Belle River is a 2022 Canadian short documentary film directed by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin."« BELLE RIVER » présenté à SXSW, au Tampere Film Festival et à REGARD". CTVM, March 3, 2022. The third film in a trilogy about Cajun culture in Louisiana following the films Let the Good Times Roll (Laissez les bon temps rouler) in 2017 and Acadiana in 2019, the film profiles the residents of Pierre Part as they cope with the threat of their community being flooded by the possible but ultimately averted opening of the Morganza Spillway during the Mississippi River floods of 2019.Daina Lawrence, "This Town Doesn’t Blame Climate Change for its Floods". Asparagus, May 12, 2022.
The film premiered at the 2022 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival."SPIRA à Clermont-Ferrand : « BELLE RIVER » et « OUSMANE » présentés en compétition officielle". CTVM, December 16, 2021. It had its North American premiere at SXSW,Alexandre Vigneault, "TROIS PROJETS QUÉBÉCOIS PRÉSENTÉS AU TEXAS". La Presse, March 11, 2022. and was later screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival"PLUSIEURS OEUVRES QUÉBÉCOISES PRÉSENTÉES À HOT DOCS". Québec Cinéma, April 8, 2022. and the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.Pat Mullen, "Three Feature Docs Make Canada’s Top Ten". Point of View, December 8, 2022. It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023."Québec Cinéma dévoile les finalistes aux PRIX IRIS 2023". CTVM, November 14, 2023.
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