Claude Beaugrand

반세기 간 두 대륙에 걸쳐 펼쳐지는 우정과 배신, 화해를 담은 감동스토리다. 이 작품은 수십 년 전, 주인공이 첫 공연을 하던 날 밤 홀연히 사라진 어린 시절 친구를 찾아 나서는 한 남자의 이야기를 들려준다.

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.

The Pond Inlet Inuit in Nunavut live with the memory of a tragedy: in 1943, 25 people –over half the population of the community – died within the span of a few days. This personal and intimate documentary brings us into homes and lives of Ruth and Elisapie, two survivors of this tragedy.

Carole Laganière dives deeply into personal territory in this beautifully crafted exploration of absence and loss and its painful effect on daily lives. Inspired by her mother’s steadily advancing Alzheimer’s and the inevitability of her estrangement, Laganière weaves their story with the stories of others wrestling with loss: Ines, an immigrant who returns to her birth country of Croatia to find the mother who abandoned her during the war; Deni, an American author who’s finally able to search for his Quebec roots; and Nathalie, who’s desperately looking for her missing sister. Through their experiences the film ponders how absence is often the catalyst for a quest—a quest for information, understanding and often acceptance. Through its many voices, Absences speaks to us of the immense fragility and resiliency of human emotions.

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.

A peaceful life on a family farm. A cold, clear winter day. Nine-year-old Noémy is about to leave the carefree world of childhood behind.

Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for the annual Water Festival competition. In a boxing camp on the Thai-Burmese border the children of mostly illegal migrant workers fleeing Burma live and train for prize fights. In a region where combat sports have always been a matter of honor and money, the film reveals their daily struggles. Bets are open and as the hope of prize money rizes, the young boxers contemplate what it could mean for them and their families

영화는 피해자들의 피를 화면에 다루는 것을 피하기 위해 의도적으로 흑백으로 만들어졌다. 1989년 캐나다 몬트리올에 위치한 에콜 폴리테크 대학에서 일어난 사건을 페이크 다큐멘터리 형식으로 재현한 영화이다. 당시 마크 래핀이란 25세 남성이 범인이었는데, 45분 동안 그가 휘두른 총에 14명의 여학생들이 목숨을 잃었다. 실제로 유언장에 "페미니스트들이 싫다"라고 남기고 스스로 목숨을 끊었다. 그 사건 이후로 캐나다는 총기 소지법을 더욱 강화하였지만 캐나다인들이 겪은 충격은 매우 컸다고.. 이후에도 비슷한 사건이 계속 발생하여 캐나다인들에게 더욱 잊지 못할 사건이라고 한다. 영화는 총기사건을 다루고 있지만 소외받는 여성들을 대변하는 영화이기도 하다. 극중 살인범은 페미니스트가 온갖 편의를 누린다고 불만을 갖고 총기사건을 일으킨다. 하지만 영화 속에서 비추어지는 여성들은 편의를 누리는 것이 아니라 여성이기에 차별을 받는 존재로 그려진다. 아이러니하게도.. 사건이 일어나는 학교 또한 폴리테크닉, 즉 과학 기술 학교로 여성들의 비율이 매우 적은 편이다.

Constructed from Canadian prairie archival images taken between 1920 and 1940, this film lyrically explores a transgender son's relationship with his father and the family's relationship to their land.

During a beating in the forest, a troubled young girl announces to her mother that she intends to leave the family home.

A documentary about the act of filmmaking.

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has burned out and who holds up her own despair – and her attempts to rebuild her life – as a mirror to the rest of us. With a blend of gravity and humour, Sylvie Groulx's film shows the absurdity of a society dedicated to the cult of speed at all costs.

메리 브래드포드는 아버지가 재혼한 뒤 퍼킨즈 걸즈 콜리지에 전학 온 학생. 메리의 룸메이트는 톡톡 쏘는 반항아 폴린 오스터와 아름다운 빅토리아 몰러이다. 어머니를 잃은 메리, 어머니에게 버림받고 입양된 폴리, 부모의 기대에 자신을 맞출 수 없는 토리는 곧 서로의 마음을 이해해주는 절친한 친구가 된다. 메리는 서서히 폴리와 토리가 단순한 친구 이상이라는 것을 알게 된다. 합창 시간에 몰래 교환되는 애무, 옥상에서 그들이 나누는 키스를 지켜보며, 메리는 어느 순간부터 둘의 비밀을 공유하고 수호하게 된 자신을 발견한다. 그들의 비밀은 어느 날 토리의 동생 앨리슨이 언니와 폴리가 같은 침대에 있는 것을 발견하면서 폭로된다. 사태를 해결하기 위해 토리는 둘 사이에 특별한 관계가 있다는 걸 부인하고 폴리를 멀리하게 되는데...

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.

A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves.

This feature documentary uses music to reveal the many faces of jazz, New Orleans style. Colourful and alive with music, the film captures the street life and traditions of this vibrant city and explores the roots of the music that springs from the soul of the African-American community.

Feature-length documentary on Hauris Lalancette, a Quebecer from Abitibi, who travels and draws surprising parallels between two corners of the country that are considered destitute and left behind. It is also about the search for ancestors and the nostalgia for old jobs that were better, both on the human level and on the technical level.

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western plains, the Bloods live on a 1 300-square-kilometer reserve. Many have lacked gainful employment and now pin their hopes on a pre-fab factory they have built. Will the production line and work and wages fit into their cultural pattern of life? The film shows how it is working and what the owners themselves say about their venture.