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Being at Home (2025)

An ensemble movie about a family composed of three children, their parents and their paternal grandmother. We follow them over ten years through five key moments that leave marks on whole families: Departures, separations, returns, deaths and births. This ...

You Will Remember Me (2022)

A retired public figure and history professor begins to lose his memory and must learn to be more discreet as he expresses himself. ...

In the Jam Jar (2021)

n the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan's final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan's, her 50-year-old son. This fiction short-movie is a dive into death and grief, a tribute to maternal love comprised of nail clippings, a ...

The Sticky Side of Baklava (2021)

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France. ...

Delivered to You Without Contact (2021)

Comedian duo "Corbeil et Maranda" have their shows canceled by a global pandemic. They therefore find themselves forced to find a new job and become delivery men… Their cargo? Sketches! ...

Et si on se levait (2020)

Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait (2020)

On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"; Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hja ...

Valérie et moi (2019)

A meeting between the character of yesterday and the woman of today. A life later, Danielle Ouimet revisits the different stages and circumstances of the film's creation. Its impact here, around the world, but also on her own career and personal life. ...

Forgotten Flowers (2019)

Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal's Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec's flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals. ...

Manivald (2018)

Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that i ...

When Love Digs a Hole (2018)

A troubled teenager falls in love with Florence, his 73-year-old neighbor. ...

Kiss Me With All Your Love (2016)

Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crippled from birth. This proximity awakens the sensuality of Berthe who tries to seduce her brother. Pierre r ...

The Voice of the Shadow (2014)

Coteau Rouge (2011)

A working-class family fights a greedy developer for control of their neighborhood. ...

Je me souviens (2009)

A woman seeks revenge over false accusations of murder. ...

Happiness Bound (2007)

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets. ...

The 3 L'il Pigs (2007)

At the hospital, three brothers meet at the bedside of their mother in a coma. To pass the time, they discuss the merits and pleasures of marital fidelity and infidelity. The conversations of the two youngest advance as the days go by in increasingly juicy ...

My Aunt Aline (2007)

Geneviève Saint-Louis, a bachelor and neurotic careerist, refuses any form of engagement. Her aunt Aline, a former cabaret singer, arrives at her home with the ulterior aim of avoiding placement in a reception center. ...

May God Bless America (2006)

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

La crème des Bleu Poudre (2005)

REDISCOVER the best moments of: Bob Binette, Jacques Chevalier Longueuil, Raymond Beaudoin, Ginet Robidoux, Dave Ash, Ludger, Corporal St-Gelais, Chose, Yasser Arafat (Québec version). LES BLEU POUDRE on Taquinons la planète was: disobedience (they got ...

So the Moon Rises (2004)

Struggling with AIDS, Aimée comes out of the hospital. Her friend Francine leads her to the Maison Bleue for her convalescence. But Aimee's state of health does not improve: she falls into mental confusion and must stay at the Blue House until her death. ...

My Only Love (2004)

The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book. ...

Ice Cream, Chocolate and Other Consolations (2001)

Suzie and Samuel have known each other since childhood. With their friend Judith, they form a friendly trio. Now in their mid-twenties, at the age when everything is possible but nothing is easy, they find themselves at a crossroads. ...

Karmina 2 (2001)

All the vampires have to take a special potion made by Ghyslain Chabot to be human. Chabot's wife isn't a vampire yet but wishes to become one. Ghyslain doesn't share her desire because of all the rules and responsibilities inherent in being a vampire. As ...

Chance or Coincidence (1998)

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her. ...

When I Will Be Gone... (1998)

Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Montreal woman, Caroline (Annie Girardot), in her 60s and contemplating impending death. She destroys old correspondence, cleans her a ...

The Sleep Room (1998)

At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments ...

Bitter Sugar (1998)

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Gu ...

Afterglow (1997)

Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky's wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love q ...

The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionis ...

The Revenge of the Woman in Black (1997)

A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings. ...

Heads or Tails (1997)

A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, which causes many misunderstandings with his wife, and mother. ...

Cosmos (1996)

Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laug ...

Karmina (1996)

Karmina, a young vampire, flees her Translylvanian castle where she must marry the horrible Vlad to please her father, the mean Baron, and her mother, the eccentric Baronness. ...

Wind from Wyoming (1994)

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. ...

Coyote (1992)

Story of a wild first love that takes place at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River between the refineries at Pointe-Au-Trembles and the rock culture of Montreal. ...

Four Stiffs and a Trombone (1991)

An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes. ...

An Imaginary Tale (1991)

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have se ...

Lessons on Life (1989)

A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves. ...

Blanche est la nuit (1989)

While jogging on the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Michel sees a young woman trying to commit suicide. He takes her into his home and a love affair begins that both saves and destroys each of them. ...

Straight for the Heart (1988)

Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him. ...

Hold on to Daddy's Ears (1971)

The tribulations of two Québec nationalists in the English-speaking world of insurance. A satire that draws its irony from a specific social situation. A typical example of the era's popular comedies based on television and trendy stars, which gave birth ...