Paul Ahmarani

Paul Ahmarani

Nacimiento : 1972-01-01, Québec, Canada

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Paul Ahmarani

Películas

Who by Fire
Albert Gary
Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.
Arlette
Laurent Deschamps
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.
Crisis
Customs Inspector Fournier
Tres historias sobre el mundo de los opiáceos chocan entre sí: un traficante de drogas planea una operación que implica a varios cárteles entre Canadá y los Estados Unidos; un arquitecto que se recupera de una fuerte adicción al OxyContin descubre la verdad que esconde su hijo de su relación con la droga; un profesor de universidad trata de averiguar qué relación une al gobierno con una compañía farmacéutica que está diseñando un nuevo analgésico que aseguran no "provoca ninguna adicción".
Jouliks
Directeur d'école
Vera and Zak meet by chance and it's crazy love. The two lovebirds settle in a decayed house at the end of a row, where little Yanna comes into the world. They raise their child in a spirit of total freedom, without constraint. Zak often leaves his family to find his family, gypsies who do not like him to meet a woman from the city. When Vera's parents arrive unexpectedly at home, they will jeopardize the already fragile balance of the trio.
Ville Neuve
Le tenancier
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.
Génesis
Perrier
El primer amor y todo lo que ello conlleva es uno de los momentos más importantes en la vida de un adolescente. Génesis cuenta las historias de tres jóvenes que se encuentran en esta situación. Guillaume ha descubierto que es gay y trata de revelarlo a su familia, que no parece estar lista para esa noticia. La hermana de este, Charlotte, recibe una propuesta inocente por parte de su novio, que podría cambiar la vida de ambos para siempre. Además, otro joven llamado Félix trata de hacer lo necesario para estar el mayor tiempo posible con la chica de la que está enamorado.
Wild
Uncle Henri
A young girl befriends a supernatural entity living in her Uncle's cornfield.
The Natural Sweetness of Skin
Louis
Revealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
Family First
Danny
JP lives with his brother Vincent, his mother Joe and his girlfriend Mel in a small appartement of Verdun. Constantly walking a tightrope, JP tries to maintain a proper balance between the numerous needs of his family of which he feels responsible for, the collecting job he is doing with his brother and his involvements in his uncle’s drug cartel who he sees as a father figure.
Yolanda
Tom
Coming from the countryside to visit a friend, Solange 75, rediscovers Montreal. She talks to everyone with confidence and does some portraits of the people she meets. She meets Tom, a younger, moody and disillusioned man. Fictional scenes are interwoven with documentary scenes: portraits of Montrealers and snatches of conversations taken from life.
Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives?
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?
The Cyclotron
Knig
In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase.
El cuarto prohibido
Dr. Deng / Speedy
La tripulación de un submarino, una partida de temibles bandidos del bosque, un cirujano famoso y un batallón de niños soldados. Todos reciben más de lo que esperaban, ya que se abren camino hacia las ideas progresistas sobre la vida y el amor.
My Internship in Canada
Professeur Amin
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
News, news
That winter in Montréal, there is a girl. Three captains are wooing her. Cinema killed Jean-Baptiste Lamirande, the disastrous Liberator, who comes back to life just before Christmas. Héloïse, an amnesiac actress who lost her watch, has been reported missing.
El Gallo Clueco
Léon Francoeur
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.
Mars and April
Arthur
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
Un amor entre dos mundos
Mr. Tenet
Adam es aparentemente un tipo corriente dentro de un universo extraordinario. Vive humildemente de lo que gana, pero su espíritu romántico conserva en la memoria el recuerdo del amor imposible por una chica que conoció en un mundo distinto, en un lugar que se halla fuera de su alcance. Sin embargo, cuando vuelve a verla en la televisión, no habrá nada en el mundo que le impida encontrar el camino que lo lleve hasta ella.
The Future Is Now!
Man Of Today
A journalist (Liane Balaban) meets “Man of Today” (Paul Ahmarani) who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters. As an experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter. Travelling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great minds in the arts and sciences. Starting with an unexpected poetry reading and conversation with experimental poet Christian Bök, Man of Today engages with architect Shigeru Ban, activist Francis Dupuis-Déri, philosopher Alain de Botton, artist Marlene Dumas, novelist Rivka Galchen, leading scientists and a ghost. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?
Vampires
Adélard
Falso documental llegado de Bélgica donde un equipo de televisión sigue a una familia de vampiros para filmar un documental sobre su vida. La familia está compuesta por el matrimonio formado por Georges y Bertha y sus hijos Samson y Grace; viven en la parte francófona de Bélgica y el documental muestra cómo se alimentan de inmigrantes ilegales, los problemas de los hijos adolescentes y la ofensa que les obligará a mudarse a Canadá.
A Sentimental Capitalism
Max
A Sentimental Capitalism is a tragicomic tale on the extension of economic logic to art and love. The film chronicles the apprenticeship of Fernande Bouvier, a naive country girl, who, traveling from Paris to New York in 1929, from avant-garde Bohemia to the narrow circles of high finance, will loose a few illusions.
Adam's Wall
As another Middle East crisis explodes, Adam, a Jewish teenager and Yasmine a Lebanese girl fall in love in Montreal. But the crisis overseas effects their relationship in ways they never expected.
Truffle
Jean
Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.
María Antonieta, la verdadera historia
Léonard
Biografía de María Antonieta (1755–1793), archiduquesa de Austria y Reina de Francia y de Navarra. Con tan solo 14 años llega a la opulenta corte francesa tras prometerse al rey Luis XVI. Sola, incomprendida y repudiada por su propio marido, la joven pronto se convierte en protagonista de diversos escándalos cortesanos.
Congorama
Louis Legros
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
La vie avec mon père
Paul Agira
Circo del Sol: Midnight Sun
The Dreamer
El 11 de Julio de 2004, más de 200.000 espectadores abarrotaban las calles del centro de Montreal para participar en una celebración única, un espectáculo exclusivo de una sola noche. Con más de 250 artistas, Midnight Sun es una brillante combinación de música y circo, la química perfecta entre la vista y el oído.
Des gars, des filles et un salaud
Éric
A womanizer decides to start a dating service to make money and take advantage of vulnerable women.
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Jean-Charles
The Marsh
Ulysse
Two social outcasts in 19th century Eastern Europe, Alexandre and Ulysse, become friends and settle down to live alone on the edge of a marsh that is reputedly haunted by demons, monsters and goblins. These two men have been outcasts all their lives. Alexandre was raised in a nomad family that traveled from town to town, being rejected by the people of his homeland. Due to his physical abnormalities, Ulysse has always been pushed aside ever since his childhood. When a strange murder is committed in a nearby village, the peasants turn their suspicions on Alexandre and Ulysse, because they are different. In the eyes of the villagers, they are demons that must be hunted, burned and killed.
Waterfront Dreams
Michel
A bittersweet tale about a small group of men and women whose forest adventures trigger memories of childhood and past loves. A harsh fantasy, wherein it is hard to tell whether the characters are living in their dreams, or dreaming away their lives.
Soft Shell Man
Bruno
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Lista cerrada
Una prostituta de lujo extorsiona a sus prestigiosos clientes. Al llegar el caso a la Corte la mujer entregará al titular del tribunal una lista con numerosos nombres de juristas, políticos y otros personajes de prestigio. El magistrado se debatirá entre hacer la lista pública o no. Mientras se halla en este dilema, la mujer será atacada por un desconocido y el propio magistrado deberá poner en peligro su vida para resolver el caso.
The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge
Christophe
Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision.
The Last Breath
Max
A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.