Natalie Tannous

Montreal, My Beautiful (2026)

At 53 years old, Feng Xia, a Chinese immigrant in Montreal, finally confronts her repressed desire for women and begins a secret affair with a young Québécoise. ...

Lovely Day (2025)

Alain and Virginie are getting married today, but Alain is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The impending reunion of his divorced parents has plunged him into deep anxiety, only made worse by the shady schemes of his cousin and best man Edouard, who se ...

Bassima's Womb (2025)

When her illegal husband is deported from Canada, Bassima, a young Syrian woman, finds herself in a difficult situation, both socially and financially. Desperately looking for a way to bring her husband back, she agrees to become a surrogate mother in exch ...

The Last Meal (2024)

Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past. Vanessa discovers who her father really is. ...

Red Rooms (2023)

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case's puzzle. ...

Brise glace (Broken Waters) (2023)

Ottawa, 1983. When an ambitious anti-pharma psychiatrist sets out to cure a serial baby-snatching patient, her unconventional methods and unexpected pregnancy combine to unravel every part of her life. ...

Montréal Girls (2023)

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being forever changed by two young women who help him see his destiny. ...

Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (2023)

Forced to leave Syria because of the war, Dounia and her grandparents go in search of a new safe haven. As she traverses the world in search of asylum, Dounia draws strength from the wisdom of the ancient world, brought to light by her grandmother's magic ...

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. ...

Antigone (2019)

Sophie Deraspe's adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman's quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal. ...

The Far Shore (2019)

Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who's caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water. ...

Leila (2017)

Life in the Alley (2016)

This is the story of four people: ODNEY, RAJNI, ALUKI and MUFEEDA. Four lives, four journeys that led them in a search for freedom. Together they decide to live on the fringe of society and to finally find a place where they can do things their way. ...