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2012 1 h 24 min
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Le cancer peut-il être combattu dans un climat de relative sérénité? Le cinéaste Danic Champoux le croit, et il tente de le démontrer dans ce long métrage documentaire où il filme les activités d’un centre d’oncologie et les patients qui s’y retrouvent régulièrement pour leurs traitements de chimiothérapie. Grâce au partage, à la solidarité et à l’humour, la vie se révèle souvent rebelle et indomptable.

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Le cancer peut-il être combattu dans un climat de relative sérénité? Le cinéaste Danic Champoux le croit, et il tente de le démontrer dans ce long métrage documentaire où il filme les activités d’un centre d’oncologie et les patients qui s’y retrouvent régulièrement pour leurs traitements de chimiothérapie. Grâce au partage, à la solidarité et à l’humour, la vie se révèle souvent rebelle et indomptable.

Health and Medicine All subjects
  • direction
    Danic Champoux
  • participation
    Jacques Bienvenue
    Marie-Rose Bienvenue
    Sandra Benoît
    Alain Bernier
    Mélanie Bockus
    Nil Boily
    Nathalie Boulais
    Colette Bourgeois
    Mathieu Bourgeois
    Johanne Boutin
    Laurraine Brien
    Louise Brien-Maynard
    Arthur Brulotte
    Sophie Chalifoux
    Denise Champoux
    Line Cloutier
    Micheline Cloutier
    Yvon Côté
    Élise Dalpé
    Jeannine Daucourt
    Jacques Deniger
    Johanne Desgens
    Élise Desjardins
    André Deslandes
    Murielle Dolbec
    Robert Dolbec
    Lyne Dumont
    Sonia Dumont
    Yvonne Dussault
    Marilou Foisy
    Gilles Gagné
    Marie-Jeanne Gagné
    Monique Gagné
    Marie-Elaine Genest
    Alain Gevry
    Ida Gince
    Pauline Gosselin
    Katia Goudreault
    Michel Grenier
    Brenda Grubb
    Lyndford Hadlock
    Christine Hamel
    Meggie Hamel
    Deborah Hayes
    Marie-Marthe Jalbert
    Réjeanne Jalbert
    Robert Jalbert
    Patricia Jequier
    Peter Koopmann
    Hélène Lacroix
    Léo-Paul Laflamme
    Michael Laflamme
    Jacques Lambert
    Carole Lapalme
    Lise Larivière
    Chantal Ledoux
    Michèle Lemaire
    Annie Loignon
    Lucienne Mathurin
    Carl McKelvey
    Melissa McKelvey
    Manon Ménard
    Véronique Messier
    Yvon Messier
    Maryse Nadeau
    Marielle Paradis
    Laura Pearce
    Normand Pépin
    Gilles Plante
    Sylvie Pouliot
    Jo-Ann Quartz
    Priscilla Robert
    Francine Rudd
    Michel Saad
    Marilyne Samson
    Manon Savard
    Linda St-Amant
    Claire Tessier
    Peter Tracy
    Madone Truchon
  • research
    Danic Champoux
  • writing
    Danic Champoux
  • production
    Colette Loumède
  • editing
    René Roberge
  • picture
    Alex Margineanu
  • location sound
    Stéphane Barsalou
  • additional sound
    Pierre Bertrand
  • production assistant
    Marie-Ève Grignon
  • sound editor
    Benoît Dame
  • sound editing - assistance
    Catherine Van Der Donckt
  • technical support - editing
    Danielle Raymond
    Pierre Dupont
    Isabelle Painchaud
    Patrick Trahan
  • online editing
    Denis Pilon
  • titles
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • sound effects creation
    Stéphane Cadotte
  • None
    Sylvain Robillard
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
    Line Richard
  • sound mixer
    Serge Boivin
  • marketing officer
    François Jacques
  • administrator
    Johanne Dubuc
  • production coordinator
    Hélène Regimbal
    Dominique Brunet
  • administrative assistant
    Lise Lévesque
  • technical coordinator
    Richard Cliche
    Daniel Pellerin
  • delegate producer
    Maryse Chapdelaine
    Mélanie Lasnier
  • executive producer
    Colette Loumède

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Ages 15 to 17
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Family Studies/Home Economics - Aging/Death and Dying Science - Biology
Brainstorm student understanding of oncology and how cancer is usually treated. Comment on the various conversations among the chemo patients in the film. What new perspectives did you gain about cancer patients and their treatments? Identify the filmmaker’s purpose in filming these sessions. Was his purpose successful? Discuss as a group.
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