Lucie Lambert spent her childhood in Portneuf-sur-Mer, on Québec’s North Shore, between forest and sea. Following her studies in litterature, she developed a passion for a free-form genre of filmmaking, mixing experimental with documentary. In 1991, with partners Sylvain l’Espérance and Pierre Marier, Lucie formed the production company Les films du tricycle allowing her the freedom to work as she pleased. Her favourite themes, whether in her films Paysage sous les paupières, Avant le jour, Le père de Gracile or in her most recent work, touch on the relationships between women, men and children and the territory they inhabit. Each film gives voice to characters whose life is inscribed with the memory of places. The stories exceed the framework of intimacy, reverberating in an overall understanding of human existence. Poetry gives colour to all her films.
Lucie also produced the feature film La nuit, elles dansent, co-directed by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault, which screened at the Directors Fortnight, in Cannes in 2011.
Le grand châle d’Aamu (The Great Shawl of Aamu), 2020
Medium-length narrative film.
A children’s tale combining animation with live-action, and documentary with fiction.
L’inventaire des biens meubles de Monsieur Lambert
(Monsieur Lambert’s Inventory of Personal Property), 2016
Short experimental film, mixing documentary with animation.
Official selection at Les Sommets du Cinéma d’Animation (2016)
Rendez vous du cinéma québécois, February 2018
Aimer, Finir (Wordless Landscape), 2009
Medium-length documentary.
Launched at the RIDM, November 2009
Rendez vous du cinéma québécois, February 2010
Précis du quotidien (Précis of the Everyday), 2008
Short experimental film, 16 mm, super-8, video and animation.
Official selection at the Festival Visions du Réel, Nyon, 2008
RIDM, November 2008
Rendez vous du cinéma québécois, February 2009
IndieLisboa Festival, Portugal, May 2009
Le père de Gracile (Gracile’s Father), 2004
Feature-length film mixing story-telling with documentary.
Broadcast on Télé-Québec network, fall 2005
Official Competition at the New Film and Video Festival, October 2004
Cinoche, Baie-Comeau, January 2005
Docupolis, Barcelona, fall 2005
Cinefest, Sudbury (Ontario), fall 2005
St-John’s International Women’s Film Festival, fall 2005
Avant le jour (Before Daybreak), 1999
Feature-length documentary.
Screened as part of the 2nd Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM).
Cinoche, Baie-Comeau, January 2000
Images du Nouveau Mode, Québec City, March 2000
Nominated for Best Feature Film by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinema
Nominated for a Prix Iris, Gala Québec Cinéma
Won for Best Feature Film, Hot Docs (Toronto), May 2000
In competition at the Nyon “Visions du Réel” International Film Festival
In competition at the Trento Film Festival, May 2001
Paysage sous les paupières (Landscape in the Mind’s Eye), 1995
Medium-length documentary.
Claude-Jutra-O.F.Q.J. prize at the 14th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
Prize for Best Film in the “Culture” section, Hot Docs (Toronto), March 1996
Nominated in the International Competition section of the Nyon “Visions du Réel” International Documentary Film Festival for a medium-length film
Finalist for the M. Joan Chalmers “Documentarian Award for Film and Video”, 1995
Madame Arthur – 1990
Medium-length documentary.
L’attrait infini de quelques secondes fragiles – 1989
Medium-length essay documentary.
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