purchased the rights. <P1-S5> He asked director Simon Lavoie if he would be interested in such a project in 2013; Lavoie claimed to be a fan of the novel and accepted the offer. <P1-S6> On 26 April 2016, Telefilm Canada announced financial support for Giroux's production. <P1-S7> For" The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches", Giroux was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture. <SEP> <P2-S0> Songs from the Second Floor is a Swedish black comedy- drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 October 2000, written and directed by Roy Andersson. <P2-S1> It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. <P2-S2> The film uses many quotations from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif. <P2-S3> It is the first film in a trilogy, followed by" You, the Living"( 2007) and" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"( 2014). <SEP> <P3-S0> A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is a 2014 internationally co-produced black comedy- drama film written and directed by Roy Andersson. <P3-S1> It is the third installment in his" Living" trilogy, following" Songs from the Second Floor"( 2000) and" You, the Living"( 2007). <P3-S2> It premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film. <P3-S3> It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. <P3-S4> It s title is a reference to the 1565 painting" The Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. <P3-S5> The painting depicts a rural wintertime scene, with some birds perched on tree branches. <P3-S6> Andersson said he imagined that the birds in the scene are watching the people below, wondering what they are doing. <P3-S7> He explained the title of the film as a" different way of saying' what are we actually doing', that's what the movie is about." <P3-S8> At the Venice Film Festival, Andersson said that the film had been inspired by the 1948 Italian film" Bicycle Thieves" by Vittorio De Sica. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches  is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. <P4-S1> An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons (Marine Johnson), a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. <P4-S2> When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat. <P4-S3> The adaptation was filmed in Montreal, Quebec and the Laurentides and shot in black and white. <P4-S4> It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. <P4-S5> It was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. <SEP> <P5-S0> Roy Arne Lennart Andersson( born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for" A Swedish Love Story"( 1970) and his" Living trilogy," which includes" Songs from the Second Floor"( 2000)," You, the Living"( 2007) and" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"( 2014). <P5-S1> " Songs from the Second Floor", more than any other, cemented and exemplified his personal style – which is characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and Felliniesque grotesque. <P5-S2> He has spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films, but only directing six feature- length films in six decades. <P5-S3> His 2014 film" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" won the Golden Lion award at 71st Venice International Film Festival, making Andersson the only Swedish director and the second Nordic director to win the award in the history of the festival, after Danish Carl Theodor Dreyer won in 1955. <P5-S4> Andersson is considered one of the most important living European film directors, having four films officially submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as Swedish entries.