Pierre Falardeau

A bumbling man finds adventure in the media world.

During the summer of 1968, Leon, a 10-year-old boy, navigates the hardships of young love, his lunatic mother's whims, and his urges to vandalize the house of his neighbors.

Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction.

In October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Minister Pierre Laporte, part of an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such crimes. Thanks to his uncle Jacques, who agrees for the first time to speak on the subject, and to the traces left by his father Paul, he revives the heritage of a Quebec working class family. The fruit of ten years of research, Les Rose allows us to revisit a time and people that we knew through clichés, and gives a glimpse of the experiences of a rebellious youth and the crimes that followed.

A Québécois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.

Robert Gratton is a small-town shopkeeper. A right-wing man, he has an unbounded devotion to Elvis Presley. He decides to enter an Elvis impersonation contest.

Elvis Gratton is back from Santa Banana. Now it's time to get ready for the holiday season. Our man is very busy. At the mayor's reception, he performs his greatest hits.But then tragedy strikes.Elvis dies.Will it all end on such a sad note?

Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision.

A depressed rock star, maimed in an accident, is encouraged by his manager to start a new worldwide trend.

Elvis Gratton wins the contest organized in memory of Elvis Presley, which earns him a trip to the Republic of Santa Banana. We find him, clumsy and cartoonish, on the beaches of this shabby republic, ruled by a veritable petty dictator.

This film covers the transitional political period between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the Canadian federal election that brought Joe Clark to power. Featuring some of our most colourful politicians, historians, journalists, artists and citizens, this film highlights in parallel the convictions of each on the national political question, on the eve of the first Quebec referendum. Montage of newsreels shot between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the federal election of 1979.

A short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian dominance in Quebec by showing the 200th anniversary celebration of the Beaver Club of Montreal.

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