''Sonia'' is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Paule Baillargeon and released in 1986.

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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 203. The film stars Kim Yaroshevskaya as Sonia, a successful artist and academic whose independence is being eroded by the onset of

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, and Baillargeon as her daughter Roxanne. The cast also includes Lothaire Bluteau, Paul Buissonneau, Michael Rudder, Raymond Cloutier, Marc Messier, Blanche Baillargeon, Frédérique Collin, Suzanne Gaulin, Louise St-Pierre and Guy Thauvette. Filmmaker Claude Jutra had also been cast in a small part as the doctor who diagnosed Sonia's condition, but his performance had to be left out of the finished film as his own battle with Alzheimer's interfered with his ability to remember his lines. The film premiered on June 15, 1986, at the International Festival of Women's Film and Video in

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. Its subsequent screenings included the 1987 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, where it was the winner of the Prix André-Leroux for best mid-length film.Bill Brownstein, "Arcand movie lands another two honors". ''

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'', February 16, 1987.

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* 1986 films 1986 drama films Canadian drama films French-language Canadian films 1980s Canadian films Films shot in Quebec Films set in Quebec Canadian films about Alzheimer's disease National Film Board of Canada films {{1980s-Canada-film-stub