Ted Pluviose

A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their fifties who will have to reconnect after the death of their father who died prematurely from an unfortunate Ice Bucket Challenge.

The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost for several generations in Témiscouata, Quebec. The return to the fold of Anthony, the impetuous youngest of the family, then the arrival of Émilie, a radio host who exercises an ascendancy over Anthony and his older brother Adam, will come to test the harmony of the clan.

In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-something Quebec man before fleeing. With help from a Vietnamese former refugee, they try to solve the mystery.

After being touched by a patient's story, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.

Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon’s self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching him a lesson and making all of the lies reality on the eve of his company’s crucial meeting with a Russian businessman that Simon absolutely needs to impress in order to prevent the closure of the small-town plant where his twin brother Phil works.

It is a small village somewhere in Quebec with only 215 inhabitants. When young Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the villagers’ tranquil and regulated existence is thrown out of step. People are decidedly reluctant to talk about the accident. Time seems to lose all meaning. Snowy, frosty winter days stretch out into infinity. Mysterious figures emerge from the fog and commit strange acts. But what seems strange is sometimes more familiar than one might suspect.

George Édouard is a janitor at the Montréal Polytechnique. The only other person he meets at night is a PhD student in physics, Audrey. They often meet to talk about music and science. One day George Édouard sees the return of his long-lost brother, René. The latter attended an exorcism. A ghost of the earthquake in Haiti has haunted him since.

Claire, a recently retired widow, shares her suburban house with her sister Gisele. On a scorching summer day, Julien an old flame, shows up unexpectedly with the intention of winning Claire back. Proof that life never ceases to amaze us.

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.

Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with his family. In an effort to regain the love and respect of his audience, Marc’s agent decides to send him, against his will, on a humanitarian mission to Haiti. Nothing can prepare Marc for the journey on which he is about to embark.

木星の衛星エウロパへの有人探査へ向けて、4人の宇宙飛行士が1000日を宇宙ステーションで過ごす検証実験が開始された。任務は順調に進み、滞在900日も過ぎて帰還の日も近づいてきた。だがその矢先、彼らは信じられない光景を見る。眼前の地球であちこちからキノコ雲が立ち上り、地上との交信が不能に陥ったのだ。さらにひとりで脱出しようとしたリーダーのヴァンサンが唯一の帰還手段である連絡船を失わせてしまう。

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。＞

Que ta joie demeure is not a documentary about being a slave to the machine, alienation, dehumanisation or exploitation. Sound and image, editing and dramatic structure are merely employed to transpose workshops and factory floors into the cinematic space so as to explore the bizarre environments that workers adapt to and with which they skillfully interact, as if humanity had never done anything else since time immemorial.

Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.

Two friends spend a summer day together in the suburbs of Montreal. As the evening comes, they go to the fireworks hoping to be entertained but the event ends up igniting memories of a different nature.