The Snowshoers

• Movies
• 1958-01-01
• FR
• Released
• 0h 15m
• CA
• Documentary

• 5.6
• 11

Production

ONF | NFB

Storyline

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.