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- EMILIO is the story of a little 9 year' old boy too often left to himself by his parents. Only the Care Taker of the house consoles him in his solitude... At night, Emilio is afraid of the shadow hiding under his bed. One evening, an imaginary Cat joins him to help him overcome this fear and takes him under the bed... There Emilio discovers a great forest where he confronts the source of his fears, an adventure which will have beneficial consequences for the man he will become...
- A documentary about a hidden story of Canadian history: The one of Angelique, a Black slave accused of burning Montreal in 1734. After an epic trial, Angelique is tortured and sentenced to death. But was she really guilty or was she the victim of a bigger conspiracy? Why this voluntary amnesia about this unknown page of history? The film includes interviews with historians who not only talk about Angelique but also about this general refusal to admit that slavery is part of Canadian history. Also, some key scenes of Angelique's existence are illustrated by reenactments played by professional actors.
- Two young women from Québec, Manu and Alexa-Jeanne, head to Cuba for a holiday. There, they soak up the rays, frolic in the surf, dine out and wander through Havana. The contours of their friendship take shape through chance meetings and informal discussions with the locals - exchanges that also nod to a certain vision of humanity and North/South relations.
- One day, while Solange is studying sheep-shaped dust formations in her apartment, the doorbell rings. A deliveryman claims to have a package for her. Solange is formal in her response: That's impossible.
- In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve it. The hostility of winter in such a harsh place turns this desire into a real threat: freezing in the middle of nowhere. Going behind the backs of the school authorities and the girl's mother, her teacher decides to help her. They set off on this quest for truth, but it is not going to be an easy journey... Their only clue is a small, rusty plate.
- Filmmaker Mitra Farahani portrays love and sex in today's Iran. One part fiction and one part documentary, the film was shot secretly and is banned in its native country. The fictional part is based on "The story of Zohra and Manouchehr" poem of Iraj Mirza.
- Two crime "buddies" face off in a desolate urban hideout, as they anxiously await the drug deal of their lives. "La Haine" meets "The Blair Witch Project" with a dash of Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." Made in Montreal on a shoestring budget, this ambitious little thriller has a lot more to offer than meets the eye.
- For the first time, cloistered sisters agreed to let themselves be filmed for a year. The encounter and living witness of faith and humanity of these consecrated women is carried out in a singular way.
- In this upbeat romantic comedy, two young women, the quiet Fleur and larger-than-life Venus, embark on an adventure through France to find the perfect boy.
- Frederic teaches a philosophy class in college. Cassandra is in love with Jynx and her mom Eloise is in love with Leo. GUILT intertwines several parallel stories and is an allegory of our desires and their consequences.
- A Woman, my Mother is the story of a woman who didn't want to have children. This woman is the filmmaker's mother. He sets out to find her in a poetic essay that blurs the line between documentary and fiction.
- Le dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman, who routinely works at her father's convenience store in a small First-Nations community in Québec. One night, as she prepares to close up, she is held-up at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more perplex as she recognizes her assailant. Inadvertently, Lydia will be forced to make a decision that will forever change her life.
- Ernesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.
- 17 year-old Jérémie (Antoine L'Écuyer) dreams of a better life, away from the family sawmill and his native village in Gaspésie, Québec. Instead of the forestry work, Jérémie prefers hip hop music, pimping his car and slacking off with his friends. The situation despairs his father Régis (Roy Dupuis), who blames this disinterest on a local drug dealer. When the elder brother leaves town, the lives of Jérémie and Régis drastically change. Filmed in around thirty scenes, The Sound of Trees is a film that chronicles moments in the summer of a teenager caught between the river and the forest.
- Sabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.
- Two teenage girls bond over drugs, partying, and music after being arrested, trying to find themselves in a difficult world.
- Pascal Marchand, an aspiring poet from Montreal, arrived in the mythical land of Burgundy to work the harvest at age 21. Enchanted by the region, he settled there and embarked on an unlikely path to winemaking stardom. Now over 30 years later, he is renowned as an artist and innovator, finding his inspiration in the ancient techniques of the Cistercian monks who meticulously studied and refined Burgundy's winemaking in the middle ages. Shot over his most difficult year ever, the catastrophic 2016 season which saw devastating frosts, hailstorms and disease in the vineyards, the film is both a love letter and a cautionary tale, as winemakers like Pascal must face the unpredictable and destructive consequences of climate change.
- -Alex and Monica make a nice couple in front. However, behind this mask are two troubled paths where emotions are experienced on the surface. During a Sunday walk in Dunham, Alex decides to broadcast the chaos on Facebook Live. When he suddenly gets out of the car, he finds himself alone in a row in the countryside. The more he runs, the more his past catches up with him. Through these intertwined stories, we encounter different aspects of life, from marital problems to family troubles, from ego overload to psychological disorders, from ephemeral love affairs to endless breakups. Is love stronger than a like?
- A thirty-something accountant, Napoléon Leboeuf never knows quite what to do when it comes to women. During a party he falls head-over-heels for Joséphine. Joséphine, beautiful, independent - and with a passion for seeds. Following advice from family and friends, he sets out to win over the beautiful horticulturist.
- The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.
- An old Canadian architect returns to Delhi where he started his career fifty years ago. A new journey begins. From Montreal to Geneva, from New Delhi to Chandigarh, the amazing life of a free electron of modern architecture, Luc Durand, author of the Quebec Pavilion at Expo 67 and the Olympic Village for the 1976 Games.
- Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker's sullen heart?
- Sébastien owns a book shop and has literary ambitions of his own. He befriends Joseph, an established novelist whose work he admires. But when Joseph is killed on his doorstep, Sébastien discovers a mysterious manuscript left behind. Sasha, Sébastien's only child, witnesses Joseph's death, and the effects run deep. She finds herself drawn to the author's son Sidney, and starts a relationship with him. As the two grow closer, she discovers that her father is hiding something. Sidney, feeling betrayed by Sasha, threatens to expose Sébastien to get justice for his father's memory. But his relentless pursuit for the truth leads him to uncover a tragic family secret from which he was protected... until now.
- Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
- A free and wild young woman has to come back from the big city to her village in the mountains.
- Fabrice went to the supermarket without his store's loyalty card. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
- Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found. While Clemente is looking for the girl's mother, Sofía cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender's house. With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people.
- In order to save his love relationship, an actor gets involved in a strange experiment organized by his troubled girlfriend. Confined to a sinister location, he has to follow a weird routine and play a game of truth that will lead him to the deepest corners of his tormented soul.
- Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of crazy mafia boss.
- The Art of Love (L'art d'aimer) is composed of several chapters following several Parisian couples. Isabelle (Julie Depardieu) has not had sex in a year. She declines an offer from her friend Zoé (Pascale Arbillot) to "borrow" her husband and instead winds up impersonating Amélie (Judith Godrèche), another friend who cannot bring herself to sleep with her buddy, Boris (Laurent Stocker). The singleton Achille (François Cluzet) thinks his prayers have been answered when his svelte new neighbor (Frédérique Bel) knocks on his door wearing a negligee and suggests they have an affair. In another chapter, a middle-aged couple's marriage is threatened when wife Emmanuelle (Ariane Ascaride) finds herself lusting after every attractive man she lays eyes upon and a pair of young lovers (Elodie Navarre and Gaspard Ulliel) discover the pangs of jealousy.
- In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate.
- Two solitary people meet each other and form a bond in the back country of the Gaspe peninsula.
- Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.
- Directed by French documentary filmmaker Charles Najman, Royal Bonbon is the tale of a modern-day man who believes himself to be Henri Christophe, liberator of Haitian slaves during the early 1800s. King Chacha (Dominique Battraville) declares himself a ruler and his lady friend (Anne-Louise Mesadieux) a queen. When he is kicked out of Cap-Haitien, he joins up with young boy Thimothee (Benji) for a journey out of town. They end up in the abandoned palace of Sans Souci, which Chrisophe had built himself. Gathering support from the population of the next village, King Chacha lives out his dream as a ruler. Before long, he becomes a tyrant and is overthrown in a revolt.
- Some years later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and Geum-ee is probably a grow-up already. It is shown that Geum-ee's soul is blue, meaning that he loves Yobi. she may not understand love and friendship.
- Two boys find a beautiful world of magic and wonder when they find a magic marble in an old lighthouse. There they meet Mari and can escape from the growing hardships of their home lives
- 14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his bathrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.
- 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.
- Several lives are changed after a teenager from a rough suburb throws a Molotov cocktail on a car, sending the doctor who was in it in a coma.
- Thanks to the "civilian agreement" law, an Islamist is pardoned and reinstalled in society. He soon understands law doesn't erase the crimes he committed.
- A teacher's chance meeting with her boyfriend when she was 10 triggers memories of past life on her family's dairy farm, feeling economic pressure in the 1980s.
- One Christmas evening in Montreal, Amokrane, an Algerian taxi driver, picks up Kahina, a former pop star that he thought was dead.
- A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.
- Forty years after the end of Franco's dictatorship, Catalans of all backgrounds are mobilizing to hold a self-determination referendum despite Spain's refusal to countenance it. As they openly engage in disobedience, Catalans face growing repression with a smile.
- Lois, 16, has had only one dream since she was a child: becoming an astronaut.
- After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be free for a woman.
- Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past..
- A film that essentially talks about freedom and dignity. Freedom of the beings who choose to live in these places where the inspiration accompanies them. Dignity of the current owner who remains true to his father's promise.
- Back in Canada after an exile of over 20 years in Africa, Norbert a one time hood and revolutionist now turned humanitarian wishes only to return to Africa. Stuck amidst the red tape bureaucrats of Canadian immigration, he hopes to find exile by way of cargo boat. Before his departure he meets a young delinquent boy, named Christopher, who insists that Norbert finds a refuge for the Capuchin monkey he must abandon before taking his trip back home. Christopher convinces Norbert to place Trotsky, the monkey, at the local zoo and then drop him off at his mother's home near Quebec City, where Norbert will take the cargo boat that left without him back in Montreal.
- A culturally diverse first-grade class who live in the most multi-ethnic district of Montreal overcome their numerous differences, inspiring genuine confidence in the future generation.