Barefoot at Dawn 2017

February 1927: Félix Leclerc's last year with his family before attending a private college in the fall. Accompanied by Fidor, his faithful friend, he will face adversity, love, death, and will embark on the path of adulthood.

Finding Macpherson 2014

Years after first being inspired by a Félix Leclerc song, Martine Chartrand directed the film MACPHERSON. Ten years in the making, it features animated painting on glass and draws on her extensive research on the title character. Filmmaker Serge Giguère was there from the start, carefully and sympathetically chronicling this exceptional creative process.

Félix 2009

Félix Leclerc chante Cadet Rousselle 1989

The song “Cadet Rousselle”, illustrated with drawings by Jean Dallaire and sung by Félix Leclerc.

Le Québec est au monde 1979

This film covers the transitional political period between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the Canadian federal election that brought Joe Clark to power. Featuring some of our most colourful politicians, historians, journalists, artists and citizens, this film highlights in parallel the convictions of each on the national political question, on the eve of the first Quebec referendum. Montage of newsreels shot between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the federal election of 1979.

Félix Leclerc, troubadour 1959

Les Brûlés 1959

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

Log Drive 1957

In this National Film Board short, a ballad singer describes a yearly Quebec spectacle when spruce wood moves down a river, spurred by dynamite and cant hooks and twirled by the boots of leaping men.