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- An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
- A pair of rival butterflies form an unlikely friendship.
- Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.
- From two-time Palme d'Or-winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Tori and Lokita is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.
- Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
- With the support of her family and the man she loves, the 14th child of a modest family will become the most famous singer in the world.
- In the early 70s, after leaving their troubled hometown in Haiti, a young boy and his mother settle in a small rural village in Quebec where the boy counts on his invisible friend to understand the new world around him.
- Naïlle enters Emma's life after she re-evaluates her professional and personal relationships with a demanding partner. The cellist and single mother offers Emma a new family dynamic.
- Young Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.
- A modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.
- On a cold winter's day in 1940, Jules moves to live with his uncle, mayor of a settler's village in northern Quebec. He is banned from school because of his rare skin disease. From that moment on, his greatest wish is to be cured.
- A Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.
- Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves to each other, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship.
- Summer 1998, Kabul in ruins is occupied by the Taliban. In love despite the daily violence and misery, Mohsen and Zunaira want to believe in the future. But a senseless act by Mohsen will upset their lives forever.
- Nadia, an Olympic swimmer in her twenties, faces the challenges of her imminent retirement.
- Four childhood friends reunite for a wedding in Rio, only to find themselves on the run through the Brazilian countryside after accidentally killing someone at a drug-fueled party.
- Taking advantage of his mother's absence as she departs on a cruise ship for some rest and relaxation, 12-year-old Félix sets out to find his father, a fisherman who disappeared at sea two years earlier.
- A world traveling pianist and her husband have decided not to have a baby, but then he sees a surprise childbirth on a flight and tampers with her pill.
- 21 year-old Rémi leaves his small town in Quebec for the first time to go sell Christmas trees in New York City in order to pay off a debt that threatens his future. Dumped in the heart of the Bronx, he meets Laura, a deadpan French activist, who will be his colleague for the next month. Together they will meet the vibrant community around their street corner and learn to survive the absurd trials of Christmas tree sales.
- Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a teenage girl who invites him to spend the night at her place...
- Desperate to become less shallow, a handsome teenage boy deforms his face with bandages and attends a support group for disfigured people.
- A woman takes her former husband and his children by another woman into her home, and becomes attached to the children.
- Forbach, Eastern France. Since his wife walked out to the family, Mario has raised their daughters on his own. Frida, 14, blames him for her mother leaving. Niki, 17, dreams of independence. Meanwhile Mario waits for his wife to come home.
- A camera aboard a drone flies over a territory. The aerial images show barren landscapes, dotted with shabby houses, animals and a few human figures. We scarcely have time to wonder where we are when a text appears on the screen directly addressing the viewer: we are in Syrian Kurdistan, liberated from the occupation of the Islamic State, whose jihadist members are currently in prison. The woman who speaks has been given permission to question them; about their ideas, their past and the future. The Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, who made a great impression on the Visions du Réel audience in 2016 with GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES, shows towards them dialectic behaviour typical of those who want to understand before they pass sentence. Their stories thus take shape, framed by a mise en scène that shifts between words, faces and aerial views of the landscape. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematographic object.
- OUR OWN is a social suspense about Magalie, a teenager who will have no choice but to take back the reins of her own life. Against all odds.
- A moose is killed by an arrow in the woods. Over time, its decaying carcass becomes a feast for various scavengers like foxes, raccoons, insects, bears, and carrion birds.
- At the urging of his girlfriend, a frustrated Afro-Cuban ballet dancer seduces a lonely Iranian-Canadian divorcee to secure passage from Cuba to Canada, where he plans to reunite with his girlfriend.
- Larger-than-life, reckless and eccentric Imelda embarks on a quest to settle old scores before celebrating her 100th birthday. The filmmaker plays her as she feistily expounds on refusing to grow old.
- Colette's life is shattered when her husband dies in a mysterious road accident. This may bring her closer to her daughter Gabrielle, a young bulimic woman who works as a luxury escort.
- Annie frantically flees Montreal for the US with her young son, Felix and teenage daughter, Sarah, fearing the repercussions after Sarah severely injures her school bully. When their car breaks down just outside a small town in the Adirondacks, the family is stranded. Paul, a single father and the town's lone mechanic, isn't able to fix the car until the following week. Annie's stubborn insistence to leave town at all costs comes head-to-head with Paul's unwillingness to give in. When Sarah realizes that her secret is out in the open, she runs away, forcing Annie and Paul to join forces to find her. When Paul's traumatic past is revealed, Annie realizes that she is not the only one running and comes to terms with facing the music.
- Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, Le Rire presents a humane exploration of the survivor's syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
- A look at the ocean in its wholeness. Hubert Reeves, surrounded by passionate scientists and explorers, presents us with an overview that explores the diversity of its living organisms, the necessity to protect it, the threats it faces due to human activities, but also the possibilities for preventing them and its extraordinary ability to regenerate itself when given the possibility.
- From her belly injections in anticipation of a possible pregnancy she's not even sure she wants, to invasive and frightening chemotherapy treatments, to hair loss or medical appointments for a potential chest reconstruction, she documents everything. Marie-Philip, forced to go back to live with her parents for the duration of the treatments, confides, under the watchful and delicate eye of filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. Her fear, her pain, her anger, but also her joys, hopes and dreams... The young woman opens a window on her intimacy and relationships with overwhelming honesty. For more than a year, we shared with her this human experience, in all its ups and downs, diving without false modesty or sensationalism into a medical process softened by the unfailing support of her family. Each step then becomes an opportunity to measure her courage, her strength of character, her humor and her sense of resilience, but above all, every moment spent with her, every smile and every tear, compose an ode to life of irresistible strength.
- After years living in Maroc, and now suffering from terminal lung cancer, Pierrot has decided to return to his hometown in Québec, in order to see his old chums and settle his affairs, but he has another project in mind which will need the help of his closest friend.
- How does an ordinary man, Éverard Leblanc, make his way through the 20th century? It is the story of his life in parallel of events that forged Quebec's identity. A life of symbols, faith and labor...
- MAD DOG LABINE is a fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village.
- City Dreamers is a film about our changing urban environment and four women architects, inspiring trailblazers with over 60 years of experience each, who are working, observing and thinking about the transformations that are shaping the city of today and tomorrow.
- 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.
- When Annie discovers her new friend Lola is sick, she creates imaginary worlds for her to escape.
- A 94 year old photographer, who began his career in Canada after emigrating from Hungary in 1956, continues to take pictures of everyday life.
- Rue de la Victoire is a documentary about hope, a representation of young people trying to rise above their social conditions. Mohamed Dhiaa Garbi, a Tunisian circus artist, gradually reconstructs his identity and gains his independence.
- -When old age imposes physical and sometimes mental decay, is there a way to maintain a hopeful attitude towards life and its mysteries? This is the question that the documentary 'Le vieil âge et l'espérance' project aims to confront not only specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists and philosophers, but first and foremost the lived experience of the elderly. themselves.
- Sukwan's Island is a coming-of-age feature documentary about a Thai family trying to preserve their daughter's imaginary world as she approaches adolescence.
- According to the FAO, the earth's topsoil could vanish within 60 years, worn away by erosion. Aware that time is running out, a pair of market gardeners strive to implement nature's fundamental principles in their fields in an attempt to forge a new alliance with all living organisms, a stance that requires great humility. Their quest is guided by ancient and new-found knowledge that confirms the interdependence of all that lives, the result of millions of years of co-evolution.
- Miss Loiseau's class is unlike any other. Her adult students are recent immigrants: some of them refugees, most learning to read and write for the first time, all eager to study, find work, and raise their families in peace. Their stories of pain and hope converge in one big-hearted lesson.