Chez nous, c'est chez nous

Chez nous, c'est chez nous

1972

Feature-length documentary film directed by Marcel Carrière. Returning to the region where the ARDA-BAEQ experiment took place (where the NFB's first social animation films were shot), the filmmaker witnesses the application of one of the measures stemming from this socio-economic redevelopment plan in Quebec: the demolition of 11 villages in the Lower St. Lawrence and the Gaspé Peninsula, experienced in Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir.

Directed by Marcel Carrière

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Knowing to Learn

Knowing to Learn · 1966

Knowing to Learn

MovieDocumentary

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning and the emerging technologies that facilitate them are explored, including the new roles of the computer, tape recorder and television. Directed by Quebec cinema giant Claude Jutra (Mon Oncle Antoine), the film was produced with the collaboration of researchers studying all forms of education, from infancy to adulthood.

September Five at Saint-Henri

September Five at Saint-Henri · 1962

September Five at Saint-Henri

MovieDocumentary

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 midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.

Kindergarten

Kindergarten · 1963

MovieDocumentary

One day in a kindergarten classroom at Van Horne Public School in Montreal. The teacher encourages children to turn their curiosity into questions and organizes group activities and play periods.

10 Miles/Hour

10 Miles/Hour · 1970

MovieDocumentary

This short documentary offers an account of the epic bicycle ride of seventy girls and one man from Montreal to Vancouver. Their ultimate goal is to raise money in order to fund their trip to Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan.

The Days of Whisky Gap

The Days of Whisky Gap · 1961

The Days of Whisky Gap

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police were established to maintain law and order in the North-West Territories. They undertook a trek from Fort Dufferin, south of Winnipeg, to Fort Whoop-up, near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta. The force raised the flag and proclaimed the Queen's Law, ensuring that the Canadian West would not become a lawless, American-style frontier.

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… · 1976

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

MovieComedyDrama

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.

You Don't Back Down

You Don't Back Down · 1965

You Don't Back Down

MovieDocumentary

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian University Service Overseas Plan, Dr. Alex McMahon and his schoolteacher wife find every day a fresh challenge. An interesting study of intercultural help.

Stravinsky

Stravinsky · 1966

MovieDocumentary

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Symphony of Psalms.

Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

Of Whales, the Moon, and Men · 1963

Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

MovieDocumentary

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

60 Cycles

60 Cycles · 1965

MovieDocumentary

On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy, Belgium or Spain. The long shots of curving landscape and open road are set to a mesmerizing soundtrack in this documentary, and the results are spellbinding.

Visit to a Foreign Country

Visit to a Foreign Country · 1962

Visit to a Foreign Country

MovieDocumentary

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

O.K.... Laliberté

O.K.... Laliberté · 1973

O.K.... Laliberté

MovieDramaRomance

A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.

Children of Silence

Children of Silence · 1962

Children of Silence

MovieDocumentary

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style and intimate approach to the subject, the film focuses on the human rather than the technical side of the problem of hearing impairment.

Wrestling

Wrestling · 1961

MovieDocumentary

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.

Geneviève

Geneviève · 1964

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love. One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Jean Rouch, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.

Mission of Fear

Mission of Fear · 1965

Mission of Fear

MovieDramaHistory

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

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