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The White Chapel (film)

2005 film directed by Simon Lavoie

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ53480540 ↗
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The White Chapel (French: Une chapelle blanche) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2005. The film stars Hélène Loiselle as Rose-Flore, an elderly woman living in a small town whose familiar routines are disrupted when the small white chapel across the street from her home is repainted blue.

The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film won the Jutra Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 8th Jutra Awards in 2006.

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“The White Chapel (film)” enters the record as 2005 film directed by Simon Lavoie. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what White, Chapel and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around White, Chapel and film.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q53480540. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “The White Chapel (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.