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- Martin Bishop, an innocent eighteen year-old, joins a crew of wild rail workers and challenges the foreman's brutal authority.
- A coming of age story set against the backdrop of a rural Québec town and grunge music's rise.
- On a cold winter's day in 1940, Jules moves to live with his uncle, mayor of a settler's village in northern Quebec. He is banned from school because of his rare skin disease. From that moment on, his greatest wish is to be cured.
- Abdel's summer is upended by the arrival of his cousin. Fatima craves a stable life while she begins a new job as a supermarket cashier. Toussaint finds a bottle washed up on the shore while fishing, and there's a message inside.
- A young couple buys a run-down house and decides to renovate everything by themselves. The more they renovate the house, the more their relationship falls apart. Bungalow is a "renovation drama" that reflects in a dark humor on the financial, social, sexual and anxieties of millennials today in North America.
- The owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
- How to go on living afterwards? It is the end of winter. A young violinist is murdered in her apartment by a stranger. Her mother is in shock. Devastated by the violent death of her daughter, she decides to leave Montréal and take refuge, alone, in Kamouraska, at the country house built by her maternal ancestors and inherited from her mother. She tries to rebuild an interior life by re-establishing contact with Nature, with the house, and with the objects that remind her of her childhood and that of her daughter. But the mother's grief is profound: she doesn't want to go on living. In extremis, she is discovered and saved in the forest by a man while she was letting herself freeze to death. They recognize each other: they knew each other as teenagers. They can't help letting the amorous feelings of those times resurface. The presence of this man and the benevolent spirits of her grandmother, mother and daughter, all dead yet still present for her, help her regain her equilibrium and find the desire to live again.
- Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a business relationship. After a difficult start, the men help each other grow marijuana. They happen to meet Francesca, a sharp young woman who soon embraces their venture. By the time they get to the winter harvest, the three have learned to live together, but outside forces threaten the delicate balance of their little business...
- Germain and his sons try to turn their family dynamic upside down so they will have hope for the future.
- A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
- The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
- Two solitary people meet each other and form a bond in the back country of the Gaspe peninsula.
- During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.
- Connects three generations of an immigrant family.
- In the middle of the night, in the Quebec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
- After serving 10 years for killing her lover Marco, Annie regains custody of her daughter, but the girl wants nothing to do with her. Desperate and haunted by memories of Marco, Annie sinks into growing confusion between past and present. Surprises await when she returns to the island where the murder took place.
- A 19th century ghost story set in French Canada. When Yvonne's young romance is thwarted by her sister, she heads to the woods in search of a supernatural solution.
- Montcerf, the last village before Abitibi. The forest, the night, the silence... twigs snap, big black boots make their way forward cautiously. The hunter on the hunt. With tenderness and simplicity, documentarian André-Line Beauparlant plunges into this world and paints the portrait of six hunters. Alternating between interviews and hunting sequences, the film overflows with breathtaking authenticity as it touches subjects such as love, death, and religion.
- A surgeon taking care of third degree-burns, married to an intelligent and sensitive wife, father of an obedient child, a skillful handyman, an excellent cook, Louis lives in a perfect world until that fateful day when everything starts falling apart.
- Social worker, Anick starts making a video about rehab after prison. In a remote town, she sets up in the home of the featured couple. The project tilts when Anick develops an obsessive passion for the woman. Cameras become subjective, vicious and intrusive leading to lies, manipulations and seduction games.
- The phone calls home. Adonor has been found. Dave's new lungs are on the way. He has two hours to get to the hospital. The story of a man waiting to be reborn or to die.
- A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.
- Elias and Laurent are the only two new counsellors at camp this summer. When their initiation goes sideways, Laurent tries to get out of it - and the entire group ridicules him. Elias is trapped: now he has to reject his friend, or risks being rejected himself.
- A climate of civil war, a fight that has made them lose everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 13 to 20 years, will meet and build friendships. In the grip of an adult conflict, which they do not understand, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin will keep recreating, round a pond and a cabin, a family. Gradually each finds his place. A family that will grow with the arrival of little Gabriel they will form.
- On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
- Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls lyrics sung before the night.
- Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.
- In his livingroom, Earl Tremblay shows us the movie of his life. The main character is bilingual and schizophrenic. He becomes a car salesman, and a host in a stripper club before he goes into politics.
- A notorious fraud artist on the lam confides in his daughters on video.
- After losing his job, a man is forced to go on welfare and move to a different neighborhood where rent is more affordable. While Filming this new reality, he unwittingly takes on it's characteristics, and the traits of his neighbors.
- In this ensemble film, Shayne travels back and forth between a sleepy hamlet and a mining town while listening to classical music, Alicia, Shandy Eve and Marie Claude worship the holy martyr, Kateri Tekakwitha, together, and Erik builds a crude TV transmitter out of spare parts. Three stories spread over four seasons that sketch a new generation of Indians who are less resigned than their parents, for better and for worse.
- Ten strangers are invited to an isolated mansion on an island and begin to die mysteriously one by one.
- When Marc Roger, a public reader, sets himself the challenge of walking from Saint-Malo, France, to Bamako, Mali, along with a donkey laden with books to be read aloud,filmmaker Catherine Hébert (The Other Side of the Country) joins him in Morocco, her camera rolling. Every day, thousands of Africans trek northward, hoping to make a better life for themselves. Notes on a Road Less Taken chronicles a journey in the other direction, along the dusty roads and trails of Morocco, Senegal and Mali. As we follow the pair, the filmmaker's stunning images and poetic narration create a deeply personal portrait of Africa and its people. Parallel stories emerge from the odyssey: Marc's, Catherine's and those of the people they meet on the road. An engrossing road movie, given tremendous depth by its "journeys within the journey" - the fascinating detours taken as the road meanders and forks.
- -In a village abandoned by the closure of the mine that supported its inhabitants, two men with a tumultuous past refuse to leave and prepare to spend the winter in complete autarky. On day one of their new Republic, a leak in their hermetic world reveals an external threat. Convinced that a plague has taken over their "town-state", they decide to scour the deserted village to stop the plague they imagine is eating away at them.
- Four strangers are wandering through town. Fanny, a young woman who takes care of trees, will cross paths with three people along her way and offer them her help: Jean-Luc is blind, Joséphine has reached the end of her life, and Carole is suicidal.
- -In 2016, in Quebec (Canada), ten students from Maisonneuve College (in Montreal) went to jihad: the establishment then set up a "living together" project.
- A man visits his elderly handicapped father on Christmas Eve with the intention of putting him on trial for crimes against his family and then executing him.
- Richard Vermette, en haut d'un poteau pendant un mois, réfléchit sur la vie et la mort. Elzéar Duquette a fait le tour du monde en traînant son cercueil. Un homme parvient à envoyer un jet d'urine par-dessus un autobus. Un autre doit se faire insulter pour parvenir à croquer puis à avaler son verre de bière. 'Il a gagné ses épaulettes' est un road movie dans un monde d'exhibitionnistes ignorés des médias officiels.
- On a class trip into the woods, Charlotte is confronted with her inner demons. Venturing alone into the icy forest, away from the pressure of the group and the obligation to eat, Charlotte will have to face her biggest battle yet, the one against her eating disorder.
- Alienation of suburban life seen through the eyes of a boy with Down syndrome.