Robin Servant

In the midst of the Quebecois North Shore’s winter, a young directress and a woman with a nomadic past retrace the departures that carved their respectives lives. Through this intergenerational encounter, the filmmaker dives into the intimacy of her own doubts and finds herself confronted to her need for landmarks.

In the stark Québec winter, ice floes cover the St. Lawrence River. Otherworldly, determined silhouettes appear and we fall into the cadence of ice canoes rowing into an unfathomable landscape. Producing sensations as extreme as the surroundings, the voyage immerses us in the elements and confounds us with a close focus on astonishing, minute details.

In the stark Québec winter, ice floes cover the St. Lawrence River. Otherworldly, determined silhouettes appear and we fall into the cadence of ice canoes rowing into an unfathomable landscape. Producing sensations as extreme as the surroundings, the voyage immerses us in the elements and confounds us with a close focus on astonishing, minute details.

Un pueblo en plena sequía confía su destino a un músico errante que tiene el poder de atraer lluvia con la música de su acordeón.

Un pueblo en plena sequía confía su destino a un músico errante que tiene el poder de atraer lluvia con la música de su acordeón.

Through family archives, drawings, animations and performances that draw on her long experience with illness, Brigitte Lacasse takes an incisive, critical look at the Quebec health care system.

Through family archives, drawings, animations and performances that draw on her long experience with illness, Brigitte Lacasse takes an incisive, critical look at the Quebec health care system.