Isabelle Blais

Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.

Tired of her parents' constant arguments, 12-year-old Justine and her friends do everything they can to make them divorce.

A man takes part in a bizarre experiment testing his ability to adapt to a painful routine.

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.

At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?

Mamie is a Canadian-French short animated film by Janice Nadeau.

Student in anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Etienne and Eloise associate has a team of paranormal investigators to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of a student of the same court, 10 years ago. Their research will combine science and paranormal while we will follow the court their visit to Quebec three places known for their haunting phenomena. Faced with the horror and death, they will face their own demons in order to survive their nightmare.

Bruno, in his thirties and in desperate need of a purpose, ends up homeless after a breakup. Without despairing and under the watchful eye of his motherly big sister, this sawmill worker will find the drive to put his beloved blue suit back on and to rekindle an old flame.

Marie leads a calm and happy life withe her boyfriend in a nice suburban neighborhood. After a night out in a bar with her colleagues, she wakes up dizzy, in a cab, with no memories of the night. What could Marie say to her boyfriend Richard, when he suspects her of cheating on him? What if Antoine, a simple auto parts delivery man, has the key to this enigma.

The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...

Benoit, an actor surviving on his barman wages, follows the advice of is his brother Frank - a former hockey player turned talent agent- and grows a beard to get a part in a dinner theatre play. Benoit's girlfriend Vicky, an ex dramaturge who now works as a librarian, finds it difficult to accept this latest development, as it will delay the couple's plan to purchase a condo from their friends Caro and Vincent, who manage a hair and beauty salon. But Benoit's beard seems to have magical powers: he suddenly has a great deal of success, while Vicky develops a mysterious allergy to her boyfriend's facial hair.

En su trigésimo cumpleaños, Kiki echa un vistazo a lo que ha sido su vida: hija de una madre perturbada, se crió con su abuela, y su madurez ha estado marcada por sus excesos con el alcohol y el sexo.

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

Hace un año, Nicolás era un exitoso fotógrafo. Trabajaba en una revista de farándula y vivía con su novia Margarita. Todo parecía ir de maravilla. Hasta el día que encontró a su novia a punto de hacer el amor con Mallarino, su jefe y dueño de la editorial donde trabaja. En ese momento perdió a Margarita, su casa y de paso su empleo.

A lovelorn and destitute soccer player accepts a job as a hitman in Montreal.

Mark (David Wenham) es un policía australiano voluntario en la misión de las Naciones Unidas en Timor Oriental. Encargado de la Policía Civil en la base de la ONU en Nunura, se encuentra con Julie (Isabelle Blais), una policía canadiense en su primera misión en el extranjero y con Ismenio (Alex Tilman), el joven traductor timorense asignado para trabajar con la unidad. Mark y Julie están desarmados y no están preparados emocionalmente para la brutal realidad de Timor, mientras que Ismenio no cree que la ONU puede prevenir lo que parece un final inevitable y sangriento del proceso...

A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.

Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual morals... Disillusioned with love, Jeanne is nevertheless engaged to Noël. However, Jeanne and Noël lead separate lives, and only communicate by leaving each other messages on the fridge.Everything suddenly becomes very complicated. Jeanne compels Julie to take up with Noël so she can have a fling with a passionate musician. Noël, meanwhile, sets Julie up with Michel -- without Jeanne's knowledge. Julie mixes things up even further. Egged on by her friend Marie-Ève, she alters the contents of the messages on the fridge in an attempt to breathe new life into Jeanne and Noël's relationship. Along the way, she also begins to fall for the seductive Michel. The tables are turned on everyone... In the game of love and truth, illusion leads to betrayal, but love conquers all.

The oldest daughter of an impoverished Montreal family, Monique Sparvieri vows to find a way to get out of the ghetto in which she lives. Abandoned by Michael, the love of her life, Monique finds herself alone again when her second husband, Gaston, is sentenced to ten months in prison. While many other women her age are still dreaming of Prince Charming, Monique takes her own destiny in her hands. She and her new love, Gerald Simard, plan a series of bank robberies. Intoxicated by passion and success, Monique isn't afraid of anything and she wants to make sure that her children don't experience the same miserable upbringing as she did.

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

The reconnaissance flights of the Americans into East Block airspace were more numerous and more dangerous than originally claimed. From the sky, the Cold War was waged in earnest - with cameras, aerial canons and rockets. There were countless weapons launched, prisoners taken and fatalities suffered. During the secret aerial war the superpowers forced patently western aircraft into Soviet airspace; Western Germany was a sort of base for America's espionage activities. The film discloses a multitude of heretofore unknown actions, elucidated by impressive, often emotional commentary by the actual participants. The contemporary witnesses discuss operations including the dropping of agents during night flights, and top-secret actions undertaken to detect potential bases for nuclear attacks.

Historia de un famoso empresario del mundo del espectáculo de doble vida -productor de televisión de día, asesino de la CIA por la noche-. En lo más alto de su carrera, Chuck Barris fue reclutado por la agencia gubernamental americana para convertirse en uno de sus agentes. Escrita por Charlie Kaufman -"Being John Malkovich", según la famosa autobiografía no autorizada del propio Chuck Barris. En Estados Unidos obtuvo bastante buenas críticas.

Quebec-Montreal: 250 km (150 miles) of asphalt, nine thirtysomething travelers, four cars, one destination. The journey becomes an opportunity to share points of view about life and to discuss troubling questions about our existence.

Roch, preside una extraña comuna que incluye sus ocho esposas y sus veintiséis hijos. Una trabajadora social visita la comuna y a primera vista todo parece ir bien, pero su intuición detecta desesperación y tristeza entre las esposas. Su intuición, le lleva a investigar más y descubre un niño muerto, extraños rituales que acontecen e impactantes abusos físicos y mentales. Con decisión y aun a riesgo de su vida, está decidida a liberar a los miembros de la comuna de la tiranía de Roch. Pero la asombrosa habilidad de Roch, para manipular a la gente y al sistema, incluyendo los investigadores del juzgado, le llevará a una situación límite.

Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard Cohen's novel "Beautiful Losers" and attends writing classes. Luka, a Czech immigrant, picks up Jo when he sees her shoplifting. When Johnny surprises Luka kissing Jo, he attacks him. In the ensuing fight Jo accidentally kills Johnny, and Luka leaves the scene, but drops his wallet. The police assume that Luka attacked Johnny after a break-in and Jo goes along with that, but feels guilty about it.

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.

Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado (France Arbour), her biological mother, who put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Marie-Madeleine is to take a long road trip for a magazine assignment, and she invites Mado along. Joining the two women is Marie-Madeleine's daughter (Isadora Galwey), who has yet to meet her German father. The three women share their thoughts and ideas as they travel through an idyllic setting to photograph birds. Les Fantomes des Trois Madeleine was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight series.