Benoît Rousseau

Vile & Miserable (2025)

In a world where books and cars share a sales floor, a misanthropic and immortal bookselling demon is forced to team up with a young, enthusiastic human assistant to save his bookstore. ...

Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)

Province of Quebec, Canada, the Maple Spring, 2012. Driven by frustration and the desire to find a new life, Klas Batalo, Ordine Nuovo, Tumulto and Giutizia form a counter-cultural group, a radical cell guided by a deep hostility to the established order t ...

Death Dive (2015)

A ship was found drifting with its crew massacred on the coast of the Gaspé ... It's consternation! In the process, an ambitious journalist, helped a young museum professional archivist rather shy and sedentary, discovers that a collector of maritime obje ...

Fear of Water (2012)

Rosalie Richard is found raped and dead at the foot of a cliff. This gruesome murder is the first ever in the Magdalen Islands. Her death will radically change the orderly life of Sergeant André Surprenant. ...

Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)

Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!). ...

Fred's Head (2008)

The Secret Life of Happy People (2006)

A struggling architecture student falls for a free-spirited waitress who has a hidden agenda. ...

Congorama (2006)

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having b ...

May God Bless America (2006)

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood. ...

Elvis Gratton 3 : Le retour d'Elvis Wong (2004)

A bumbling man finds adventure in the media world. ...

Machine Gun Molly (2004)

The oldest daughter of an impoverished Montreal family, Monique Sparvieri vows to find a way to get out of the ghetto in which she lives. Abandoned by Michael, the love of her life, Monique finds herself alone again when her second husband, Gaston, is sent ...

Set Me Free (1999)

A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after the film's lead role, Hannah ...

Octobre (1994)

A dramatization of the abduction and murder of a Quebec government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front. In October 1970, one group from the same organization kidnapped James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner in Montreal. A few days later, ...

L'instruction (1984)

Filmed in 1983, during the presentation of Peter Weiss' play at the Fred Barry theater at UQAM. This document exposes us to a play dealing with the Shoah, and its intention to present the medium of video as a specific language. ...

The Tin Flute (1983)

In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide ...