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THE VINLAND CLUB

LE CLUB VINLAND

By Benoit PILON

PRODUCTIONS AVENIDA INC. - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

1949. Brother Jean is a progressive announcer of future changes in Quebec. Adulated by his students, he is perceived as disturbing by the leadership of the congregation. To motivate his students, including Émile, Jean conducts archaeological excavations. This project will change their destinies.

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10th Beijing international film festival 2020
Panorama section
44th Mostra internacionalde Cinema de Sao Paulo 2020
Perspectiva internacional
39e Festival du cinéma international de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2020
Opening film
Focus on Frenc Cinema 2021
US premiere
Festival du film canadien de Dieppe 2021
Opening film
Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival 2021
Beyond the boundary section
Berkshire International Film Festival 2021
Gala Québec Cinéma 2021
Best production design award
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH-CANADIAN
    • Budget
    • 3 - 5 M$
    • Duration
    • 125 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Benoit PILON
    • Writer(s)
    • Normand BERGERON, Marc ROBITAILLE
    • Synopsis
    • Winter 1949.

      An exceptional teacher, highly devoted to the development of his students, Brother Jean has long been the figurehead of a school for boys in Charlevoix.

      Adulated by the young students and unconditionally supported by the director of the academy, Jean exercises a broad leadership and isn’t hesitant to employ unusual educational methods (borrowed from theatre, cinema, scientific research...) to bolster his teaching.

      An amateur archaeologist in his spare time, Brother Jean generated wide support in his exploring for Viking remains that would prove that they were established a thousand years earlier in the St. Lawrence Valley – the famous Vinland of Norwegian sagas. Although the higher ranks of the congregation sometimes find his methods a tad too inventive, his noticeable success with the young people has earned him the freedom to conduct his research as he pleases.

      But the arrival of a new student – Émile, a troubled 13-year-old – soon upsets the delicate arrangement.

      Determined to convince his superiors that he can prevent the boy from dropping out of school, Jean embarks on this new mission with great ardour, even as he redoubles his quest for evidence of the Vikings’ passage, all this in spite of increasing opposition from the congregation’s senior administration. These disruptions will have serious consequences for Jean and young Emile.
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