Anne Claire Poirier

Anne Claire Poirier was the first woman director to work at the NFB. She directed both feature-length fiction and documentaries. The filmmaker will put into images several subjects that were previously absent from our screens. Her montage film Il y a longtemps que je t'aime revisits the images of men and women in the NFB's repertoire. From Mother to Daughter tells the story of a woman who wonders how to combine motherhood with the other dimensions of her life. In 1979, she made a hard-hitting film called Mourir à tue-tête (1979) that challenged the audience to question the causes and consequences of violence against women. In the early 1970s, she produced En tant que femmes, a series of six films directed by women. The subjects of the series emerged after extensive field research with young people, working women, retired women and mothers. Anne Claire Poirier's cinema is carried by the effervescence of the social movements of her time and by a singular vision of the cinematographic medium.