Year
2025
Length
1h29m
Language
French
Marche au pays réel
L’Ecuyer Marie-France
By attempting to travel 2,960 km from southern Quebec to its northernmost point, by bike and skis, in the middle of winter, adventurers Samuel Lalande-Markon and Simon-Pierre Goneau want to reinvest the territory and reflect on the identity and collective relationship that Quebecers have with it. Their journey begins at kilometer marker 720, an obelisk-shaped monument located on the border with the United States, and ends at Cape Anaulirvik, north of Ivujivik, the northernmost point of the Ungava Peninsula.
Over the course of a 91-day expedition, they set out to discover the country in all its immensity, splendor and impetuosity, a country that suddenly reveals itself to be less abstract, less distant, more real.
Director
L’Ecuyer Marie-France
Screenwriter
Samuel Lalande-Markon, Marie-France L’Ecuyer
Editor
Jean-Pierre Demers
Production
Serge Desrosiers
Director of photography
Marc-André Bilodeau
Composer
Pierre-Yves Martel
Country
Canada
Type
Feature film
Category
Documentary
Subtitle
English
25 July 18:30 to 00:00
Les Correspondance Eastman
L’Ecuyer Marie-France
Filmmaker and documentary photographer Marie-France L'Ecuyer is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and their environment. Sensitive to the beauty of wilderness, her work questions our relationship with the land and explores the inner dimension of adventure. She produced and directed the short films Inner Territory (2021) and Uapishka (2023), which were selected at a number of film festivals, as well as directing and cinematographing the documentary web series La Virée du Saint-Laurent (2022). North of Ourselves (2025) is her first feature-length documentary.