NORTH
Directed by Leslie Lagier, 2019





SYNOPSIS
In Canada’s Far North, men live in the heart of a wilderness, isolated from the world. They chose this region for its beauty. Yet, by their mining activity, they contribute to destroy it.
North tells the ambivalence of the relationship of these men to their territory and to nature.
Technical Crew
Directed by
Leslie LAGIER
Photography
Leslie LAGIER
Editing
Leslie LAGIER
Sound
Pali MEURSAULT
Gilles BENARDEAU
Original Score
Eric BENTZ
Technical Data
Documentary - France - 2019
48 minutes - 1.85 – Color – 5.1
Version
English with French subtitles
Production
Nicolas BREVIERE – Local Films
Distribution
Local Films Distribution
International Sales
Local Films
Partnerships
CNC – Aide avant réalisation
Bourse brouillon d’un rêve – SCAM
SACEM
Festival de Brive – Nouvelle-Aquitaine Best scenario Award
Festivals
Festival Signes de Nuit / France / 2020 – Night Award
DokumentART – films & future / Allemagne / 2021
Festival International du film de Rhode Island / Etats-Unis / 2021
BIFED – Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological
Documentary / Turquie / 2020
Camden International Film Festival / Etats-Unis / 2020
Festival du film international nature & environnement / France / 2020
FLiMM – Festival Libre du Moyen Métrage / France / 2020
Festival du moyen métrage de Brive la Gaillarde / France / 2020
Trento Film Festival / Italie / 2020
Les inattendus / France / 2020
Tromsø International Film Festival / Norvège / 2020
Portobello Film Festival / Angleterre / 2019
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam / Pays-Bas / 2019
Aux écrans du réel / France / 2019
Etats généraux du film documentaire de Lussas / France / 2019
Material
TRAILER

After studying history and cinema at the Sorbonne, Leslie Lagier worked as a first assistant
director for a few years and then became an editor and a director.
She makes films that mix genres (fiction, documentary, experimental) and focus particularly
on places: they question their history, real or fictional, collective or personal, and explore the
relationships that are forged with their inhabitants.
Memory, disappearance, bereavement, trace and the link between these themes and the
landscape are at the heart of her work. Her films are also characterized by a plastic research
and in particular by the use of different types of materials: photographs, archives, Super 8...
Leslie has notably directed Lahemaa (2010), an experimental fiction film shot in a post-Soviet
city in Estonia, We came back to chestnut tree avenue (2012, CNC Quality Award), an essay that
mixes images shot in a Parisian cemetery and super-8 home movies, Far East (2015), an
experimental film shot in Siberia, Hidden passages (2015), a short fiction film that stages an
imaginary border and evokes the migrants’ issue and North (2019, Best Script Award in Brive
Festival), a documentary shot in the Yukon that examines the relationship of the Far North ‘s
inhabitants with their territory and the transformation of the natural landscape caused by
their mining activity.
Leslie is currently working on two new projects: Life and death of B., a medium-length fiction
film that depicts a dystopian world whose countryside is polluted and abandoned; and Deep
South, a feature-length documentary on a research station in Antarctica.
Her films have been selected in numerous national and international film festivals such as
Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Clermont-
Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Belfort Entrevues International Film Festival
(France), Lussas États généraux du Film documentaire (France), Paris New Cinemas Festival,
La Rochelle Escales documentaires (France), etc.
Most of her films are distributed by Heure Exquise ! International Center for Video Arts.