
Tu as crié – Let Me Go
Filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier turns her camera on her own family's tragedy: the death of her daughter Yanne, who spent years caught in drug addiction and prostitution before dying at twenty-six. Poirier, a veteran Quebec documentarian, mixes home movies, photographs, and present-day interviews with family and friends to reconstruct who Yanne was before addiction took over her life, and to trace the slow collapse that followed. Rather than staying at a safe distance, Poirier narrates as a grieving mother as much as a director, asking the people who knew Yanne what they saw and what, if anything, could have been done differently. The film does not offer a tidy explanation for how a childhood becomes a life on the street; it sits instead with the specific details, the apartments, the arrests, the attempts at recovery, that made up Yanne's last years. It stands as both a personal elegy and a rare inside account of how addiction and prostitution wear down a family over time.