Jacques Drouin Movies

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet...

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a...

This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the...

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

This short animated film presents an allegorical portrait of a society where men have lost their autonomy in the struggle to be recognized by the...

The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a Polish underground member are told by the very...

A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of...

This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with...

In this non-narrative animated film inspired by composer François Couperin's harpsichord composition "Barricades mystérieuses," Jacques...

A late-spring coastal sequence documenting seal hunting and processing on the sea ice.

The Pinscreen is a tool that was created in the 1930s to make animation films. Although it no longer provides any technical advantages, a handful of...

With no commentary other than the music and words of the performers themselves, this fast-moving film presents the grandest Canadian concert of them...

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...

Chomsky on the media treatment of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and Pol Pot's atrocities in Cambodia

A summer sequence documenting the communal construction of a kayak and associated domestic and subsistence practices.

This film explores how Canada wavers between rejection and acceptance of closer ties with the United States, tracing the historical precedents of...

A spring sea-ice sequence documenting travel, camp construction, domestic labor, and seal hunting among Netsilingmiut families.

A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for...