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New Brunswick (Ages 18+)

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Discover New Brunswick—from its big cities and rural areas to its small towns and remote communities—through a selection of films that shines a spotlight on the province’s hidden treasures and fascinating characters. Suitable for both primary and secondary level students, this playlist includes animated and documentary films. These seminal works from our collection address the topics that matter most, ranging from historical subjects to the most pressing issues of the day.

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New Brunswick (Ages 18+)

Discover New Brunswick—from its big cities and rural areas to its small towns and remote communities—through a selection of films that shines a spotlight on the province’s hidden treasures and fascinating characters. Suitable for both primary and secondary level students, this playlist includes animated and documentary films. These seminal works from our collection address the topics that matter most, ranging from historical subjects to the most pressing issues of the day.

Playlist

  • Is the Crown at war with us?
    Is the Crown at war with us?
    Alanis Obomsawin 2002 1 h 36 min

    In this feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin, it's the summer of 2000 and the country watches in disbelief as federal fisheries wage war on the Mi'kmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Casting her cinematic and intellectual nets into history to provide context, Obomsawin delineates the complex roots of the conflict with passion and clarity, building a persuasive defence of the Mi'kmaq position.

  • A Sunday at 105
    A Sunday at 105
    Daniel Léger 2007 13 min

    Meet Aldéa, now the oldest living Canadian

  • Cafeteria
    Cafeteria
    Francine Hébert 2015 24 min

    This short documentary looks at how an entire community mobilized to improve the cafeteria menu at a primary school in Cocagne, New Brunswick. Rallying behind this noble cause, residents put their shoulder to the wheel, promoting products from local farmers over those of multinational corporations. Everyone gets involved to make healthy eating a common goal as well as a learning opportunity.

  • Turning Tides
    Turning Tides
    Mathieu D'Astous 2007 24 min

    In this documentary short, summer trippers line up for the famous local fried clams and whole families dig for the white mollusc in the tangy air of the sandbars. But as the clams dwindle, so do these tableaux from Maritime culture. For commercial fishermen it's the end of a livelihood; for others, it's the death of a tradition. Can this really be the end of a resource that used to be as plentiful as the air we breathe? In French with English subtitles.

  • Acadia Acadia ?!?
    Acadia Acadia ?!?
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    Michel Brault  &  Pierre Perrault 1971 1 h 57 min

    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. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people. In French with English subtitles.

  • The Artisans
    The Artisans
    Daniel Léger 2018 51 min

    The Artisans takes us into the rhythms of daily life at a unique organization, where the workers are as courageous as they are colourful.

  • Like a Thief in the Night
    Like a Thief in the Night
    Marie-Thérèse François 2010 15 min

    This short documentary about the city of Moncton, NB, explores 2 tragic endings: the obliteration of a much-loved historic neighbourhood, and the illness and death of the filmmaker's father. What survives when buildings, trees and a loved one all vanish? In French with English subtitles.

  • Lucien’s Happiness
    Lucien’s Happiness
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    Nathalie Hébert 2019 23 min

    To better understand the essence of happiness, filmmaker Nathalie Hébert speaks with Lucien Comeau, a musician and “philosopher of the everyday” who lives in Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick. This simple, informal portrait nonetheless moves beyond conventional, preconceived ideas to offer profound insights into the meaning of life and success.

  • Inhabiting Dance
    Inhabiting Dance
    Julien Cadieux 2009 25 min

    This short documentary is a portrait of Sylvie Mazerolle, a young woman for whom dance is as vital and fundamental as breathing. Tracking her process, the film also takes a look at dance in her home province of New Brunswick. In French with English subtitles.

  • For the Cause
    For the Cause
    Rodolphe Caron 2011 52 min

    This feature documentary tells the story of the Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur Congregation which was formed in 1924 when 53 French-speaking nuns separated from their unilingual English community, forming a new religious community that immediately began to campaign for the preservation of Acadian language, faith and culture. Convinced that education was essential for Acadian women, in 1943 the Congregation founded Collège Notre-Dame d’Acadie, where young women were able to study in French for the first time in New Brunswick.

  • A Place that Matters
    A Place that Matters
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    Renée Blanchar 2015 1 h 29 min

    In Sainte-Anne-du-Bocage in Caraquet, New Brunswick, Acadian artists Renée Blanchar, France Daigle, René Cormier and Allain Roy launch several community projects to bring back the former Youth Club built by Acadie’s first architect, Nazaire Dugas.

  • Bittersweet Blues
    Bittersweet Blues
    Stéphanie David 2015 24 min

    This short documentary links family memories to the evolution of Acadian French. Bittersweet Blues reveals the dilemma that Acadians face: do they adopt normative French in order to be better understood, or proudly continue to use their own language, which reflects the colourful flavour of their own authentic culture?

    This film was made as part of the Tremplin program, in collaboration with Radio-Canada.

  • The New Brunswick Acadians
    The New Brunswick Acadians
    2012 2 min

    This animated clip illustrates the lives and realities of New Brunswick Acadians. It comes from the game