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- A modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.
- 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.
- In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
- A woman takes her former husband and his children by another woman into her home, and becomes attached to the children.
- Tournant un film dans sa ville natale, une réalisatrice trouve l'inspiration chez une femme, Estelle David, qui erre dans un hôtel. Cela l'aide à mieux définir le rôle qu'elle écrit pour sa comédienne, une artiste polyvalente qui excelle aussi bien dans le jeu dramatique que dans la chanson.
- When his grown daughter returns to the family farm in desperate need of money, solitary and stoic Gaby will be asked to sacrifice everything for those closest to him. WINNER - Cannes Film Festival
- After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his footsteps, Alice will in fact find herself, in a strange and hostile but warm place.
- A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.
- French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.
- A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.
- C'est l'histoire d'un couple d'italiens qui, après s'être établi à Montréal, plonge dans le drame suite à un fâcheux accident. Librement adapté d'un fait divers survenu au début du 20e siècle, 'La sarrasine' s'inscrit dans la démarche de l'auteur de mettre en lumière l'immigration italienne au Québec et les conflits liés au choc de deux cultures.
- Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
- A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother's influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.
- Elvis Gratton, dead for three days, came back to life. First man to revive 2,000 years, it is slowly recuperating from her experience in the hospital. Accompanied by his friend and brother-Meo, he left then relax in the countryside. There he was joined by the American producer Donald Bill Clinton asked him to make an international rock star known around the world. Elvis accept. Quickly became a star adored millionaire, it creates a chain of fast food restaurants, bought the island of St. Helena, and is somehow promote Canadian unity.
- A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
- Travelling to the Arctic for the first time, Carmen arrives in Iqaluit to tend to her husband, Gilles, a construction worker who has been seriously injured. Trying to get to the bottom of what happened, she strikes up a friendship with Noah, Gilles' Inuk friend, and realizes they share a similar story. Together, Carmen and Noah head out on the Frobisher Bay - she, looking for answers to her questions; he, trying to stop his son from committing what can't be undone.
- A dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.
- At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
- In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
- A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
- Sommes-nous en train de détruire la forêt boréale? Ce long métrage documentaire, réalisé par Richard Desjardins et Robert Monderie, dénonce l'exploitation erratique et abusive de la forêt boréale québécoise et questionne la responsabilité collective devant la destruction de cet environnement unique au monde.
- A Quebec City university lecturer abandons his academic career to translate the poetry of Edward Edward Stachura.
- Marcel Lévesque, a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last sixteen years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one thing on his mind: getting his beloved Detroit rides off the lot. Marcel Lévesque is a salesman from a bygone era, a man who learned his trade by telling tales - "fibs dressed up with flowers" - and making his customers happy. But a tragedy will change everything for this peddler of dreams.
- This is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.
- -Nicolas a consacré sa vie à son travail scientifique et médical et s'aperçoit que sa vie personnelle en a souffert. Cet homme de science célèbre, au crépuscule de sa vie et atteint d'une maladie incurable, n'a de l'affection réelle que pour sa fille adoptive Katia. Dans ce drame psychologique, le réalisateur a choisi d'adapter le récit 'Une banale histoire' d'Anton Tchekov publié en 1889. Le film propose une réflexion sombre et dépassionnée sur les valeurs de la vie, telle que vue par un homme sur ses derniers jours.
- An illustration of the teasing of the Montreal's Italians between their love of what was their home country and their need, like many immigrants and sons of immigrants, to be accepted and integrated in their new society. From the history of the Italian immigration seen through the play 'La Storia dell'Immigrante' from 'Toni Nardi' and Vincenzo Ierfino to the screening in the Caffe Italia of a World Cup soccer game involving the Italian Team.
- Through the eyes and testimonies of residents and users, Boisbouscache paints a portrait of a territory coveted by private groups with divergent interests. It is a film about history and dispossession.
- The faith of a caring physician and an unquestioningly religious youth is shaken to the core when the pair is inexplicably brought together.
- Covered in blood, Réjeanne Poulin is in a near comatose state as she, a suspect, is being questioned by the police into the death of her husband, Gilles Dubuc, whose gunshot dead body was found in their home. After she is transferred to a psychiatric hospital and as the police investigate the death, Réjeanne and Gilles' story is told in flashback starting approximately two years earlier when they, then a telephone operator and a long haul trucker respectively both who were making a decent living, bought their modest dream house in idyllic Beloeil, Québec, just outside of Montréal. Their world as they know it starts to disintegrate first when Gilles suffers a stroke. Although Réjeanne can handle the additional work during his recuperation, it's his despondent nature that is more difficult with which to deal. Her already resulting fragile mental state takes a further hit due to some corporate restructuring in her company. These events in combination lead to Réjeanne and Gilles dealing with their lives, both individually and in combination, the only way they know how.
- A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.
- A Montreal musician, Rémi, who robbed his marching band on tour in Charlottetown, gets away to the Magdalen Islands with his girlfriend and gets shelter to a friend who his mourning her husband in a coma. He dreams of going away to California, but a colleague, Martin, reaches him - And trouble lays ahead unless Rémi changes plans on the way, otherwise Martin can call the police and the marching band.
- Dr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency room doctor from Montreal, agrees to go to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, with no plans for an extended stay. When Dr. Rainville suddenly dies, Jeanne must decide if she'll take over the job, and its inherent responsibilities, for the long-term.
- Un retraité, qui fut pêcheur toute sa vie, s'ennuie à mourir chez son fils et sa belle-fille. Ayant découvert, au cours de ses longues promenades, une barque abandonnée, il entreprend en cachette de la remettre à flot pour un dernier voyage. Adapté d'un roman d'Yves Thériault, le film décrit les derniers jours d'un vieux pêcheur qui tient à garder sa dignité.
- The film does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change: people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships.
- Montreal provides a backdrop for this intriguing, fast-paced political drama about the later, dangerous interactions of two boys who first became best friends during their years at an orphanage. Once the boys leave the orphanage to continue their separate ways as adults, they keep in touch with each other even though they disagree on almost all the major issues in life.
- -Since the dramatic writing of Michel Tremblay and the first improvisations of the Great Circus Ordinary, the theatrical creation has allowed the advent of new generations of writers and directors who have developed a new scenic language that is also universal. How, and how, is this theater in the image of our modern and contemporary society that it reflects and questions simultaneously?
- A look at the life and works of Picasso.
- Francis is a comic book artist by day and a taxi driver at night. His comics are usually about the exploits of his nighttime job but when he is hit by a lack of inspiration, he decides to change it up and focus on his family. What he creates is called "The Fabulously Journey of the Angel", a science fiction story in which the hero, an intergalactic taxi driver, searches for his beloved daughter who has mysteriously disappeared. In real life, his daughter decides to take his drawings and make them a fabulous reality.
- Tinamer a 27 ans lorsque sa mère meurt. Les funérailles de cette dernière lui font revivre certains événements de sa prime enfance qui l'ont marquée pour toujours : le monde merveilleux dans lequel son père la faisait rêver s'est effondré le jour où la réalité lui est apparue. 'Tinamer' est une fable poétique librement adaptée du très célèbre roman 'L'amélanchier' écrit par Jacques Ferron en 1970.
- -Since the dramatic writing of Michel Tremblay and the first improvisations of the Great Circus Ordinary, the theatrical creation has allowed the advent of new generations of writers and directors who have developed a new scenic language that is also universal. How, and how, is this theater in the image of our modern and contemporary society that it reflects and questions simultaneously?
- Sortie 234 met en scène la passion qu'éprouve Renaud pour Frank. Une passion qui arrive à son point d'éclatement. Mais entre ces deux pôles d'attraction, il y a Lucille, l'amour de Frank. Lucille de qui Renaud essaie de se rapprocher. Lucille qui devient le trait d'union entre les deux hommes. 'Sortie 234' constitue une trajectoire, des êtres à la fois semblables et différents vont tenter sinon de se joindre, au moins de se rejoindre et de se comprendre. On ne sait jamais ce qui peut changer la vie.
- Dans la Résidence Maison-Neuve, les pensionnaires racontent tour à tour leurs histoires, leurs déchirements, leur maladie, leurs petits bonheurs et leur attente de cette grande, ténébreuse et dernière visiteuse qu'est la mort. L'instant et la patience démontre qu'en vieillissant, on ne devient pas moins, mais plus humain. On touche du doigt la fragilité et la beauté de la condition humaine. C'est peut-être au moment où la vie nous échappe que nous mesurons enfin sa valeur. » C'est un film à la fois grave et serein, joyeux et triste, ponctué de belles phrases lyriques et poétiques de l'auteur qui, en même temps, se promène dans ses souvenirs et dans ceux de sa mère ». (Claude Langlois, 1994) / Le cinéaste s'attarde au passage de la vie à la mort en évoquant les derniers instants de sa mère mourante. Il trace le portrait de cette femme aimée à qui il fait ses adieux, tout en donnant la parole à des amies qui l'ont connue. » En musique, j'aime beaucoup l'époque baroque, Bach surtout, à cause du contrepoint. Je me suis rendu compte que j'essayais de faire la même chose dans mes films. » (Bernard Émond).
- Il s'appelait Henri Turcotte. Il a vécu toute sa vie dans le quartier Hochelaga Maisonneuve. Il a traversé l'existence à pas si légers, qu'il a failli disparaître sans laisser de traces. C'était un inconnu, un solitaire, un ancien planteur de quilles qui ramassait le vieux bois dans les ruelles. Il est mort dans la rue, lui qui marchait sans cesse. Les policiers l'ont pris pour un robineux. Ils n'ont pas cherché sa famille. Henri a failli être enterré dans une fosse commune. Il avait 76 ans.
- Au printemps 1996, le réalisateur Jean-Claude Coulbois commence le tournage d'un documentaire sur le travail théâtral de Robert Gravel, comédien, animateur et créateur de gang devenu auteur et metteur en scène. Le tournage prévu sur une longue période est brusquement interrompu par la disparition de Robert Gravel durant l'été. Plus tard, beaucoup plus tard, le réalisateur décide de terminer ce portrait de Robert Gravel à travers son théâtre. Le film est composé de ce qui est sans doute le dernier entretien de Robert Gravel et de divers témoignages de ceux qui, à un moment donné, ont fait partie de sa famille théâtrale. Des extraits inédits des oeuvres écrites et montées par Gravel, de nombreuses archives vidéo et des photos abordent les principales réalisations de cet homme-théâtre.
- Lamento est un roman inachevé de l'écrivain Albert Laberge. Celui-ci, reconnu aujourd'hui comme le premier auteur naturaliste québécois, publie en 1918 La scouine, roman qui lui a valu d'être accusé de pornographie par l'Église catholique. Cette fiction brosse un portrait impressionniste d'un homme partagé entre ses ambitions littéraires et un exténuant travail de journaliste sportif au quotidien La Presse.