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Réal Gendron is an unremarkable old man. He believes in God. He believes in friendship. And he believes in life. So when he receives an e-mail from a total stranger in Africa informing him that he’s the sole legatee of an immense fortune, he believes that too.
Joseph
Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend's house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.
Barman hôtel
At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?
Novel
At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?
Gabriel
Neurologue Prévost
Québec 1952 - Alys Robi, vocalista en la cima de su popularidad y reconocida en todo el mundo, fue internada en una institución mental por su padre, en contra de su voluntada. Las autoridades médicas deciden que la única cura posible es la lobotomía. Bajo las brillantes luces de la sala de operaciones, Alys ve pasar ante sus ojos 28 años de su vida. A los 13 años se fue sola a la conquista de la gran ciudad, de Montreal, bajo el nombre de Alys Robi. Primero trabajó en el Teatro Nacional con "La Poune" que la lleva bajo su ala y luego se unió al elenco de Juan Grimaldi. Ambiciosa, se va a vivir una relación profesional y romántica con Lucio Agostini que finalmente le rompería el corazón. Alys Robi enamoró a toda una generación con sus ritmos latinos como "Tico Tico" y "Bésame Mucho". Alys Robi encarna el sueño americano, una historia no sólo de triunfo, gloria y amor, sino también una historia tras la que se esconde una terrible verdad que lo cambiará todo.
Agent Drolet
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Paul
In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.
Docteur Cyprien
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
The Baron
Historia que se mueve hacia atrás y adelante en el tiempo sobre dos homosexuales, desde que ambos eran unos jóvenes estudiantes amigos que se enamoraron del mismo chico. Años después, en 1952, uno de ellos está moribundo en la cárcel y el otro es un obispo en Quebec.
Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his French Canadian best friend’s son-in-law. This drama depicts the tensions between people from different ethnic backgrounds and their life-changing impact. Based on a true story, 'The Saracen Woman' paints a portrait of Italian immigration to Quebec and the affinities and conflicts that arose from the clash of two different cultures.
When 24 year old apiring actor Mathieu meets and falls for 39 year old Jean-Marc who has just ended a seven year relationship, things are not all roses. In addition to their age difference there's the matter of Mathieu's five year old son from a previous marriage.
Jean Pelletier
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.