Serge Giguère

My Mother's Letters (2018)

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while help ...

Finding Macpherson (2014)

Years after first being inspired by a Félix Leclerc song, Martine Chartrand directed the film MACPHERSON. Ten years in the making, it features animated painting on glass and draws on her extensive research on the title character. Filmmaker Serge Giguère ...

Le nord au coeur (2012)

À force de rêves (2006)

Le père de Gracile (2004)

What does a curious little girl find on her way north? Wolves, trees, stones, people. Through Gracile's quest to find her father, this documentary tale takes us into a world of men. Men whose sometimes tragic destinies are linked to the land they inhabit, ...

Silver Rivers (2002)

In 2001, the government of Quebec announced a new program to issue permits for the construction of private hydroelectric dams at specific sites. Upset, the population took things into their own hands and decided to act. Citizens formed collectives to prote ...

Barbed Wire and Mandolins (1997)

Upon Canada's entry into World War II, the RCMP rounded up thousands of people it considered fascist sympathizers. Among them, 700 Italian-Canadians were held for up to three years in internment camps. None were ever charged with a criminal offence. ...

9 St-Augustin (1996)

Raymond Roy is a 64-year-old idealist, an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge: the alienated, impoverished and exploited members of society. Raymond is also a priest, doing what he has wanted to do ever sin ...

Le roi du drum (1992)

Guy Nadon is the rhythm incarnate. A jazz drummer who strikes on everything that makes noise. A king of musical improvisation, but also a king of improvisation, sometimes holding words bordering on surrealism. ...

Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists (1988)

Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles: Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French- ...

Oscar Thiffault (1987)

A documentary about the folk country musician Oscar Thiffault, the famous songwriter of Le Rapide blanc. ...

Dancing Around the Table, Part One (1987)

Dancing Around the Table: Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution. The 1984 Federal Provincial Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters was a tumultuou ...

Jacques et novembre (1984)

A dying man films his last month. ...

A Labour of Sharing (1981)

A documentary that allows us to witness three births in their intimacy. Through their actions, the couples who agreed to participate in the film help to propose alternatives to the dominant medical interventions in hospitals. ...

Les grands enfants (1980)

Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The fi ...

Belle famille (1978)

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

Toul Québec au monde sua jobbe (1978)

Toul Québec au monde sua jobbe stages the takeover of a factory by the workers. A 1978 film interpreted by non-professionals, it is one of the few examples of worker cinema in Quebec. ...

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. ...

Back to the Land (1976)

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the ...

Griffintown (1972)

My Mother's Letters (2018)

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while help ...

Capturing Reality (2008)

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the compl ...