The Free Ones (French: Les Libres) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicolas Lévesque and released in 2020.
An expansion of his 2015 short film Interview with a Free Man (Entrevue avec un homme libre),[1] which was named by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Canada's Top Ten short films in 2015,[2] the film is a portrait of several ex-convicts who are readjusting to life as free men with jobs at a sawmill in Roberval, Quebec.
[3] The film premiered at the 2020 Montreal International Documentary Festival.
[4] The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Jean-Philippe Archibald) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Natacha Dufaux).
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