BOISBOUSCACHE

By Jean-Claude COULBOIS

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, CANADA

Environmental - Completed 2021

Through the eyes and testimonies of residents and users, Boisbouscache paints a portrait of a territory coveted by private groups with divergent interests. It is a film about history and dispossession.

Festivals
& Awards

Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma 2022
Official Selection
DOC-Cévennes 2022
Official Selection
Festival international de cinéma et d'art Les Percéides de Percé 2022
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jean-Claude COULBOIS
    • Writer(s)
    • Jean-Claude COULBOIS
    • Producer(s)
    • Robert LACERTE (Corporation Acpav Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    • The TNO (Unorganized Territory) Lac-Boisbouscache is a 150 square kilometer public forest located between Rivière-du-Loup and Rimouski in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec, Canada.

      This ancestral territory of the Maliseet-de-Viger First Nation is today a common good since, as the government proclaims, the public forest belongs to all Quebecers.
      Well, all... That's a quick way of putting it!

      Through the eyes of forest residents and users, the film paints a portrait of a territory that has long been coveted by private groups with diverse interests.

      Boisbouscache is a story of dispossession based on the commercial uses in force today combined with the absence of any political will.