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At only age 10-and-a-half, Tommy is well known to the local social service agencies for his tendencies towards violence. Judged incorrigible, Tommy rebels against all authority and has been abandoned by all who know him, except for his halfway house guardian, Gilles, who sees a glimmer of hope in the eyes of the young boy. Gilles may be Tommy's last chance for a normal life.
Participants: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor.

When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?
Participants: Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson.

Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual morals... Disillusioned with love, Jeanne is nevertheless engaged to Noël. However, Jeanne and Noël lead separate lives, and only communicate by leaving each other messages on the fridge. Everything suddenly becomes very complicated. Jeanne compels Julie to take up with Noël so she can have a fling with a passionate musician. Noël, meanwhile, sets Julie up with Michel -- without Jeanne's knowledge.
Participants: Isabelle Blais, Stéphane Gagnon, Sylvie Moreau, Emmanuel Bilodeau.

Two friends compete for the affections of the same man. Marie is a woman living in Montreal who has frequently been let down in her relationships with men, while her close friend Francis is a gay man who hasn’t been faring much better in his love life. When Marie meets Nicolas, a good-looking man who is new in town, she's immediately attracted to him and tries to use her feminine allure to win him over. However, Francis is equally drawn to Nicolas.
Participants: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, & Xavier Dolan.

A low level gangster decides to change his life by following his dream and trying to become an actor.
Participants: Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Denis Bernard, Alexis Martin, Julie McClemens, Louise Proulx, Marie-France Lambert, & Denis Trudel.

In the town of Sainte-Philomène de Fortierville in 1909, Marie-Anne Caron, wife of Télésphore Gagnon, gives birth to their second daughter. She grows up a happy child, until tuberculosis takes away her adored mother. Everything collapses in the young girl’s life. Télésphore Gagnon, widowed only a week, falls under the spell of his attractive cousin Marie-Anne Houde and marries her. Marie-Anne settles in the house and rules the small family with an iron fist. Slowly, her dark side takes over. The people of Sainte-Philomène de Fortierville stay silent as they slowly witness increasingly strange events in the Gagnon household. Then young Aurore Gagnon dies. The coroner’s inquiry will reveal she died from blood poisoning brought on by abusive treatment and numerous wounds on her small body. The famous and hugely mediatized trial of her parents follows; the story will make the entire country shudder with horror. The film shows the social reality of Quebec during the early 1900’s rarely seen on the big screen. The people of Ste-Philomène who chose to abide by the rule of Omerta will finally have their true story told.
Participants: Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo, Hélène Bourgeois-Leclerc, Yves Jacques, Remy Girard, Stéphanie Lapointe.

This is the story of a man called Babin and his fellow villagers: Toussaint Brodeur the fly-tamer, a blacksmith in love with a widow from St. Barnabé who cheats on him with the old priest; Méo the hairdresser whose love for the bottle gives his customers strange hairdos; Madame Gélinas, who has been pregnant for the last two decades and who can't seem to make her cakes rise up anymore; the beautiful Anne Domini, who has been crying her eyes out and peeling petals off daisies ever since her true love went to war; and, last but not least, Babin, the witch’s son, at odds with the strict new priest.
Participants: Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Luc Picard, Alexis Martin, Isabel Richer, René Richard Cyr, Marie Brassard, Marie-Chantal Perron, Gildor Roy, Julien Poulin, Maude Laurendeau, Antoine Bertrand, Bobby Seshro, Barbara Requesens, & Fred Pellerin.

In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii’s illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
Participants: Natar Ungalaaq, Eveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur.

Leon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is Mom and Dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there’s Lea, the exasperating girl who’s always right about everything. In the summer of 1968, when Mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Leon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors’ house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Lea. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.
Participants: Antoine L’Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Catherine Faucher, & Gabriel Maillé.
Note: Based on the books C’est pas Moi, Je le Jure! and Alice Court avec René, by Bruno Hébert.

An eccentric Belgian inventor learns that he is adopted and travels to rural Québec to find his birth family. While there, he meets a man driving an electric car. They get into an accident that changes their lives and the future of the automobile industry.
Participants: Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Claudia Tagbo, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Arcand Gabriel.

One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montréal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie’s glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad’s conservative, macho values force Zac to repress his sexuality, which develops into a destructive rage.
Participants: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Maxime Tremblay, Alex Gravel, Francis Ducharme, Hélène Grégoire, & Michel Laperrière.

Four university teachers gather to prepare a dinner. Remy is a married man, Claude a homosexual, Pierre has a girlfriend and Alain is a bachelor. Amongst them, they discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Their dinner guests Louis, Dominique, Diane and Danielle are waiting at a health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening they meet and have dinner where candid conversations are brought out at the dinner table, where more revelations, confrontation --and sex--begin.
Participants: Dominique Michel, Dorothee Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Remy Girard, Yves Jacques, Genevieve Rioux, Daniel Briere, Gabriel Arcand.
Note: Released originally in 1986 by Malofilm Group and The National Film Board of Canada.

M. Brochu, “The Boss” runs his gas station despite repeated thefts and hold ups, and his strained relationships with his sons, who want more out of life than running a gas station. Through the minor tragedies of The Boss’s life we meet the locals who hang around the gas station, trading stories and having a good laugh.
Participants: Serge Thériaul, Gilles Renaud, Sébastien Delorme, Danny Gilmore, Maxime Dumontier, Fanny Mallette, Gaston Caron, Gaston LePage, Daniel Gadous, Claudee Legault, Réal Bossé.

In a little harbor village of Sainte-Marie-La Mauderne, the vanishing fish stocks have plummeted a once thriving community into decline, forcing the fishermen to rely on government welfare. When a small company considers building a factory on the island, the inhabitants see an opportunity for the village to be restored to greatness. But the factory cannot be built without a resident doctor. Seeking to attract the young Doctor Lewis, Germain spearheads the transformation of the village. It’s the beginning of the seduction. While sometimes ruthless and often clumsy, eventhe most disillusioned villagers rally to the cause. Together, and with great dedication, they try to convice the doctor that Sainte-Marie-La-Mauderne is the ideal place to live.
Participants: Raymond Bouchard, David Boutin, Benoît Brière, Pierre Collin, Rita Lafontaine, Clemence Desrochers, Lucie Laurier, Bruno Blanchet.

A mother’s last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults’ voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Participants: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette.

Examines the varying personal politics--economic and sexual--at play among an aging group of friends, lovers, and ex-spouses. Remy and Louise are divorced. Their son Sebastien lives in capitalist splendor in London. Their estranged daughter sails boats throughout the world. But the slightly estranged family is brought together by Remy's losing battle with terminal cancer, and the hedonistic, ex-radical father and straight-laced son have to overcome their differences.
Participants: Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Dorothée Berryman, Johanne Marie Tremblay, Pierre Curzi, Yves Jacques, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel, Isabelle Blais, Toni Cecchinato, Sophie Lorain, & Roy Dupuis.
Note: Sequel to “Le Déclin de l’Empire Américain” (c1986); Prequel to “L’Âge des Ténèbres” (c2007).

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds--the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he’s Léolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up affect his response to both these worlds.
Participants: Genette Reno, Pierre Bourgault, Maxime Collin, Guiditta del Vecchio, Julien Guiomar.

It’s summer 1966. Time to enjoy summer vacation, total freedom, running wild in the fields, and crazy giggles with friends. But as she becomes more aware of the dreams, sorrows and lies of the people closest to her, Élise sees her mother’s sudden abandonment thoroughly disrupt her family. While her brother Coco stubbornly seeks refuge in constructing a super car, the youngest, Benoît, plummets deep into his own internal world, retreating ever-further in the furnace room. As for her father, he is simply overwhelmed by the situation. Élise decides to take the helm of her drifting family in a poignant attempt to save them. With support from the living and breathing surrounding nature and the silent comfort Monsieur Mouche offers, Élise is on the verge of experiencing a summer unlike any other.
Participants: Céline Bonnier, Laurent Lucas, Marianne Fortier, Élie Dupuis, Hugo St-Onge-Paquin, Gabriel Arcand.

Sophie is a young Montréal actress starring at the Canadian pavilion during the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan. At home, her boyfriend Michel is involved with a group of radicals protesting the newly enacted War Measures Act. Oblivious to the news from her homeland, Sophie discovers that she is pregnant. When she inform Michel, his distraction and disinterest drives her to an affair. What follows is pure mayhem and confusion as Sophie’s life and everything around her devolves into a farce.
Participants: Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Gignac, Richard Fréchette, Alexis Martin, Éric Bernier, Marie Brassard, Patrice Godin, Jules Philip, Jean Charest, Tony Conté, & Normand Bissonnette.

Based on the events that occurred on December 6, 1989, at Montreal’s Polytechnique School, the movie tells us about that specific day through the eyes of two students, Valérie and Jean-François, whose lives have been changed forever, when a young man entered the school with one idea in mind: kill himself and take with him as many women as possible.
Participants: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse.
Note: DVD contains both French & English versions of the film, with French & English subtitling.

Nine thirty-something travelers, heading south on Highway 20, discuss love.
Participants: Patrice Robitaille, Jean-Philippe Pearson, Stéphane Breton, François Létourneau, Isabelle Blais, Julie Le Breton, Pierre-François Legendre, Tony Conte, Patrick Baby, & Benoît Gouin.

12-year-old Jessy has a tough childhood, but he doesn’t realize it. All the kids in his neighborhood have the same. In this underprivileged area of Montréal, reality hits hard. When his family life turns chaotic, he loses what’s left of his innocence. But even when pinned down to the mat, Jessy will find the strength to escape his destiny.
Participants: Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay, Julianne Côté, Maxime Dumontier, Jason Roy Léveillée, Stéphane Demers, Suzanne Lemoine, Jean-François Casabonne.

Simone, a beautiful university student in her sexual prime, engages in a torrid romance with a struggling musician. Her carefree world comes crashing down when she receives the news of her grandmother's shocking death. Now, struggling with profound new questions, she seeks clarity by comforting dying patients in their final days. But her altruistic act soon becomes an obsession, causing a rift with her increasingly frustrated lover.
Participants: Marie-Hélène Bellavance, Francis Ducharme, Danielle Ouimet, Marie Brassard.

Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas’s dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend’s girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh’s is the story of a survivor. It is a modern portrait of today’s teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused, idealistic yet jaded.
Participants: Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Claude Legault, Normand d'Amours.

Viviane is a professional photographer, Frederick, her brother and main source of inspiration, ran away after an extraordinary argument between them, and now she feels lost. This unresolved conflict prevents her from moving on. She then meets Guillaume, a young mechanic whose mysterious and brash attitude reminds her of Frederick. Viviane’s inspiration returns and she seizes this opportunity to start anew. She soon discovers that Guillaume is also hiding a secret past. A tragedy that destroyed his family plagues him with guilt and he copes by punishing himself with self-mutilation. Viviane is troubled but fascinated. Little by little, as she photographs him, Guillaume opens his heart to her. Somehow, they find their way to healing.
Participants: Maxime Dumontier, Suzanne Clement.