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- A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
- Sophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She comes from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses.
- Follows a newly-announced artistic director of a famous fashion house, who after getting his expectations high, starts experiencing chest pain and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his estranged father's weak heart.
- A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.
- When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They're escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.
- Sophia, an unemployed academic, is forced to change the way she thinks and lives her life when Karim, her beloved brother, falls in love.
- Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.
- Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons. Under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance. For the young Geisha, somber Léonie and unpredictable Eugénie, it's a chance to get away from the noise, to engage with the present, and think about the future.
- In Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
- Mexico, a land in the grip of necropolitics: The film documents the symbiotic relationship between cartel, government and big business which is claiming the lives of more and more activists.
- While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage, both violent and fascinating, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.
- Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman, returns to her native land in the hopes of reviving her mother's memories, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, while emptying her childhood home.
- Two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from Flo's past.
- Ariane Lives in Val-d'Or. She will soon stay in the big city. So she gets ready to leave everything behind and to say bye to her brother. But the sexual tension between them, that they always struggle with, seems to take all the place.
- By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.
- With a new song and a brand new music video Adele shows betrayal, regret and sorrow.
- A camera aboard a drone flies over a territory. The aerial images show barren landscapes, dotted with shabby houses, animals and a few human figures. We scarcely have time to wonder where we are when a text appears on the screen directly addressing the viewer: we are in Syrian Kurdistan, liberated from the occupation of the Islamic State, whose jihadist members are currently in prison. The woman who speaks has been given permission to question them; about their ideas, their past and the future. The Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, who made a great impression on the Visions du Réel audience in 2016 with GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES, shows towards them dialectic behaviour typical of those who want to understand before they pass sentence. Their stories thus take shape, framed by a mise en scène that shifts between words, faces and aerial views of the landscape. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematographic object.
- It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
- Two childhood friends, each held captive in time by a tragic moment, travel through the world of memory to find their respective path to freedom.
- A man begins having an extramarital affair to deal with his emotional and companionship needs while caring for his terminally ill wife.
- Juliette is in her second year of high school and she has to handle the mockeries of other students. Complexed by her overweight, the young girl enters teenage years full of twists and turns.
- After the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.
- A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity leads to an unavoidable confrontation with old acquaintances.
- A serious accident occurs on board the Diego Star, a dilapidated Russian cargo ship. Traore, a mechanic from the Ivory Coast, is unfairly blamed for it. The ship is towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs. In the interim, crew members find shelter with the inhabitants of the small local village. Far from everyone he loves and knows, Traore is engulfed by the Quebec winter.
- Caught stealing drugs, 27-year-old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he had cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life, he witnesses Michel's own turbulent downward spiral.
- Along the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. 'Bestiary' unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.
- Acclaimed and veteran actors discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films.
- Born in the Maelstrom' is an impressionistic journey of a young biracial woman named Rebecca as she struggles to find her identity in a world shaped by her black mother's painful past.
- A documentary about the late artist Lhasa de Sela. She was a talented and accomplished Canadian singer of folk and world music. She wrote and sang her haunting music in English, French and Spanish, and was widely appreciated in Canada and Europe. Her life and career were cut short in 2010, when she died of breast cancer at the age of 37.
- An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest - a state of repose whose quality defies definition.
- The Helper Nuns of Montreal, feminist and politically engaged Catholic sisters, have been lighting up combats for social justice since the 1960s. The Catholic patriarchate is driving them nuts - both inside the Church and outside it. So long as a woman is not allowed to officiate at their funerals, they are keeping their fists raised !
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- A year after his father's atrocious hunting accident, Éloi returns to the lands he inherited for a strange tribute paid by local hunters. His first intention of confronting his recurring nightmares is compromised by the one we call the Indian, a comer who every season comes to hunt down an enigmatic deer with a much coveted plume. In a world where myths have been supplanted by cynicism, the quests of these two men will mysteriously meet. Contrary to the contemplation of the title, this initiatory story is an action thriller where the real and the unreal weave a modern tale on the edge of the Laurentian forest.
- -May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied by his daughter, little Lucy, he decides to go investigate in his native Saguenay against the backdrop of a referendum on Quebec's sovereignty.
- The fixations and the consequences of our pursuit of instant communication and popular culture are exposed as a plotless panorama of our daily obsessions, desires and identities captures a sense of things slowly slipping out of control.
- Gabrielle is 16. She inflicts pain to herself, cut herself. Her father doesn't understand why. At the hospital she meet Étienne, who suffers from an accidental injury. With him, she don't have to explain anything.
- Felix and Malou are two neighbors in a small village with large fields. Each his family, each his problems of adolescents of thirteen years. But between the two houses, through their differences, they meet and survive.
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- As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.
- Instead of giving money to a homeless girl, a man invites her for a coffee at his place.
- 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...
- Catherine, a little girl with a problematic behavior, test the limits of her fathers love.
- We spend our lives trying to hide the loneliness of our souls and the vacuity of our existences. Believing that he can escape this situation, a man invites a prostitute to his apartment, not knowing that fate made sure that they know each other.