Raphael has a hard time dealing with authority. With no degree or prospects, he's forced to accept a new job assigned to him by his caseworker. Raphaël's first day with Iles, his new supervisor, upends him, provoking a change toward a fresh start.
Dominick Rustam-Chartrand
Raphaël
Lyndz Dantiste
Iles
Patrice Fortin-Lavoie
Customer
Raphael has a hard time dealing with authority. With no degree or prospects, he's forced to accept a new job assigned to him by his caseworker. Raphaël's first day with Iles, his new supervisor, upends him, provoking a change toward a fresh start.
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.