''Rural Route 5'' () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Richard Lavoie and released in 1994. The film centres on the changing nature of

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

in the late 20th century, through a profile of

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

s in the

Lanaudière Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census. Geogr ...

region of Quebec who are coping with changes in the industry. The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the

Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma The Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (AQCC) is a Canadian organization of film critics from Quebec. Formed in 1973, the organization currently presents two annual awards: the Prix Luc-Perreault for best Quebec film of the year and ...

in 1996."Le Confessionnal snubbed". ''

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...

'', February 12, 1996.

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* 1994 films 1994 documentary films Canadian documentary films National Film Board of Canada documentaries Quebec films French-language Canadian films 1990s Canadian films {{1990s-Canada-documentary-film-stub