Jean-Pierre Joutel Movies

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional...

The Greek myth retold with film animation, accompanied by music for flute. Music, drawing, colour and movement here follow a moving, classic...

Documentary on the German luxury liner St. Louis that sailed from Hamburg to Cuba in 1939 carrying 937 German Jews. For 30 excruciating days the ship...

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are...

Produced in 1988, this feature documentary presents a living history of Quebec's last 40 years as seen through the eyes of one couple. Pauline Julien...

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. This film...

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

An amorous couple prepares for a picnic in the country. But the man's rage at a stuck doorknob leads to tragedy for both of them.

In this feature documentary, a Haitian, exiled in Canada for twenty years, returns to his country after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier....

Torn between the world of their childhood and the world where they must now live and work, two flamboyant Newfoundlanders pay a nostalgic visit to...

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good....

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water,...

Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played...

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

This animated film, a small educational musical comedy, offers the viewer a proper enigma. He is very smart who succeeds in solving it the first...

This short film uses photographs from various public and private collections, interwoven with the memories of islanders who lived at the turn of the...

What would make an ordinary woman kill her husband? This powerful documentary is about three battered women who, after years of violence, kill their...

A facially disfigured author's life with her guardian of a sister is disrupted when a stranger arrives at their door, claiming to be a fan.