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- DirectorMichel BraultStarsGeneviève BujoldMarthe KellerJohanne McKayCatherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
- 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.
- DirectorPaul AlmondStarsGeneviève BujoldDonald SutherlandMonique LeyracA woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
- DirectorPeter PearsonStarsChris WigginsKate ReidMargot KidderA poor bush worker refuses to sacrifice his dignity to provide his family with a better life.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsMargot KidderAnnie PottsRobert CarradineA young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
- DirectorJean PellerinStarsChristopher PlummerMargot KidderSarah LassezSeven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
- DirectorClement VirgoStarsMartin VillafanaLynn WhitfieldRainbow Sun FrancksThis is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their lives and where they live as their individual "planets," and everyone else as "refugees." But there are problems in his world, where a talent for the piano has been reduced to playing Chopin on a piano that has had the strings cut by his mother out of frustration at his incessant practicing... the same mother who now requires him to be there to administer her insulin shots. Still, because he is a 'good boy', he plays on the soundless piano, and takes weekly lessons from a piano teacher so eccentric that she will only allow him to strum out the notes on her dining room table... until, like real planets when other bodies get too close, he finds himself pulled and moved in a different direction.
- DirectorFrédéric BackThe industrialization of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
- 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.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsMarie-Ginette GuayGilbert SicotteFanny MalletteThe lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest.
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauIda OslerRandy WoodsA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- 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.
- DirectorYves Christian FournierStarsMaxime DumontierChloé BourgeoisMaxime BessetteJosh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend's girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh's is the story of a survivor. It is a modern portrait of today's teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused, idealistic yet jaded.
- DirectorGiles WalkerStarsLes RubieMatt CravenKent GallieAn aged World War II veteran and a young street punk violently meet and discover more in common than anticipated.
- DirectorEunice MacaulayJohn WeldonStarsSandy SandersonJean MarchandA hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
- DirectorPaul LynchStarsDonnelly RhodesNancy Belle FullerPaul BradleyJim King is a struggling country singer whose life if falling apart. His partner left him to pursue a solo career, his son is out of control and his ex-wife hates his guts and can't wait to see him fail. Life on the road is no fairytale.
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsRichard CondieJay BrazeauA concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting any serious time done, even when his frustration with it literally driving him into a frenzy.
- DirectorMaxime GirouxStarsMartin DubreuilHadas YaronLuzer TwerskyIn Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsChristopher PlummerKim RobertsAmanda SmithWith the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
- DirectorMichel PouletteStarsRoseanne SupernaultIpeelie OotoovaUapshkuss ThernishA Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
- DirectorZacharias KunukNatar UngalaaqStarsBenjamin KunukKaren IvaluJonah QunaqInspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
- DirectorJohn WeldonStarsAnna McGarrigleKate McGarrigleA short illustrating a traditional Canadian folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility for her boyfriend, the log driver.
- DirectorPeter StebbingsStarsCara GeeShay EyreBarbara GordonThree generations of First Nations women struggle to deal with the demons of their past.
- DirectorDaniel GrouStarsClaude LegaultRobert NaylorEugénie BeaudryTommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
- DirectorYonah LewisCalvin ThomasStarsKacey RohlAmber AndersonMartin DonovanA popular undergrad faking cancer struggles to maintain her secret.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsLisa AitkenPat BiancoTiffany BlomA volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
- DirectorMiranda de PencierStarsJack AnawakFred BaileySeth BurkeIn a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
- DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyStarsAdam BlackwoodLuba GoyAnthony BekennCalgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.
- 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.
- DirectorMichael SnowStarsHollis FramptonLyne GrossmanNaoto NakazawaClaimed by some to be one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental, indeed.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorSophie DupuisStarsJoakim RobillardJean-François BoudreauGuillaume CyrMaxime is a miner with a troubled past. After an explosion at his mine, Maxime attempts to find redemption by saving his fellow miners.
- DirectorShasha NakhaiRich WilliamsonStarsLiam DiazMekiya FoxAnna Claire BeitelScarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
- DirectorLes RoseDocumentary about Black life in Nova Scotia.
- DirectorJacques GodboutStarsMarc LegaultDorothée BerrymanGilbert ChénierDecided to 'make the States' a hit-man from Montreal accept a contract in New York to kill a mafioso boss, Frank Anastasia. Naturally the Americans don't accept what that 'stranger', that frog have done and track him back. Despaired he contact a radio talk show to tell his story trying to find a way to save the life of his partner in the hand of those who contract him.
- DirectorClaire PrietoStarsMarva Jackson LordFive Black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada's Black people and the legacy of their community elders. Older Stronger Wiser is the first film in a Studio D series entitled Women at the Well
- DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyA sailor is sent hurtling into the sky by the Halifax Explosion.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonStarsColm FeoreRip TornWendel MeldrumWhen the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
- DirectorNorma BaileyStarsSusan HoganJanet WrightLora SchroederMarlene is the owner of a nostalgic cafe on the border of Canada and the USA. Filled with quirky and charming characters, life at the cafe is exciting, entertaining and sometimes chaotic.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsKenneth WelshTantoo CardinalSusan WooldridgeLily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
- DirectorRalph L. ThomasStarsNick MancusoSaul RubinekMeg FosterDavid is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
- DirectorTheodore J. FlickerStarsAlex KarrasStephen RosenbergGuy L'EcuyerA six year old boy has a dream in which he is in jail.
- DirectorWillie DunnA musical telling of the life of the Blackfoot Chief and the betrayal and fall of his tribe with the White conquest of the Canadian West.
- DirectorZale DalenStarsDavid PetersenJohn LazarusRudy SzaboA repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
- DirectorShayne EhmanSeth ScriverStarsMarc BellMike ConstableShayne EhmanThis hilarious, grotesque, and unique adult animated feature chronicles visual artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehmans trans-Canadian road trip as they encounter dull violence, rampant consumerism and unbridled eccentricity in small towns all over this wide, weird country.
- DirectorShelley NiroStarsFlorence BelmoreTantoo CardinalRon CookInvestigates the authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
- DirectorShasha NakhaiRich WilliamsonStarsLiam DiazMekiya FoxAnna Claire BeitelScarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
- DirectorJacques DorfmannPierre MagnyStarsLou Diamond PhillipsToshirô MifuneJennifer TillyIn Canada's North during the 1930s, a young Inuit kills a White trader and is pursued by the police but his father is determined to protect his fugitive son at any cost.
- DirectorEric TillStarsDonald SutherlandKate NelliganDavid GardnerBased on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, where he developed his overwhelming compassion for those less fortunate, and his driving desire to see that they get the medical attention they need. Most of his life after college was spent either working in war zones around Europe or developing new treatment techniques in his home country. He died in 1939 while working with the Chinese army, caring for both soldiers and civilians in their fight against Japan.
- DirectorJacqueline CastelStarsBobbi Salvör MenuezAmandla StenbergHeidi von PalleskeHeather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather's growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
- DirectorFrank VitaleStarsJohn SutherlandPeter BrawleyDave SutherlandA photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsBrian PainchaudDouglas JunorPatricia HamiltonThe coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.
- StarsBeau BridgesRoy DupuisCéline BonnierThe true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second in taking over the family. He helps to take care of the babies but soon turns them into a freak show. By the time the government finally gets involved, the babies are a multi-million-dollar industry. How can the desperate, uneducated parents regain their babies and bring their family back together?
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsThomas GibsonRuth MarshallCameron BancroftSet in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy's dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live.
- DirectorAnna Benson GylesStarsBrenda FrickerMiranda RichardsonMichael OntkeanRose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
- DirectorDonald BrittainStarsGeoffrey HogwoodFires are intentionally set in an abandoned Ontario town to learn what causes them.
- DirectorDouglas WilkinsonStarsJohn Drainie
- DirectorRéal BérardAndré LeducA musical celebration of the French Canadian heritage in the Canadian West.
- DirectorMartine ChartrandThis animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it "MacPherson" in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
- DirectorAndré LeducStarsYves RochonMona Sabbagh
- DirectorEvelyn Lambart
- StarsMichel TremblayAndré BrassardÈve GagnierThe influence of Michel Tremblay and André Brassard on Quebec Theater in the 1960's.
- DirectorRoger BlaisStarsMichael KaneMonique MillerJohn AmessThe story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- DirectorMike BinderStarsAlan ArkinMatt CravenDiane LaneSeven friends reunite for a week-long reunion at a summer camp in Ontario they used to attend as children which is now threatened with being closed down.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsRod TaylorValerie PerrineChristopher LeeIn a Canadian village, women are being killed by a psychopath. Chief Superintendent Rich and Superintendent McLane have no leads in the case until McLane shoots a suspect. From that moment on, the killing spree seems to have ended, but apparently the killer picks yet another victim.
- DirectorLaurie LyndStarsAnne AnglinBen CardinalPatricia CollinsHouse centers around Victor and his short takes on the walking wounded that illustrate man's inhumanity to himself.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsKate NelliganMaurice GodinMargot KidderFrom the post-modern satire of its opening sequence to its tragic-euphoric double ending, Patricia Rozema's second feature WHITE ROOM, a harrowing fairy tale, is as much about the consequences of naive romanticism as it in about our uniquely modern obsession with celebrity. In this "journey through genres", WHITE ROOM centres on would-be writer Norman (Maurice Godin), a directionless soul who, afflicted with writer's block, takes to wandering the suburban boulevards at night and peeping on his neighbours - especially one "Madeline X" (Margot Kidder) - a famous singer who is murdered one night as the horrified Norman watches, too stunned to intervene. Overcome with guilt, Norman attends her public memorial, where he meets an enigmatic woman (Kate Nelligan) with unexplained connections to Madelaine X. He follows her home to see her slip into a secret room every night. Set in the cultural landscape of bohemian Toronto at the dawn of the '90s, WHITE ROOM explores the incompatibility of the fragile openness needed to create art and the impossibly thick skin required to sell it.
- DirectorStefan ScainiStarsWendy CrewsonJoel KellerLeon PownallIt's the post WWI era Toronto. Despite Prohibition, Daniel Small continues to operate Corman Distilleries, while his son, Ambrose Small, has just sold his chain of theaters for $1 million. Daniel acquired Corman from the family of Ambrose's wife, Theresa Small. Theresa being wealthy from the liquor business is ironic due to her temperance stance. The sale of the theaters doesn't sit well with Ambrose's business manager, Jack Doughty, to who the theaters represented his livelihood. Immediately following the sale, Ambrose disappears without a trace. Initially, Theresa doesn't want the police involved since she believes he is just out carousing, while his business associates believe he has met with some foul play. Increasingly, the public, especially the anti-Catholic forces, believe devout Catholic Theresa had Protestant Ambrose murdered so that she could funnel his money into the Catholic church. Believing her husband still alive, Theresa hires the young Cole Willis to find Ambrose. Cole is a junior detective with the Tratt Detective Agency, which handles much of the security for the Small family businesses. Edgar Tratt originally hired Cole as a favor to his father and acts as Cole's mentor. As Cole enters into his investigation, he believes that some people know more than they let on about Ambrose's disappearance, whether it be Jack, who absconded with $100,000 of the Small's money, Jack's slatternly wife Vivian Doughty, or Theresa herself, the latter despite Cole's growing attraction to her.
- DirectorNorma BaileyDeepa MehtaDanièle J. SuissaStarsDamir AndreiGeneviève AppletonBrenda BazinetTwo women attending a Women's Seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emotional lives in intimate detail.
- DirectorJason EisenerStarsRutger HauerPasha EbrahimiRobb WellsA homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
- DirectorIsabelle RaynauldA team from the University of Montreal seeks to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsDavid HolmesAnna Marie HolmesTwo ballet dancers perform a dance in ghostly slow motion.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsMargaret MercierVincent WarrenTwo ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- DirectorRené JodoinNorman McLaren
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenThe various moods in music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn are translated into moving patterns of colour and light. This lively short is composed of images hand-scratched and hand-painted directly onto the film strip.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorClaude JutraNorman McLarenStarsClaude JutraAn ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
- DirectorNorman McLarenCut out animation set to the French-Canadian nonsense song 'Le merle' (The Blackbird)
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenStarsNorman McLarenA man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.
- DirectorCarol BeecherKevin D.A. KurytnikIn the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy.
- DirectorNorman McLarenThe film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsNorman McLarenNorman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsJean-Louis MorinSylvie KinalSylvain LafortuneA balletic interpretation of the Greek myth in which dancers enact the tragedy of the beautiful youth who condemns himself to a trapped existence through excessive self-love.
- DirectorNorman McLarenThe surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
- DirectorHelen BiggarNorman McLarenA mixture of puppets, diagrams, animation and live action presents an anti-war message.
- DirectorNorman McLarenDrawn in pastels, and scored with jazzy music, fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, launching five spheres in to space to create even more fantastical scenes.
- DirectorGrace LeeStarsSandra OhSuzy NakamuraMelinda PetersonA Korean-American researcher for a female condom study (Sandra Oh) loses all objectivity when she realizes that one of her subjects (Suzy Nakamura) is dating her ex and begins to pursue a friendship with the subject.
- DirectorJeremy LaLondeStarsJewel StaiteEnnis EsmerLauren Lee SmithWhen "town slut" turned sex columnist Cassie Cranston returns for her mother's funeral it spices things up in the small town of Beaver's Ridge when a group of eccentric town folk, each with their own motives, convince her to plan an orgy.
- DirectorJames ClavellStarsYôko TaniPaul RichardsTorin ThatcherA Japanese girl arrives in a Canadian coastal town to avenge her father's internment-camp death during the war.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGabriel ArcandRémi LaurentPierre CurziThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsLuce GuilbeaultAnne LauriaultSuzanne ValéryAn ironical look at the little tourist town of Percé and its natural rock formation. Three young women go through the place making fun of the summer people but also giving statistics and information on the history of Percé since the arrival of the Vikings as well as on the surrounding nature.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureWillie LamotheDaniel PilonA young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsCéline LomezClaude BlanchardFrédérique CollinA beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureRaymond CloutierReynald BouchardThe demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsDonald PilonMicheline LanctôtCarole LaureA pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.
- 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!
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureNick MancusoClaude RichA young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureLewis FureySerge ReggianiIn this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
- DirectorWeiye SuIn their 80s, Gale and Myrna Chow are elders in the Chinese community in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, which was once a central point in Chinese immigration to Canada and one of the largest Chinese communities in the prairies. They are now preparing for a major move to Regina to live with their son, Kyle. Documenting this moment in their lives, filmmaker Weiye Su offers an intimate portrait of Chinese-Canadian life on the prairies.