Michel Brault Filmes

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.

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

Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film...

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional...

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot...

Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new...

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

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the...

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great...

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped...

Jacques Godbout takes us into the world of Anne Hébert, a woman he considered his spiritual sister and who had only one raison...

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.