Liste des meilleurs films québécois - Best Quebec (French-canadian) movies
Voici certains des courts et longs métrages de l'histoire du Québec qui sont les plus incontournables, à mon humble avis. Cette liste est basée à la fois sur les critiques et sur le succès au box-office. À noter que ces œuvres du cinéma québécois sont classées en ordre chronologique (donc par année) et non en ordre d'appréciation. / Here are the greatest movies made in Québec, the French Nation of North America. This non-exhaustive list is based on various criterias and my own tastes.
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- DirectorMichel BraultGilles GroulxFootage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.
- DirectorClaude FournierStarsTélesphore Légaré
- DirectorLouis PortugaisStarsCharlotte BoisjoliUne évocation de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Saint-Denys Garneau, poète canadien-français, né à Montréal, en 1912, décédé à Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, près de Québec, en 1941. Visite des lieux où il a vécu.
- DirectorGilles Groulx
- DirectorMichel BraultMarcel CarrièreClaude FournierStarsEdouard CarpentierAl CostelloDominic DeNucciFollows the professional wrestling scene in Montreal and observes the before, during, and after portions of a major show and the spectators who are enthralled by it.
- DirectorHubert AquinStarsJacques Godbout-Documentary made by Hubert Aquin in 1962 about a 24-hour tour of the popular Saint-Henri district in Montreal (in the province of Quebec, Canada). We discover the simplicity of this uninhibited population, neither very rich nor absolutely poor, which has begun to decline as Saint-Henri is no longer the kingdom of the tanneries it once was. The film was inspired by the novel Bonheur d'occasion by Gabrielle Roy.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsClaude JutraJohanne HarelleVictor DésyA man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsLéopold TremblayAlexis TremblayAbel HarveyAt the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsCéline BernierNicole GeoffroyLouise PelletierA 16-year-old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Laurentians north of Montréal. She reminisces about their talks on life, death, love, and God.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsBarbara UlrichClaude GodboutManon BlainA young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGuy L'EcuyerPaul HébertSuzanne ValéryA worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsGilles MarsolaisGisèle TrépanierA look back at the small band of missionaries that founded the city of Montréal, Canada.
- DirectorGilles Groulx
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsAlexis TremblayMarie TremblayLéopold TremblayFour years after Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), the director 'Pierre Perrault' ask Alexis Tremblay if he agreed to travel with his wife Marie in the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsClaude GauthierGeneviève BujoldPaul GauthierA young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsLaurent TremblayAurele TremblayYvan TremblayThe life of the people living on the Ile-aux-Coudres, the way these men construct their own schooners, the hard work in coasting or on the high seas.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDenys ArcandJean-Paul BeaudryCarmen BertrandDirector Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
- DirectorClaude FournierStarsMonique MercureLouise TurcotMarcel SabourinTwo women neighbors, exasperated by the fact that their husbands do not pay much attention to them, have sexual adventures with several men, usually delivery men or repairers.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsDidier DufourMaurice ChaillotBenjamin SimardFilm-essai sur une question cruciale : la notion d'appartenance à un pays. Sentimentalisme attardé ou réalité psychologique profonde si l'on croit qu'elle trouve racine dans le coeur de l'homme? L'action ici se déroule dans le contexte d'une nation qui se cherche : les Canadiens français, et d'autres peuples sans pays : les Indiens du Québec, les Bretons de France. Et voilà la question fondamentale posée : quels sont les peuples « viables » dont la « maturité » leur permet de « se donner » l'autonomie et le territoire? Et quel est le milieu qu'un peuple puisse appeler « son pays »?
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsJacques GagnonLyne ChampagneJean DuceppeSet in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsIrène DoironMichel BlanchardBernard GauvinLong métrage documentaire tourné dans les coulisses de l'action à l'Université de Moncton (Nouveau-Brunswick), théâtre du réveil acadien de la fin des années 1960. Dans une province où 40 pour cent des gens s'expriment en français, le film témoigne de la détermination des étudiants, qui s'étendra à une majorité d'Acadiens, après des siècles de défaitisme et de résignation.
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsGuy L'EcuyerMarcel SabourinPierre DufresneA young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsMicheline LanctôtDonald PilonReynald BouchardA woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks and the government, in which she will be somehow involved. Meanwhile, practising her theories, she makes some old men very happy and, by chance even passes as a saint!
- DirectorJacques GodboutStarsLouise ForestierAndré DuboisSerge GrenierA first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsGeneviève BujoldRichard JordanMarcel CuvelierQuebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine's violent death.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsHélène LoiselleJean LapointeGuy ProvostA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
- DirectorRichard MartinStarsJean DuceppeDenise FiliatraultYvon DufourThe psychological tensions which are driving four bourgeois couples apart are blithely ignored, as they attempt to party through them, all the while discussing politics, flirting, and drinking heavily.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsDaniel LalancetteChristiane LalancetteMonique LalancetteLong métrage documentaire sur l'Abitibi agricole. Ce film est un véritable plaidoyer pour la terre et pour un genre de vie plus humain en face d'une société devenue froide et insensible.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeJean Pierre BergeronSophie ClémentIn a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
- DirectorPierre Perrault
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsHauris LalancetteMonique LalancetteLong métrage documentaire sur Hauris Lalancette, un Québécois originaire de l'Abitibi, qui voyage et établit des parallèles surprenants entre deux coins de pays que l'on considère comme démunis et laissés pour compte. Il est aussi question de la recherche des ancêtres et de la nostalgie des vieux métiers qui valaient mieux, aussi bien sur le plan humain que sur le plan technique.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsMarcel SabourinMonique MercureMarthe ThierryThe wife of photographer J. A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsJulie VincentGermain HoudePaul SavoieA director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsCharlotte LaurierMarie TifoGermain HoudeA woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsAnne-Marie AndréAdéline AshiniDominique AshiniRécit des chasses anciennes sur des images du temps présent, ce long métrage documentaire se révèle davantage comme une interrogation qu'une narration. À qui appartient donc ce territoire de Mouchouânipi où vit un peuple d'Amérindiens nomades dont les gestes rituels renouvellent journellement le poème séculaire d'harmonie, de respect et de solidarité les liant au pays de la terre sans arbre?
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsHauris LalancetteMonique LalancetteDaniel LalancetteAprès 'Un royaume vous attend' et 'Le retour à la terre', le cinéaste Pierre Perrault conclut, avec ce long métrage documentaire, son plaidoyer en faveur de la région de l'Abitibi. Le film donne la parole à Hauris Lalancette, agriculteur, personnage haut en couleur, qui se bat depuis près d'un demi-siècle pour sauver son royaume abitibien.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGabriel ArcandRémi LaurentPierre CurziThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsLouis-Philippe LécuyerPhilippe CrossStéphane-Albert BoulaisA documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJean-Pierre RonfardRaymond BarrePierre BrodeurMade shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsGuy L'EcuyerMichel CôtéPierre GiardA friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
- DirectorAndré MelançonStarsCédric JourdeMarie-Pierre A. D'AmourJulien ElieDuring Christmas holidays, the children of a small village split themselves into two groups and begin preparing a week-long snowball war. The rivalry opens up tension among group members, especially leaders Luc and Sophie.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsSerge DupireMonique SpazianiJean CarmetFlorent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
- DirectorPierre FalardeauJulien PoulinStarsJulien PoulinDenise MercierMarie-Claude DufourA Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsMarie TifoPierre CurziJacques GodinA government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsGilles MaheuRoger LebelCorrado MastropasquaMarcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess...
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
- DirectorRobert MénardStarsMichel CôtéLouise MarleauGeneviève RiouxThe same actor plays four kinds of male animals prowling four kinds of Montreal nightclubs.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsCharlotte LaurierBenoît DagenaisJulien PoulinAt a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsRoy DupuisJacques GodinJean-François PichetteIt's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead character to make those around him understand the reason for his crime.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsGildor RoyJean-Guy BouchardBrigitte PaquetteThe last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
- DirectorRoger CantinStarsMarc LabrècheJessica BarkerMaxime CollinFleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the village discover a door thru time and space in an old haunted house and decide to rescue Olivier from Captain Monbars' pirates.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsFrançois CluzetSarah-Jeanne SalvyFrance CastelOn the eve of her 18th birthday, Lea is dumped by her boxer boyfriend Reo. She turns to her mother, Lizette (France Castel), for comfort, only to discover that mom has run off with her sweetheart. Untouched by the family scandal, at least at first, is Lea's vastly overweight sister.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsHugo DubéLuc PicardPierre RivardA dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsDonald MorinGuy NadonNathalie CoupalA reporter struggles to cover a Native American group's battle with the government for independence in a remote area of Canada.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsRobert MorinIn his livingroom, Earl Tremblay shows us the movie of his life. The main character is bilingual and schizophrenic. He becomes a car salesman, and a host in a stripper club before he goes into politics.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsLothaire BluteauPatrick GoyetteJean-Louis MilletteThe year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1994, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) has returned to Québec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc (Patrick Goyette), who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Québec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsPascale BussièresRobert BrouilletteJames HyndmanIt's summer and it's hot in Montreal, and we meet many people: Rita, the nice homeless girl, who moves to Roxan's house; Henriette, who falls in love with her neighbour, Lloyd, the sexual-obsessed radio host, and a young couple, Marc and Loulou, whose relationship is in danger because of Loulou's affair with Lloyd, and many more, as the summer becomes hotter and hotter...
- DirectorLouis SaiaStarsMarc MessierRémy GirardPatrick HuardEver wanted to know what guys say when they get together? This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team. Every male stereotype is analyzed, comically of course.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsJacqueline BousquetMarcel ChouinardManuel FreitasA botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsCarlo CecchiJean-Luc BideauChristoph KonczA red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsPascale BussièresAlexis MartinSerge ThériaultAfter surviving a car wreck virtually unscathed, a young model compels her best friend to impregnate her at the salt flats in Utah.
- DirectorFrançois BouvierStarsJoël Dalpé-DrapeauDenis BouchardPatrick ThomasAn adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried skating and ice hockey for the first time in his life, but was most fascinated with his local national league team, the Montréal Canadiens, and its star player, Henri Richard. He dreamed of growing up and working for the Canadiens franchise. But a more immediate goal was to get tickets to one of their games, using M. Richard and his banker father, Hervé, as possible conduits to that goal. He also remembers his school life from that year, with the arrival of pot smoking free thinking hippie Ron Richardson as the new English teacher, and dreading home room with strict Mlle. Chouinard, who he eventually learned too had a human side. But he learned that there may be a couple of things more important than hockey: family, and the opposite sex.
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsGabriel ArcandSylvie MoreauHélène LoiselleA mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsKarine VanassePascale BussièresPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicIn the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsPaul AhmaraniStéphane DemersGeneviève NéronChristophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision. Christophe sells his car, while Stéphane receives more funding for the film, and can hire a sound man. However, the crew following Christophe with a camera is a hinderance in his job-hunting. After spending the night with Christophe, his girlfriend Odile, an artist working as a supermarket cashier, takes over the camera and films the roommates as they get up. Finally Christophe finds a few days work dismantling machines for a company that is moving to Mexico, but his cameraman causes problems after interviewing the president of the company in the washroom.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMarie-Josée CrozeJean-Nicolas VerreaultStephanie MorgensternAfter plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsTilda SwintonTom McCamusSean McCannA man lives in parallel worlds, falling in love with the same woman, while the police hunt down a serial killer who steals brains.
- DirectorDenis ChouinardStarsZinedine SoualemHiam AbbassRabah Aït OuyahiaNewly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the Canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsLuc PicardSylvie DrapeauFrédéric GillesFrench Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsÉlise GuilbaultLuc PicardMichel ForgetÀ la veille de ses derniers instants, une femme se remémore son passé d'alcoolique. Elle revoit toute sa jeunesse dont une cuite qui, à 46 ans, lui a coûté tout ce qu'elle avait. «La solitude, le vieillissement sont des thèmes qui s'imposent à moi, sous une forme ou l'autre. Quant à l'alcoolisme, il me fascine à cause de la révolte qu'il sous-tend, et me révolte par le malheur qu'il crée autour de lui.» (Bernard Émond).
- DirectorAndré TurpinStarsDavid La HayeIsabelle BlaisEmmanuel BilodeauAn emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsIannicko N'Doua-LégaréRobin AubertEmmanuel BilodeauIn the middle of the night, in the Quebec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsPierre LebeauKarine VanasseRoy DupuisA young woman is forced to marry an old greedy man to save her father from bankruptcy although she has promised her heart to another man.
- DirectorRicardo TrogiStarsPatrice RobitailleJean-Phillipe PearsonStéphane BretonQuébec-Montréal: 250 km of asphalt, nine thirty-something travelers, four cars, one destination. The journey becomes an opportunity to share points of view about life and discuss troubling questions about existence. Highway 20 forms the backdrops for the sometimes hilarious, sometimes complicated situations between three south-bound friends who discuss ideal love, the quest of romance between two ambiguous office colleagues, the appearance of passion from a pictures perfect couple versus the daily-grind suffered by another young couple and their pending break up. The two hours in transit along the winding thoroughfare of love set a collision course of grating simultaneous reality-checks and deep reflections about where life has taken you and the roads that it will take you on in the future.
- DirectorDan BigrasStarsDan BigrasDavid LoiseauGeorge ManoliDocumentaire sur des hommes qui pratiquent des combats extrêmes pour canaliser la rage qui les habite. L'un d'eux, le chanteur Dan Bigras, s'est fait cinéaste pour nous parler de ses chums. Pour eux, le ring agit comme la métaphore d'un combat intérieur.
- DirectorJean-François PouliotStarsDavid BoutinLucie LaurierRaymond BouchardA much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
- DirectorManon BriandStarsPascale BussièresJulie GayetJean-Nicolas VerreaultA seismologist investigates the mysterious cessation of the tides near her Quebec home town.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsLuc PicardDiane LavalléeZhenhu HanThis 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.
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsSerge ThériaultGilles RenaudSébastien DelormeThe owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsRobert LepageAnne-Marie CadieuxMarco PoulinAfter the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRémy GirardDorothée BerrymanStéphane RousseauDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- DirectorFrancis LeclercStarsRoy DupuisGuy ThauvetteRosa ZacharieDisturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
- DirectorGhyslaine CôtéStarsJacinthe LaguëJulie DeslauriersIngrid FalaiseIn Montreal, childhood friends gather at a lakeside cottage. After inviting a stranger to their party, one girl is raped and murdered. Fifteen years later, the traumatized survivors reunite, uncovering wounds from their harrowing loss.
- DirectorHugo LatulippeFrançois PrévostStarsThe Dalai LamaKalsang DolmaA Tibetan-Canadian returns to her homeland to smuggle a secret message from the Dalai Lama and to document the occupation and cultural genocide of Tibet by China.
- DirectorDenise FiliatraultStarsPascale BussièresMichel BarretteSerge Postigo1952, Québec - Alys Robi, vocalist at the top of her popularity and recognized worldwide, was interned in spite of herself, by her father. Medical authorities prescribe her the only cure for a possible cure: the lobotomy. Under the bright lights of the operating room, Alys sees her 28-year life flash before her eyes. At age 13 she left alone to conquer the big city, Montreal, under the name Alys Robi. She first worked at the National Theatre with "La Poune" who takes her under her wing and then joined the cast of John Grimaldi. She met Olivier Guimond, her first love. Ambitious, she leaves to live a professional and romantic relationship with Lucio Asgotini who will eventually break her heart. Alys Robi charm a whole generation with her Latin rhythms such as "Tico Tico" and "Besame Mucho". She has conquered the world and Hollywood where MGM's desire and the American press call her a "Goddess". Alys Robi embodies the American dream, a story of triumph, glory, love, but also a story that hides a terrible truth that will change everything.
- DirectorLuc PicardStarsLuc PicardSuzanne ClémentDenis BernardForty-year old Louis is a loud-mouthed repo-man who has nurtured a lifelong dream of becoming a successful actor. Fortunately for Louis his cousin is a casting agent, and he soon learns that local producers are seeking to fill the role of a father videotaping a final message for his two year-old son. Lately the strain of his job has been wearing not only on Louis, but his frustrated girlfriend Suzie as well. When Suzie discovers that she is pregnant, she immediately begins pondering the prospect of leaving Louis to raise the pair's child in a more stable environment.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsRoy DupuisStephen McHattieJulie LeBretonA story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
- DirectorRicardo TrogiStarsPatrice RobitaillePierre-François LegendreJean-Phillipe PearsonFor three men in their early thirties, the time has come to make a choice: Are they ready to have babies or not? Sébastien has one; Paul soon have one; Fred has none and doesn't want any. How do you react when friendships change, when your world shrinks to include only your new family, or when you get the feeling that your youth is definitely over?
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéMarc-André GrondinDanielle ProulxA young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsÉlise GuilbaultPatrick DroletMarie-Josée BastienThe faith of a caring physician and an unquestioningly religious youth is shaken to the core when the pair is inexplicably brought together.
- DirectorRobin AubertStarsFrançois ChénierGuy VaillancourtFrance LabontéA reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsOlivier GourmetPaul AhmaraniJean-Pierre CasselAn eccentric Belgian inventor travels to Québec to search for his family, which uncovers a secret history between two seemingly unrelated people.
- DirectorErik CanuelStarsMichel BeaudryPatrice BélangerPierre BoudreauTwo Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario-Quebec border.
- DirectorRobert FavreauStarsLuc PicardFatou N'DiayeCéline BonnierIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.