Mathieu Laverdière

Follows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.

After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.

A professor of philosophy teaches lessons to his awakened students. One day, one of his students decides to put his lessons into practice, and she goes on a journey that shakes her deepest convictions.

Maxime is a miner with a troubled past. After an explosion at his mine, Maxime attempts to find redemption by saving his fellow miners.

Over the last 25 years, the Montreal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has released seven albums and presented visually extraordinary shows around the world. At State’s End is their latest show, captured at the majestic Cinéma Impérial. It features six 16 mm projectors playing images in a loop to accompany the music from the band’s latest album. Part documentary, part experimental film, At State’s End! is a unique auditory and visual experience.

O filme conta a história de Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) e Micha (Yury Paulau), dois homens que se conhecem em uma unidade vazia de um prédio em construção em Montreal durante uma nevasca, e dão início a um romance, voltando a se encontrarem na mesma unidade vazia.

Valerie foi a única sobrevivente de uma execução em massa ocorrida em meio a uma guerra civil no Quebec. Com o passar dos anos, embora tenha conseguido reconstruir sua vida, tornando-se enfermeira numa casa de repouso e iniciando um novo relacionamento amoroso, Valerie ainda sofre da síndrome do sobrevivente. Até que conhece Jeanne, uma erudita e sarcástica paciente, que lhe dá outra perspectiva sobre a vida.

Um fotógrafo parte em direção a uma floresta misteriosa para encontrar Boychuk, testemunha e vítima do Grande Incêndio que varreu o norte de Ontário na virada do século 20. Mas antes que ela chegue, ela descobre que Boychuck acabou de morrer. Sobreviventes do antigo incêndio, Tom e Charlie, dois homens idosos que escolheram viver seus últimos dias na floresta, são apresentados a Marie Desneige, cuja institucionalização de 60 anos apenas alimentou sua paixão pela vida. Enquanto isso, o fotógrafo descobre que Boychuck foi um pintor, cuja obra foi inteiramente inspirada no Grande Incêndio. A história nos imerge em um drama histórico enquanto nos cativa com a vida estranha desses homens da floresta. Três homens que, escolhendo a liberdade acima de tudo, fizeram um acordo com a morte.

The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States is bringing the world's population back into a Cold War-like climate. In the small town of Baie-St-Paul (Québec, Canada), Pier-Luc is afraid: afraid of dying, of course, but, above all, afraid of dying before he could make love for the first time. With his buddies, Hubert and Samuel, he goes through "the summer of last chances" and takes drastic measures in order to lose his virginity - Before we explode.

8-year-old Eva and her father go on a Montreal-Mexico road trip aboard an 18-wheeler.

The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.

JP lives with his brother Vincent, his mother Joe and his girlfriend Mel in a small appartement of Verdun. Constantly walking a tightrope, JP tries to maintain a proper balance between the numerous needs of his family of which he feels responsible for, the collecting job he is doing with his brother and his involvements in his uncle’s drug cartel who he sees as a father figure.

In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase.

Otherworldly frequencies and textured, fluctuating images beautifully visualize the distress of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and who must live in exile from cities in order to find solitude from the noise.

Alex é um jovem viciado que vende seu corpo em Montreal. Ele é ladeado por Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric e Velma, todos presos na mesma espiral de compulsão. Reféns da lógica do mercado da sociedade, eles são os anjos caídos de um tempo sombrio e violento.

O filme, conta a história de Gabrielle, a personagem, uma jovem de vinte e poucos anos, portadora da Síndrome de Williams, que busca a todo custo provar sua autonomia a fim de conquistar sua independência. Interpretada de forma iluminada por Gabrielle (Marion Rivard), a atriz, ela também portadora da tal síndrome, a jovem sorridente mora em um centro de apoio, junto com outros jovens também portadores de deficiências intelectuais. Lá, cercada de cuidados e de carinho, Gabrielle leva uma vida "normal": trabalha, nada, passeia e faz parte de um coral, sua grande paixão.

Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn...

The movements are simple, but the body struggles to follow.

A nightmarish accident that leads to an elderly man’s death one night after getting drunk with his best friend Yves. Neither chooses to confess just yet. Yves, the brasher member of the duo, succeeds in living on with his life, but Gabriel, more shy and honest, feels the guilt choking him as days turn into weeks and weeks become months...

A história de Catherine, que, depois de seu marido violento, coloca sua vida em sério perigo uma noite, decide fugir com seu filho e começar uma nova vida sob uma nova identidade.

Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a «cinema for the blind«, where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.

An intimate and unflinching look over 12 months at the hardscrabble lives of hustlers in downtown Montreal.

Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the young woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.

Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.

William is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days camping with him, taking advantage of the situation by filming the trip and their time spent with another young gay couple. The camera never stops shooting, even when Médéric decides to get it on with another guy in a tent. As Canada's first Dogme95 film, the story is shot on location, with natural lighting and live sound, the camera is hand-held and all superficial elements are forbidden. Yet somehow, in spite of these harsh restrictions during the filmmaking process, the result is warm and beautiful.

Dive is an urban fairy tale about a self-destructive man who can't feel anything. From the moment he sets eyes on a mysterious young woman, something inside him stirs. Unbeknownst to him, she is part of the White Eye community, a marginalized group of hyper-sensitive beings inhabiting the same world as humans. When her true identity is revealed, his destructive nature reaches its peak as he contemplates a drastic escape from his melancholy.