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- On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a fairytale for the family turned rapidly into a nightmare... and their story is the stuff of amazing television drama.
- A dinner party of three couples careens into uncharted territory when the hosts make a shocking proposal. Tensions mount as this evening among friends puts each marriage to the test.
- Two hours after breaking up with his girlfriend, Cedrik meets Karine in a nightclub. Man drinks, wants woman. Woman drinks, accepts man. After a night of passion, Cedrik is horrified to discover himself mysteriously switched inside Karine's body, while Karine inhabits his. Is it their chance to finally discover the secrets of the sexes? Is this body switch temporary?
- Laura leaves home to start a new life with her French-Canadian crush, leaving her little sis Kate to cover for her - and deal with her own feelings of abandonment. Both are thus initiated into an adult world where happiness comes at the cost of innocence. The First Day of My Life toys with taboos while maintaining a nostalgia for sisterhood.
- Set in Mexico City over the course of a single day, this film is based on the true story of an older man's decision to accept his homosexuality. Told without any dialogue, Vapor is a cinematic exploration of shame, catharsis, and ultimately, transcendence.
- Three stories unfold over the course of 9 months. Two couples live at extreme opposites of each other, yet they share one commonality: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a comfortable world where the arrival of a child should be a time that fills them with joy. Instead, it blows their bourgeois house of cards to the ground. Behind the facade of their ultra-chic condo and their high-flying careers, hides a couple that is in pain, two human beings living with secrets and lies that have, unfortunately, multiplied with time. Justine and Seb are freedom seekers that live day by day on the streets of Montreal. These two young squeegee-punks are hoping for better tomorrows, but in the meantime seem to be content with washing windshields and doing small-time deals. Justine's pregnancy destabilizes Seb, who has better things to do than to be a father. Their violent relationship makes getting an abortion the obvious choice. Yet somehow things never seem to work out as they should... Stephen Decker is a 50-something father who has lost everything, his wife, his only child, his peace of mind. Now he has found a new purpose for his life: revenge. This quest brings him from Calgary to Montreal as he desperately hunts down his daughter's murderer. What he finds is far from what he expected... Five destinies converge, not only in blood and suffering, but also in hope, love and rebirth.
- As he prepares for his encounter with a new flame, a young man queries about how he will present himself. Suddenly, he is surrounded by embodiments of his different personality facets.
- Suffering from a broken heart, a woman ventures to a fantastical village where the demise of love is celebrated. A fairy tale for those who have loved and lost.
- -In this an impressionistic film essay, a son shows his mother's fight against breast cancer, and their silently evolving relationship after a long estrangement.
- À la suite du décès de leur père, Pascale et Caroline se retrouvent sur la ferme familiale. Pendant l'été, la relation entre les deux soeurs sera difficile. Boris, le fils de Pascale, et son copain Pierre-Luc les rejoignent. Caroline, déjà heurtée par son aînée, sera au centre d'un imbroglio amoureux. Entre les sentiments d'amitié, d'amour et de trahison, elle devient moins naïve. Avec la lucidité, les voix de réalisation personnelle sont peut-être plus accessibles.
- To liberate his friend who's been taken hostage by a sorcerer who's after a large ransom, a young man decides to take control of a marijuana plantation, not knowing that it belongs to his dad and that the marijuana production goes to an artist's agent.
- Deals with the impending death of a young man's grandmother, and his emerging awareness of his own mortality upon meeting her when she was 20 years old.
- A female dancer bathes in a washbasin. Her movements reflect the contrasts between the freedom and clarity of the water and the spatial limits of the space.
- Through the eyes of Dawish the Clown, the viewer is given a fresh view, a new perspective on the cynical predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
- Helene is in love with a jerk. Jerome manipulates her like a puppet. Helene is not altogether blind to it but she's afraid to put her foot down. Tonight, in a chic downtown restaurant, things are about to change. Helene will get some unexpected support!
- A couple is trying to drown their daughter under a covered bridge. At the same time, a young farmgirl is trying to drag her cow across the bridge. But whoever you are, if you cross that bridge your life changes forever...
- During diner, a six year-old boy's curiosity puts his parents in an awkward position.
- Clara's overwhelming family can't understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt's sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but empowering, friendship.
- Embodying Venus, the Virgin Mary, and other classical beauties, a woman comes to life from within the paintings of the masters to exact revenge on her cheating lover.
- It is a Sunday afternoon in the universe. When a mysterious musical force causes scorching heat, tornadoes, and raging fires to devastate our planet, four very different people await the impending disaster at a local corner store.
- The Ecstasy Note is an absurd dark comedy that follows a frantic month in the life of a middle-aged nobody named Henford Phelps (Mark Camacho). In a moment of rage, Henford's wife unwittingly discovers within him a mysterious talent. As public demand for his "ecstasy note" grows out of control, Henford is drawn into the center of a rising maelstrom of addiction and chaos that threatens to tear apart his town and his life.
- While cleaning out his closet, a very old widower finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life and decides to carry them out.
- -Lucille and Berthe, a duo of septuagenarians, have been living in their low-cost home for thirty years. But now their new landlord is trying to evict them illegally. On Halloween, he hires an improvised gang of small-time thugs, "The Sweepers", who will storm the floor above them and systematically launch sound and psychological attacks to make them leave. But beware... These two seemingly distraught women receive unsuspected help from their guardian angel Geraldine, their deceased old friend, and a stuffed monkey named George. In this way, they will unexpectedly reverse the threat and celebrate Halloween as it should be.
- Art is dying, painters are beaten up and ballerinas are set on fire. But Frida doesn't care. She just wants to play her music. Troll Concerto is an apocalyptic fable about the power of music in finding one's destiny.
- Cul de sac is a story about a man who tries to end his life unsuccessfully. Unhappy father of a draining family he has no controls whatsoever over his life. Paul doesn't see any other way but to commit suicide. All the suicide attempts comically bump up against the demandes of each family membre. He also loses control of his own death. Wishing to free himself more firmly he locks himself into dépendance and lack of power.
- Les petits géants tells the story of five children in elementary school who will participate, with 105 other children, in an unusual project. They will develop, implement and create a musical inspired by the opera 'Un Ballo in Maschera' by Verdi, and play key roles in front of several auditoriums filled to the brim.
- Featuring Canadian poet Al Purdy's poem "At The Quinte Hotel" this piece tells the story of a man's experience at the bar.
- As the sun rises over a small town in Mexico, Simon is getting ready to go home to Montreal. But Reina can't let their story end like that.
- The strange noise from a butcher's knife excites the woman of his dreams to dance... Secret love, loneliness, and missed connections... in one dance...
- King Chicken walks into a language lab to learn English. He is love struck by a quirky and cute student. Will he be able to approach her?
- The "Internal Clock" tells the story of the unusual relation with time experienced by a religious watchmaker suffering from a condition causing him to age in appearance at half the rate of a so-called "normal" person. His exceptional destiny intrigues... Over time, a documentary however resolutely out of time.
- Following her death, an old woman returns to haunt her husband and encourages him to pass away.
- Two corpses come to life in a surreal house. The man and woman, once lovers, dance together for the last time, then lay back down to face eternity together.
- A 7 years old boy's game with his toys becomes a dangerous adventure as his miniature soldiers become life sized and turn on him. Only Morgana, his favorite figurine, rushes to his rescue in this action tale about love and the power of the imagination. Fata Morgana is a musical epic aventure about love and the power of the imagination.
- A man in his mid-40s is killed by a truck just after receiving a prescription against death from his doctor. He then regains consciousness in a video store, and with some further difficulties, receives a film of his life. Although full of factual inaccuracies, it is an enjoyable examination of his birth, youth, marriage, family and death. Unfortunately, his request for a sequel is denied, and as he advances down the corridor to God, technical difficulties are experienced.
- The story of a family quest that becomes a voyage between Europe and the Americas.
- Felix has planned the perfect evening to seduce his inaccessible true love, Roxanne. Everything, even his arm encased in a plaster cast, must contribute to the success of this ultimate rendezvous.
- 85 year old Simone is dying in her hospital bed, alone. When a mysterious transformation makes her young again, she gets up from her bed and starts to dance as a celebration of life. Is it a dream or her swan song?
- Henri quickly resumes his work as an accountant after having been found in a dark street without a ring finger. Thus starts the absurd story of a man who will need to let go of a limb in order to move on and live his life anew.
- Louis and Vincent are old friends. And there's nothing more stubborn than an old friend who's depressed. A simple 'how's it going?' sets off a dialectical duel, pitting the urgency for action against the quest for meaning, in a world which seems to be going nonchalantly downhill.
- The Last Act tells the romantic/trash/improvised love story between Simon and Sophie who, after an evening spent in a bar, are pushed into a taxi together by common friends who want to match them for the night.
- Donald works in a small town slaughterhouse. He is infatuated with Francine, an animal-loving young spinster who owns a pet shop. Will love be enough to overcome their differences and unite these two lonely souls?