The Hummingbird Project tells the story of two cousins who hatch a plan to build a fiber-optic cable from Kansas to New Jersey in order to gain a millisecond edge in stock market trading. Their project brings them into conflict with their former boss, a powerful stock trader, and forces them to confront their own personal demons. As they race against time and face unexpected challenges, they must navigate the murky world of high-frequency trading and make sacrifices in pursuit of their ambitious goal.
War Witch is the story of a young girl named Komona who is abducted and forced to become a child soldier in an African civil war. She develops a magical power that allows her to see the ghosts of the soldiers she has killed, which brings her both comfort and torment. As the war escalates, Komona must find a way to escape her violent reality and find a new life.
Two Lovers and a Bear follows the journey of a small-town couple who escape their troubled lives and embark on a snow-adventure in the Arctic. They face intense hallucinations, encounter a talking polar bear, and navigate treacherous landscapes. As their love is tested, they must confront their darkest secrets and find redemption before it's too late.
Eye on Juliet is a drama and romance movie that tells the story of a drone operator named Gordon who becomes infatuated with a woman named Ayusha. Ayusha lives in a Middle Eastern country and is set to be in an arranged marriage. As their connection grows stronger, Gordon decides to risk everything to try and save Ayusha from her fate.
Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.
Two social outcasts in 19th century Eastern Europe, Alexandre and Ulysse, become friends and settle down to live alone on the edge of a marsh that is reputedly haunted by demons, monsters and goblins. These two men have been outcasts all their lives. Alexandre was raised in a nomad family that traveled from town to town, being rejected by the people of his homeland. Due to his physical abnormalities, Ulysse has always been pushed aside ever since his childhood. When a strange murder is committed in a nearby village, the peasants turn their suspicions on Alexandre and Ulysse, because they are different. In the eyes of the villagers, they are demons that must be hunted, burned and killed.
Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.
A doctor broken by 8 years of war in North Africa tries to come back home. On his way, he is faced with a bigger challenge: save a city from the plague... and from madness.
This tribute to Denis Marleau takes a simple and forthright approach to one of the major themes of his work: the relationship between material reality and consciousness, or more specifically, Freud’s concept of the Uncanny, which often emerges when dissonance between material reality and consciousness rises to the surface. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation on the occasion of the 2012 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.
An exploration of our sense of smell and how it impacts our lives.
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