Henri Picard

Montreal, winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant to get by.

Maria Chapdelaine tells the story of a young woman having to choose between three suitors promising each a different life. Faced with events that jostle her, Maria must then take his destiny into her own hands and decide what her future will be.

To celebrate Axel’s coming of age, his older brother Nino offers him to spend the evening with a prostitute : a gift that may surprise him.

Ludovic sees his adolescence collapsing: Brigitte, his mother, disappears in the emergency room. Alone, he will have to navigate the chaotic maze of the hospital. Without references, he will have to free himself from his innocence in order to find it back.

Trying to impress, Jules invites some partygoers back to his family’s bowling alley. The anticipated party quickly becomes anything but a party.

Em Montreal, na década de 1990, a família siciliana Paternò comanda o violento submundo do narcotráfico canadense com mão de ferro. O patriarca, Don Frank, busca consolidar sua riqueza investindo na construção de uma ponte na Itália, e convoca Vince Gamache, filho de seu antigo alfaiate Henri, para ajudar a extorquir os investidores. Subindo rapidamente na hierarquia da máfia, Vince logo vira inimigo do filho ciumento de Don Paternò, Giaco, resultando em uma guerra sangrenta entre as duas famílias.

A rebellious poet befriends a woman and her son, leading him from the verge of self-destruction to the path of redemption.

Though Louis agrees to attend his brother’s bachelor party, he is not particularly interested in the planned activities or cleaning up after the drunken groom-to-be. But as the night’s events get wilder he is forced to decide how much he can tolerate.

12-years-old Manon promises her younger brother, Mimi, that they will stay together, despite their difficult family circumstances and the ominous signs of being put into foster care. During the height of Quebec's FLQ Crisis in 1970, they stage their own rebellion by kidnapping an elderly woman and hiding her in the country, aided by their two cousins.

With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of a new railway line promises to connect Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to the rest of the world and brings the hope of abundance. Riopel, the hulking blacksmith, starts working on the railway track and convinces the locals to invest in his project rather than waste their time playing in the garden. Ésimésac’s big project flounders under the weight of metal. But can he really stop progress?

Louis is "repo man" who is no stranger to strong-arm tactics in his work, but he has dreamed of becoming an actor since he was a child. When cousin helps him get an audition, he gets the help of a fam... read more ous actor to him secretly rehearse his scenes. He doesn't even tell his girlfriend Suzie But, Suzie also has a secret. She's pregnant and doesn't want her child to grow up in an atmosphere of violence.