Micheline Lanctôt

La cómoda vida de Sophia da un vuelco el día que conoce a Sylvain. Ella lo deja todo para vivir esta ardiente pasión, diciéndose que tal vez sea la última de su vida. Pero son muy diferentes. Sophia proviene de una rica formación intelectual en Montreal, mientras que la familia de Sylvain es de clase trabajadora. Sophia se cuestiona sus propios valores y aspiraciones después de haberse abandonado a sus impulsos románticos.

Diane Messier lives on a farm in the Eastern Townships, near the American border, with her daughter Sarah and her two sisters, Carmen and Julie. Following a tragic accident, Diane feels constantly threatened and even believes her house is haunted. Worried by her daughter's actions, Angèle returns from Florida to bring comfort to Diane and try to reunite the family clan.

Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-Amour becomes, overnight, Minister of Culture. She succeeds by her look and her daring in creating a real buzz around Culture.

Los Arsenault son una familia que ha estado involucrada en la caza furtiva ilegal. Adam, el hijo mayor, quiere dejar la empresa, pero los planes se complican con la llegada de su hermano menor.

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.

Colette's life is shattered when her husband dies in a mysterious road accident. This may bring her closer to her daughter Gabrielle, a young bulimic woman who works as a luxury escort. The latter begins to take a strong interest in Joseph, a Belgian philosophy teacher who is passing through Montreal. She presses him with questions about existence, which scares the specialist from Spinoza, who quickly thinks of going home to find his lover. Except that he is intrigued by this presence and the power it has over him

Colette's life is shattered when her husband dies in a mysterious road accident. This may bring her closer to her daughter Gabrielle, a young bulimic woman who works as a luxury escort. The latter begins to take a strong interest in Joseph, a Belgian philosophy teacher who is passing through Montreal. She presses him with questions about existence, which scares the specialist from Spinoza, who quickly thinks of going home to find his lover. Except that he is intrigued by this presence and the power it has over him

Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting clips from nearly 200 films from the National Film Board of Canada archives, director Luc Bourdon reinterprets the historical record, offering us a new and distinctive perspective on the Quiet Revolution.

As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash to the Earth, Claire is going through a difficult Winter.

Un virus ha dejado desolado un pueblo de Quebec, en el que solo un pequeño grupo de personas han sobrevivido a la epidemia. A pesar de todo, su vida está en peligro constante, pues los zombies los acechan en la oscuridad, hambrientos y esperando el momento oportuno para acabar con ellos. Por eso, cuando la falta de recursos y la expansión de depredadores obligue a estas personas a desplazarse, su lucha por la supervivencia se complicará.

Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.

According to the text of Stéphane E.Roy Nine slices of life. Nine stories that intertwine. A satirical comedy. Marc Gauthier, creator of the new "Dare Communic-Action ©" alleged communication guru, offers a new approach. But there will always be a gap between theory and practice ... Between nine earthy situations and absurd misunderstandings, everyone will try to grow up

Encontramos a Max en la cárcel, después de perder a su joven esposa. Cuando se entera de que su hijo Theo ha sido contratado por una organización criminal, Max arriesgará todo para salvarlo. Sus habilidades al volante y como atleta demostrarán ser un gran activo.

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.

Guibord is an independent Member of Parliament who represents Prescott-Makadewà-Rapides-aux Outardes, a vast county in Northern Quebec. As the entire country watches, Guibord unwillingly finds himself in the awkward position of holding the decisive vote to determine whether Canada will go to war. Accompanied by his wife, his daughter and an idealistic intern from Haiti named Sovereign, Guibord travels across his district in order to consult his constituents. While groups of lobbyists get involved in a debate that spins out of control, the MP will have to face his own conscience. 'My Internship in Canada' is a biting political satire in which politicians, citizens and lobbyists go head-to-head tearing democracy to shreds. Film starring Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard and Mardy Men

The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity.

Lucie sees Eloi, a homeless man, freezing to death in the alley, and takes him in. Living together proves to be difficult until Lucie's charity restores Eloi's humanity and her emotional maturity.

Lucie sees Eloi, a homeless man, freezing to death in the alley, and takes him in. Living together proves to be difficult until Lucie's charity restores Eloi's humanity and her emotional maturity.

When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. Sarah agrees but only to discover that her true heart lies elsewhere. Sarah prefers to run.

Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail? Written by

Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail? Written by

Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail? Written by

Víctor, se traslada a un bloque de pisos de Montreal, el invierno de 1995. A pesar de que sus nuevos vecinos parecen de lo más amables, comienza a sospechar de ellos a raíz de la aparición de un asesino y violador en serie en el barrio.

Suzie, es una taxista de 58 años que padece depresión y hace el turno de noche. En Halloween, encuentra un niño autista de 10 años de edad en el asiento trasero de su taxi con 50 $ y una dirección. Cuando Suzie llega al domicilio del padre, se da cuenta que es una familia con problemas. Este niño y su propio pasado turbulento conducirán por un camino sorprendente.

Suzie, es una taxista de 58 años que padece depresión y hace el turno de noche. En Halloween, encuentra un niño autista de 10 años de edad en el asiento trasero de su taxi con 50 $ y una dirección. Cuando Suzie llega al domicilio del padre, se da cuenta que es una familia con problemas. Este niño y su propio pasado turbulento conducirán por un camino sorprendente.

Suzie, es una taxista de 58 años que padece depresión y hace el turno de noche. En Halloween, encuentra un niño autista de 10 años de edad en el asiento trasero de su taxi con 50 $ y una dirección. Cuando Suzie llega al domicilio del padre, se da cuenta que es una familia con problemas. Este niño y su propio pasado turbulento conducirán por un camino sorprendente.

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.

Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his daughter by a sinister cult. Wallowing in self-pity for years, he decides to commit suicide. However, the manner in which he decides to suicide is quite peculiar: he allows himself to be abducted by a cult, whose members treat him as their "king" for one year (he is given a castle, concubines, gifts, etc...), and then murder him as an atonement for their yearly sins.

Esta emotiva historia de madres e hijas explora con belleza, la adicción y la familia. Hace la pregunta - ¿es posible cambiar su destino?

Everybody's guilty of something and Detective Stephen Tree has to use his gut to figure if their guilt is worth his time. Tripping the Wire goes beyond the classic whodunnit. It's a story of loyalty, betrayal and the secrets people will die for - or kill for - to protect.

The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with her mini-cam, collecting testimonials on the subject of happiness. She meets a medley of characters whom she engages in engrossing, thought-provoking discussions.

Rémy está hospitalizado y su exmujer llama al hijo de ambos, Sébastien, para que acuda a visitar a su padre. El joven decide que, para animar a su progenitor, debe reunir a su antiguo grupo de amigos, supervivientes del naufragio de la contracultura

Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by human sexuality. On earth, Christmas, 1999, Jacques, who's dying of cancer, meets Sophie, pregnant and abandoned. Her babies and his death are due in the spring. Jacques runs a cabaret facing bankruptcy because his landlord insists on a 15-minute speech about Jesus every evening by the boring Bernard, and all the customers leave. Jacques prays for Bernard's removal: Heaven arranges a car crash. Jacques keeps a tape recorder handy, narrating his final days, focused on composing memorable last words. In Heaven, the dead Bernard keeps watch over Jacques and Sophie, with saving effect.

In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.

A 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.

Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise...

A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings.

Dominique, un brillante arquitecto, con el fin de hacer dinero rápido para volver a reabrir su compañía, encuentra trabajo en un anticuario. Pero pronto se da cuenta de que la única forma de mantener su puesto de trabajo es fingiendo ser homosexual, rompiendo poco a poco su matrimonio y agitando emociones extrañas de su madre.

A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged French Canadian black comedy. Leon, the con-artist makes his living cheating Catholic bingo players by hosting bogus religious pilgrimages. He is involved with a woman, but that doesn't stop him from getting involved with the frustrated Sophie who hates living in a tiny apartment with her lazy husband, her ever-gloomy teenage daughter and her husband's demanding, self-centered father, Emile. Sophie is so desperate to escape and start a new life that she convinces Leon to help her kill Emile who allegedly has $150,000 tucked away. The murder is to occur during one of Leon's pilgrimages. He convinces his son Paolo, an ex-con, to assist. Despite their careful planning, nothing prepares the would-be killers for the surprising result.

Ruth is the story of a painful adolescence. Ruth decides on a whim to leave her small village in the Bas Saint-Laurent for the "real world" of the big city, Montreal. There she meets up with her brother, Jean-Paul. Her many lovers range from one-night stands like Bernard to Yves and Robert, who are briefly in her life. Passionate, anticonformist Ruth has to contend with her brother's ferocious jealousy - he goes as far as attacking Robert, his best friend. Robert, completely baffled by Ruth's cynical recklessness, finally pushes her away. Ruth continues her struggle to find absolute love. She clings passionately, clumsily and shamelessly to those she loves and those she doesn't, in frenzied desperation. Continually disappointed and shut out by the "real world," she chooses a way out that is typically extreme...

A Canadian couple reunites with the German POW they befriended during World War II.

A Canadian couple reunites with the German POW they befriended during World War II.

Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence.

Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence.

In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to Montreal.

This poignant human drama is phrased as a "small sonata" in three movements -- a novel approach by director and writer Micheline Lactôt to tell the story of two teenage girls. In the first movement, Chantal (Pascale Bussieres) rides the same bus every day and slowly develops an infatuation with the bus driver. Their interactions are expressed through gestures and glances and facial expressions, but not words. Just as Chantal is getting old enough, and maybe courageous enough to actually say something to the driver, fate steps in and she loses her chance. In the second movement, Louisette (Marcia Pilote) hides out on a fishing boat and is discovered by a Bulgarian fisherman who treats her with kindness and consideration and they spend a special evening together -- without being able to speak a word in the other's language. In the third movement, Chantal and Louisette become friends, and as kindred spirits they share a sense of loss and hopelessness.

This poignant human drama is phrased as a "small sonata" in three movements -- a novel approach by director and writer Micheline Lactôt to tell the story of two teenage girls. In the first movement, Chantal (Pascale Bussieres) rides the same bus every day and slowly develops an infatuation with the bus driver. Their interactions are expressed through gestures and glances and facial expressions, but not words. Just as Chantal is getting old enough, and maybe courageous enough to actually say something to the driver, fate steps in and she loses her chance. In the second movement, Louisette (Marcia Pilote) hides out on a fishing boat and is discovered by a Bulgarian fisherman who treats her with kindness and consideration and they spend a special evening together -- without being able to speak a word in the other's language. In the third movement, Chantal and Louisette become friends, and as kindred spirits they share a sense of loss and hopelessness.

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin. (per imdb)

One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.

A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.

Patricia y su prima, dos adolescentes, vuelven a casa, de noche, después de una fiesta. Patricia será testigo del brutal asesinato de su prima pero afortunadamente, logrará escapar del asesino. La muchacha declara a la policía los hechos y la policía empieza la investigación. Más adelante, Patricia decidirá cambiar su testimonio y decir que su hermano es el culpable del asesinato de su prima. El inspector Carella sospecha que la chica miente.

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.

A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.

Relato de un judío canadiense que a mediados de los años cuarenta trata desesperadamente de encontrar un lugar en el mundo donde establecerse él y su familia.

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.

Bernadette tiene un yen para tirarlo todo y volver a la naturaleza en esta película canadiense en francés. Eso es justo lo que hace después de dejar cuidadosamente su anillo de bodas donde su rico esposo, un abogado, puede verlo. Ella ha comprado una granja, completa con una granja destartalada y un anciano malhumorado. Pronto, debido a los maravillosos efectos que tienen su simpatía y la perspectiva de su forastero, sus vecinos perciben grandes mejoras en sus vidas. Atribuyen estos cambios a algo milagroso (tal vez siguiendo el ejemplo de su nombre), y hordas de personas necesitadas descienden a su granja.