''The River Schooners'' (french: Les Voitures d'eau) is a 1968 Canadian documentary, produced by the

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and directed by

Pierre Perrault Pierre Perrault (29 June 1927 – 24 June 1999) was a Québécois documentary film director. He directed 20 films between 1963 and 1996. He was one of the most important filmmakers in Canada, although largely unknown outside of Québec. In ...

.David Clandfield, ''Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary''.

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, 2004. . The third and final film in his "Île-aux-Coudres Trilogy" after ''

Pour la suite du monde ''Pour la suite du monde'' (also known as ''For Those Who Will Follow''; ''Of Whales, the Moon, and Men'', or ''The Moontrap'' in English) is a 1963 Canadian documentary film directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault. It was ...

'' and ''

The Times That Are ''The Times That Are'' (french: Le règne du jour) is a Canadian documentary film, which was directed by Pierre Perrault and released in 1967. A sequel to his 1963 film ''Pour la suite du monde'', the film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family on ...

(Le règne du jour)'', the film portrays workers in

L'Isle-aux-Coudres L'Isle-aux-Coudres is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality in the Charlevoix area of the Capitale-Nationale region. It is located on and contiguous with Coudres Island (''Île aux Coudres''), located i ...

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, who are employed in the traditional but fading art of building wooden

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

s. The film was released theatrically in 1968. In 1972, it was screened at the

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, as part of the New Cinema from Quebec program of 11 theatrical films from the province made between 1968 and 1971. It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema. The three films in the trilogy were released as a

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box set in 2007.Odile Tremblay
"La Trilogie de l'Île-aux-Coudres en DVD"
''

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'', April 24, 2007.

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* 1968 films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Films shot in Quebec Films directed by Pierre Perrault French-language Canadian films Canadian black-and-white films 1960s Canadian films {{1960s-Canada-film-stub