Debouttes
Maxime Faure
2019 - 75 min - Video 2K - Couleur - France, Canada (Québec)

The Helper Nuns of Quebec, feminist and politically engaged Catholic sisters, have been lighting up combats for social justice since the 1960s. The Catholic patriarchate is driving them nuts – both inside the Church and outside it.
So long as a woman is not allowed to officiate at their funerals, they are keeping their fists raised!



Author-Director : Maxime Faure
Photography : Léna Mill-Reuillard
Sound : Martyne Morin, Emmanuelle Villard
Editing : Karen Benainous, Martin Gracineau
Original Music : Kroy
Delegate Producer : Les Films du Balibari
Co-producer : Metafilms
Broadcasting Pre-purchase : France 2
Broadcasting Pre-purchase : Radio Canada
Contribution : Angoa-Agicoa, Scam, Région Bretagne, Région Pays de la Loire, Rogers Documentary Fund, Europe Créative, Téléfilm Canada, CNC. COSIP, Procirep

Distribution


Distributor : Les Films du Balibari
Distributor : Les Films du 3 mars

Distinctions

2019 - RIDM - Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Montréal (Canada) : Sélection