Michel Brault Movies

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

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...

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their...

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

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

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

A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

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...

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

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

The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to...

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a...

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped...