Quebec independent filmmaker and producers discuss regional filmmaking, representation, and a "Manifesto for Territorial Diversity.”
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An interview with Montreal filmmaker and journalist Francine Pelletier about her documentary The Battle for Québec's Soul (Bataille pour l’âme du Québec), which asks what happened to a province that once looked
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Raymonde Provencher is the subject of Hot Docs 2022 Focus On retrospective for her career documenting urgent human rights stories with compassion and care.
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Can a movement survive the death of its leaders? Director Maxime Faure addresses this question in his first feature Sisterhood. At its peak, Quebec’s chapter of the Society of Helpers of the
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago is an animated essay that navigates territories real and imagined while interrogating the mythology and history of Quebec.
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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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Keep ReadingMichel Brault’s seminal work in documentary is honoured with the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award by Hot Docs.
Keep ReadingFrederic Bohbot’s production house, Bunbury Films, has morphed into one of the busiest documentary think tanks in Quebec.
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