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A selection of comics from the Montreal International Comedy Festival

The show is lyrical, exposed to social problems that have a political dimension, including that, with the love of people, we can fulfill all our dreams without the need for a chair or position, and this appears from the "Morsi" figure that Ahmed Badir embodies in a comic framework.

This twisted sequel to the Oscar-nominated film "Guard Dog" details the continuing adventures of an eager canine. This time he takes a job helping the blind, but still leaves a path of destruction in his wake.

Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly in love with an East Berliner. Jenny’s parents are foaming from wrath and offer a reward: One-hundred thousand, later even a million, deutschmarks for whoever brings them their daughter back. The prospect of so much money gets east and west into quite a disarray – and in the end, the Wall really falls.

The story focuses on Bujang who has to find a wife before his wealthy father Datuk Azlan turns 65. The problem with Bujang is that he won’t settle for anything less than perfection when it comes to women. He wants the perfect wife, thus even the slightest of flaws in a woman will turn him off. But when he meets Murni, a village girl, he’s immediately smitten. To ensure that Murni is not like any other materialistic woman, Bujang tells her that he works as a personal driver. Murni begins to fall for Bujang and continues to date him since she just wants an average man. Things get complicated when Murni accidentally discovers Bujang’s secret and accuses him of trying to con her. Worse still, Bujang’s father does not approve of Murni, as he accuses her of trying to win over Bujang for his money. Devastated, Murni decides to return to her hometown and marry any man that her parents find suitable. That leaves Bujang racing against time to win Murni back.

Tommaso meets Stefania. They like each other, they fall in love, they get married. A child is also born. It all started very well, it evolved well, then discreetly, little by little until the crisis. It seemed impossible, yet the love, which seemed really solid, perhaps fell apart, even turning into hatred. Who knows if there is still time to do so. Volo, ex Jena, tries to be a real actor. An appeal test is required.

This story is about three slacker friends: Marat (a video store worker); Belyj (an unsuccessful actor); and Nick (a cowardly marshal arts practitioner). Bored with their lives and wanting to instead live in style, the boys rob the richest and most respected men in the city. However, they are in over their heads and it is too late to turn back.

Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.

Since his earliest childhood, Robert, chap rather typically French, is in love with the dentist's secretary. He lives under the same roof as her mother, possessive cruel mother who forbids him any desires, whether they are carnal or sweet, and watch his slightest actions. Robert, he, dreams about love and about independence.

The title translates literally as "Faceboom." An omnibus film helmed by seven top-tiered Italian directors, this comedy explores the worldwide Facebook craze of the early 21st century by recounting the adventures of numerous Europeans whose lives are altered by that social networking site.

An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.

Shriranga Deshmukh is frustrated with all the women in his life. However, when he gets back from his native place, he realises he has supernatural powers allowing him to listen to any woman's thought. Inspired by "What Women Want".

A family man becomes obsessed with his front door neighbor. Slowly he gives up work and forgets about anything asides his obsession. Only a murder inside the family will be able to restore normality. A dark comedy with painful truths being played inside the family.

Three girls, Shravani, Lahari and Aliveni, are in love with Shanti Swaroop, a lecturer. His life takes a turn when these girls execute different ways to woo him.

Kirika and Mireille are sent out to exterminate Chris Patton in this short film starring Sock Puppets. Originally included as an Easter Egg on Volume Six of ADV's release of "Noir", it has since been included on the Funimation re-release as a standard extra.

A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.

Notícias Populares é o título do primeiro DVD que a companhia de comédia Os Melhores do Mundo lança pela Warner. Mais que isso, este trabalho celebra também a primeira vez que um grupo de teatro é contratado por uma gravadora. Notícias Populares apresenta uma visão bem-humorada e crítica desta entidade que faz parte de nosso cotidiano e direciona nossas opiniões: a notícia. O espetáculo soma ao todo oito cenas, entre elas "Assalto (Erros de Português)", um assaltante que não tolera erros gramaticais, "10 de Setembro", que especula sobre o dia anterior aos ataques de Bin Laden, e, como não poderia faltar, o famoso Joseph Klimber.

Apolônio Brasil was a pianist at a famous nightclub in Rio de Janeiro, from the 1950s until his untimely death. Quite a character, Apolônio was loved by women and idolized by his audience and friends. His contagious joy attracts the attention of American scientist Dr. Boris Lewitsky, who comes to Brazil in order to interview Apolônio's close friends and make them a most unusual offer concerning the remains of the late musician.

Damn it, life isn't kind to Hansi: his wife dies in a mountain accident. The cheerful Tyrolean becomes a taciturn man. Only the pretty radio presenter Christl manages to melt the widower's frozen heart – up in the mountain hut. Reason enough for Hansi's adversary Viktoria to sabotage the young couple's happiness...

Two brothers, the honest Michalis and the swindler Nontas, are forced to resort to bank robberies in order to pay off the latter's entanglements with the mafia. Michalis' love for a secret police officer, a strange couple of her colleagues and Nontas' greed will make things even more complicated.

College friends whose lives are at a crossroads decide to spend a year in Europe, working in Thai restaurants, and trying not to get deported.

Khom, a well-known thief to stage a brilliant crime. Meanwhile, Toe, the leader of the movement against the troops has a plan to stop the train, but the situation turns upside-down, when Khom and Toe have to help a secret agent from being captured by Japanese troops.

Sick Esther needs the help of her grumpy brother. Only reluctantly does the mechanic Hannes agree to look after his nephews for two days. The two boys first mess up his apartment, then his life. In his distress, pedant Hannes even accepts the offer of help from his perky neighbor Lilli...

Leah is travelling the world when she eventually settles in Beijing, China, where she meets Master Sun Zhan who teaches her the art of weiqi. Her path crosses with American Chinese Richard whose family had sent him to Beijing to arrange his grandfather's ashes. A romance soon blossoms between them.

A young man in the village spends a few days in a garden instead of his uncle. On a rainy night, strange creatures mistake the garden for grandma's house and take refuge there.

Kamalpur-based Khular family make a lot of sacrifices to get their daughter and eldest son married; as well as ensure their youngest, Himmat, gets a good education in Patiala's Punjabi University. After Himmat completes his education and returns home, the family even arrange his marriage with an America-based wealthy bride so that he can re-locate abroad and live a better life. The family's peace and harmony is shattered, the house gets divided, after Himmat refuses to marry the bride, and instead sets off with his friends to open a lowly Dhaba. He also starts wooing Resham, the wealthy daughter of Deep Singh, the President of Punjab Hotel Association - who will never permit her to marry a lowly Dhaba owner, and is already making plans to get her married to someone very wealthy.

30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.

Cosmetics mogul Mary Kay Ash faces competition from a driven newcomer, who plots to take apart her control of the makeup industry.

"The Other Side of Paradise" is a highly entertaining comedy about a girl named Rose who embarks on a journey of self-discovery on the way to her first gallery opening. Along the way, she picks up Alex, the newly single friend she's always had feelings for, and her misfit younger brother Jamie, who recently was released from prison. On the road trip, the trio encounter off-the-wall characters and hilarious cameos that chew up the Texas countryside. In the end, the three must come to grips with their own issues of trust, abandonment, love, and ultimately hope.

Determined to lose their virginities, three friends set off on a lust-fuelled road trip full of hilariously desperate bids to get laid.

This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…

On Valentine's Day, two cupids are set to fire arrows of love at all the cul-de-sac children at their school, Peach Creek Jr. High.

The comedy film tells the story of a widower, Nana who is busy raising her 3 daughters in Penang. A man named Akhbar Khan falls in love with Nana’s eldest daughter, Khairunisa, then is willing to be her bodyguard but he later finds out that Nana has other plans for Khairunisa’s wedding. To convince Nana so that they can marry the couple of their choice, Nana’s daughters, try to persuade Nana to marry Nana’s old lover. But, how surprised they were when Nana announced her engagement to someone.

A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

Blade Babji (Allari Naresh) is a pickpocket who takes up the mission of earning 4 crores to rescue the slum dwellers in his area from a builder. He and his gang go to Vizag and rob a bank. And they hide the loot in a building under construction. They were forced to go away for a month and when they return they find a police control room at the spot where they hidden their loot. In order to retrieve the loot, Blade Babji takes the position of newly joined Krishna Manohar (spoof of Pokiri) by kidnapping him. The rest of the story is all about the comedy of errors that followed.

Through a series of misadventures, the impoverished Rodolphe, Marcel, and Schaunard come to live, find love, and make art together in a small Moscow apartment.

Little Kája isn't very interested in the outside world; he would rather sit at the computer all day playing games. But what if his favorite character from the game enters reality?

Straight is a hilarious and subversive excursion into the world of conversion therapy, where homosexuals are reputedly made "straight." Join acclaimed writer/performer David Schmader as he plunges into the heart of this dangerous territory. Schmader, a gay man, pulls no punches with either the conversionists or the gay community in this one-man show.

Musical comedy

In this unique tale, director Murali Nair portrays life in rural India with ribald wit and sharp social satire.

Ho-jung is a scriptwriter in a local radio station. She is waiting for her 30th birthday and also eager to be promoted as a DJ of her own program. One day, she hears that Won-jae, her old flame, will be back to town again after 2 years studying in France. With a dream of getting married with him, Ho-jung is getting excited.

Danni Hartford, party planner to the King family, wants to find her sister. Britney, the Kings' spoiled 15-year-old daughter, wants a horse. On a nearby horse farm, Rachel is treated like a servant by her foster siblings; all she wants is a real family. When all three girls make wishes at the Christmas dance, Britney and Rachel's souls switch bodies. But the girls soon find their new lives are not exactly what they pictured. When Danni discovers what has happened, she must figure out how to switch the girls back.

Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.

The movie revolves around three different couples who have to overcome familial and cultural obstacles to be with their ones they love. A man looking for a bride-for-hire also learns the hard way that expectations and reality do not always come together well.

A college boy Su-min is looking around paintings in a gallery when he hears someone screaming for help. That’s where he first meets a high school girl, Hyun-jin. They soon meet again in a park, and she realizes he is gifted; he can read people’s mind.

A run down boxer meets his faith outside a supermarket.

Forty-eight-year-old Sohrab, head of the workers of the Isfahan Foundry, has just had his fourth daughter.

College girl Janie inherits a rundown strip club from her uncle. She tries to learn the business and turn it into a money maker.

Selma's mother died giving birth to her, and Selma's step aunt is living proof that men only cause trouble. So the 11 year old girl makes a deal with her best friends that they will stay away from boys and dedicate their lives to science. And by the way, Selma was probably born on another planet and not meant to fall in love with anyone. But what happens when her friends break the pact, and she actually meets a boy who's not like the rest?

Peter, a theatre director, hates being out of work so much it's affecting his relationship with his girlfriend Marie, an actress. As a remedy, she suggests they stage a play by Strindberg together and bring in her famous friend Liza. Not such a good idea, it turns out. Soon, Liza is applying all her skills to steal the leading role and the director away from Maria, who is not backing down without a fight.

Two "dumb-bells", Hugo and Tincek, steal a camera from a lunatic.

Riding high on the success of both his hit sitcom "The Hughleys" and "The Original Kings of Comedy" tour, D.L. Hughley goes solo in this installment of the "Platinum Comedy" series. Taking on subjects such as poverty, racism and gender differences, Hughley keeps the audience doubled over with laughter with his pointed jabs and sly observations. Note: This unedited routine is aimed at adults and is not appropriate for children.

A couple buys a blow up doll as a joke, but soon the doll begins to reveal that it has a consciousness to one of the boyfriends, the man begins to have full on conversations with said blow up doll, leading the other boyfriend to think he has gone insane.

Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.