The Vinland Club

The Vinland Club
Film poster
FrenchLe Club Vinland
Directed byBenoît Pilon
Written byNormand Bergeron
Benoît Pilon
Marc Robitaille
Produced byChantal Lafleur
StarringSébastien Ricard
Rémy Girard
François Papineau
Fabien Cloutier
CinematographyFrançois Gamache
Edited byRichard Comeau
Music byGuido Del Fabbro
Pierre Lapointe
Production
company
Productions Avenida
Distributed byLes Films Opale
Release date
  • August 2020 (2020-08)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Vinland Club (French: Le Club Vinland) is a Canadian drama film that was directed by Benoît Pilon and released in 2020.[1] The film stars Sébastien Ricard as Frère Jean, a priest teaching at a private Roman Catholic school in the Charlevoix region of Quebec in the 1940s who enlists his students in a project to locate archaeological evidence of the ancient Norse settlement of Vinland.[2]

The film's cast also includes Rémy Girard, François Papineau, Fabien Cloutier, Arnaud Vachon, Xavier Huard, Émilie Bibeau, Guy Thauvette, Guy Sprung, and Émile Schneider.

The film was originally slated for release on April 17, 2020,[3] but that was delayed by the shutdown of movie theatres in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[4] The film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival in August 2020 and had its North American premiere later that year at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 31.[5]

  1. ^ Vachon, Jean-François (October 31, 2020). "Club Vinland: ode aux enseignants". Le Citoyen.
  2. ^ Lussier, Marc-André (December 5, 2019). "Une bande-annonce pour Le club Vinland". La Presse (in French).
  3. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Le Club Vinland à l’affiche le 17 avril 2020". Films du Québec, December 6, 2019.
  4. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Le Club Vinland repoussé lui aussi". Films du Québec, March 19, 2020.
  5. ^ Duchesne, André (September 15, 2020). "Le club Vinland en première nord-américaine en Abitibi". La Presse (in French).