Alain Dostie

Basada en una popular novela de Alessandro Baricco. Hervé Joncour (Michael Pitt), un mercader francés del siglo XIX que se dedica al comercio de la seda, está casado con Helene (Keira Knightley). En uno de sus viajes al Japón mantiene un romance clandestino y prohibido con una misteriosa y sensual mujer.

En un taller de la Italia del siglo XVII, un maestro artesanal crea su obra definitiva, un violín perfecto y barnizado en rojo, para su hijo a punto de nacer. A partir de ese momento, el instrumento viaja de mano en mano desde Europa a Canadá, pasando por China, hasta la época actual.

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.

The undertaking of an enthusiastic group of scientists to transform an indoor cycle racing-track built for the 1968 Montréal Olympics into an ecological park. The Biodôme of Montréal contains 4 ecosystems of the 3 Americas, from the Tropical Forrest to the Polar World, from the Laurentian Forrest to the St-Lawrence Marine Environment.

Una investigación en treinta y dos partes sobre la mente y el alma del internacionalmente reconocido virtuoso del piano Glenn Gould (1932-1982), para revelar su complejo y enigmático carácter al tomar la estructura de las Variaciones Goldberg de J.S. Bach. Glenn Gould, canadiense, fue un niño prodigio que componía a los 5 años y a los 15 daba conciertos. El film fue definido por la crítica como una cargante exaltación de la excentricidad.

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.

A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis. A convent school dormitory is the setting for a chronicle of fleeting impressions told through dance, music and images ranging from the erotic to the violent, and are infused with a mixture of high romanticism and gritty urban toughness.

Es plena guerra fría, pero los pilotos rusos y americano tendrán que dejar aparcadas sus diferencias, momentáneamente, y formar equipo para luchar contra unos terroristas de Oriente Medio que están desarrollando armas nucleares.

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate.

An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.

Una bella stripper comienza a matar criminales para vengarse de aquellos que la violaron tiempo atrás en la habitación de un motel.

Una bella stripper comienza a matar criminales para vengarse de aquellos que la violaron tiempo atrás en la habitación de un motel.

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.

This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.

The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people.

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.

Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Documentary about the personal and professional life of La Bolduc, a singer of French Canadian music.

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.