La Part du feu (2013)
Directed by Emmanuel Roy

Film Synopsis

Emmanuel Roy was just 17 years old when his father died from cancer in 1993.  There is no doubt that the cancer was caused by exposure to asbestos, the material which, in a previous age, was used universally as a fire-proofing material.  At the time, no one had any inkling of the risks associated with handling this seemingly miraculous material.  Asbestos was used everywhere and everyone thought it was as harmless as any other building material.  Now we know different, and many thousands of individuals who spent years working with asbestos are paying the price with their health, dying a slow and agonising death brought on by asbestos-induced cancer.  Before he died, Roy's father kept a diary in which he recorded his thoughts and the grim details of his physical decline.  It is this personal testimony that prompted Emmanuel Roy to make this documentary, a sobering reminder of the devastating effect that the supposed wonder material asbestos had on those who worked with it...