Soundtrack: Robert Marcel Lepage

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Plot After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by...

Direction Rachel Leah Jones · Philippe Bellaiche

Plot A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years. Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent...

Direction Benjamin Renner · Patrick Imbert

Plot A three-tale story which take place on a little farm. The tales involve a clumsy fox which is always beaten by his prey, a hen: a stork forcing to deliver...

Direction Benoît Pilon

Cast Paul-André Brasseur · Natar Ungalaaq · Èveline Gélinas · Antoine Bertrand

Plot Set in the 1950s, The Necessities of Life recalls a time when tuberculosis was still an epidemic and a serious problem for many underserved communities. As the disease spread, many...

Direction Renny Bartlett

Cast David Morrissey · Nikolai Steinberg · Alexander Yuvchenko · Boris Stolyarchuk

Plot At precisely 01:23:48 on a spring morning of April 26th 1986, the world changed forever. In Pripyat, Ukraine in the Soviet Union the largest nuclear reactor of its kind exploded...

Direction Claude Cloutier

Direction Patrick Bouchard

Plot A visually arresting stop-motion rendering of the cycles of life, the power of man and beast, and the beauty and horror of labour.

Direction Jean-François Lévesque

Plot A subtle exploration of the quest for self-knowledge. A priest haunted by his own demons and whose life takes a dramatic turn after an encounter with a rooster.

Direction Priit Pärn · Olga Pärn

Plot Three pilots with plane trouble are making an arduous journey home through the desert, struggling to keep their yearnings in check. Exhaustion and fantasy intermingle, as they resist delusion and...

Direction Michèle Lemieux

Plot Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being. He ponders the world in which he lives—from the evolution of life and...

Direction Luc Vinciguerra

Direction Martin Laroche

Cast Christine Beaulieu · Alexandre Landry · Micheline Lanctôt · Catherine Proulx-Lemay

Plot Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, Le Rire presents a humane exploration of the survivor's syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of...

Direction Bernard Émond

Cast Elise Guilbault · Patrick Drolet · Denise Gagnon · Marie-Josée Bastien

Direction Jean Beaudry

Cast Pierre Curzi · Félix-Antoine Leroux · Louise Richer · Jocelyn Bérubé

Plot The film stars Pierre Curzi as Pierre, a night watchman at a college who indulges his passion for amateur astronomy on the building's roof; one night his routine is disturbed...

Direction François Bouvier

Cast Gilbert Sicotte · Marie Tifo · Marc Messier · Louise Deslières

Direction Pedro Pires

Cast Jamieson Boulanger · Bill Croft · Vincent D'Arbouze

Plot Hope explores the fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream...

Direction Samer Najari · Dominique Chila

Cast Ramzi Choukair · Fanny Mallette · Julie McClemens · Yasmine Antabli

Plot Ali returns to Arwad in Syria after the death of his mother. One night, Ali mysteriously drowns at sea. Both his wife and mistress struggle: accident or suicide? Ali’s identity...

Direction Jacques Godbout

Plot The unbelievable story of Ernest Dufault. A French Canadian who became a well known American novelist and THE cowboy under the name of Will James.

Direction Patricio Henriquez

Direction Catherine Martin

Cast Marie-Ève Bertrand · Guylaine Tramblay · Hélène Loiselle · Mirianne Brulé

Plot A 19th century ghost story set in French Canada. When Yvonne's young romance is thwarted by her sister, she heads to the woods in search of a supernatural solution.