Synopsis

Québec My Country mon pays recense les conséquences de la Révolution tranquille, mouvement social qui a créé des changements culturels et politiques majeurs qui ont mené au mouvement séparatiste, la crise d'octobre noir avec le FLQ et ultimement, l'exode de plus de 500 000 anglophones Québécois. Le cinéaste John Walker, né à Montréal, explore sa propre relation compliquée avec la province dans ce film débordant d'amour et de désir.

Quebec My Country Mon Pays charts the aftermath of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. This social justice movement unleashed dramatic cultural and political changes that led to the separatist movement, the FLQ crisis and, ultimately, the exodus of more than a half million English-speaking Quebecers. Montreal-born filmmaker John Walker reveals his own complicated relationship with the province in a film brimming with love and longing. Walker’s Quebec roots go back 250 years. Yet he’s struggled his entire life to find his place and to feel he truly belongs. In Quebec My Country Mon Pays, he explores a very personal story through the lens of a cast of characters including three generations of his family, childhood friends and contemporaries – Denys Arcand, Jacques Godbout and Louise Pelletier – as well as Christina Clark, a young person whose experience today mirrors Walker’s own. In a quest to make sense of a divisive and transformative moment in Quebec’s evolution, they each wrestle with memories, decisions and the continuing reverberations.