Carole Laganière (1959 - February 6, 2023) was a

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film director from

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."Carole Laganière, réalisatrice de Jour de congé, est décédée"

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, February 6, 2023. Although she made a number of short and feature-length narrative fiction films through her career, she was known principally as a director of

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s. Born and raised in the

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quarter of

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, she studied film at the

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in Belgium. After making two short films she made her full-length debut with the film ''Aline'' in 1992, and turned to documentary filmmaking while teaching at the

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. Her filmmaking career consisted almost entirely of documentary films afterward, except for a brief return to narrative filmmaking with the 2018 short film ''Uncertain Spring (Un printemps incertain)''. She became best known for '' East End Kids (Vues de l'est)'' and its sequel '' East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours)'', in which she profiled the hopes and dreams of young kids growing up in the same Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood where she had been raised. Her other noteworthy films included ''

The Fiancée of Life ''The Fiancée of Life'' () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carole Laganière and released in 2001. Titled for a Malaysian proverb that death is the fiancée of life, the film profiles young children who are coming to terms with the dea ...

(La fiancée de la vie)'', a film about children coping with the deaths of parents which won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the 2002

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,"Hot Docs prize goes to Montreal director". ''

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'', May 7, 2002. and '' Absences'', about her own mother's battle with

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and other people coping with the unresolved absence of family connections from their lives. In 2015, five of her films were screened in a special retrospective program at Hot Docs. Her final film, ''Break Free (Fuir)'', about women escaping

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, premiered at the

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in 2022.Victoria Ahearn
"In brief: Inès among world premieres set for Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma"
'' Playback'', April 1, 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laganiere, Carole 1959 births 2023 deaths Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Canadian women documentary filmmakers Film directors from Montreal People from Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve