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Michel Brault (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Total trailers found: 82
03 May 1968
A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.
01 January 1963
A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars in Your Life," "Corral," "Wrestling," and "Neighbors.
28 September 2007
Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.
10 March 1962
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.
01 January 1961
A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world.
20 October 1961
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
01 January 1965
Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary.
19 December 1986
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
06 October 1972
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
24 September 1989
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home.
11 December 1964
The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.
01 January 1964
A 16 year old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Laurentians north of Montreal.
01 January 1969
Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers.
27 September 1974
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
01 January 1968
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all.
31 March 1962
They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians.
07 December 1958
This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.
12 May 1971
In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation.
01 December 1961
A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.
09 August 1963
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality.
30 May 2002
A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion.
01 November 1994
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years.
31 March 1970
A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
08 November 1991
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French.
01 January 1962
How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot change.
01 January 1960
Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community where all roads lead to the pithead.
05 September 1962
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school.
13 March 1999
In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority.
19 September 1981
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart.
07 February 1961
This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government.
12 November 1971
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
18 July 1973
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor.
01 January 1967
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity.
01 November 1974
27 shorts films about francophone traditional music in America.
12 April 1962
At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life.
25 January 1984
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost.
01 January 1980
Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St.
01 January 1973
An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger.
07 April 1970
Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.
01 January 1973
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 the lever in some applications of everyday life.
01 January 1962
This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style and intimate approach to the subject, the film focuses on the human rather than the technical side of the problem of hearing impairment.
01 October 1964
Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.
01 December 1961
Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction.
12 August 1967
A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
01 November 2008
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre.
01 January 1958
An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.
11 April 1968
Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land.
03 March 2000
Jacques Godbout takes us into the world of Anne Hébert, a woman he considered his spiritual sister and who had only one raison d’être: literature.
12 March 1989
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.
30 October 1975
Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives.
20 July 1986
A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.
28 February 1980
A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
11 April 1975
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely.
14 September 1979
A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
