Jacques Drouin Movies

It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river valley. The...

More signs of winter's end as more wildlife returns. The family makes an excursion for fresh fish from a lake. They build a karmak and move in the...

With no commentary other than the music and words of the performers themselves, this fast-moving film presents the grandest Canadian concert of them...

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead...

Student film directed by Jacques Drouin.

In Penticton, BC, most students graduating from the only high school in town know that job opportunities and higher education lie elsewhere, most...

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for...

Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and we see the construction in detail. The next day a...

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she spreads a caribou skin to dry. The boy picks...

This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or...

Animated film about father and son.

A portrait of the country of Mexico, as seen through the eyes of Mario Rojas Alba, a physician and former member of Congress, who fled to Montreal as...

This feature-length documentary analyzes television newscasts and, as a result, takes a look at the news industry as a whole. By tackling five major...

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with...

This short animated film presents an allegorical portrait of a society where men have lost their autonomy in the struggle to be recognized by the...

Some of life's most profound questions are tackled by ten children ranging in age from six to eleven. They give their spontaneous views on God, the...

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films...

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

Animator Jacques Drouin looks back on his career.