Quebec Direct Cinema Movies

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of...

Images of love and freedom personified by a man who like to travel, a man who has made a profession of doing nothing and who constantly comes up...

Life is a movie.

A first look at Strobus / Banksiana: a musical and visual work supported by two important protagonists of the Quebec forest: the white pine and the...

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in...

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face...

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old...

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the...

A working class family leaves St-Henri quarter in Montréal to build a new home in the countryside.

"Montréal under the snow and the cold winter. It is the period of the year when the garage owners strike it rich. The automobile at the...