Serge Giguère Movies

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the...

In 2001, the government of Quebec announced a new program to issue permits for the construction of private hydroelectric dams at specific sites....

A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. Précis of the Everyday is a tender look at the memory, passing time, imagination and...

Dancing Around the Table: Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution. The...

A dying man films his last month.

Before Daybreak is a film about how life is passed on, and about the privileged relationship people have with the land they inhabit. In her house on...

Through the eyes of children and women of different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on the Upper North Shore. Mrs. Kennedy...

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his...

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...

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face...

Berri and Ste-Catherine, at 8:30 a.m. on June 19, traffic was paralyzed by 8 individuals, who appeared from who knows where. The hidden cameras see...

This film is first and foremost a documentary on the exploitation of the peat bogs of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, which export most of their humus...

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,...

Temiscaming, Québec is the story of a town's struggle to survive after its main source of employment, the CIP mill, closed down. Part I tells...

Years after first being inspired by a Félix Leclerc song, Martine Chartrand directed the film MACPHERSON. Ten years in the making, it features...

This short documentary chronicles the everyday life of the city's residents. We hear testimonials from citizens set against black-and-white images of...