François Papineau

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 Are Not Alone (2024)

Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling f ...

La Contemplation du mystère (2021)

Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed in a disturbing world of strange mystical codes, he learns that his father was tracking a huge buck with a ...

The Vinland Club (2021)

Boys' college in eastern Quebec at the end of the 1940s. Brother Jean is not a teacher like the others. He wants to interest his students in the subject and to achieve this, he conducts archaeological excavations with his students aimed at proving the esta ...

14 Days, 12 Nights (2019)

Isabelle Brodeur embarks on a journey to Vietnam, her adopted daughter's birthplace. Throughout this stunningly beautiful journey, Isabelle discovers her daughter's country through the eyes of the woman who brought her into this word. ...

Ca$h Nexu$ (2019)

Jimmy is trapped in a spiral of street drug addiction and withdrawal. One day, Jimmy is forced to get back in contact with his family. The pariah's return to the pack reawakens old demons in his elder brother Nathan. ...

The Fireflies Are Gone (2018)

The sleepy town where Léo lives doesn't offer her much chance of self-fulfilment. Extricating herself from her mother's influence and her constricting environment isn't easy for the frustrated young woman, yet happiness might be close at hand. A stylistic ...

Iqaluit (2016)

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 f ...

9 (2016)

According to the text of Stéphane E.Roy Nine slices of life. Nine stories that intertwine. A satirical comedy. Marc Gauthier, creator of the new "Dare Communic-Action ©" alleged communication guru, offers a new approach. But there will always be a gap be ...

Bad Seeds (2016)

Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a business relationship. After a difficult start, the men help each other grow marijuana. They happen to mee ...

Chasse-Galerie : La Légende (2016)

In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about to die in labor, he makes a pact with the devil to save her and his newborn daughter Liza. He then cheats t ...

The Meteor (2013)

Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching eighty, visits him every week. Suzanne, Pierre's current wife, has moved on since he was sent away. Each character gives us a frank account of a period in the ...

Memories Corner (2011)

Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the disaster the city's wounds have finally disappeared but the former victims continue to suffer. Among them is Kenji ...

Wetlands (2011)

On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive. ...

A Life Begins (2010)

A twelve year old loses his doctor father to an overdose. ...

Route 132 (2010)

Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption. ...

Mourning for Anna (2010)

A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter. ...

Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes (2008)

Threatened with prison for a hundred million dollar fraud at the expense of several small savers, Vincent Lemieux flees to the Far North where a plane awaits him which will take him to the Bahamas. ...

The Capture (2007)

Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She's managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted by her f ...

Happiness Bound (2007)

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

Le génie du crime (2006)

Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of crazy mafia boss. ...

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film (2004)

The movie chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for ...

Tar Angel (2003)

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation. ...

Le manuscrit érotique (2003)

The Collector (2002)

The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 1 ...

The Bottle (2000)

Réal and François are two old buddies in their early 30s who reunite at last to unearth a time capsule bottle which contains their dreams and ambitions from 15 years earlier. The problem is, their little treasure is buried on a plot of land that now belo ...

L'Île de sable (2000)

When her mother died, Geneviève went back to the village where she was born to sell off the house and return to Montreal. Her sister Manou, a pregnant teenager, refuses Genevieve's authority and leaves for the Île de Sable with her boyfriend. ...

Post Mortem (1999)

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond. ...

Clandestins (1997)

A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada fro ...

L'homme perché (1996)

The Confessional (1995)

Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and ...