''A Woman, My Mother'' () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by

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and released in 2019.André Lavoie
"«Une femme, ma mère»: rien, ou si peu, sur ma mère"
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'', January 31, 2020. The film documents Demers's efforts to learn more about his birth mother, who gave him up for adoption; although they did meet in adulthood, she subsequently died before being able to tell him very much about her own life, leaving him with many gaps in his understanding that he could fill in only with imaginative speculation. The film premiered in November 2019 at the

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, where it won the award for Best Canadian Feature. It went into theatrical release in Quebec in early 2020, and was screened as part of the 2020

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. The film received two

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nominations at the 22-A Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020, for Best Editing in a Documentary (

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) and Best Sound in a Documentary (

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and Patrice LeBlanc). At the

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in 2021, it was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary (Lamoureux), and Lamoureux won the award for editing.Naman Ramachandran
"‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards"
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'', May 21, 2021.

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* 2019 films Canadian documentary films Quebec films Documentary films about adoption 2019 documentary films 2010s French-language films French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films French-language documentary films {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub