The film was mostly shot in Ville Saint-Laurent, a borough of Montreal which welcomes many Lebanese immigrants, and the downtown area. Other scenes take place in the boroughs of Town of Mont-Royal, Outremont and Anjou (the wedding scene).
The school that Rami's (Ali Ammar) sister, Sabine (Sanda Bourenane), attends is named École secondaire Pierre-Laporte, a public high school in the borough of Town of Mont-Royal.