NECESSITIES OF LIFE (THE)
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It's the beginning of the 1950s and Tivii, an Inuit hunter, is flown to a Quebec sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis. Weak, unable to communicate or to understand others, and far from his loved ones, Tivii decides to give up and to give in to death. His nurse, Carole, however, understanding Tivii’s desolation, refuses to let him slip away and arranges for a young Inuit named Kaki, to be transferred to his sanatorium. Kaki knows white society well and helps Tivii decode his situation. Tivii’s pride and will to live are further helped by his teaching Kaki about the ways of their land and of the Inuit people.
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Benoit Pilon
Director
Benoit Pilon studied film at Concordia University in Montreal. After starting as an assistant director, he began making fictional and documentary films, the best-known of which is Roger Toupin, épicier variété (2003) which won many prizes including a Jutra for best documentary and a Bayard d’or for best documentary at the Festival de Namur, in Belgium. His other works include the films Rosaire et la Petite-Nation (1997), Impressions (1998), 3 Soeurs en 2 temps (2002), Nestor et les oubliés (2006), and the television series Réseaux (1998-99). Ce qu’il faut pour vivre is his first fictional feature film.
35 mm
102 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
2.35
Original version in French and in Inuktitut
Subtitled in French
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Producers
Bernadette Payeur
René Chénier
Director
Benoit Pilon
Scriptwriters
Bernard Émond
Benoit Pilon
Director of Photography
Michel La Veaux
Editor
Richard Comeau
Sound
Hugo Brochu
Martin Allard
Cast
Natar Ungalaaq
Éveline Gélinas
Paul-André Brasseur
Vincent-Guillaume Otis
Antoine Bertrand
Guy Thauvette
Louise Marleau
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Production
ACPAV
1030, rue Cherrier
Bureau 404
Montreal Quebec
H2L 1H9
Canada
(514) 849-2281
(514) 849-9487
info@acpav.ca
www.acpav.ca
Distribution
Films Séville
147, rue Saint-Paul Ouest
Bureau 200
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 1Z5
Canada
(514) 841-1910
(514) 841-8030
info@sevillepictures.com
www.sevillepictures.com
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