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...

A dying man films his last month.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Guy Nadon is the rhythm incarnate. A jazz drummer who strikes on everything that makes noise. A king of musical improvisation, but also a king of...

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,...

Luc-André Godbout, better known as Ti-Dré, is a forty-three-year-old orphan who cleanses furnaces and consciences. Here he is...

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...

A documentary that allows us to witness three births in their intimacy. Through their actions, the couples who agreed to participate in the film help...

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

A working class family leaves St-Henri quarter in Montréal to build a new home in the countryside.

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