Mani Soleymanlou

Two Women (2025)

Violette and Florence are two women with something in common, beyond being neighbours. While one finds herself on an emotional edge during her maternity leave, the other feels nothing at all, and neither can make sense of what's happening to them. Realisin ...

Miss Boots (2024)

Philippe, an opera composer in search of inspiration, is forced to take in Simone, his rebellious, eccentric niece whose best friend is a skunk. Despite their diametrically opposed personalities, Philippe and Simone quickly discover that they may need each ...

Universal Language (2024)

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg h ...

The Skates (2023)

An adolescent girl's figure skating lesson becomes the latest battleground in the marital warfare between her parents in Halima Ouardiri's piercing family drama. ...

Un (2020)

A Brother’s Love (2019)

Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim's life significantly alters their dynamic. ...

Malek (2019)

Malek, a Lebanese immigrant from Montreal, is haunted by the violent death of his sister. Convinced that he could have avoided this tragedy, he is consumed with guilt. He lives alone, poor, jobless until he meets Shohreh, an Iranian girl, with whom he fall ...

For Those Who Don't Read Me (2018)

A rebellious poet befriends a woman and her son, leading him from the verge of self-destruction to the path of redemption. ...

Chinatown (2016)

A florist borrows $10,000 from a pawnbroker. When it's time to pay, he can't come up with the money. Short reckonings make long enemies. ...

Les brigands de l'hôtel bleu (2015)

Rabid Dogs (2015)

After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive. ...

News, news (2014)

That winter in Montréal, there is a girl. Three captains are wooing her. Cinema killed Jean-Baptiste Lamirande, the disastrous Liberator, who comes back to life just before Christmas. Héloïse, an amnesiac actress who lost her watch, has been reported mi ...

Boucherie Halal (2012)

A muslim couple opens a butcher shop in Montreal and wishes to successfully integrate into Quebec society. But the butcher's father is an imam who sets up a little mosque in the back room and uses it to spread his fundamentalist views. When he is arrested ...

Gerry (2011)

Born into a modest family, Gerry Boulet found fame with the Québec rock group Offenbach. After a life of drug and alcohol abuse and a great love story, Gerry died of cancer in 1990. ...

Un (2020)