My Internship in Canada

My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) is a Canadian political satire film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film premiered in 2015 at the Locarno International Film Festival.

The film was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards, and won three awards at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. It was also part of the Canada's Top Ten screening series of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot
The film stars Patrick Huard as Steve Guibord, an independent, moderate Member of Parliament for the northern Quebec electoral district of Prescott–Makadewa–Rapides-aux-Outardes, who unexpectedly finds himself in the position of becoming the tie-breaking voter on whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East. Embarking on a tour of his constituency to evaluate public opinion, various lobby groups and Canada's Prime Minister spin the debate farther and farther out of control.

Guibord's confusion and eventual national tour is documented by Souverain (Irdens Exantus), his Haitian immigrant intern, who often calls his mother (and an increasing audience of passers-by) with updates on the situation.

Cast

 * Patrick Huard as Steve Guibord
 * Irdens Exantus as Souverain Pascal
 * Suzanne Clément as Suzanne
 * Clémence Dufresne-Deslières as Lune
 * Sonia Cordeau as Stéphanie Caron-Lavallée
 * Paul Doucet as the Prime Minister of Canada
 * Jules Philip as Maire
 * Dangelo Néard as Optimiste
 * Robin Aubert as Rodrigue
 * Ellen David as Allison
 * Micheline Lanctôt as Mairesse
 * Alexis Martin as Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada
 * Paul Ahmarani as Professor Amin

Production
The film was shot from 24 September to 10 November 2014 in Val-d'Or, the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, Ottawa, and Haiti.

Accolades
The film had its North American premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention from the Canadian film jury. It was released in the province of Quebec on 2 October 2015, on seven screens, with a wide release in the province on 9 October 2015. In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year. In January 2016 it won the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival People's Choice Award, voted on by audiences in Toronto.

The film garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Irdens Exantus), Best Original Screenplay (Philippe Falardeau) and Best Sound (Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Daniel Bisson, Claude La Haye and Benoît Leduc). For the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards (formerly known as the Prix Jutra), it won Best Supporting Actor (Exantus), Best Original Score and Best Editing.

It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2016.

In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.