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Benoît Pilon
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Benoît Pilon

Canadian film director and screenwriter
July 27, 1962 (62 years old)
Can. 2019. Drama by Benoît Pilon with Sébastien Ricard, Arnaud Vachon, Rémy Girard. In 1949 Charlevoix, a priest and educator leads his students in a search for the remains of a possible Viking colony from the turn of the year 1000.
Runtime: 125 min.
Can. 2017. Drama by Benoît Pilon with Marie-Josée Croze, Natar Ungalaq, Christine Tootoo. In Iqaluit, a Montreal woman seeks to clarify the circumstances surrounding the supposedly accidental death of her husband.
Runtime: 102 min.

Trash

V.O.: Décharge
Can. 2011. Mores drama by Benoît Pilon with David Boutin, Sophie Desmarais, Isabel Richer. An ex-offender turned waste management contractor in Montreal comes face to face with his demons when when he tries to save a teenage drug addict working the streets for a gang.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Necessities of Life

V.O.: Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
Can. 2008. Drama by Benoît Pilon with Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur. In 1952, an Inuit hunter suffering from tuberculosis is forced to leave his family to be treated in a Quebec City sanatorium.
Runtime: 102 min.

Northern Greetings

V.O.: Des nouvelles du Nord
Can. 2007. Documentary by Benoît Pilon. Over the seasons, the life of the inhabitants of Radisson, a village in Northern Quebec created in the 1970s to accommodate the workers of the James Bay construction site.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2006. Documentary by Benoît Pilon. Documentary about a sexually abused orphan and his struggle with his fellow sufferers to regain their dignity.
Runtime: 75 min.
Can. 2003. Documentary by Benoît Pilon. The steps in the creation of the play The Three Sisters by Chekhov by the Opsis Theatre in winter 2001.
Can. 2003. Documentary by Benoît Pilon. The peaceful existence of a small shopkeeper in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal is turned upside down when he has to sell his grocery store and leave the place where he has always lived.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 1997. Documentary by Benoît Pilon. The daily life of a very religious old man and his entourage in a small village in Quebec.
Runtime: 107 min.

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