The Snowshoers
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.
- Year: 1958
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: ONF | NFB
- Keyword: competition, quebec, winter games, winter activities, short film
- Director: Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
- Cast: Maurice Richard