Joséphine Bacon

Acting

Joséphine Bacon

Pessamit, Québec, Canada

Joséphine Bacon is an Innu poet from Pessamit, born in 1947. Director and lyricist, she is considered a leading author of Quebec. She worked as a translator-interpreter with elders, those who hold traditional knowledge, and, with wisdom, she learned to listen to their words. Joséphine Bacon often says of herself that she is not a poet, but that in her nomadic and generous heart, she speaks a language full of poetry where echoes of the elders who have marked her life resonate.

Acting credits

Archipelago poster
6.0

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

Archipelago

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Parole Amérikoises

2026

Bootlegger poster
5.9

Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.

Bootlegger

2021

Hochelaga, Land of Souls poster
4.8

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

2017

Territoires, alliances et autres métissages poster
NR

By retracing the mixed heritage of First Nations peoples and Quebecers, painting a modern portrait, and sketching a human geography, this film helps us (re)discover the beauty and strength of our common territory: the Americas.

Territoires, alliances et autres métissages

2022

Call Me Human poster
7.3

O’Bomsawin enjoys a deep rapport with her gregarious subject, who recounts her life primarily through celebrating the friendships she found along the way.

Call Me Human

2020

Touche pas à ma culture? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Touche pas à ma culture?

2021

À la lumière du soir poster
NR

At 97, filmmaker Fernand Dansereau delivers a vibrant and inspiring final documentary! He draws us into rich and sensitive exchanges: on the joy of creating with two painter friends, on aging as an artist with Marcel Sabourin and Denys Arcand, on old age with Janette Bertrand and Guy Rocher, on everyday wisdom with philosophers, and on spirituality and mourning with a few friends. He also talks about the future of the planet with his grandchildren.

À la lumière du soir

2025

Innucadie (festival du conte et de la légende de Natashquan, 1er édition) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Innucadie (festival du conte et de la légende de Natashquan, 1er édition)

2006

Rumble poster
NR

Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.

Rumble

2025

No artwork available
NR

A feature documentary.

Blue Bear Woman

2023

De la rivière à la mer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

De la rivière à la mer

2019

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les utopies nordiques

Habiter le mouvement (un récit en 10 chapitres) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Habiter le mouvement (un récit en 10 chapitres)

2019

Behind the camera