Pierre Dufresne

The Secret Squirrel Show

The half-hour The Secret Squirrel Show included three individual cartoon segments: "Secret Squirrel", "Squiddly Diddly" and "Winsome Witch".

Those Damned Savages

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

Les beaux dimanches

The Time of the Hunt

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

For Better or For Worse

An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.

Straight to the Heart

An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.

Angela

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.

The Promised Land

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

La maîtresse

Linda leaves the modest family home and decides to go off and make a life for herself. She finds a job as a secretary for a married man who woos her, snubs a libertine seducer and finally finds love with Frédéric, a young and handsome millionaire racing driver in his spare time. Alas, the man she tenderly loves ends up marrying another.

Sainte Carmen de la Main

A TV film staging of Michel Tremblay's play "Sainte Carmen de la Main" by André Brassard.