Rural Route 5

Directed by

Richard Lavoie

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows farmers in rural Quebec as they adjust to shifts in agriculture. It focuses on their daily work and their responses to a changing industry.

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What happens

Rural Route 5 (French: Rang 5) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Richard Lavoie and released in 1994. The film centres on the changing nature of agriculture in the late 20th century, through a profile of farmers in the Lanaudière region of Quebec who are coping with changes in the industry. The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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