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A translator working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
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Cuando la adolescente lesbiana Jaime es enviada a vivir a una comunidad de Testigos de Jehová, se enamora perdidamente de una chica testigo devota y las dos se embarcan en un intenso romance con consecuencias que reconfigurarán el resto de sus vidas.
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No-one wants to play football with Gaby now that she has breasts. Like every other year, the 13-year-old is spending the summer with her dad on a small island off the Canadian coast – and she is not about to pretend that she’s suddenly a different person.
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Will and Cath, a young couple in their twenties without a story, are looking for an intimate place to park their car and love each other. Sitting in the passenger seat, Cath becomes more and more exhilarated as the car slips into the dark as Will, behind the wheel, apprehends every nook and cranny the headlights reveal. Deep in the forest, their intimacy will be the scene of a destabilizing encounter between sensuality and horror...
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After running away from a youth center, 15-year-old Noémie befriends a group of delinquents and falls in love with a pimp. After some convincing, she finds herself thrust into life as an escort.
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La joven Nadia (Katerine Savard, dos veces olímpica), de 22 años, forma parte del equipo olímpico de natación canadiense en los Juegos de Tokio del 2020. Este será su mayor desafío.
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As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
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The first feature by editor Catherine Legault, SISTERS: DREAM & VARIATIONS invites us to discover the creative and personal worlds of two distinctive Montreal artists. Tyr and Jasa have Icelandic roots, and they’ve always been artists at heart. Having become a musician and an interdisciplinary artist respectively, they have developed artistic practices that draw on their colourful imaginations and family roots, including the use of audio recordings of their Icelandic great-grandmother. In a symbiotic relationship with its protagonists’ creativity, the film includes animations and performances in order to do justice to Tyr and Jasa’s artistic approach and particular identity, deftly combining reality and dreams.
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Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
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A triptych consisting of three paint-by-number tableaux is auctioned for $14 million at Christie’s. Signed by top-selling artist Matt Jaeborn as a child, the art market is apparently blind to the obvious.
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Montreal 1992 —Estranged from his cancer-stricken mother, Stan, a quixotic 19-year-old, dons a disguise and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her.
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Logan, obsessive video blogger and enthusiastic urban explorer, will do anything to achieve her 15 minutes of fame and attract viewers to her YouTube channel.
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Struggling with depression, Louis finds out that his family is planning a prank on him for April Fools' day. Problem is: we're still in March...
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In the dead of winter, 18-year-old Chloe runs away from Montreal and hitch-hikes to Tadoussac, a small Quebec tourist village. In exchange for a room, she works at the local hostel, like many other young travelers. But Chloe is also secretly searching for someone.
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A man blames himself for the tragic death of his daughter's friend. Unable to get past this event, the man spirals into depression, and then he undergoes a 'groundbreaking' therapeutic treatment that may put him in contact with dead people.
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Lily-May decides to tell those closest to her about the choice she has made. She intends to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic. When the time of our own death is predetermined, is saying goodbye any easier?
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Tras doce años de ausencia, un escritor regresa a su pueblo natal para anunciar a su familia que se está muriendo. A medida que el resentimiento reescribe el transcurso de la tarde, los conflictos se desatan alimentados por la duda y la soledad, entre las cinco personas reunidas en la casa familiar. Mientras, cualquier intento por empatizar se ve saboteado por la incapacidad de las personas para escuchar y amar. Sólo el fin del mundo (Juste la fin du monde) supone la adaptación cinematográfica de la obra de teatro homónima de Jean-Luc Lagarce.
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Tom, un joven publicitario moderno y urbano, acude al funeral de su amante tras fallecer éste en un accidente de tráfico. Será en una aislada granja lechera donde se encuentre por primera vez con la madre de su amado fallecido. Ella no tiene idea de quién es, ni menos aún, del amor que compartió junto a su hijo. En la granja, Tom conoce al agresivo hermano de su amante, el cual lo arrastra rápidamente a un juego retorcido y sexualmente cargado.
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New Years' Eve. Boy meets girl. Boy doesn't have condom. A film about unprotected sex, destiny, and soul music.