Lost and Delirious is a movie set in an all-girls boarding school where the lives of three teenage girls are forever changed. The story revolves around a forbidden love affair between two roommates, Pauline and Victoria. As their relationship develops, they face the challenges of secrecy, societal judgment, and the internal struggle to come to terms with their own identities. The movie explores themes of love, friendship, and self-discovery.
Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real kind, the one that hurts. Baz wants to help this lost little girl, but she wants much more from him, and is ready to do anything to get it.
Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents of the Hotel Silence.
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project. Then she meets the old lady again, and with mounting incredulity Paule discovers that the actual events in the woman's life mirror the fictional events in the director's film.
Saad is a young Moroccan illegal immigrant who, together with his Iranian boyfriend Reza, attempts the perilous journey to America. As soon as they arrive in Montreal, Saad is called upon to save his lover from certain deportation to Iran, where a likely death awaits him. In a desperate ploy, Saad manages to seduce a Canadian immigration official. This impromptu romance brings him close to the comfortable America he idealized on the beaches of Tangier and undermines his heroic mission.
The Passion of Augustine is a film about Sister Augustine, a dedicated music teacher at a convent school in rural Quebec. As she navigates the changing times and pressure from the Catholic Church, Sister Augustine's passion for music and her students is tested. The film explores themes of love, faith, and sacrifice.
Set Me Free is a coming-of-age drama set in 1960s Quebec. It follows Hanna, a 13-year-old girl, as she navigates her dysfunctional family life and explores her sexuality. With a backdrop of societal changes and personal struggles, Hanna's journey is one of self-discovery and acceptance.
The Blue Butterfly is a heartwarming adventure film about a young boy named Pete who has a terminal illness. On a trip to Costa Rica, he meets an entomologist and becomes fascinated with finding a rare Blue Morpho butterfly. With the help of his new friend and a local guide, Pete embarks on a dangerous expedition deep into the jungle, facing various challenges along the way. Through this journey, Pete learns about courage, redemption, and the power of love.
Set in the 1960s, a teenage girl's life is turned upside down when her mother leaves the family to find herself. As she navigates her father's extramarital affair, her gay father's hidden sexuality, and her own personal growth, she discovers the importance of family and the complexities of love.
After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the world of breast cancer awareness and the marketing tactics employed by corporatism. It sheds light on the impact of the pink ribbon campaign and raises important questions about the true intentions and effectiveness of these initiatives.
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinson’s Disease and heart failure. His life reduced in every way, the end approaches and there are unhappy memories of his once violent and authoritarian past. But his wife, ten children and many grandchildren try to maintain a semblance of the Christmas season.
Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.
As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.
Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her trust as she regains her health. However, he soon discovers she's wanted by the law, and circumstances become difficult for him as he tries to hide her from the authorities.
A woman travels across the United States, confronting memory while observing American culture through its hotels and motels.
Most women in prison are mothers. When a mother is imprisoned, her newborn or her young child can remain with her in prison or they can be separated and taken in by a family member or by the State. These situations aren't without risk for the child. The film takes the child's point of view and its goal is to cast a light on them: too often they are forgotten, invisible and bare scars for their entire life. The filmmaker follows the daily lives of some of these kids in Bolivia, Nepal, New York and Montreal.
Gabrielle's universe, one of Canada's most important French-language writers.