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Direct cinema is a documentary genre that originated between 1958 and 1962 in North America, chiefly in Canada (Quebec) and in the United States. It was characterized initially by a desire to directly capture reality and represent it truthfully, and to question the relationship of reality with cinema. The 1980 festival catalog of Cinema du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris remarked in 1980 "The type of cinema that poses the most profound and difficult problems concerning illusion, irreality and fiction, is indeed the cinema of the reel, its very task being to face the most difficult problem asked by philosophy for two thousand years, that of the nature of reality." .