Isolated, with no real roots, today’s family has forgotten how to live and breathe. What happened? Mireille Dansereau looks at four different types of families: one with a physically challenged child, one living common law, one being raised by a single mother, and the children of a separated couple. She listens sensitively and attentively as the interviewed families speak their minds. This film presents positive food for thought for the modern family, so that it can get back to a place of communication and harmony, and discover its rightful place in today’s society.

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Tomorrow, death is inevitable. How can we possibly come to terms with that reality? Two adults with cancer have graciously allowed cameras to follow the final months of their lives. For Micheline, it is a positive experience: she sees death as an adventure she is embarking upon. But François only sees the negative side: how can he express his real needs to a society that treats death like a taboo? As a person is dying, more than ever they need the respect and rights given to those who still have their entire lives before them.

Three Whites head off to meet the Montagnais nation living in the vicinity of Saint-Augustin and La Romaine, on Québec’s North Shore. This film serves as a good reminder that, despite the fact that we have traditionally been taught that our culture is superior to theirs, we still have a lot to learn about our First Nations people.

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Based on UN ROYAUME VOUS ATTEND and LE RETOUR À LA TERRE, Pierre Perrault makes a final plea on behalf of the people living in the Abitibi region of Québec. The film revolves around Hauris Lalancette, a spirited farmer who has been fighting for close to half a century to save his land.

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This documentary presents the final evening of the VEILLÉES D'AUTOMNE, a traditional music festival presented in Montréal in 1975. It does a great job capturing the vitality of each performer.

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This film is about a controversial educational community in southwestern Ontario where people of all ages come, either freely or referred by the courts, psychiatric wards and training schools. The film focuses on the "referrals," and their common struggle to instill new meaning into their lives.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)