While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, an elderly man no longer having faith in humanity, discovers new landmarks and thus his happiness.
Self
Léopold Morin
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.
Étienne Mérette
Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
Marcel
Pierre-Paul, de 36 años, un intelectual y doctor en filosofía se ve obligado a trabajar como repartidor para tener un salario decente. Un día, mientras entrega un paquete, se topa con la escena de un robo a mano armada que ha salido mal con un resultado de dos muertos. Se encuentra con dos bolsas de deporte repletas de billetes. Pierre-Paul se enfrenta a un dilema: largarse con las manos vacías o coger el dinero y huir... Sucesora temática de las películas de Denys Arcand 'El declive del imperio americano' y 'Las invasiones bárbaras'.
Jean Bessette
Paul Bougon ignites social media networks and public opinion after his brief participation in a television program. Having become an instant celebrity thanks to his outspokenness, he decides to go into politics and founds his own party. With the help of his devoted entourage and at the head of the PEN (Parti de l’Écœurement National) [National Disgust Party], he wins the elections and becomes Premier. The challenges of his new career place him in front of heartbreaking choices.
Artist and writer Marc Séguin offers his first film which is about a woman named Alice who steals paintings in order to reattribute them to people who can truly appreciate their beauty.
Dr. Milot
El Gallo Clueco o también conocida como Rooster Doodle-Doo vive en un pueblo donde tiene una labor muy importante y es la de despertar a los habitantes a una hora exacta para que ellos retomen sus labores diarias. Él es un gallo único en su forma de ser es muy puntual y atento, pero un descontento con uno de los habitantes lo obliga a abandonar el pueblo, lo que causara ciertos problemas.
Fernand Blanchard
A working-class family fights a greedy developer for control of their neighborhood.
In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Amédée Maréchal
A woman seeks revenge over false accusations of murder.
Ti-Guy
When Madeleine is diagnosed with Alzheimers, she makes two important decisions. One is to keep it from her family. The other is to revisit her beloved Gaspésie and relive, for one last time, the memories this evokes. Encountering Zoë, an emotionally disturbed young musician, Madeleine asks her to be her driver for the trip.
Chirugien d'Alice
Max cree llevar una vida feliz junto a su esposa Alice y su hijo Théo; pero Alice enferma repentinamente y necesita un trasplante de corazón. Max le promete a su hijo que salvará a Alice, pero para poder cumplir su promesa debe encontrar un corazón lo mas rápido posible. Con el tiempo en contra, deberá hallar una solución, así que decide reconectarse con un pasado lleno de problemas. Su decisión cambiará su vida de maneras que él nunca podría imaginar.
Préposé à l'accueil
Jean Marc intenta evadirse de su mediocre vida por medio de la imaginación. Consigue así entrar en un mundo de fantasía donde es un gran héroe, un caballero de brillante armadura, una estrella del escenario y de la pantalla y un novelista de éxito que tiene a las mujeres rendidas a sus pies. En la vida real es un chupatintas, un marido insignificante y un padre fracasado que fuma a escondidas. Pero, a pesar de todo, no sucumbe a la fantasía y decide buscar otra oportunidad en el mundo real. "La edad de la ignorancia", que cierra la trilogía que completan "El declive del imperio americano" y "Las invasiones bárbaras", es una sátira, una reflexión moral sobre nuestra época.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
Médecin
Myriam Monette, a not very conformist and slightly whimsical Miss Weatherwoman, is now forty years old, has a new boyfriend and a new mandate at Channel Météo (also called Channel M). On the surface, nothing has changed. In reality, nothing is the same anymore. Like a green lawn on a summer day suddenly covered in snow, Myriam went to bed a confirmed single “adulteen” and woke up in love, living with someone else and undergoing major changes.
Alphonse Chandonnet
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Elmer Carson
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.
Security Guard
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
Normand Patry
This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. This movie relates all the small tragedies surrounding the gaz bar, such as hold-ups, competition from the big companies invading the neighbourhood, and the fact that is sons don't seem to be interested in the gas station.
Henri Bilodeau
In 1950, in a small village called Northern Station, Samuel, a young mailman and his girlfriend, Évelyne, spend hours replying to letters that children have sent to Santa Claus. While delivering the letters on Christmas Eve, Samuel dies of cold in the forest. He finds himself in the magic land of Santa Claus, where he becomes an elf in charge of answering Santa’s mail. Fifty years later, Samuel opens a letter from Satia, a young girl from Northern Station who asks Santa Claus if he will save her grandmother, who is seriously ill. With the help of his friend, Howie, the young elf decides to go to the village for grant the child’s wish. However, it turns out that Satia’s grandmother is none other than Évelyne.
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
Édouard Doré
In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.
Marcel
Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel’s only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story to tell, his hope to share.
Jeweller
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Stenographer
Una ola de calor se extiende por toda la ciudad de Montreal. En el suelo de la cocina, tras una noche romántica, dos hombres hacen el amor. En el momento del orgasmo, Yves, un prostituto adicto al sexo, mata a su amante, Claude. Días después, se entrega a la policía, que investiga las causas por las que Yves acabó con la vida de Claude.
Security Guard
En Montreal, un joven artista acepta la propuesta de un sacerdote para representar la Pasión de Cristo en los jardines de la parroquia, interpretando él mismo el papel de Jesús. No tardan en darse lugar las desavenencias entre el equipo artístico y la comunidad parroquial.
Claude
Wilfrid
A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
Bertrand
Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
Ti-Kid-Radio
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Lucien
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
Gaston
A film by Gilles Groulx.
Piwi
The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.
Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The film is set in Montreal.
Samuel Paslow
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.