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- DirectorJean-Yves BigrasStarsYvonne LaflammeLucie MitchellPaul DesmarteauxA little girl witnesses the death of her mother--expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The conniving nurse then marries the child's father, thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother, who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe that his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
- DirectorMichel BraultGilles GroulxFootage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsMelos IvancevicRonald JonesConcerns an amateur boxing tournament and the three young working-class men who aspire to win it; how they train and their reasons for doing it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsBarbara UlrichClaude GodboutManon BlainA young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do 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.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsJulie LachapelleJacques CohenKaterine MousseauA sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried; her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their sister.
- DirectorDenis HérouxStarsDanielle OuimetGuy GodinAndrée FlamandA seminal Quebec erotic film about a curious girl who leaves her convent to explore the Montréal hippy scene, becomes a prostitute and meets her true love who doesn't know she's a hooker, that started erotic film genre in Canada.
- DirectorDenis HérouxStarsGilles ChartrandFrance DionneDaniel GadouasA young Montreal woman has an affair with a famous French author, and the experience helps to teach her a number of things about life and love.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMichèle MagnyMarcel SabourinA film poem in which a married couple engage in conversation about love, death, and life while the scenery changes around them.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsPierre HarelPaule BaillargeonDolorès MonfetteA chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
- 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.
- DirectorBernard GosselinStarsCatherine LeducFrançois GosselinMarcel SabourinThe film tells the story of an alien from outer space who befriends two young children when he lands in a small town in Quebec.
- 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.
- 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!
- DirectorJean-Claude LabrecqueStarsDonald PilonDaniel PilonLouise LaparéA family refuses to leave their native village after being ordered to by the government and are pursued by the authorities as a result of an accidental shooting.
- 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 CarleStarsCarole LaureWillie LamotheDaniel PilonA young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
- 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.
- DirectorJean-Claude LordStarsRéjean GuénetteAnne-Marie ProvencherClaude MichaudA young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
- 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.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsCéline LomezClaude BlanchardFrédérique CollinA beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsPierre DufresneJerry FieldenRoger GarandCette comédie acerbe et surréaliste sur le mariage et la vie de couple s'avère aujourd'hui l'une des fictions les mieux réussies sur le sujet. Elle est pourtant très mal reçue, autant par la critique que par le public. À présent, la dimension ironique et l'audace de la structure narrative (un couple, une journée, une vie, une époque) ressortent davantage.
- 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.
- DirectorJean-Guy NoëlStarsMicheline LanctôtSuzanne GarceauClaude MaherA 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.
- DirectorJean-Claude LordStarsJacques BoulangerBenoît GirardClaude MichaudA television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeJean Pierre BergeronSophie ClémentIn a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
- 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.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsGilles GroulxJean-Marc PiotteClaude BeauchampPamphlet cinématographique réalisé par Gilles Groulx à un moment de fièvre populaire exceptionnelle au Québec, quelques mois après le front commun des trois syndicats québécois les plus importants (CSN, FTQ, CEQ) face au gouvernement québécois. OEuvre personnelle et militante d'un cinéaste québécois engagé, sa philosophie s'oppose à la « société de consommation » perçue comme la suprême incarnation du mal.
- 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.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsJocelyn BérubéAndrée PelletierJanette BertrandLe film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l'histoire d'un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d'un autre âge sont à l'origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout particulièrement lorsqu'il s'amourache d'une belle bourgeoise dont il est l'homme à tout faire.
- 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.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsMarie TifoJean-Marie LemieuxPierre CurziA city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMarthe NadeauMichèle MagnyPierre CurziThree generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsPascale BussièresMarcia PilotePierre F. FauteuxTwo teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.
- 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...
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- 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?
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsAlbane GuilheLouise MarleauLucie LaurierA Swiss Jewish artist who is grieving her father, moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with a child psychiatrist. While creating an installation in an abandoned warehouse, she confronts her past and is increasingly drawn to her friend.
- 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.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeLouise MarleauCharlotte LaurierAn irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur staging Othello with the money of his father mafioso, lover of Florence's daughter. A pianist woman in love with the baseman who as a Baptist refused to have sex before there mariage. An alcoolic detective lover of a prude ex-nun. There's some of the characters in this story turning around the vengeance of a jealous girl with the only man loved by her mother.
- DirectorOlivier AsselinStarsLucille FluetRonald HouleSerge ChristiaenssensAn old Egyptian silent movie restored with great care and dubbed by a couple of lip-reading deaf mutes relates the story of a young girl wandering in the desert hoping upon an heroic life until she resurrects a dead man with a sneeze. This miracle attracts the attention of a lot of people, especially, from a greedy businessman and from a scientist, both trying to get as much as possible from her.
- 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.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsColm FeoreDerek KeurvorstKatya LadanA collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsPascale BussièresPascale ParoissienFrançois DelisleDeux soeurs qui ne se connaissent pas, apprennent, devenues adultes, à s'accepter. Parallèlement, les deux actrices qui jouent le rôle de cette fiction dans le film parlent des personnages qu'elles interprètent, se racontent, inventant de troubles correspondances entre leur vie réelle et fictive.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsRémy GirardPauline LapointeYvan CanuelTired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
- 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.
- DirectorMichel PouletteStarsMartin DrainvilleZhenhu HanChantal FontaineLouis has always had a dream, to be on television. But when he enters a contest and wins, the first prize involves a cameraman following him everywhere for three months. The only problem is that Louis has a boring life, so the TV executives decide to put some excitement in it.
- 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...
- DirectorAndré TurpinStarsAndré CharleboisDorothée BerrymanAriane CordeauAndré and Kim are a young couple living together in Montréal. André works with his family in Bungee jumping business while Kim must go to study in Turkey. André stays at home until he received a call from her girlfriend announcing that she's pregnant and she is opting for abortion. To convince her not to, André begins a long journey to Istanbul as he goes deep in his mind to confront his life and fears.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéGeneviève BrouilletteSylvie BourqueA judge is caught with a prostitute. She provides a list of her clients which includes several high-profile judges and politicians. This triggers a series of disturbing events creating an atmosphere of danger and intrigue.
- 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.
- DirectorDenis ChouinardNicolas WadimoffStarsOvidiu BalanMoussa MaaskriSimona MaicanescuWith the help of a smuggler, a group of illegal immigrants attempt to leave France on a cargo ship headed for Canada. They succeed in sneaking into a container which is deposited at the bottom of the ship's hold.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsAnne-Marie CadieuxAlexis MartinMarie GignacThis Canadian comedy, filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepage's play The Seven Branches of the River Ota. In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World's Fair. Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act. The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets. Sophie learns she's pregnant and phones Michel. However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Meanwhile, in Montreal, Michael plots terrorist activities.
- 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.
- DirectorManon BriandStarsCharlotte LaurierDino TavaroneJonathan BolducLaurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRichard DesjardinsRobert MonderieSommes-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.
- 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.
- DirectorJean-Philippe DuvalStarsAlexis MartinPierre LebeauGuylaine TremblayGilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He's a bookish scholar with glasses; she's a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit... Guylaine's brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine's friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles...
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHugo LatulippeDocumentaire sur les conséquences sociales et environnementales de la multiplication rapide des mégaporcheries. Abandonnés par l'état, des groupes de citoyens élèvent la voix et se réapproprient la démocratie. Grains de sable inattendus dans une machine bien huilée par le dogme néolibéral, ils revendiquent une société à échelle humaine.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsPiper PeraboJessica ParéMischa BartonAfter starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.
- DirectorErik CanuelStarsIsabel RicherSylvain MarcelCatherine TrudeauDeux soeurs, Stéphane et Bettie Brousseau risquent de perdre la porcherie, héritée de leur père, qu'elles opèrent ensemble. Joueuse compulsive, Stéphane a de la difficulté à épargner. Elle vend à Riendeau, son ex-mari, les plants de pot qui ont été semés et ont poussé dans son champ de maïs. Elle pense utiliser la commission de cette transaction pour payer rapidement ses dettes et éviter la saisie. Quand Paquette et son complice trafiquant se rendent compte que la culture a été vendue, ils kidnappent les soeurs Brousseau. Ils ignorent qu'un couple de Châteauguay attend l'enfant dont Bettie est la mère porteuse. Lorsque les deux parents s'installent à demeure pour aider Bettie à accoucher, l'entreprise des bandits devient périlleuse.
- DirectorCatherine MartinStarsMarie-Ève BertrandGuylaine TremblayHélène LoiselleA 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorÉmile GaudreaultStarsLuke KirbyPeter MillerGinette RenoThe son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
- 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.
- DirectorPierre HouleStarsCéline BonnierRoy DupuisPatrick HuardThe oldest daughter of an impoverished Montreal family, Monique Sparvieri vows to find a way to get out of the ghetto in which she lives. Abandoned by Michael, the love of her life, Monique finds herself alone again when her second husband, Gaston, is sentenced to ten months in prison. While many other women her age are still dreaming of Prince Charming, Monique takes her own destiny in her hands. She and her new love, Gerald Simard, plan a series of bank robberies. Intoxicated by passion and success, Monique isn't afraid of anything and she wants to make sure that her children don't experience the same miserable upbringing as she did.
- DirectorFrancis LeclercStarsRoy DupuisGuy ThauvetteRosa ZacharieDisturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteStarsMaxime Desjardins-TremblayMaxime DumontierJulianne CôtéA coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.