7,554 Matches Found
Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After befriending two young far-left activists, he joined the Front de Libération du Québec, an underground radical group. Jean, from then on, marches inexorably towards his destiny.
Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.
After her Senegalese lover leaves her, Rosalie keeps brooding over his obsessive memory. The crucial need to speak of her distress drives her to a psychotherapist. Her introspection helps her grasp her insatiable attaction to dark-skinned men.
On a mission to expose child predators, two underaged girls strike up a relationship with an older man online.
Twenty-something Addy is out to get revenge against Tom, her ex-boyfriend and well-known TV host. But when she breaks into Tom's apartment one night while he is asleep, Addy begins to spiral out of control, putting her new relationship, and much more, at stake.
In contact with the Boa Gym, an exalted young monk rediscovers the power of his carnal envelope and undertakes a radical transformation to save his aging congregation.
Against the backdrop of a holiday camp and a toxic “boys’ club”, the friendship between Elias and Laurent is put to the test during brutal initiation rites. Caught between the desire to belong and loyalty to others, they will have to navigate through their insecurities linked to the social construction of their gender in order to assert their place among the group.
Set within a mental ward, doctors try to cope with people suffering from a variety of ailments. Among the afflicted are a young man who believes his parents are really from outer space, a murderous television producer, and a prominent fashion photographer obsessed with a motivational record.
A tale of two longtime losers looking for love.
FM YOUTH is about being young and being French in English Canada. Three Franco-Manitoban friends, Natasha, Charlotte and Alexis, hang out one last time before Natasha and Charlotte leave their tight knit francophone community in Winnipeg in favour of Montreal, Quebec.
A desperate immigrant is sent to Vancouver to recover a stolen watch. Meanwhile, two low-level gangsters search for the same watch to avoid being executed by their boss. Both groups fight for the same object that has the power to save their lives.
As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.
While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of his youth as a refugee following the Naksa. Soon after, and with his uncle's stories fresh in his mind, Abood finds himself lost in the streets of Amman, where he meets a young stranger who offers to guide him home as she shares her thoughts on the country, the people, and her identity as a Palestinian living in Jordan.
A young woman with feminist ideals finds herself disturbed by her pent-up desires and impulses for a misogynistic man.
Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the turn of the century. Since then, Summer Legend has been retold many times, but never more beautifully than in this colourful animated interpretation. It tells of the Mi’kmaq people in the cold white dawning of their world, and of how Glooscap battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North.
This is a short film created for an English/Language Arts class. It is based on Stephen King's short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder".
In the near future, where babies are genetically modified to perfection, a young mother must choose between customizing her baby in vitro, or having a child naturally.
Olivia is the Bride of disaster. She eagerly awaits her groom, the impending crisis that approaches.
Today, Alice experiences absent grief.
Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.
A young man still in love with his self-destructive ex agrees to join her on a trip to Cancun where he ends up meeting a local girl - forcing him question everything he wants in life.
This is the story of four people: ODNEY, RAJNI, ALUKI and MUFEEDA. Four lives, four journeys that led them in a search for freedom. Together they decide to live on the fringe of society and to finally find a place where they can do things their way.
Cynthia offers a virtual trip to her friend Damien and despite all the possibilities of thematic worlds to explore, he chooses a bloodthirsty avenue. Cynthia has no idea that she will be part of the experiment.
A woman and man in their early sixties try to cure loneliness on a second date. However, when the man eagerly convinces the apprehensive woman to sneak into an abandoned bowling alley, the discord in their personalities becomes apparent.
Devastated by the news of his grandfather's imminent passing, a third-generation Italian-Canadian contemplates a move to rural Italy. Wrestling with his family's past and his own future, time seems to fold in on itself as the patterns of history return.
When the patriarch of an emigrant Nigerian family visits their female-led Canadian home, traditional values collide with newer ones.
In the summer of 1996, life throws a curveball in the face of Keven Guénette; and it strikes. Guided by his paraplegic baseball coach, Keven discovers the mutation, sex and love.
Jeannot has Down’s Syndrome. Living in a claustrophobic suburban setting, he is treated like a child by his parents and denied any responsibilities of his own. Things change when a young woman named Pauline is hired to take care of Jeannot, and his world opens up beyond the restrictive one imposed upon him.
After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
Colt Hanson has embraced rural life and policing once again. However, the Russian assassins return, led by Vasily Sokolov, and an evil plot unfolds. Colt and his fellow officers become entangled in a murderous plan, as they race – against all odds – to save the Prime Minister.
Since she has witnessed a conflagration, Adèle cannot stop playing with matches. The day after, while walking to school, she's caught on the act by a strange firefighter-dressed figure which starts following her. Unable to beat the figure away, the schooler resigns herself to revisit the still fuming ashes of a painful end of high school day.
Jirka rents a room in his Prague apartment to a bodybuilding tourist who constantly trains all over the city. Jirka can’t help but spy on this mysterious visitor, but quickly realizes he might be the one getting spied on.
Unable to get over the tragic loss of the love of his life, and stuck with a day job of editing adult videos, Chase meets an unlikely ally - a call girl (Valentine) who works under the various personas she has created for herself. Is Chase ready to uncover Valentine's dark secrets?
A woman takes her friend to a naturist park for her first experience with social nudity.
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
A young man approaching his 20s can either work for his mother in her restaurant or carve his own path and join his friends in Montreal. Before making this decision, he encounters Sara and Léa, two enticing young women who may derail his plans of becoming the greatest chef in the world.
At age 15, Orah Dokubo killed a man in Nigeria before fleeing Africa with her infant son. Seventeen years later, Orah is an illegal immigrant in Canada and working as a taxi driver for an attorney and his high-profile Nigerian client, Bami Hazar, who are both involved in international money laundering. After Hazar orders the murder of Orah’s son, she begins a revenge spree to bring Hazar to justice and has to resort to violence to settle the score when all legal options fail.
One night, Andie, figurehead of a four friends group, plans out her death in front of all her relatives. Through a broken monologue, Andie reveals her deep thoughts about each person she has harmed. This staging destabilizes the group and questions the links previously made. While each member of the gang tries to regain control of the group, both emotionally and physically, a fifth person interferes from the outside and comes to stir up chaos.
During World War 1, the young Boudreau sisters decide to aid the war effort by catching spies. The strange activities of Nobel-Prize winning scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie make her a prime suspect. When the girls follow Curie to the battlefront, they witness her fight to use science and her X-ray machine to save the lives of the wounded, including their father.
A former music industry mogul grieving the death of his wife at an isolated lake-side home finds subtle redemption in the youthful spirit of friendship cultivated with two young boys.
A first snowfall in Montreal (Canada). Jean's sax playing mirrors his life, including the false notes.
Between Two Walls is a political thriller about an aspiring politician whose bid to secure top office is threatened when a dark secret from his past comes to light days before the election.
A tale from downtown, where the morality of business is not always as transparent as the shining glass fronts of the office buildings. The film follows the adventures of a young man on the way up, intent on building an image to match his ambitions. In doing so he leaves a trail of hurt feelings among those he uses as steps toward his goal.
On the eve of his departure to a youth detention center, Victor convinces his best friend Oscar to go on one last outing that spirals out of control when a confrontation with a dealer turns deadly. In shock, the two teenagers attempt to dispose of the body under the cover of night.
A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.
Two strangers show up at a family's cottage claiming to have spent their childhood summers there, but their behaviour seems to be driven by something more sinister than nostalgia.
A young woman reflects on the evolving complexity of romantic love since the 1970s...
Silken Laumann's dreams of winning gold at the 1992 Olympics are shattered after a training accident.
Shipwrecked for 13 years on an island lost in the heart of the ocean, the passengers and crew of a freighter, reorganized community, suffer the tyranny of Orn, their former captain became a guru and despot.
Mochi - a recently fired socially awkward 25 year old - deals with the isolation that comes with a mental health decline, supported exclusively and wholeheartedly by their loving dog Miso.
After losing his title belt, a fallen star in the boxing world seeks advice from an Amish technician to get his career back up.
Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.
Set amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, 5 adolescent girls band together to escape their desolate lives. By reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own, they form an intense and obsessive bond that leads them to a dark place where their innermost fears and desires destroy their only safe place.
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
In 1837, in Quebec, against a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the sentimental drama of Simon de Bellefeuille and Julie, the chosen one of his heart, destined for another.