Beneath the Surface (2021 film)

Beneath the Surface
FrenchLe Lac des hommes
Directed byMarie-Geneviève Chabot
Written byMarie-Geneviève Chabot
Produced byMarie-Geneviève Chabot
StarringLaurent Sirois
Jean-Pierre Sirois
Stéphane Sirois
Jérôme Sirois
CinematographyKarine van Ameringen
Edited byNatalie Lamoureux
Production
company
Les Films de l'autre
Distributed byLes Films du 3 mars
Release date
  • April 30, 2021 (2021-04-30) (RVQC)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Beneath the Surface (French: Le Lac des hommes, lit. "The Lake of Men") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marie-Geneviève Chabot and released in 2021.[1] An exploration of modern masculinity, the film centres on Laurent Sirois, a man who is on a fishing trip with his sons Jean-Pierre, Stéphane and Jérôme, who are all dealing with their complicated relationship after his separation and divorce from their mother largely removed him from their childhood.[2]

The film premiered at the 2021 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.[1] It was later screened at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival,[3] where Chabot won the DGC Ontario award for best director,[4] and at the 2022 Festival de films d’auteurs de Val-Morin.[5]

It went into commercial release in June 2022.[2]