Denis Côté is returning to Berlin Film Festival for a world premiere of his absurdist workplace drama Que ta joie demeure in the 44^th edition of the Berlinale Forum.

The Canadian film, an exploration of man and machine, stars Guillaume Tremblay, Emilie Siguoin, Hamidou Savadogo.

The Quebec director last year debuted his thriller Vic and Flo Saw a Bear with a world premiere in Berlin, and picked up the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear.

Côté also screened his documentary Bestiare in Berlin in 2012.

Also receiving a world premiere as part of the Berlinale Forum sidebar is La Marche à Suivre, by Jean-François Caissy.

The Canadian documentary portrays young people at a school where their everyday lives are shaped by themselves and others.

The Berlin festival, to run from Feb. 6 to 16, will also give a Berlinale Special gala at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele to another Canadian documentary, Watermark, by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky.

And Berlin’s Culinary Cinema program will give an international premiere to Julie Perron’s Le Semeur, a documentary about a man who preserves rare and forgotten seeds to encourage agricultural variety.