Michel Brault Movies

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

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...

A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.

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...

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot...

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

Set in New Brunswick, "Éloge du chiac" takes the form of an open discussion between a young French-language teacher and her students in...

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier...

Jacques Godbout takes us into the world of Anne Hébert, a woman he considered his spiritual sister and who had only one raison...

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant...

27 shorts films about francophone traditional music in America.

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...