Director
Nicole Giguère
Production
Productions VF - Isabelle de Blois
Language
French
52 min, documentary, Canada, 2011
Synopsis
Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Lea, Julia, Anne and Flavie.
Credits
Director and screenplay : Nicole Giguère
Cinematographer : Isabelle de Blois, Zhi-Min Hu, Nicole Giguère, Alain Dupras, Pascal Gélinas
Sound : Stéphane Barsalou, Emory Murchison
Music : André Courcy, Jenny Salgado
Editor : Johane Fréchette
Animation : Josiane Lapointe
Text and narrator : Nicole Giguère avec l’aide de Nicole Campeau et Pascal Gélinas
Sound mix : Roger Guérin, CAS, MPSE, Premium Sound
This film is part of the SPIRA COLLECTION. For more information about SPIRA, please go on https://www.spira.quebec/en/
Nicole Giguère
Since 1975, Nicole Giguère has worked as a director, screenwriter, and editor. Her work includes auteur documentaries, docudramas, and television series, as well as music videos and musical films. Her primary interests lie in social issues, as well as the cultural and musical spheres. Her film Aller simple pour Sirius won her the Gémeaux Award for Best Artistic Documentary in 1997.
Prisons sans barreaux, 73 min, Documentary, 2019
Renée Martel, une femme libre, 45 min, Documentary, 2014
Anne-Marie Ngô par Nicole Giguère, 3 min, Documentary, 2013
On me prend pour une chinoise, 52 min, Documentary, 2011
S.O.S., 3 × 45 min, Documentary, 2008
Toxique, 4 × 46 min, Documentary, 2006
Musicographies – Portraits d’artistes, 6 × 45 min, Documentary, 2005
Entretien avec Anne Claire Poirier, 72 min, Documentary, 2003
Alice au pays des gros nez, 53 min, Documentary, 2003
Québec en ondes, 52 min, Documentary, 2001
Barbie, la Vénus de vinyle, 52 min, Documentary, 1999
Aller simple pour Sirius, 75 min, Documentary, 1998
Dépasser l’âge, 52 min, Documentary, 1998
Arrêtons d’en demander, 30 min, Documentary, 1995
L’humeur à l’humour, 49 min, Documentary, 1989
Les femmes me touchent, 5 min, Documentary, 1989
Histoire infâme, 9 min, Fiction, 1988
Je voudrais voir la mer, 5 min, Videoclip, 1986
On fait toutes du showbusiness, 52 min, Documentary, 1984
Vidéo Femmes par Vidéo Femmes, 43 min, Documentary, 1984
Poing final, 45 min, Docufiction, 1983
Tous les jours, tous les jours, tous les jours, 58 min, Documentary, 1982
C’est pas le pays des merveilles, 58 min, Docufiction, 1981
Philosophie de boudoir, 31 min, Documentary, 1975