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MAISONNEUVE

By Nicolas WADIMOFF

Documentary - Completed 2020

The film Maisonneuve follows the path of students who attend the college of the same name over a school year, as they strive to become adults while living in an increasingly complex multi-ethnic society.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- FRENCH-CANADIAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicolas WADIMOFF
- Writer(s)
- Emmanuelle WALTER, Nicolas WADIMOFF, Nicolas RABAEUS, Philémon CRÊTE
- Producer(s)
- Isabelle COUTURE (La Coop Vidéo), Serge GORDEY (Temps Noir), Philippe COEYTAUX (Akka Films)
- Synopsis
- In 2015 and 2016, about ten students from Collège de Maisonneuve in Montreal left or tried to go jihad in Syria and Iraq. Following these disturbing events, the Government of Quebec granted the institution a grant to implement the "Living Together" project, bringing communities closer together and discouraging fundamentalist temptation. It is in this booming place that we install our cameras: The college and its 45% of students from immigrant backgrounds echo today's Quebec, divided between the Canadian multiculturalist model and the secular "French-style" model.
  
  Basically, all Western societies are struggling with the thorny issue of living together and integrating immigrants. The college is visited by principals from French high schools, or heads of educational programs in Switzerland, who are curious and want to understand how Canadians deal with these issues.
  
  During the course of a school year when young people gradually become adults, we follow the personal trajectory of about ten of them, who identify with one or other of the groups that form the mosaic of the college.