Guidelines (film)

{{Short description|2014 Canadian film by Jean-Francois Caissy}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| image = Guidelines (film) poster.jpg

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| native_name = {{infobox name module|fr|La marche à suivre}}

| director = Jean-François Caissy

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| cinematography = Nicolas Canniccioni

| editing = Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

| studio = National Film Board of Canada

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| released = {{Film date|2014|02|11|Berlin International Film Festival}}

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| country = Canada

| language = French

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Guidelines ({{langx|fr|La marche à suivre}}) is a 2014 Canadian feature-length documentary by Jean-François Caissy about adolescent students at the École Antoine Bernard high school in the rural community of Carleton-sur-Mer, in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region. The film uses a fly on the wall style of documentary storytelling as it chronicles such issues as drug use, bullying and disruptive behaviour, while contrasting school life with the freedom of the outdoors. In conversations between teachers or social workers and students, Caissy often makes use of a fixed camera, so that voices of adult authority are off-screen and unseen.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/movies/review-guidelines-is-jean-francois-caissys-look-at-high-school.html?_r=0|title=Review: 'Guidelines' Is Jean-François Caissy's Look at High School|last=Catsoulis|first=Jeannette|date=25 May 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=3 June 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/guidelines-la-marche-a-suivre-682540|title=Guidelines (La Marche a suivre): Berlin Review|last=van Hoeij|first=Boyd|date=24 February 2014|work=Hollywood Reporter|access-date=3 June 2015}}

Caissy has stated that Guidelines is part of a series of films he plans to make on five stages of human life: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age as well as old age, which was the subject of his 2010 feature documentary La belle visite. Caissy grew up in the Gaspésie region, and was drawn to the Antoine Bernard school because it reminded him of his own experiences as a youth.{{cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/cinema-quebecois/201411/25/01-4822333-jean-francois-caissy-filmer-les-etapes-de-la-vie.php|title=Jean-François Caissy: filmer les étapes de la vie|last=Duschene|first=André|date=25 November 2014|work=La Presse|language=French|access-date=3 June 2015}}

The film is produced by the National Film Board of Canada.