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Plus haut que les flammes

Directed by Monique LeBlanc
Canada, 2020 (documentary, 104 minutes, colour, French)
Also known as "Higher Than Flames Will Go"
Plus haut que les flammes
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"In this cinematic tour de force, Monique LeBlanc brings to the screen Louise Dupré's 2011 Governor General's Award-winning book of poetry, Plus haut que les flammes, recited in its entirety in the film by actress Violette Chauveau. Devastated by a visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, a woman, a grandmother, tries to go on living and caring for a child. Because beyond the worst man-made horrors there is childhood, through which all roads to the future must pass. Weaving different stories, different experiences and different landscapes together, from Auschwitz to Canada via the United States, Nicaragua and the Ukraine, the filmmaker offers a moving meditation on how we might elevate the youth that will inherit this world 'higher than flames will go.»"
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Monique LeBlanc
Based on: Plus haut que les flammes, a poem by Louise Dupré
Produced by: Christine Aubé, Jac Gautreau, Denis McCready, Dominic Desjardins, Geneviève Duguay
Participants: Emilia Arauz Castellon, Yaroslava Nikolaevna Sarabun, Justina Leiton, Stéphanie Matthews, Cristhian Valeria Calero Vega, Nolan, Jeremy, Said, Abraham, Ashley, Eduardo, Sofia, Miguel, Theo, Jonathan, Denys, Mariana, Arsen, Lidia, Alexandre, Maria Del Carmen, Jérôme, Benoit, Eva, Da'Marquis, Tristan, Gabriel
Film Editing: Geoffrey Boulangé
Music: Monique Jean
Production Company: Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada
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