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- On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a fairytale for the family turned rapidly into a nightmare... and their story is the stuff of amazing television drama.
- A dinner party of three couples careens into uncharted territory when the hosts make a shocking proposal. Tensions mount as this evening among friends puts each marriage to the test.
- Two hours after breaking up with his girlfriend, Cedrik meets Karine in a nightclub. Man drinks, wants woman. Woman drinks, accepts man. After a night of passion, Cedrik is horrified to discover himself mysteriously switched inside Karine's body, while Karine inhabits his. Is it their chance to finally discover the secrets of the sexes? Is this body switch temporary?
- Set in Mexico City over the course of a single day, this film is based on the true story of an older man's decision to accept his homosexuality. Told without any dialogue, Vapor is a cinematic exploration of shame, catharsis, and ultimately, transcendence.
- À la suite du décès de leur père, Pascale et Caroline se retrouvent sur la ferme familiale. Pendant l'été, la relation entre les deux soeurs sera difficile. Boris, le fils de Pascale, et son copain Pierre-Luc les rejoignent. Caroline, déjà heurtée par son aînée, sera au centre d'un imbroglio amoureux. Entre les sentiments d'amitié, d'amour et de trahison, elle devient moins naïve. Avec la lucidité, les voix de réalisation personnelle sont peut-être plus accessibles.
- Three stories unfold over the course of 9 months. Two couples live at extreme opposites of each other, yet they share one commonality: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a comfortable world where the arrival of a child should be a time that fills them with joy. Instead, it blows their bourgeois house of cards to the ground. Behind the facade of their ultra-chic condo and their high-flying careers, hides a couple that is in pain, two human beings living with secrets and lies that have, unfortunately, multiplied with time. Justine and Seb are freedom seekers that live day by day on the streets of Montreal. These two young squeegee-punks are hoping for better tomorrows, but in the meantime seem to be content with washing windshields and doing small-time deals. Justine's pregnancy destabilizes Seb, who has better things to do than to be a father. Their violent relationship makes getting an abortion the obvious choice. Yet somehow things never seem to work out as they should... Stephen Decker is a 50-something father who has lost everything, his wife, his only child, his peace of mind. Now he has found a new purpose for his life: revenge. This quest brings him from Calgary to Montreal as he desperately hunts down his daughter's murderer. What he finds is far from what he expected... Five destinies converge, not only in blood and suffering, but also in hope, love and rebirth.
- To liberate his friend who's been taken hostage by a sorcerer who's after a large ransom, a young man decides to take control of a marijuana plantation, not knowing that it belongs to his dad and that the marijuana production goes to an artist's agent.
- Wherever Marjorie walks, the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow. It has been many weeks since she has even hoped of finding someone. There is no life anywhere, except for a dog that follows her from town to town.
- King Chicken walks into a language lab to learn English. He is love struck by a quirky and cute student. Will he be able to approach her?
- Laura leaves home to start a new life with her French-Canadian crush, leaving her little sis Kate to cover for her - and deal with her own feelings of abandonment. Both are thus initiated into an adult world where happiness comes at the cost of innocence. The First Day of My Life toys with taboos while maintaining a nostalgia for sisterhood.
- Prisoner of a marriage devoid of passion, Robert has decided to find himself a mistress via the Internet. Tormented by the perspective of cheating on his wife, he sees his guilt manifest itself in the form of various hallucinations. On top of being relentlessly spied upon by a mother-in-law as unfriendly as she is intrusive, Robert has more and more difficulty distinguishing between his imagination and reality.
- Cul de sac is a story about a man who tries to end his life unsuccessfully. Unhappy father of a draining family he has no controls whatsoever over his life. Paul doesn't see any other way but to commit suicide. All the suicide attempts comically bump up against the demandes of each family membre. He also loses control of his own death. Wishing to free himself more firmly he locks himself into dépendance and lack of power.
- Suffering from a broken heart, a woman ventures to a fantastical village where the demise of love is celebrated. A fairy tale for those who have loved and lost.
- A child with a fertile imagination sees her grandfather's illness under a new light: if he's not crippled by old age, like his son believes, perhaps he's a wizard!
- Les petits géants tells the story of five children in elementary school who will participate, with 105 other children, in an unusual project. They will develop, implement and create a musical inspired by the opera 'Un Ballo in Maschera' by Verdi, and play key roles in front of several auditoriums filled to the brim.
- A 7 years old boy's game with his toys becomes a dangerous adventure as his miniature soldiers become life sized and turn on him. Only Morgana, his favorite figurine, rushes to his rescue in this action tale about love and the power of the imagination. Fata Morgana is a musical epic aventure about love and the power of the imagination.
- Following her death, an old woman returns to haunt her husband and encourages him to pass away.
- As the sun rises over a small town in Mexico, Simon is getting ready to go home to Montreal. But Reina can't let their story end like that.
- 85 year old Simone is dying in her hospital bed, alone. When a mysterious transformation makes her young again, she gets up from her bed and starts to dance as a celebration of life. Is it a dream or her swan song?
- Why does a woman get up in the middle of the night to make herself a tomato sandwich?
- The strange noise from a butcher's knife excites the woman of his dreams to dance... Secret love, loneliness, and missed connections... in one dance...
- During diner, a six year-old boy's curiosity puts his parents in an awkward position.
- The "Internal Clock" tells the story of the unusual relation with time experienced by a religious watchmaker suffering from a condition causing him to age in appearance at half the rate of a so-called "normal" person. His exceptional destiny intrigues... Over time, a documentary however resolutely out of time.
- A female dancer bathes in a washbasin. Her movements reflect the contrasts between the freedom and clarity of the water and the spatial limits of the space.
- Two corpses come to life in a surreal house. The man and woman, once lovers, dance together for the last time, then lay back down to face eternity together.
- As he prepares for his encounter with a new flame, a young man queries about how he will present himself. Suddenly, he is surrounded by embodiments of his different personality facets.
- Featuring Canadian poet Al Purdy's poem "At The Quinte Hotel" this piece tells the story of a man's experience at the bar.
- -In the mid-1960's, a small Canadian mining town is paralyzed by a labor strike. A young waitress falls for a 'scab', a wandering strikebreaker who seeks only a brief encounter.
- A couple is trying to drown their daughter under a covered bridge. At the same time, a young farmgirl is trying to drag her cow across the bridge. But whoever you are, if you cross that bridge your life changes forever...
- Art is dying, painters are beaten up and ballerinas are set on fire. But Frida doesn't care. She just wants to play her music. Troll Concerto is an apocalyptic fable about the power of music in finding one's destiny.
- A man in his mid-40s is killed by a truck just after receiving a prescription against death from his doctor. He then regains consciousness in a video store, and with some further difficulties, receives a film of his life. Although full of factual inaccuracies, it is an enjoyable examination of his birth, youth, marriage, family and death. Unfortunately, his request for a sequel is denied, and as he advances down the corridor to God, technical difficulties are experienced.
- While cleaning out his closet, a very old widower finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life and decides to carry them out.
- Deals with the impending death of a young man's grandmother, and his emerging awareness of his own mortality upon meeting her when she was 20 years old.
- Olivier's life takes a zany turn when he acquires the power to save and load his life any way he likes.
- The Last Act tells the romantic/trash/improvised love story between Simon and Sophie who, after an evening spent in a bar, are pushed into a taxi together by common friends who want to match them for the night.
- Through the eyes of Dawish the Clown, the viewer is given a fresh view, a new perspective on the cynical predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
- It is a Sunday afternoon in the universe. When a mysterious musical force causes scorching heat, tornadoes, and raging fires to devastate our planet, four very different people await the impending disaster at a local corner store.
- Embodying Venus, the Virgin Mary, and other classical beauties, a woman comes to life from within the paintings of the masters to exact revenge on her cheating lover.
- Clara's overwhelming family can't understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt's sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but empowering, friendship.
- Rebecca navigating through the confusing path of adolescence, as she struggles between the relevance of traditional family vales and religious upbringing difficult situations send her towards a disruptive path. "TURBID" takes us through a realistic journey with a ground-level approach by a cast of non-actors.