Anne Claire Poirier, the Canadian filmmaker whose work challenged conventions and broke barriers, died on September 28, 2026, at the age of 94. She passed away in Outremont, Quebec, the suburb where she had spent much of her life. Her death brings an end to a career that spanned over five decades, during which she became one of the few women working at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s.
Her first film, De mère en fille, was released in 1968. It was among the early examples of her focus on social issues and personal stories told through a cinematic lens.