Monique Fortier Movies
- 1986
The Decline of the American Empire
The Decline of the American Empire6.81986HD
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual),...
- 1962
September Five at Saint-Henri
September Five at Saint-Henri01962HD
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...
- 1965
Ville-Marie
Ville-Marie01965HD
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. This film...
- 1993
Expectations
Expectations01993HD
- 1971
Acadia Acadia?!?
Acadia Acadia?!?6.71971HD
In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the...
- 1984
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe6.31984HD
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman...
- 1997
The Fate of America
The Fate of America01997HD
Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose...
- 1997
You Cried: Let Me Go
You Cried: Let Me Go81997HD
The Director reflects upon and seeks to understand the causes and the events that lead to her drug-addicted prostitute daughter being murdered at the...
- 1988
Liberty Street Blues
Liberty Street Blues01988HD
This feature documentary uses music to reveal the many faces of jazz, New Orleans style. Colourful and alive with music, the film captures the street...
- 1986
Bam Pay A! – Rends-moi mon pays!
Bam Pay A! – Rends-moi mon pays!01986HD
In this feature documentary, a Haitian, exiled in Canada for twenty years, returns to his country after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier....
- 1994
L'affaire Norman William
L'affaire Norman William01994HD
- 1980
The Land without Trees or The Mouchouânipi
The Land without Trees or The Mouchouânipi6.81980HD
It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada.
- 2014
Making Movie History: Monique Fortier
Making Movie History: Monique Fortier02014HD
Monique Fortier was one of the few women to make her way in the male world of the NFB in the 1950s. But make her way she did. Beginning as a...
- 1974
They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"
They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"61974HD
The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony...
- 1968
The River Schooners
The River Schooners6.21968HD
The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas.
- 1977
The Taste for Flour
The Taste for Flour61977HD
This documentary is about the Montagnais from Saint-Augustin et de La Romaine Indian reserve, in the region of the Côte-Nord in Quebec....
- 1962
Strangers for the Day
Strangers for the Day01962HD
This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...
- 1985
The Great Obsession
The Great Obsession01985HD
This documentary produced for TV follows a project consisting in remaking the journey of discoveries in the footsteps of Cartier's book. Sailors,...
- 1964
La beauté même
La beauté même01964HD
"I've often wondered what makes beauty" - So says Monique Miller who personifies in this short documentary universal woman, anxious to please since...
- 1971
Cesar's Bark Canoe
Cesar's Bark Canoe101971HD
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of...