Agency - French program:.Documentary Studio / Montreal (Réalités.doc).

Director, Mireille Dansereau ; script, Mireille Dansereau ; producer, Nicole Lamothe ; camera, Serge Ladouceur, Carlos Ferrand ; editing, Heidi Haines ; sound editing, Marie-Claude Gagné ; animation, Sylvie Paradis ; music, Eric Longsworth ; sound mix, Serge Boivin.

Cast, Christiane Pasquier, Luc Morissette, Isabelle Blais, Martin Dubreuil, Christian Langlois, Jocelyne Montpetit.

Recorded 2000.

A poetic meditation by a man and a woman whose teenage son has threatened to end his lifee. What drives someone to that terrible extreme? In an effort to understand and demystify the phenomenon of suicide, the two parents search for answers within themselves. Their personal reflection is intercut with dramatic sequences, archival footage, animation, interviews and first-person accounts that look at suicide from an emotional, rational, cultural, social or medical perspective. Mireille Dansereau has made a sobering film that nevertheless expresses an abiding faith in life. In French with English subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Documentary Social, 2001

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).