Mireille Dansereau Movies

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length...

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the...

What place do breasts occupy in the identity of women? Intersecting several voices--adolescent girls, mothers, lesbians, dancers,...

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a...

A filmmaker explores the difficulty of being a woman, provoked by the porn films found among the belongings her father left behind. ‘Is...

Montage of archives filmed in 1971.

Paddling a kayak on a Quebec lake, a woman remembers her son and the first time he saw himself in a mirror. Having been able to accompany him in this...

The story of two characters that we hear but never see. The film begins with a young student filming the London Markets in 1969. 25 years later, she...

A poetic meditation by a man and a woman whose teenage son has threatened to end his life. What drives someone to that terrible extreme? In an effort...

Madeleine, a young French Canadian woman, goes to London to study English literature. She meets a young actor, Peter, who has just graduated from...

A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother.

Recording of a tense discussion between three people around the question of "revolution". Steve Ben Israel (member of the Living Theatre), James...

What do we know about childhood other than the constructions we make of it? A little girl died inside the day her father left. As an adult, she is...

A 14-year-old girl talks about the boredom of her middle-class environment and puts her father and mother on trial. A walk on the mountain with her...

As much as hair is directly linked to appearance, displaying personality and belonging to a group, it is also intimately linked to being. How many...

Madeleine Dansereau was the first woman jeweller in Quebec. She started her career at the age of 47, just when doctors diagnosed her as having breast...

This documentary captures the road-trip odyssey of Canadian filmmaker Mireille Dansereau as she travels to Louisiana to screen one of her films...

A look at the life of André Bessette through expert interviews and interviews with people who knew him.