When mental health is neither recognized nor treated,
it is not concepts that collapse — it is lives.

On January 21 and 22 in Québec City, we invite you to special screenings of the documentary Billy, an essential film for anyone working in healthcare, justice, or the community or institutional sectors.

🎬 Directed by Lawrence Côté-Collins, Billy plunges into a reality our systems encounter far too often, without always understanding it:
a man living with undiagnosed, untreated schizophrenia, whose most severe crisis resulted in two deaths.

This film does not seek to excuse or to simplify.
It documents blind spots, questions our practices, and sheds light on the human consequences of fragmented care, judicialization, and stigma.

📅 Tuesday, January 21
🕒 3:00 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. – Open screening
💲 $15

📅 Wednesday, January 22
🕕 6:00 p.m. – Special screening
💲 $20
🕗 8:00 p.m. – EXPERT PANEL | Cross-perspectives on health, justice, and the community

🎙️ Panel moderated by Luc Vigneault, with:
• Lawrence Côté-Collins, director
• Dr. Sébastien Proulx, forensic psychiatrist (IUSMQ) and administrative judge at the TAQ
• Marie-Jo Labrecque, Executive Director, Le Cercle Polaire
• Doris Gendreau-Rodrigue, family peer support worker, Le Cercle Polaire

👉 This evening is intended for those who:
– work with people living with severe mental health disorders;
– intervene in contexts of judicialization or crisis;
– wish to reflect differently on responsibility, prevention, and recovery.

⚠️ This film is dedicated to the victims.
It invites us to move beyond simplistic answers and to open a rigorous, humane, and necessary dialogue between our systems.

🎟️ Limited seating – registration required
January 21: https://www.schizophrenie.qc.ca/fr/evenements/detail/sensibilisation-billy-a-quebec-projections-du-21-janvier-2026/80666
January 22: https://www.schizophrenie.qc.ca/fr/evenements/detail/sensibilisation-billy-a-quebec-projection-speciale-du-22-janvier-2026/80707

Understanding our collective failures is a prerequisite to better prevention.

An invitation from: Le Cercle Polaire, Luc Vigneault – Mental Health Speaker and Trainer, and the Quebec Schizophrenia Society.