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This short fiction film about a young boy torn between conflicting loyalties is resolved with humour and wisdom. Sunday, 2 o'clock, is zero hour for Gaston. He must be in two places at once: performing at a music recital and playing hockey with his teammates. What is Gaston to do?
It's Christmas in Toronto, 1978. Eight-year-old Meehee Park longs for two things: to make her mother happy and to get a Cindy doll from Santa. But she soon realizes that Santa isn't real and her parents are struggling to make ends meet. This distresses Meehee to no end, that is until one fateful day when she comes across a neighbourhood auction that will pit her two greatest desires, leaving Meehee to choose between dreams of the past and fitting in with the present.
The story of two lovers who struggle to be apart from one another.
Rookie drug dealers Bonnie (Josh Fischer) and Donnie (Cam Howard) could not have encountered more trouble than on this deal. In this comedic thriller, we see the opposite effect of Murphy's law in place, where everything that could go wrong... does. While dealing with one issue, another arises, and when the storm seems to have passed, it takes a turn for the worse
Daniel Cheng is a young promising neurosurgeon. He is dating Lisa Crown, the heiress of a well-known family. After having a successful greeting dinner with the Crowns, Daniel is unexpectedly forbidden to see Lisa by her disabled grandfather who is a Korean War Veteran. Daniel has to fight for his love, literally and figuratively.
Get lost in this slightly surreal animated short composed of exquisite black-and-white illustrations. As we move through the landscape, we pass elaborate topiaries, dust-devil ballets, horses traversing the horizon, and wild reflections in the water. It's a lyrical film that carries you through a visually-rich tapestry of incredible hand-drawn images.
A young man finishes his hard day's work in a library. He smuggles contraband from this building, despite the fact that the deep censorship in place severely punishes this type of activity. He will face numerous consequences for his illicit practices.
Seven months pregnant and stuck in a sleepy corner of Tennessee, a young woman begins to see through the promises made by her charismatic husband.
Wounded from his past, Sam is a self-doubting dreamer who discovers a rare and intense attraction to a stranger on a bus. He fantasizes about different scenarios of approaching the girl but never finds the courage to actually do so. Conflicted, Sam takes the audience into his own mind, where he confronts his long-time ex-girlfriend, Marie, face to face.
In the heart of a war-ravaged field, a lone soldier riddled with arrows meets his end.
Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
Obinna, an African refugee in Canada, faces deportation in 30 days. When all hope seems lost, a chance confrontation with Timothy, his terminally ill landlord, provides him an opportunity to remain in the country. Timothy who is a former immigration officer makes him a deal; he will intervene in his pending deportation if Obinna finds his estranged daughter Nicole and convinces her to see him one last time before he dies. With the clock ticking, Obinna fights to save his dreams, in the course of which he stumbles on a discovery that will shake the very foundations of his principles.
Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre Ronfard) of the corpse of a young woman on a beach in Ireland in the late 1970s.
A dark fable about a group of kids who befriend a monster they find in the woods.
In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the French population was mostly unanimous against the obligation to go to war, seen as a Great-Britain Government request, many young men fled to the woods or in clandestineness.
Four years after her initial tale, Jen starts a new chapter unaware of Athan's ordeal, who faces an entity controlling his dreams in his new home.
Disillusioned with life, love, and the pressures of the modern world, Jay goes on a quest for higher meaning. But when two violinists, one mysterious man and a briefcase seem to conspire against him, he discovers what really pulls the strings of his heart.
An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.
It’s perhaps too wintery to qualify as Edenic, but Sam and Cora have seemingly carved out a largely idyllic existence for themselves in a cabin in the hills of Gatineau. However, the tree-planter/taxidermist and server/poet find their routine disrupted when they’re visited by Nadia, one of Sam’s dearest friends.
Charles has just moved into a new house with his mother. Cut off from the rest of the world, the young adult is having difficulty adapting to the change. While walking outside, he hears music that leads him to meet a man passionate about jazz who shares his musical knowledge to him.
Set in Montreal, this is a story about the communication gap between different communities who live and work amongst each other every day. Despite being born in Montreal, Rup Singh, struggles not only with how he is perceived by others, but also with how he may perceive them.
Romain, a tormented young man, deals with his alcohol addiction as he tries his best to hide it from the people closest to him.
Two strangers meet in a motel room where everything is not as it seems.
On Halloween night, Caro boards her sister Jess's cheap car. Believing they're headed for the same destination, the two sisters take the path of confession instead.
On his deathbed, Catrín confronts Death not to ask for more time but to understand why she saved him 20 years earlier. When she denies it, his desperate search for answers forces her to reveal the truth: she is in love with him. After a final, tender moment, she lets him go, leaving herself alone forever.
Skylar's world is a desolate place, devoid of purpose and hope. However, everything changes when he receives a letter from his grandfather.
France, 2012. A teenage boy tells an intimate secret to a friend, but quickly regrets it while watching the news.
Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.
An elderly man living with dementia begins to lose his sense of time, place, and identity, while his son quietly stays by his side. Through small moments and fading memories, their relationship is tested in ways neither can fully understand.
Upon learning of their mother's death, Samuel and Émilie, two mentally challenged siblings, run away from their group home in the middle of winter. As they go deeper and deeper in the forest, their relationship is put to the test.
The volatile bond between two young women threatens to combust in the face of an incomprehensible catastrophe.
Shades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.
Eamon (Bazuk), a disillusioned college dropout, decides to take the low road, working as a gas station attendant in rural Ontario and purposefully keeping to himself. The narrow life he has prescribed for himself is disrupted by Daisy (Leroux), a lonely, hearing-impaired girl with a persistent crush on him.
A depressed man learns that fortune comes in many forms, and at any moment it can slam into you like a speeding car. Or in this case, an SUV.
In Green Dream, Josephine Massarella has infused her vibrant, impressionistic images of nature with the spirit of the goddess Artemis. Evocative and abstract, Green Dream relies on a wide range of experimental techniques, including pixilation, optical printing, and manipulated motion to achieve a dreamlike state where the relevance of beauty and the irrelevance of use can be contemplated. Reminiscent of the work of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lawder, Green Dream confronts modern overdevelopment with overpowering life forces.
Malcolm creates a video diary for his partner Daniel to remind him of their memories as Daniel begins to forget.
Two twenty-something friends from a small town go to different lengths to discover their true nature after witnessing a murder.
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "Where I See Myself in 10 Years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
Two kids who are bullied by an older student, try to get outside help in taking revenge but it goes to far
In the dead of night, somewhere between a dream and reality, television programs explore the neglected realities of the past and present.
Two sisters reunite in a hospital waiting room as their mother undergoes surgery. Initially, they engage in small talk, but as the hours drag on, tension mounts and years of unresolved conflict bubble to the surface.
The lives of three young men from Taiwan who are loosely connected by geography and a common pursuit of the attention of Jane, collide in a film that purposefully obscures the boundary between narrative fiction and documentary film.
The story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For these three Quebecers are, in a way, us, as we have been rendered by a society in search of itself.
Job pleads to God for an answer to his suffering and receives one.
"Glimpses from life of a young woman at rock bottom one evening as she waits."
Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a work of auto-fiction inspired by real-life events.
In a world where being a freelancer for a powerful crime syndicate is as easy as signing up for a mobile app, new hire Tim Givens, in a case of mistaken identity, finds himself held hostage by Jessica, an escaped kidnap victim, who's trust he must earn in order to avoid being executed.
A folklorist is summoned by the last living soul of a forgotten community to witness a folktale transform into a terrifying reality.
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.
A vérité-styled character study of a seemingly stereotypical "bro", who begins to experience an unlikely crisis of self. He struggles to change and fails, but finds hope for a different identity when he defies the expectations of a new friend.
A short drama that takes a humourous look at the consumer society.
Fayette and Roy are an elderly couple in a dysfunctional relationship. Roy is dependent on Fayette for the basics in life, such as cooking and cleaning, yet he is always yelling at her that she can't even do these things right. To add what she considers a little sunshine in her life, Fayette buys a canary, which she initially hides from Roy. The yellow bird will eventually fundamentally change the nature of Fayette and Roy's relationship.
When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly unforgettable.
Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.
Michèle is accused of the murder of the child she had with her brother, with whom she lives. The few years she spends in a psychiatric clinic do not cure her.
While rehearsing a sexual assault scene, a pair of actors form a connection they’ll be forced to reconfigure once filming begins.