Research, Monique LeBlanc ; scriptwriter, Monique LeBlanc ; director, Monique LeBlanc ; editor, Geoffrey Boulangé ; principal camera, Monique LeBlanc ; location sound recorder, Serge Arseneault, Richard Lavoie ; sound editor, Mélanie Gauthier, Paul Goguen ; mixer, Jean-Paul Vialard ; sound recorder, Andrew MacRae ; graphic designer, Jacques Bertrand Simard, Mélanie Bouchard ; foley, Simon Meilleur ; archival research, Nancy Marcotte, Delphine Saint-Marcoux ; original music, Monique Jean ; producer, Christine Aubé, Jac Gautreau ; executive producer, Denis McCready, Dominic Desjardins.

Poem interpretation, Violette Chauveau ; participant, Emilia Arauz Castellon, Yaroslava Nikolaevna Sarabun, Justina Leiton, Stéphanie Matthews, Cristhian Valeria Calero Vega, null Nolan, null Jeremy, null Said, null Abraham, null Ashley, null Eduardo, null Sofia, null Miguel, null Theo, null Jonathan, null Denys, null Mariana, null Arsen, null Lidia, null Alexandre, Maria Del Carmen, null Jérôme, null Benoit, null Eva, null Da'Marquis, null Tristan, null Gabriel.

Recorded 2020.

In this cinematic tour de force, Monique LeBlanc brings to the screen Louise Dupré's 2011 Governor General's Award-winning book of poetry, Plus haut que les flammes, recited in its entirety in the film by actress Violette Chauveau. Devastated by a visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, a woman, a grandmother, tries to go on living and caring for a child. Because beyond the worst man-made horrors there is childhood, through which all roads to the future must pass. Weaving different stories, different experiences and different landscapes together, from Auschwitz to Canada via the United States, Nicaragua and the Ukraine, the filmmaker offers a moving meditation on how we might elevate the youth that will inherit this world "higher than flames will go.".

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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