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Jean-Francois Lesage

Nostalgia for City Life: Jean-François Lesage on ‘Prayer for a Lost Mitten’

by Patrick Mullen
May 29, 2020August 21, 2021
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Prayer for a Lost Mitten director Jean-François Lesage discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the forgotten pleasures of urban life, told through the stories of items lost

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