
Sophie Bissonnette
2021Une histoire de femmes
Joyce Rock, Sophie Bissonnette
A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the women became increasingly involved in the strike, they questioned more and more their traditional supportive role. This provoked many heated discussions among the women and obviously not without upsetting husband, family, union - and company...
A Wives' Tale
Des lumières dans la grande noirceur
Sophie Bissonnette
Léa Roback
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.
A Vision in the Darkness