Michel Brault Movies

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of...

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

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

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length...

Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early...

Structured as a cinematic essay, "Un pays sans bon sens!" explores the emotional and political foundations of belonging to a nation. Moving between...

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional...

Captive Feast documents the annual village festival that allows inmates at the psychiatric hospital of St. Alban a rare chance to mingle with the...

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the...

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...

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new...

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and...

Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she...

27 shorts films about francophone traditional music in America.

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...