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Fuck That
Lawrence Côté-Collins
The director and her father discuss life while children play in the rain.
Les guerriers
Micheline Lanctôt
Deux publicitaires s’enferment dans leurs bureaux pendant neuf jours afin de trouver un slogan pour les Forces Armées canadiennes. Au cours de ce huis clos, ils s’affronteront sur tous les terrains, jusqu’à l’issue fatale.
Geisha Québec
Lawrence Côté-Collins
A woman and her brother share a shared apartment and share a love for Asia. She has become a geisha, and he loves ninjas.
Score
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question: “How much is too much?”
Un exemple de succès
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Portrait of Daniel Campeau, a professional actor who chose urban exodus to earn a living like a winner.
Écartée
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Anick, a documentary filmmaker trying to make a documentary on social reintegration, moves into the isolated house that Scott, an ex-convict in his fifties, shares with Jessie, his young companion. But very quickly, the objectivity of the documentarian gives way to the subjectivity of her desires, and Anick falls in love with Jessie, risking everything.
Le jardin oublié – La vie et l’oeuvre d’Alice Guy-Blaché
Marquise Lepage
This feature documentary is a portrait of Alice Guy-Blaché, one of cinema’s most fearless pioneers. A filmmaker before the word even existed, Guy-Blaché made her first film at the end of the last century, when cinema was still brand-new. After directing, producing and writing more than 700 films, she slipped into oblivion. This film rescues her brave and shining memory.
Nous sommes le Freak Show
Marie-Hélène Viens
A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged.
Bernard Le Grand
Marie-Hélène Viens
Today Bernard proudly wears his anti-growing suit, ready to face the adult world. Today is Bernard’s birthday. But there is no way he will turn 10.
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.
Sonatine
Micheline Lanctôt
Deux adolescentes, en mal d’amour, ne voient plus de raison de vivre dans un monde d’adultes anesthésié, indifférent, aveugle à leur détresse. Le film est composé comme une partition musicale en trois mouvements et joue davantage sur l’atmosphère et l’émotion que sur le discours et l’action. «À aucun moment, je n’ai souhaité qu’on puisse s’identifier aux deux personnages. Que les spectateurs restent spectateurs et rien de plus !» (Micheline Lanctôt)
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.