''The Free Ones'' (french: Les Libres) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicolas Lévesque and released in 2020. An expansion of his 2015 short film ''Interview with a Free Man (Entrevue avec un homme libre)'', which was named by the
Toronto International Film Festival as one of the
Canada's Top Ten short films in 2015.
[Bruce Kirkland]
"TIFF announces its top 10 films of 2015"
''Toronto Sun
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'', December 8, 2015. The film is a portrait of several ex-convicts who are readjusting to life as free men with jobs at a
sawmill in
Roberval,
Quebec.
The film premiered at the 2020
Montreal International Documentary Festival.
The film received two
Canadian Screen Award nominations at the
9th Canadian Screen Awards, for
Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Jean-Philippe Archibald) and
Best Editing in a Documentary (Natacha Dufaux).
[Brent Furdyk]
"Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations"
'' ET Canada'', March 30, 2021.
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2020 films
2020 documentary films
Canadian documentary films
Canadian prison films
Quebec films
French-language Canadian films
2020s Canadian films
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