Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Director, Danic Champoux ; researcher, Danic Champoux ; writer, Danic Champoux ; producer, Colette Loumède ; editing, René Roberge ; camera, Alex Margineanu ; location sound, Stéphane Barsalou ; sound editing, Benoît Dame ; foley, Stéphane Cadotte ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; executive producer, Colette Loumède.

Participant, 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.

Recorded 2012.

Can we fight or even overcome cancer in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility? Filmmaker Danic Champoux believes so and in his documentary, Sessions, he dispels many of the clichés associated with the disease, using empathy and humour to reveal the extraordinary resilience of human beings.   Shot over the course of a year in the common room of an oncology centre, where patients regularly meet when undergoing chemotherapy, the film invites viewers to look at cancer from a new perspective. Sessions chronicles the patients' intensely emotional encounters, deftly capturing the love and joie de vivre that brighten their often stressful days. Never denying the distress of cancer patients, and that of their families and friends as well, Sessions is, above all, a work of deep humanity and a sensitive portrait of life's mysteries. .

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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