The Free Ones

The Free Ones plunges us into the lives of four inmates at the end of their prison sen­tences. It’s in a wood-pro­cess­ing plant that they will fin­ish their cor­rec­tion before return­ing to the job mar­ket and rein­te­grat­ing, or not, into society. 

SYNOPSIS

The Free Ones is a full-length documentary feature which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hopes and fears during this six-month transition period.

Theme(s) : , Criminality, Economy, Human Rights, Work

DIRECTOR

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Nicolas Lévesque

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

Nico­las Lévesque is a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and film­mak­er from Québec, Cana­da. After his stud­ies in pho­tog­ra­phy, arts and cin­e­ma, he co-founds the KAHEM pho­tog­ra­phers asso­ci­a­tion. His work takes shape in the con­cept of the var­i­ous degrees of accep­ta­tion in a giv­en reality/context. His cam­eras brought him in many places in the world, espe­cial­ly in South Amer­i­ca for doc­u­men­tary projects. He works with the Nation­al film board of Cana­da and the nation­al tele­vi­sion net­work, Télé-Québec. Grant­ed by the SODEC in 2014, he is writ­ing his first doc­u­men­tary fea­ture film.

CREDITS

Director | , Nicolas Lévesque
Year | , 2020
Country | , Canada
Duration | 94 minutes
Original language | , French
Subtitles | , English
Formats |
Image | Jean-Philippe Archibald
Sound | Jean-Philippe Archibald, Nicolas Lévesque
Editing | Natacha Dufaux

CAREER

Rencontres interntionales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM)
Vues sur mer
DOK.fest München
Cinéma du monde
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer

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