Fouad, a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant, and Max, a 27-year-old "old stock" Quebecer, both live frustrating lives. Their respective destinies lead them face to face, in a situation from which neither will emerge unscathed.
L'Indien
Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed in a disturbing world of strange mystical codes, he learns that his father was tracking a huge buck with awe-inspiring antlers alongside the “Indian”. After several outstanding short films, Aurtenèche delivers a first feature that obliquely references the legend of Saint Hubert, who encountered the Almighty while hunting a stag. A cryptic thriller, hidden manuscripts, the quest for self-knowledge, psychotropic drugs: La Contemplation du mystère boldly shifts between moods and genres.
Directeur de la polyvalente
Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her social life is no better as bullies and boys add to the pressure of growing up in the chaotic '90s.
Mr. Ayouch
Babz Dubreuil, a lonely ex-convict, works as a cook in a brunch restaurant. At the encouragement of a colleague, she finds the courage to ask an attractive customer on a date. It might be the beginning of redemption.
Communications Operator #1
巨大な球体型宇宙船が、突如地球に降り立つ。世界中が不安と混乱に包まれる中、言語学者のルイーズは宇宙船に乗ってきた者たちの言語を解読するよう軍から依頼される。彼らが使う文字を懸命に読み解いていくと、彼女は時間をさかのぼるような不思議な感覚に陥る。やがて言語をめぐるさまざまな謎が解け、彼らが地球を訪れた思いも寄らない理由と、人類に向けられたメッセージが判明する。
Djamel
It’s Christmas Eve, but the Algerian taxi driver living in Canada is more caught up in Ramadan. By chance he picks up a compatriot, a former pop star thought dead, and the evening gets more interesting.
Security Guard
ギリギリの生活を送るシングルマザーのダイアンは、15歳のスティーヴと二人で生活している。彼女は最近矯正施設から退所したばかりの注意欠陥多動性障害の息子の扱いに手を焼いていた。やがて母子は隣の家に住む、今は休職中の高校教師カイラと親しくなっていき……。＜カナダの俊英、グザヴィエ・ドラン監督が母と息子を題材に描く人間ドラマ。架空のカナダを舞台に、型破りなシングルマザーと問題児の息子、そして隣人の女性が織り成す人間模様を映し出す。アンヌ・ドルヴァルが母親を演じ、息子をアントワーヌ・オリヴィエ・ピロンが熱演。＞
Majid
A dramatization inspired by the real-life events surrounding the recruitment and capture of Ahmed Ressam - aka the "Millennium Bomber". Ressam was convicted of smuggling a bomb into the United States as part of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve, 1999.
