Anne-Claire Poirier

You Cried: Let Me Go (1997)

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 age of 26. ...

Bye Bye Victor (1989)

Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannoun ...

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (1989)

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 have been portrayed on film. ...

The Forties (1982)

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation. ...

A Scream from Silence (1979)

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 situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape. ...

Famille et Variations (1977)

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a traditional nuclear family with a special needs child, a separated family, a single-parent family and a family ...

Ti-Dré (1976)

Luc-André Godbout, better known as Ti-Dré, is a forty-three-year-old orphan who cleanses furnaces and consciences. Here he is presented, life-size, in a film impregnated with this extraordinary character. ...

Before the Time Comes (1975)

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wan ...

They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy" (1974)

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 with the men already there, and ending with the modern career woman. ...

J'me marie, j'me marie pas (1973)

Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships with men, motherhood and their own femininity, sometimes radically detaching themselves from the standardize ...

Le savoir-faire s'impose: 1re partie (1971)

Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie (1971)

L'Impôt, et tout et tout (1969)

From Mother to Daughter (1968)

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 struggle to return to work and a social life, while still being a good mother. ...

Les ludions (1965)

La Fin des étés (1964)

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 this handicapped being, she wants to take charge of it. Étienne, her fiancé, has no taste for sacrifice. He ...

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer (1963)

This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register the transformation as he dons his make-up for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. We also see Toronto actress ...

The Private Life of Cinema (2011)

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 One (1939-1979) : Artists and professionals from the social and commercial film sectors recount the struggle ...

From Office to Box-Office (2009)

Entretien avec Anne Claire Poirier (2005)

Feature documentary that explores the career of Anne Claire Poirier, a pioneer of Quebec cinema, which takes stock of a unique journey full of humor and depth. Familiar voices who have collaborated with Anne Claire Poirier throughout her career give their ...

You Cried: Let Me Go (1997)

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 age of 26. ...

Take It All (1963)

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal. ...

30 Minutes, Mister Plummer (1963)

This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register the transformation as he dons his make-up for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac. We also see Toronto actress ...

Day After Day (1962)

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 industry. Day after day, the same work, the same hours, the same machines, the same product, until the entire routine o ...