Gilles Groulx

Au pays de Zom (1982)

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasan ...

Santa Gertrudis, la première question sur le bonheur (1978)

24 Hours or More (1973)

This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec's 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ) is a cinematic tract by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Propped against the backdrop of the 19 ...

Place de l'équation (1973)

Between You and You All (1970)

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship. ...

Where Are You? (1970)

An experimental drama following three main characters who embody different attitudes about consumerism. A window onto Quebec in the late 1960s, this protest film explores these characters' daily lives, their trials and aspirations. Regarded as an innovativ ...

Québec...? (1967)

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective work produced for the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce calls on several major Quebec figures. ...

The Cat in the Bag (1964)

A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it. Symbolizes the political coming of age of the people of Québec. ...

Such a Simple Game (1964)

This short 1964 documentary depicts the national sport of French Canadians: hockey. Seen "from the inside" this seemingly simple game turns out to be not so simple. Hockey is dream of mythic proportions that mirrors the aspirations of an entire people. Its ...

Seeing Miami... (1962)

A cinematic allegory of the modern U.S. at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gilles Groulx's masterfully poetic montage essay evokes Quebecers' simultaneous aversion and attraction to the El Dorado that is Florida—both a giant nursing home and an ide ...

Alone or with Others (1962)

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or ...

Golden Gloves (1961)

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx film shows three Montreal boxers in training. In behind-the-scenes interviews they talk about their ambitio ...

Normetal (1960)

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community where all roads lead to the pithead. Dweller of two worlds, the copper miner's life is one of contrasts. A ...

Alfred DesRochers, poète (1960)

France on a Pebble (1960)

The 4,000 inhabitants of the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon describe it as a caillou—a tiny rock on which they live, lost in the shadow of Newfoundland. There is something mysterious and inexplicable about this extension of faraway France. In br ...

Il était une guerre (1959)

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, ...

The Snowshoers (1958)

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly fo ...

Washed Hands (1958)

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

Les héritiers (1955)

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the Radio-Canada news service a few years before he joined the NFB. Silent film, presented as its author left it ...

Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journe ...

Entretien en six temps avec Gilles Groulx (2002)

This feature-length documentary brings together six of the rare television interviews given by Gilles Groulx between 1966 and 1983. Through these interviews, the filmmaker's ethical and aesthetic concerns are revealed. A striking coherence emerges in his t ...

Voir Gilles Groulx (2002)

Une semaine dans la vie de camarades (1976)

A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal. This meeting, at the heart of the film, features several important figures of the counterculture in Quebec. ...

Québec...? (1967)

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective work produced for the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce calls on several major Quebec figures. ...

Jusqu'au cou (1964)

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s. ...