Danielle Proulx

Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water.

In a public mall bathroom, Lilly, François, and their 6-year-old daughter bid farefell to an unborn family member.

Durante um rigoroso inverno em Montreal, uma turma do ensino fundamental fica cambaleando depois que seu professor comete suicídio. Bachir Lazhar, um carismático imigrante argelino, entra como professor substituto para a sala de aula de crianças traumatizadas. O tempo todo, ele deve manteve sua vida pessoal escondida: o fato de que ele está buscando refúgio político em Québec.

A little girl and her mother, an old man and his wife, and three couples in search of equilibrium are weakened by a drama that then tightens their bond, making them stronger and closer through adversity.

Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.

Esta é uma história de dois casos de amor. Um amor de um pai pelos seus cinco filhos e o amor de um filho pelo pai. Um amor tão forte capaz de fazê-lo viver uma mentira. Uma mística fábula sobre os dias modernos, C.R.A.Z.Y expõe a beleza, poesia e loucura do espírito humano e todas as suas contradições. O filho, Zac Beaulieu, nascido em 25 de dezembro de 1960, é diferente de todos os irmãos e tenta desesperadamente encaixar-se. Durante 20 anos, a vida o guiará por caminhos inesperados e surpreendentes, levando-o a aceitar sua verdadeira natureza e, ainda mais importante, levando seu pai a amá-lo como realmente é.

In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...

This feature documentary zooms in on Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough, where over 75 ethnic groups live side by side in a dizzying swirl of sound and colour. One day, filmmaker Lucie Lachapelle began knocking on the doors that isolated her from her neighbours. The result is a vibrant film about freedom and uprootedness set to urban music composed by Montreal jazz artist Harold Faustin.

A 12-year-old girl finds herself stranded on a lonely Caribbean island with a 20-year old retarded man in this sensitively rendered Canadian drama from Quebec. Emile and Cedrine are first seen during their rescue in which both are nearly in a coma. Their story of how they got there and survived is told via flashback. The two were the only survivors of a plane crash and at first Cedrine is terrified of Emile, thinking he might lose control and rape her. Fortunately, Emile is gentle and the two become friends, playmates, and eventually lovers in scenes that exploit neither character.

A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman.

When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married. Sarah's husband knows she will eventually get tired of Remy while his wife just can't let go. At first she throws him out, begs him to come back, cheats on him, hates him, and finally slumps into the worse depression ever. It is amazing what love can do...

In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.

A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.

A blind woman and her eight-year-old grandson walk over a carpet of dead leaves in a park. She recounts him the terrible story of the morning she woke up completely blind, years before he was born. The boy is frightened and sadden by the realization that his grandmother has never seen his face. She can nevertheless see him with her heart.