Cardboard City (film)

Summary

Cardboard City is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by André Forcier and Jean-Marc E. Roy, and released in 2025. The film stars poet Jean-Marc Desgent as a fictionalized version of himself, who refuses to sell his run-down home in Longueuil, Quebec, to a real estate developer who wants to demolish the entire block to build a new, generic modern suburban housing development, with Desgent subsequently exploring the real history of Longueuil's 1969 annexation of Ville Jacques-Cartier.