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- McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
- After an unpleasant run-in with a group of bikers, a young convenience store robber (Marc) gets approached by the same bikers to help out with a picnic. After the picnic, seeing he has guts, the bikers propose him for membership. As the story unfolds, Marc winds up questioning his own morality and wondering whether he's going down the wrong path. The biggest problem, however, is that one of his friends got him into trouble, and he has little time to fix it...
- A fictitious Vancouver film crew documents the professional life of a parking enforcement officer.
- Filmmakers Tricia Regan, David O. Russell and Juan Carlos Zaldivar interview dozens of people about the 2004 Iraq war, including soldiers, journalists, politicians, psycholgists, and even a two star general that led the Marines to victory in the first Gulf war. Soldiers Pay listens to people from all sides, and of varying opinions, giving a full picture of a morally ambiguous war which is exacting an enormous toll on our soldiers, on Iraq, and on America.
- The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.
- A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
- Danny is a romantic young man looking for love, the son of a gay dad and a top model mom who died of an overdose when he was still young. He wants to become part of a society that values luxury, glamour and appearances above all, by becoming a model. He embarks on a quest to find his real identity in a world that would make him gay because of his work, because of his paternal heritage, or simply because of his looks. He takes modeling to its extreme by becoming a stripper and finally finds the love he was looking for on the set of a porno shoot, with Karine, a photographer who's as voyeuristic as he is exhibitionnist. But destiny soon catches up with him...
- McLibel is the inside story of the postman and the gardener who took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris, anonymous campaigners who become unlikely global heroes. Struggling to defend themselves in the longest trial in English history, they face infiltration by spies, secret meetings with corporate executives, 40,000 pages of background reading, and a visit from Ronald McDonald. Using interviews with witnesses and reconstructions of key moments in court, the film examines the main issues in the trial: nutrition, animals, advertising, employment, the environment, and freedom of speech.
- L'ESCORTE is a comedy of manners where cynicism and false naiveté mingle in a bittersweet study of love, lies and friendship in the age of AIDS. Amid the laughter and the tears, the hustle and bustle of life goes on.
- Using the reflections and analysis of many renowned intellectuals, this documentary draws a portrait of neoliberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.
- A story of deep commitment, bitter betrayal and humour. Wounded in the Spanish Civil War, blacklisted by Hollywood and censored by the CBC, Allan nonetheless enjoyed a remarkable career as a playwright, actor, screenwriter and novelist.
- Maryse, la jeune propriétaire d'une pension de personnes agées, tombe amoureuse d'un escroc poseur de systèmes d'alarme. Tandis que sa mère perd la tête, victime de la maladie d'Alzheimer, Maryse est de plus en plus désemparée. Pendant ce temps, alors qu'elle délaisse sa pension, Étienne, employé dévoué, prend les rennes de la maison de retraite.
- A brutal act committed by an embittered husband. A literary voice silenced forever. Two young girls left adrift and parentless. Water Marks is the compelling story of Beth and Chris Lowther who piece together missing images and memories of their mother, poet/activist Pat Lowther.
- A look at the history and cultural impact of Tarzan.
- Two stars meet and boot but they get stuck. Realizing they will have to get out of "it" together, they get to know each other authentically, being in the flesh. In doing so, they are delivered from one another.
- -Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo-colonial exploitation and the cancer of alienation. To the very Canadian multi-culturalism of Trudeau and the métissage of the multinationals, celebrated by the high priests of the dominant ideology, is contrasted the idea of acculturation, even deculturation. A way of resisting as good as any other.
- In 1997, Marije lives with her mother in Canada. When her grand-father dies, she goes to the funerals in the mountains of Albania and steps into a past of blood feud and ancient customs. She meets her uncle Zef who, in fact, is an aunt. Zef is a 'vowed virgin' that is a woman who lives her life as a man never marrying of having children.
- During WWII, Italian Canadians were interned in camps in their own land. Elefanti examines the effects of this internment on one man's life and uses the elephant as a metaphor for the resilience of the human spirit.
- En attendant d'avoir un peu d'emprise sur sa propre existence, Irène habite dans une cage qui fait barrière à Grégoire, son amant, un jeune homme naïf et passionné, fasciné par l'étrange femme dont il ne connaît rien. Barricadée dans sa tour de fer au milieu d'un appartement à moitié détruit, c'est elle qui contrôle l'univers restreint qui est le leur. Irène vit dans sa cage, Grégoire habite l'appartement. Elle ne quitte son antre qu'en l'absence de son amant. Les barreaux de fer constituent la condition de leur amour et sa limite. Grégoire est le sosie de Tania, femme décédée de son patron russe lors du siège de la ville rouge - Irène, hantée par Tania, saura-t-elle contrer la reproduction d'événements tragiques ?
- Apart from the sight of the earth and the moon in the sky at the same time, and the flaming rocks that fall at irregular intervals into the streets, it could be a slum anywhere on Old Earth... like the slums of Montevideo where Uncle Tio grew up. In fact, it is an abandoned mining colony in a giant crater of a large asteroid, precariously protected from vacuum. Just like the slums of Earth, the strong prey on the weak and the weak upon the weaker; and Tobi, who makes a meager living as a scrap collector and occasional bare-knuckle fighter, knows that the only chance of escape for himself and his friends lies in the monthly rocket from the Russian colony outside the crater. But the cost is more than he would usually make in a decade. Does the solution lie at the gaming tables of El Senor, who with his enforcers rules over the colony with an iron hand?
- Documentary about Montreal's Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s.