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Features & TV Movies:
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Pour la suite de monde (aka, For Those Who Will Follow, 1963)
Le règne du jour (1966)
Beluga Days (1968, short, co-directed with Michel Brault, Bernard Gosselin)
Les voitures d’eau (1969)
Le beau plaisir (1969)
Un pays sans bon sens! ou Wake Up, mes bons amis (1970)
L’Acadie l’Acadie?!? (1971, co-directed with Michel Brault)
Tickets s.v.p. (1973, short)
Un royaume vous attend (1976)
Le retour à la terre (1976)
Le goût de la farine (1976)
C’était un Québecois en Bretagne, Madame! (1977)
Gens d’Abitibi (1979)
Le pays de la terre sans arbe ou le Mouchouânipi (1980)
La bête lumineuse (1982)
Les voiles bas et en travers (1983)
Ice Warrior (1996)
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