The Snowshoers
Directed by Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx1958 15m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [Short](/on-demand/category/short)
6.75.8
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema. In French with English subtitles.
