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A modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.

A dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.

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.

Man resurrected after 2000 years recovers in hospital, rests in countryside. Producer offers to make him rock star which he accepts, becoming millionaire running businesses while promoting Canadian unity.

When his grown daughter returns to the family farm in desperate need of money, solitary and stoic Gaby will be asked to sacrifice everything for those closest to him. WINNER - Cannes Film Festival

A woman takes her former husband and his children by another woman into her home, and becomes attached to the children.

A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother's influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home?

While a maximum-security prison gears up for its annual party with performers and strippers, the event is overshadowed by disciplinary actions, family turmoil, and an inmate's meticulous planning for a high-stakes escape.

Travelling to the Arctic for the first time, Carmen arrives in Iqaluit to tend to her husband, Gilles, a construction worker who has been seriously injured. Trying to get to the bottom of what happened, she strikes up a friendship with Noah, Gilles' Inuk friend, and realizes they share a similar story. Together, Carmen and Noah head out on the Frobisher Bay - she, looking for answers to her questions; he, trying to stop his son from committing what can't be undone.

Sommes-nous en train de détruire la forêt boréale? Ce long métrage documentaire, réalisé par Richard Desjardins et Robert Monderie, dénonce l'exploitation erratique et abusive de la forêt boréale québécoise et questionne la responsabilité collective devant la destruction de cet environnement unique au monde.

Marcel Lévesque, a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last sixteen years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one thing on his mind: getting his beloved Detroit rides off the lot. Marcel Lévesque is a salesman from a bygone era, a man who learned his trade by telling tales - "fibs dressed up with flowers" - and making his customers happy. But a tragedy will change everything for this peddler of dreams.

A Quebecois Elvis impersonator, disillusioned by a Chinese man's participation in an Elvis contest, takes his wife on a vacation to the island of Santa Banana.

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.

A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.

C'est l'histoire d'un couple d'italiens qui, après s'être établi à Montréal, plonge dans le drame suite à un fâcheux accident. Librement adapté d'un fait divers survenu au début du 20e siècle, 'La sarrasine' s'inscrit dans la démarche de l'auteur de mettre en lumière l'immigration italienne au Québec et les conflits liés au choc de deux cultures.

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past. Vanessa discovers who her father really is.

A Montreal musician, Rémi, who robbed his marching band on tour in Charlottetown, gets away to the Magdalen Islands with his girlfriend and gets shelter to a friend who his mourning her husband in a coma. He dreams of going away to California, but a colleague, Martin, reaches him - And trouble lays ahead unless Rémi changes plans on the way, otherwise Martin can call the police and the marching band.

Francis is a comic book artist by day and a taxi driver at night. His comics are usually about the exploits of his nighttime job but when he is hit by a lack of inspiration, he decides to change it up and focus on his family. What he creates is called "The Fabulously Journey of the Angel", a science fiction story in which the hero, an intergalactic taxi driver, searches for his beloved daughter who has mysteriously disappeared. In real life, his daughter decides to take his drawings and make them a fabulous reality.

This is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.

After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his footsteps, Alice will in fact find herself, in a strange and hostile but warm place.

A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.