
Hospital(ity) Chronicles
Documentary
Overview
Through family archives, drawings, animations and performances that draw on her long experience with illness, Brigitte Lacasse takes an incisive, critical look at the Quebec health care system.
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Brigitte Lacasse
Brigitte Lacasse
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Brigitte Lacasse
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Claude Fortin
Claude Fortin
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Claude Fortin
Self
Gaspard Fortin
Gaspard Fortin
Self
Gaspard Fortin
Self
Jean-Marie Lacasse
Jean-Marie Lacasse
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Jean-Marie Lacasse
Self
Katia Fournier
Katia Fournier
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Katia Fournier
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Éric Normand
Éric Normand
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Éric Normand
Self
Catherine Savard-Massicotte
Catherine Savard-Massicotte
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Catherine Savard-Massicotte
Self
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