Anne-Claire Poirier Movies

Documents a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child, the birth itself via Caesarean section, and her...

A two-part in-depth exploration of the evolution of the private film industry, seen through the eyes of more than 50 industry professionals. Part...

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

In this short fiction film, Marie has been living in the midst of a nightmare since the accident of Bernard, her brother. Clinging excessively to...

A film that looks at life in a small paper-mill town in Québec where most of the 6,500 inhabitants derive their livelihood from the one...

The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony...

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the...

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a...

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young...

This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register the...

Hundreds of excerpts from 60 French films produced by the NFB over the course of 50 years are assembled to offer a look at the evolution of how women...

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

Luc-André Godbout, better known as Ti-Dré, is a forty-three-year-old orphan who cleanses furnaces and consciences. Here he is...

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...

Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships...

Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she...

The Director reflects upon and seeks to understand the causes and the events that lead to her drug-addicted prostitute daughter being murdered at the...