At her family’s cabin on Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan, renowned Fransaskois singer-songwriter Alexis Normand invites audiences into a series of candid exchanges about belonging and bilingualism on the Prairies. Weaving together old home movies with current conversations, French Enough illuminates the struggle and triumph of reclaiming francophone Canadian identity. As parents, children and grandchildren sing, play and celebrate, in both French and English, the act of carrying a language forward finally becomes a thing of freedom and joy.

Renowned singer-songwriter Alexis Normand’s debut documentary brings audiences to her family’s cabin at Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan, where swimming and sandcastles provide a backdrop to candid conversations about francophone belonging on the Prairies.

With the loving support of their anglophone mother and assimilated father of French descent, Alexis and her siblings were among the first generation of students to attend the minority-language Fransaskois school system in Saskatoon. But living between two languages is not easy. From the conjugation of verbs to more personal insecurities around identity and culture, each member of the family has faced different challenges. Emotions are laid heartbreakingly bare as they share their stories about the expectations of the francophones around them and the reality of their bilingualism.

Weaving old home movies with current conversations, French Enough illuminates the struggle and triumph of reclaiming francophone Canadian identity. As parents, children and grandchildren sing, play and celebrate, in both French and English, the act of carrying a language forward finally becomes a thing of freedom and joy.

At her family’s summer cabin, singer-songwriter Alexis Normand weaves old home movies with current conversations to illuminate the struggle and triumph of reclaiming francophone Canadian identity on the Prairies.

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