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Le dep
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
Le Dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman who works at her father’s convenience store in a small First Nations community in rural Quebec. One night, as she prepares to close up shop, a masked robber enters the store and holds her at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more troubling when Lydia recognizes her assailant. Before long, she will have to make a decision that will forever change the course of her life.
La cuisine rouge
Paule Baillargeon
Frédérique Collin
«Les personnages féminins qu’il y a dans La Cuisine rouge sont à la fois des mères, des prostituées, des folles et des actrices. Mais en même temps, et à leur insu, elles sont des êtres nouveaux anarchistes, portant en elles les germes de la révolution.» (Paule Baillargeon)
Le sexe des étoiles
Paule Baillargeon
Camille is 12 years old and has a fondness for the stars that she looks at each night through her telescope. She lives with her mother, but constantly dreams of Pierre, the father she adores who lives in New York. There he is, appearing suddenly one night as Marie-Pierre. Despite this transformation, Camille decides to follow her transsexual father so that she may live with him. With the energy of despair, she decides to try convince him to become a man again, but the strange being who accedes to her wishes is no longer the father she once knew. (ONF website)
Les êtres chers
Anne Émond
The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy. Husband to Aline and father to five children, Guy is found dead in the basement of the family home. For many years, the real cause of his death is hidden from certain members of the family, his son David among them. In turn, David starts his own family with his wife Marie. He lovingly raises his children, Laurence and Frédéric, but deep down he still carries with him a kind of unhappiness.
Radius
Caroline Labrèche
Liam (Diego Klattenhoff) wakes up at the bottom of a ditch after a car accident. Suffering from amnesia, he realizes that anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly. Hiding at home, he is visited by Jane (Charlotte Sullivan), who—also suffering from amnesia and a survivor of the same accident—does not die in his presence. Together, they will try to figure out what happened to them.
Suzie
Micheline Lanctôt
Suzie, 58 ans, a perdu sa fille il y a plus de vingt ans lorsque celle-ci a été enlevée par son père marocain. Depuis, elle vit en recluse et travaille comme chauffeur de taxi la nuit. Un soir d’Halloween, une jeune femme abandonne un enfant de dix ans dans son taxi, avec une adresse et un billet de cinquante dollars.
L’homme à tout faire
Micheline Lanctôt
Le film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l’histoire d’un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d’un autre âge sont à l’origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout particulièrement lorsqu’il s’amourache d’une belle bourgeoise dont il est l’homme à tout faire.
La vie d’un héros
Micheline Lanctôt
The Second World War has just ended. There are still prisoners of war captured by the Allies in Canada. In the Eastern Townships, Agathe and Bertin Chevalier, who need help on the farm, call on the services of a German prisoner from the nearby military base. This is how Hanibal Walburg enters their lives. Initially wary, the Chevalier family is seduced by the newcomer. He becomes particularly close to Agathe, who has been somewhat neglected since her husband entered politics. A troubled relationship develops between Agathe and Hanibal, who soon returns to Europe. Over time, the young German transforms into a true legend in the eyes of the family. Agathe continues to write to him and even visits him ten years after his departure. Then silence falls until, nearly half a century after the war, Hanibal returns to Canada. The reunion ends in a confrontation that seriously shakes the myth.
Sashinka
Kristina Wagenbauer
Sasha’s mother arrives on her doorstep like a hurricane without warning. The young musician is unable to hide her trepidation as her mother asks to sleep on her couch. As Sasha prepares for the most important concert of her career, the pitiful reasons for her mother’s visit come to light. Sasha must find a way to survive the remaining 24 hours before her big show, confronting both the volatile woman and the past that Sasha had worked so hard to leave behind her.
Ma voisine danse le ska
Nathalie Saint-Pierre
Summer in Montreal. A two-minute encounter on a street corner between Auguste, an eccentric photographer, and Isabel, his reluctant subject. Six months pass. In the grim Montreal winter, Auguste struggles to recover from the death of his wife and daughter in a car accident the previous summer. Isabel, on the other hand, lives alone with her daughter Leica and desperately searches for a soul mate. When Isabel and Auguste find themselves living next door to each other, they are both at the end of their rope. An unusual relationship begins, fueled by the fact that Leica constantly reminds Auguste of his missing daughter.
Venus
Eisha Marjara
Genders, generations and cultures collide in this comedy about the modern family unit. A South Asian transgender woman sees her life flipped on its head when she meets a “white” teenaged son she didn’t know she had. Montrealer filmmaker Eisha Marjara gives a fresh take in her directing style, delivering a resounding plea for casting off gender stereotypes. When fourteen-year-old Ralph tracks down his biological father, he gets more than he bargained for. Sid (Debargo Sanyal), of Indian heritage, is now a woman. Ralph’s reaction? “Cool!” The kid takes to hanging out at Sid’s apartment through the summer. It’s a learning experience for both of them. Sid, who has only recently come out, is transitioning and she has enough on her plate with her own parents (Zena Daruwalla and Gordon Warnecke), and her on-again, off-again boyfriend. Meanwhile Ralph hasn’t plucked up the courage to tell his mother and stepdad what he’s been up to, or more to the point, with whom…
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait ici?
Julie Hivon
Yan, Simon, Roxanne, Maxime et sa sœur Lily, des amis de longue date, sont au début de la vingtaine. L’âge où tous les espoirs sont permis. Et voilà qu’un bel après-midi d’été, Yan est victime d’un fatal accident de voiture. Le jeune homme meurt sur le coup. Le reste de la bande est sens dessus dessous. Quatre amis ballottés de tous côtés, à la recherche de nouveaux repères, d’un sens profond à donner à leur existence. Tous les quatre… ensemble…
Ma vie en cinémascope
Denise Filiatrault
Alys Robi, chanteuse au sommet de sa popularité et reconnue mondialement, est internée, malgré elle, par son père. Les autorités médicales lui prescrivent le seul remède pour une guérison possible: la lobotomie. Sous les lumières aveuglantes de la salle d’opération, Alys voit ses 28 ans de vie défiler sous ses yeux.
Cosmos
Jennifer Alleyn
Manon Briand
Marie-Julie Dallaire
A film about the absurdities of everyday life, Cosmos is not so much six short films as it is one film with multiple storylines which interlace seamlessly. The styles, interests and rhythms of the six filmmakers blend together, producing a cohesive whole that is often comic, often tragic – and, at times, both. Cosmos, an immigrant Greek cab driver, leads us through storylines as intricate as big city traffic. Cosmos is a sketch film directed by six young new talents of Quebec cinema (Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve).
2 secondes
Manon Briand
A professional downhill bicycle racer, Laurie, loses her place on her team when she is overcome by a mysterious competitive weariness. She recycles herself as a courier in Montreal. In the course of the routine mechanical failures associated with her work, Laurie meets and eventually wins over Lorenzo, the owner of a bike shop, an Italian ex-racer. His recollection of the good old days of continental road racing, complete with flashbacks to his 60s era peloton, will reawakens Laurie’s racing spirit.
Les amoureuses
Johanne Prégent
Deux femmes, une amitié. Deux histoires d’amour parallèles. Marianne vit une aventure passionnée avec Nino tandis que les amours de Léa et de David s’effritent. Pendant qu’un couple se fait, l’autre se défait. Le choix des deux amies demeure pourtant le même : celui de rompre avec le passé et de plonger dans l’inconnu.
Trois temps après la mort d’Anna
Catherine Martin
Après la mort tragique de sa fille, une femme se réfugie dans la maison de ses ancêtres maternels en Kamouraska. Anéantie de douleur, elle ne veut plus vivre. Elle est sauvée in extremis par un homme. Sa présence bienveillante et la beauté de la nature environnante l’aident à retrouver le désir de vivre.
Le sourd dans la ville
Mireille Dansereau
L’Hôtel des Voyageurs est ce petit établissement hôtelier situé au centre de la ville, à proximité d,une gare où l’on vient se réfugier, se débaucher et oublier. La patronne de l’hôtel se nomme Gloria. Maternelle et sensuelle sous des dehors parfois brusques et grossiers, Gloria s’occupe de ses clients comme de ses propres enfants. Un film singulier qui prend à bras le corps l’univers sombre de la romancière Marie-Claire Blais.
Family Motel
Helene Klodawsky
A Somali refugee and her teenage daughters, confront the unexpected when they are evicted from their apartment for arrears in rent. The film follows their subsequent move to a beaten down motel for the homeless on the “other side” of town.
Mourir à tue-tête
Anne Claire Poirier
Mourir à tue-tête s’attaque à un sujet que les mentalités collectives s’acharnent à considérer comme tabou : le viol de la femme, de l’individuel (le cas de Suzanne) au rituel (la clitoridectomie), en passant par celui de masse (les Vietnamiennes). Le film va cependant plus loin en forçant le spectateur à se poser les questions fondamentales. Pourquoi le viol existe-t-il? Est-ce le sort naturel des femmes d’être violées? Qu’est-ce que le viol abîme chez la femme? Et où se situe la justice des hommes?
De mère en fille
Anne Claire Poirier
La femme peut-elle se réaliser entièrement tout en acceptant le plus difficile partage qu’implique la maternité? Tourné durant une grossesse réelle, basé sur le journal que la réalisatrice Anne Claire Poirier a elle-même tenu pendant l’une de ses grossesses, ce documentaire montre le corps de la femme enceinte, révèle ses émotions et ses angoisses. Ce film est le premier long métrage au sujet de la femme au Québec, réalisé en 1967, à la veille de la grande prise de conscience féministe.
Montréal vu par… Six variation sur un thème
Léa Pool
The film is made up of six short stories by six Canadian directors around the theme of Montreal. The six directors take their personal look at this city rich in contrasts. Desperanto (Patricia Rozema) – Using sketchy French, a young Torontonian experiences nightlife in Montreal. The Canvas of Time (Jacques Leduc) – The story of a painting by Jacques Viger The Last Game (Michel Brault) – After 40 years of marriage, a woman tries to tell her husband, during a hockey game, of her intention to divorce. By the way (Atom Egoyan) – At the airport, a conference participant is blocked by a customs officer. Rispondetemi (Léa Pool) – Following an accident, while being taken to the hospital by ambulance, a woman remembers moments of her life. Vue d’ailleurs (Denys Arcand) – An elderly woman, during a reception, remembers the great love she experienced in Montreal.
Anne Trister
Léa Pool
Anne Trister is the chronicle of a young woman painter discovering herself, life and its ruptures. Shaken by the loss of her father buried in Israel, she leaves Switzerland and her past to settle in Montreal with a psychologist friend. To rebuild herself, she will experience an excessive painting project and an impossible relationship. Reality takes care of reframing Anne Trister in her love and artistic life.
La Femme de l’hôtel
Léa Pool
Called to shoot a film in her hometown, Montreal, a director finds inspiration in a mysterious woman, Estelle David, who wanders into a hotel. Inspired by this woman, the director finds a way to better define the role she is writing for the actress who will play this character in her film.