My Internship in Canada

My Internship in Canada
Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre
Directed by Philippe Falardeau
Produced by Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Written by Philippe Falardeau
Starring Patrick Huard
Irdens Exantus
Suzanne Clément
Paul Doucet
Music by Martin Léon
Cinematography Ronald Plante
Edited by Richard Comeau[1]
Production
companies
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Distributed by Les Films Christal
Release dates
  • August 10, 2015 (2015-08-10) (Locarno)
Running time
 108 min.
Country Canada
Language French
English
Creole

My Internship in Canada (French: Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) is a Canadian political satire film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau.[2]The film was released in 2015 at the Locarno International Film Festival.[2]

The film was nominated for four Canadian Screen Award categories and won three in the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. It was also part of the Canada's Top Ten screening series of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot

The film stars Patrick Huard as Steve Guibord, an independent Member of Parliament from northern Quebec who quite unexpectedly finds himself in the position of holding the tie-breaking vote on whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East.[2] Embarking on a tour of his constituency to evaluate public opinion, various lobby groups spin the debate farther and farther out of control and Guibord's confusion ultimately forces the decision onto Souverain (Irdens Exantus), his Haitian immigrant intern.[2]

Cast

Production

The film was shot from 24 September to 10 November 2014 in Val-d'Or, the Hautes-Laurentides, Ottawa, and Haiti.[1]

Accolades

The film had its North American premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] where it received an honorable mention from the Canadian film jury.[4] It was released in the province of Quebec on 2 October 2015, on seven screens, with a wide release in the province on 9 October 2015.[1] In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year.[5] In January 2016 it won the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival People's Choice Award, voted on by audiences in Toronto.[6]

The film garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016,[7] including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Irdens Exantus), Best Original Screenplay (Philippe Falardeau) and Best Sound (Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Claude La Haye and Benoît Leduc). For the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards (formerly known as the Prix Jutra), it won Best Supporting Actor (Exantus), Best Original Score and Best Editing.

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