Anne Claire Poirier O.C. ( born 6 June 1932 ) is a Canadian film producer , director and screenwriter . She was the only female filmmaker on the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s . Her first film , the black and white surrealist fictional documentary '' De mère en fille '' ( 1968 ) , critiques social codes of motherhood and investigates the psychological experience of pregnancy . The film had a significant influence on the nascenct feminist movement in Canada . '' De mère en fille '' is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman . Poirier 's film '' Mourir à tue-tête '' competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival . '' Mourir à tue-tête , '' which aboards the subject of rape , remains Poirier 's best known film . Her 1974 film '' Les Filles du Roi '' explores a history of masculinity in Quebec
1979 Cannes Film Festival
1979 Cannes Film Festival
Anne Claire Poirier