Season 1 - 4 x 44 minutes | World Premiere at CANNESERIES Season 6
In French, English with French & English subtitles
Episode 1
In the presence of director Philippe Falardeau.
Synopsis
On July 6th, 2013, a runaway train pierces through the night in Lac-Mégantic, filled with tons of oil. Down a hill, the cars derail in the city center, burning the heart of a whole community and taking the life of 47 innocent people. Filmmaker Philippe Falardeau reveals the impossibility of an accident.
Note from the artistic direction
Lac-Mégantic - this is not an accident, visually and narratively striking, revisits a train explosion incident in the middle of a Canadian city as a chronicle of a disaster foretold. From overwhelming testimonies to archive images, this documentary series questions our frantic race for profit and its inevitable derailment.