-Documentary on the French miracle in Louisiana (USA).

Cris sur le bayou

Arbitres

Every year, hundreds of women develop relationships with prisoners. They fall under the charms of killers, petty criminals, rapists and crooks. Most only share a few letters, but some make it all the way to the altar. It is hard to understand what these women expect from a relationship with a convict with a long prison sentence. This documentary takes a look at their lives and the reasons that make them pursue a relationship with a criminal.

Mon amour, ma prison

A woman with a deep love of the land, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix, Quebec, millions of years ago. As enduring as the Canadian Shield, she’s a woman of strength and spirit, a child of the crater left by the meteor’s impact. This documentary portrays a determined woman who’s the reflection of a land created on an immense scale. She was the creative and life partner of filmmaker Pierre Perrault, who gave up everything to be by her side. The film charts the influence of her unquenchable dreams and her contribution to the building of a people’s collective memory. In a stream of images and words, Simard Perrault recounts the splendours of the landscape and the people who shaped it. Generous and boundless, she embarks on a quest for identity that nurtures and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who breathed new life into Quebec cinema.

Daughter of the Crater

-A documentary by Nadine Beaudet and Danic Champoux about Yolande Simard Perrault, / SYNOPSIS: As a woman of territory, Yolande Simard Perrault sees herself as the fruit of the telluric upheavals that struck the Charlevoix region of Quebec millions of years ago. As solid as the Canadian shield, she is the daughter of the crater born from the fall of a meteorite, hence her extraordinary vitality. The film paints a portrait of this determined woman, in the image of a country that was created in excess. A great love of Pierre Perrault's, she will abandon everything to live by his side and will be the filmmaker's accomplice.