Bernard Émond
Bernard Émond is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist, and essayist working in the French language.
Also recorded as Bernard Emond
Bernard Émond
Simon Villeneuve · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Name
- Bernard Émond
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Born
- 1951 · Montreal.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- honorary doctorate at the Laval University
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Bernard Émond. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q650830 · wikipedia · Bernard Émond
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Bernard Émond • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1990s–present • Notable Works — The Woman Who Drinks, Summit Circle, The Legacy
Early life and education
Early life and education
Bernard Émond studied anthropology at university.
Career
Career
Émond lived for several years in the Canadian north, where he worked for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. He began his film career making documentaries, later moving to feature-length films, all of which have been shot in Quebec. He is noted for the humanistic, sometimes spiritual depth of his films, in particular his trilogy of feature films (2007, 2009, 2012) based on the three Christian virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Other themes in his work include human dignity and frailty, and cultural loss. He describes himself as an agnostic and a "conservative socialist."
Producer
Producer
• 1994: Octobre (October)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1951
Bernard Émond born at Montreal.
Director and writer
Director and writer
• 1992 - Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces • 1994 - L'instant et la patience • 1995 - La Terre des autres • 1997 - L'épreuve du feu • 2000 - Le Temps et le lieu • 2001 - The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) • 2003 - 8:17 p.m. Darling Street (20h17 rue Darling) • 2005 - The Novena (La Neuvaine) • 2007 - Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance) • 2009 - The Legacy (La Donation) • 2012 - All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes) • 2015 - The Diary of an Old Man (Journal d'un vieil homme) • 2018 - A Place to Live (Pour vivre ici) • 2023 - A Respectable Woman (Une femme respectable)
Publications
Publications
• 20h17 rue Darling, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, Lux Éditeur, 2005, 128 p.. English translation by John Gilmore, 8:17 pm, rue Darling, Toronto, (Ontario), Canada, Guernica Editions, 2014, 133 p. • Aani la bavarde, avec Fabien Merelle, Namur, Belgique, Éditions Didier Hatier, 2007, 77 p. • Aani la bavarde, PLAYBAC (March 29, 1999), French, • La Neuvaine: Scénario et regards croisés, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, Éditions Les 400 coups, 2008 • Il y a trop d'images: Textes épars 1993–2010, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, Lux Éditeur, 2011, 123 p. • Tout ce que tu possèdes: Scénario et regards croisés, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, Lux Éditeur, 2012, 144 p. • Camarade, ferme ton poste: Et autres textes, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, Lux Éditeur, 2017, 160 p.
Bernard Émond
Simon Villeneuve
Awards and recognition
• 2009: Youth Jury Special Award and Environment is Quality of Life Award, Don Quixote Award, Locarno International Film Festival, The Legacy (La Donation; nomination, Golden Leopard. • 2009: Genie Award for Best Screenplay, Original, The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre); Jutra Award, Best Screenplay • 2008: Nomination, Jutra Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay, Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance) • 2006: Nomination, Jutra Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay, The Novena (La Neuvaine) • 2005: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Youth Jury Award: Environment is Quality of Life of the Locarno International Film Festival, The Novena (La Neuvaine); Nomination, Golden Leopard • 2002: Nomination, Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction, The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) • 2001: Nomination, Golden Bayard, Namur International Film Festival (Belgium), The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Bernard Émond, revision 1366422264 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1."Bernard Émond: gratitude et engagement", in La Presse, 12 January 2017
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Bernard Émond is recorded as having received honorary doctorate at the Laval University.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 27 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
38,713 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Bernard BorderiePerson
- Bernard CampanPerson
- Bernard CurryPerson
- Bernard DurningPerson
- Bernard FoxPerson
- Bernard GlasserPerson
- Bernard GosselinPerson
- Bernard H. HymanPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Bernard Émond?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.