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A Life in Paper: Tanya Lapointe on Her Claude Lafortune Doc ‘The Paper Man’

by Pat Mullen
December 4, 2020
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"Despite the fact that we think that paper will be thrown away in two years and won’t be any good anymore, [Claude]’s proven the opposite: paper can outlast our expectations of it."

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Passage Review: Nostalgic Pangs and Youthful Optimism

by Madeline Lines
December 1, 2020
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In Passage, director Sarah Baril Gaudet’s return to her hometown in small-town Québec is seen through the eyes of two teens on the cusp of leaving it, as she did nearly a

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Movies with Mom: Claude Demers on ‘A Woman, My Mother’

by Dina Lobo
June 6, 2020
Festivals/Hot Docs/Interviews

"When I wrote the story I hoped this film would affect contemporary women. It’s not just a story from the past," says Claude Demers.

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Review: ‘A Place of Tide and Time’

by Pat Mullen
April 27, 2019
Hot Docs/Reviews

A Place of Tide and Time (Canada, 78 min.) Dir. Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere) Audiences at Hot Docs 2016 should remember Sébastien Rist and Aude Leroux-Lévesque’s extraordinarily

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Quebec: its contribution to the documentary form

by Martin Delisle
July 6, 2017
Features

POV is pleased to present a translation of Martin Delisle’s ‘Québec: l’incontournable documentarie’ from The Stories We Tell. Undeniably, the province of Quebec has created its own particular niche in the history of documentary

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Canada’s Documentary Essentials: ‘Les raquetteurs’

by Marc Glassman
April 20, 2017
Features

Les raquetteurs by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx became one of the early salvos from a new generation who were about to unleash the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.

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You Say You Want a Revolution?

by Pat Mullen
December 28, 2016
Interviews/TIFF

Quebec filmmaking duo Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie create a defiant piece of radical cinema with Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, a rebellious hybrid drama about the

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Minority Report

by Matthew Hays
April 29, 2016
Features/Hot Docs

John Walker explores his family history as an Anglophone in Quebec My Country Mon Pays

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The POV Interview: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles on ‘Welcome to F.L.’

by Pat Mullen
October 6, 2015
Interviews/TIFF

In Welcome to F.L,, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles observes students at École secondaire Fernand-Lefebvre in Sorel-Tracy.

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Et en français, of course!

by Martin Delisle
July 23, 2013
Features/Hot Docs

Bà nôi, Alphée of the Stars, and Brand New River showcase Quebecois voices among the Canadian films at Hot Docs 2013.

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