Bras de fer (2017)

Directed by

Jonathan Seaborn, Jean-Laurence Seaborn

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

G

Rating

2.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows two residents of the Limoilou neighborhood in Quebec City as they fight to expose heavy metal contamination in their community. The film shows their grassroots campaign to hold authorities accountable for the pollution affecting their homes and health.

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What happens

Bras de fer est un film documentaire québécois, réalisé par les frères Jean-Laurence et Jonathan Seaborn et paru en 2017. On y suit Véronique Lalande et Louis Duchesne, deux citoyens du quartier Limoilou, à Québec, qui se sont mobilisés pour dénoncer la contamination de leur quartier par des métaux lourds. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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