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- DirectorMathieu DenisSimon LavoieStarsCharlotte AubinLaurent BélangerEmmanuelle Lussier MartinezA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.
- 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.
- DirectorKevan FunkStarsIan TraceyBen CottonSara CanningA young hockey player deals with the consequences of hockey violence after he critically injures another player during a game.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMylène MackayMilya Corbeil GauvreauMickaël GouinInspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsJulie ChristieMichael MurphyGordon PinsentA man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsMichael PolleyJohn BuchanMark PolleyA film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDylan AuthorsJulia Sarah StoneMolly ParkerJust after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsArsinée KhanjianAshot AdamyanAtom EgoyanA woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsMichael McManusArsinée KhanjianGabrielle RoseA lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsDavid HemblenAidan TierneyGabrielle RoseVan's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsBob HoskinsArsinée KhanjianElaine CassidyA young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsIan HolmSarah PolleyCaerthan BanksA bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsElias KoteasArsinée KhanjianMaury ChaykinA family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsDon ScardinoRalph EndersbyMichael KukulewichBest friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsMichael ParksBonnie BedeliaChuck ShamataAn ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsJames NaughtonLindsay WagnerKen PogueA successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.
- 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.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsBruce GreenwoodJames HurdleKenneth WelshBased on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
- 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 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 Pierre LefebvreStarsLucille BélangerMonique ChampagneSuzanne GrossmanA 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMarcel SabourinAnouk FerjacMyriam BoyerA middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsSeann GallagherMicheline LanctôtSarah MennellA pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the sky.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsLouis-Philippe LécuyerPhilippe CrossStéphane-Albert BoulaisA documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.
- DirectorDon OwenStarsPeter KastnerJulie BiggsClaude RaeA teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
- 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.
- DirectorRené DelacroixGratien GélinasStarsFred BarryMonique MillerDenise PelletierAfter returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsFrançoise BerdLucille BélairMadeleine ChartrandCharles Méthot, propriétaire d'un bar menacé de faillite, accepte la gérance d'un bar de banlieue pour sauver son propre commerce. Après une aventure sentimentale décevante avec une danseuse, Charles décide de profiter du mariage de sa fille pour fermer définitivement son bar. Bar Salon, c'est un conte lucide sur notre asservissement quotidien à un monde qui nous dépasse. C'est l'album de famille des ''loosers''; ces perdants qui perdent précisément sans sourciller parce qu'ils n'ont rien à gagner, absolument rien. Bar Salon, c'est le désespoir à l'état pur, d'où naîtra l'espoir.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsRichard DreyfussMicheline LanctôtJack WardenIn a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
- 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.
- DirectorLarry KentStarsAlan ScarfeLynn StewartPhilip BrownDes works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Colin, an aspiring writer who refuses to look for a job. Des meets Laurie while visiting a work-mate who is dying of leukemia. While they go for a drive, Laurie invites Des to a rent party at their house. After this Vancouver counter-culture party, Colin finds Des and Laurie in bed together.
- 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.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsMichael GottliDavid FalkenbergMichael O'SullivanAn amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJude LawJennifer Jason LeighIan HolmA game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsJohn LoneBarbara SukowaIn 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsKyle McCullochMichael GottliAngela HeckWhile their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsKyle McCullochGosia DobrowolskaSarah NevilleThe wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsStephen McHattieLisa HouleGeorgina ReillyA radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsHugh DillonCallum Keith RennieJohn Pyper-FergusonA group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDon McKellarValerie BuhagiarEarl PastkoA small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalXavier DolanFrançois ArnaudA semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanMonia ChokriNiels SchneiderThe story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsMelvil PoupaudEmmanuel SchwartzSuzanne ClémentA drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanPierre-Yves CardinalLise RoyA grieving man meets his lover's family, who were not aware of their son's sexual orientation.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGaspard UllielMarion CotillardLéa SeydouxLouis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
- DirectorJoyce WongStarsReid AsselstineDarrel GamotinFrancis MellingA misunderstood sexual encounter unravels the life of a lonely female security guard and her deadbeat paramour.
- DirectorAlexander CarsonStarsKaelen OhmDeragh CampbellJoe PerryPart coming-of-age story, part art-cinema meditation on photography, souvenirs, and collections, O, Brazen Age creates a tender and haunting portrait of friendship and faith in the 21st century.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
- DirectorDon OwenStarsAlexis KannerJudith GaultJackie BurroughsSet in mid-winter Montreal, a mentally unstable young man becomes involved with 2 women, which fuels his paranoia, forcing him to commit criminal acts.
- 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.
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsJean-Pierre CartierPauline LapointePauline MartinA dinner reunion of two childhood friends and their spouses turns into a disaster when they realize they have radically different lifestyles.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsGretchen KrichSullivan BrownMaya LawsonReturned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsErwin Van CotthemKate AshleySeth KirshErwin (Erwin van Cotthem), a family man who spends most of his time playing computer games, makes a drastic shift in his life when he suddenly decides to leave his wife, yet finds himself in the same rut as before.
- DirectorCharles OfficerStarsClark JohnsonKaren LeBlancDaniyah YsraylAn urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
- DirectorPeter MettlerStarsJustine BellinskyGovindaPeter MettlerA filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, expanding perception, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.
- DirectorHugh GibsonAn in-depth look into the lives of habitual drug users in Toronto's Regent Park.
- 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.
- DirectorAlan ZweigA documentary focusing on ex-convicts who reveal their struggles with trying to adapt to life on the outside.
- DirectorBrett StoryStarsCharisse DavidsonLyndon B. JohnsonA film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.
- An image of a boy in a rowboat is zoomed out to the cosmic vastness of space and then zoomed into the infinitesimal microreality of him.
- DirectorWilliam FruetStarsDonald PleasenceCarol KaneDoris PetrieA father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.
- DirectorKazik RadwanskiStarsDerek BogartNicole FairbairnDeborah C SawyerDerek is 34 and lives in his parents' basement. Single, self-interested and gauche, he divides his time between casual work for his uncle, cringe inducing encounters with women and an animation project.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsEmmanuel BilodeauPhilomène BilodeauRoc LafortuneOn the fringe of society in a remote part of the French-Canadian countryside, the fragile relationship and unusual private life of a father and daughter is jeopardized by dreary, unforeseen circumstances.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsAnne CarrierJean-Paul ColmorÉtienne GrutmanAn introverted man runs a "car cemetery" where people come to find parts for old vehicles.
- DirectorNicolás PeredaStarsGabino RodríguezTeresa SánchezJosé Rodríguez LópezDrifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his twenty-eight year old son receive him with bitterness and confusion. After a couple of days they decide to kick him out, only to find out that he has left on his own accord. The son ends up tracking down Emilio and spends a couple of days hanging out with him in his apartment.
- DirectorAllan MoyleStarsJoe MattiaArmand MonroeAllan MoyleA communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.
- DirectorJoyce WielandA subversive short film which protests the Vietnam War and military establishment using a story of rats being imprisoned in the U.S. and making their way to Canada.
- DirectorColin LowA look at the traditional way of life in Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
- DirectorArthur LipsettSnippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
- DirectorAlbert ShinStarsMoon Chang-gilYoon Da-kyungKil Hae-yeonA weathered woman and her odd teen-aged daughter live in isolation on a desolate farm in South Korea. An affluent city woman comes to them seeking help with a sensitive matter and the three women soon fall into a new rhythm of life together, each working to fill a void within. However, as their very different paths converge, their deal becomes more than what they bargained for.
- DirectorFrank ColeStarsFrank Cole
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsTracy WrightMolly ParkerDaniel MacIvorTen years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
- DirectorAshley McKenzieStarsAndrew GillisBhreagh MacNeilMark WoodlandBlaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.
- DirectorRick CastroBruce La BruceStarsTony WardBruce La BruceKevin P. ScottReminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry. Said to be an homage to classic Hollywood cinema.
- DirectorAndrew JordanStarsBarry J. GillisAmber LynnBruce RoachAn impotent husband, driven by a fanatical desire to father children, forces his wife to undergo a dangerous experiment. The result: the birth of a multitude of monstrous THINGS.
- DirectorDavid SecterStarsJohn LabowHenry TarvainenJoy FieldingIts the 1960s at the University of Toronto. Doug is a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend. Peter is a shy freshman, and new to the big city. Peter and Doug become best friends and soon start going to concerts, drinking, and playing in the snow together. When Doug brings Peter to a steam bath and washes his back, the friendship seems headed to a whole new level, at least in Doug's mind. But when Peter emerges from a party after having sex with a co-ed, things get even more complicated...
- DirectorJustin OakeyStarsLawrence BarryStephen OatesEvan MercerA blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsBud CortSamantha EggarChris WigginsIn the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field, the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students connect, a connection that matters and lasts.
- DirectorBernard DevlinStarsJacques BilodeauGeorges BouvierHervé BrousseauPioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorRoman KroitorStarsPaul TomkowiczTommy TweedThe story of Polish immigrant Paul Tomkowicz, a railway switchman, narrated by himself.
- DirectorRené BailStarsSerge GuénetteMichel PellandRoger Tremblay-At the end of the Great Darkness in Quebec (Canada), four teenagers from a village in les Laurentides (in Quebec) go exploring the woods with the truck of two of their uncle's uncle.
- 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.
- DirectorJean-Claude Labrecque
- DirectorDavid RimmerAn experimental film of footage, negatives, flashing lights, and color of a woman shaking out cellophane.
- DirectorMireille DansereauStarsLiliane Lemaître-AugerVéronique Le FlaguaisJean-François GuitéTwo twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
- DirectorJacques LeducStarsEsther AugerReynald BouchardPierre CurziThe six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsKelly RicardNora Scott-MoncrieffYvon CharetteThe history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony with the men already there, and ending with the modern career woman.
- DirectorFrank VitaleStarsJohn SutherlandPeter BrawleyDave SutherlandA photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeJean Pierre BergeronSophie ClémentIn a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
- DirectorCaroline LeafStarsMort RansenSarah DwightJohn HoodThis film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.