My Internship in Canada
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| Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre | |
| Directed by | Philippe Falardeau |
| Produced by | Luc Déry, Kim McCraw |
| Written by | Philippe Falardeau |
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Patrick Huard Irdens Exantus Suzanne Clément Paul Doucet |
| Music by | Martin Léon |
| Cinematography | Ronald Plante |
| Edited by | Richard Comeau |
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| Distributed by | Les Films Christal |
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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. The film premiered in 2015 at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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.
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. 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.
The film was shot from 24 September to 10 November 2014 in Val-d'Or, the Hautes-Laurentides, Ottawa, and Haiti.
The film had its North American premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention from the Canadian film jury. 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. 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. In January 2016 it won the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival People's Choice Award, voted on by audiences in Toronto.
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