Rock Demers

Snowtime! (2015)

To amuse themselves during the winter school break, the kids in a small village decide to have a massive snowball fight. Luke and Sophie, both 11 years old, become the leaders of the opposing sides. Sophie and her cohort defend an elaborate snow fort again ...

The Outlaw League (2014)

Nicolas loves baseball. Every day during vacation he and his friends meet at the town's old baseball field to play their favourite game... Until one infamous day at the start of summer when Nicolas discovers that the gates to the field have been locked and ...

La Guerre des tuques... au fil du temps (2009)

A Cargo to Africa (2009)

Daniel and the Superdogs (2004)

A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Danie ...

Summer With The Ghosts (2003)

A young girl and her new friend investigate a series of supernatural happenings in the Austrian children's film SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS. Caroline departs from her home in Montreal to join her father a famous film director on the set of his latest film in Au ...

Madame Brouette (2002)

Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-bric from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a cop, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival (at which women and men switch role ...

Regína (2001)

Regína is 10 years old. Her mother, Margrét, works at a home for the elderly and her father is dead. The story begins one sunny summer morning when kids are leaving for the summer camp and Regína has been told she cannot go. While alone at home killing ...

The Hidden Fortress (2001)

Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn. ...

My Little Devil (1999)

Hathi (1998)

5000 years ago, in India, men started to capture and tame elephants for war, parades and worship. Still today, the young Makbul grows up in daily contact with the wild and domesticated elephants that live in the forest around his native village in southern ...

Whiskers (1997)

A friendless youngster (Michael Caloz) asks a cat goddess to help his feline friend. ...

Dancing on the Moon (1997)

Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has before. But she still doesn't want to become an adolescent. A tragic acciden ...

Le Silence des fusils (1996)

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau (1995)

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada. ...

Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas (1995)

Paul-Émile Borduas, Québec's voice of the Quiet Revolution, reflects on the impact of his writing and art in his Paris studio. ...

Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier (1995)

One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War. ...

The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)

Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charle ...

A Hero's Life (1994)

A Canadian couple reunites with the German POW they befriended during World War II. ...

The Clean Machine (1992)

Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly ...

The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't (1991)

Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen. ...

Why Havel? (1991)

The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč. The monograph is centered on the legendary director's life and career after his emigration to Weste ...

The Flying Sneaker (1991)

Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father is doctor on a boat and he has sent Rehor a package with butterfly larvae. When they hatch he discover a fairy who can do magic tricks. ...

Summer of the Colt (1991)

This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and ...

Vincent and Me (1990)

Jo, a talented young art student from Quebec, attracts the attention of a mysterious European art dealer who buys her drawings. When she later learns that the works are being sold as newly discovered drawings by Vincent van Gogh, she sets out to uncover th ...

Reach for the Sky (1990)

A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection. ...

Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood (1989)

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy and an ...

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweathe ...

Tadpole and the Whale (1988)

The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be. ...

The Young Magician (1987)

A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic a ...

The Great Land of Small (1987)

While visiting their grandparents in the Québec countryside, two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces. ...

Bach and Broccoli (1986)

A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing home. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital. ...

The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)

Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy. ...

The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984)

As the Christmas holidays begin, a group of 10 war-obsessed kids have a wave of inspiration: What if they spend the next two weeks engaged in a simulated war, armed only with shields, wooden swords, snowballs, and a fierce sense of competition? With a boun ...

The Christmas Martian (1971)

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party. ...

Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous (2023)

A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers' popular children's film series. ...

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015)

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques. ...

A Cargo to Africa (2009)

Life and Film: The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny (2009)

After being one of the most successful filmmakers in Europe in the sixties, Vojtech Jasny (Czech Republic, 1925) lives in a small apartment in New York. For Jasny, life and cinema are inseparable concepts. By visiting friends who still live in Life and Fil ...

Daniel and the Superdogs (2004)

A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Danie ...

The Hidden Fortress (2001)

Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn. ...

The Clean Machine (1992)

Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly ...

The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't (1991)

Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen. ...

Vincent and Me (1990)

Jo, a talented young art student from Quebec, attracts the attention of a mysterious European art dealer who buys her drawings. When she later learns that the works are being sold as newly discovered drawings by Vincent van Gogh, she sets out to uncover th ...

Bach and Broccoli (1986)

A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing home. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital. ...

Maria Chapdelaine (1983)

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and Fran ...