Bernard Émond born 1951 is a Canadian director screenwriter novelist and essayist working in the Frenchlanguage He studied anthropology at university and 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 featurelength 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
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