Jacques Drouin Movies

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

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and...

In this non-narrative animated film inspired by composer François Couperin's harpsichord composition "Barricades mystérieuses," Jacques...

An animated film created from pastel drawings by Clorinda Warny, Premiers Jours traces the complete cycle of life, from birth to adulthood, in four...

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...

When a man becomes blind, his life is all turned around. He can only use his touch to get around in his house. The objects become enemies. But an...

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...

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...

This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the...

This documentary tells the story of Max Ward, a former bush pilot whose company grew to become one of the major airlines in Canada. A study of...

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

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.

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

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...

Animation 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...

Experimental short piece by Jacques Drouin

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...

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A destitute, outcast young woman is making her way on the...