The Vinland Club
# The Vinland Club

The Vinland Club (French: Le Club Vinland) is a Canadian drama film that was directed by Benoît Pilon and released in 2020. The film stars Sébastien Ricard as Frère Jean, a priest teaching at a private Roman Catholic school in the Charlevoix region of Quebec in the 1940s who enlists his students in a project to locate archaeological evidence of the ancient Norse settlement of Vinland.

The film's cast also includes Rémy Girard, François Papineau, Fabien Cloutier, Arnaud Vachon, Xavier Huard, Émilie Bibeau, Guy Thauvette, Guy Sprung, and Émile Schneider.

The film was originally slated for release on April 17, 2020, but that was delayed by the shutdown of movie theatres in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival in August 2020 and had its North American premiere later that year at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 31.

## Awards and nominations

| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Film | Chantal Lafleur | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Director | Benoît Pilon | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Actor | Sébastien Ricard | Won |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Supporting Actor | Rémy Girard | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Revelation of the Year | Arnaud Vachon | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Screenplay | Normand Bergeron, Benoît Pilon, Marc Robitaille | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Art Direction | Patrice Bengle, Louise Tremblay | Won |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Cinematography | François Gamache | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Costume Design | Francesca Chamberland | Won |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Hair | André Duval | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Original Music | Guido Del Fabbro, Pierre Lapointe | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Best Casting | Pierre Pageau, Daniel Poisson | Nominated |
| Prix Iris | June 6, 2021 | Public Prize | Benoît Pilon, Chantal Lafleur | Nominated |
