Waiting for Spring (2013)

Original title

En attendant le printemps

Directed by

Marie-Genevieve Chabot

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a shrinking mining town in northern Quebec. It follows a retired miner and his friends as they go ice fishing through the winter.

observationalgentlecontemplativequietcold-weatherresilientintimateslow-paced

What happens

Waiting for Spring (French: En attendant le printemps) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie-Geneviève Chabot and released in 2013. The film centres on the town of Chapais in northern Quebec, a struggling former mining community whose residents are quietly resisting the economic pressures to abandon their hometown. It focuses principally on the story of Berny, a retired former miner, and his small group of friends with whom he regularly goes ice fishing in the winter. The film won the Prix Jutra for Best Documentary Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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