[1] Her first film, the black and white surrealist fictional documentary De mère en fille (1968), critiques social codes of motherhood and investigates the psychological experience of pregnancy.

[3] Mourir à tue-tête, which aboards the subject of rape, remains Poirier's best known film.

[4] Her 1974 film Les Filles du Roi explores a history of masculinity in Quebec.

[5] In 1996, she directed the feature-length documentary Tu as crié: Let me go to understand the events that led to the murder of her daughter.

[6] In 2001, Poirier received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in film.