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- A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
- A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
- In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
- Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
- Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
- Members of a dysfunctional family react differently to the suicide of the eldest son.
- A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
- In Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.
- Two French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Their road trip gradually becomes a spiritual quest.
- American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.
- In a Budapest ghetto, Richie, a young gypsy in love with Julia, daughter of the local Hungarian pimp, wants to put an end to the old family feuds. But there's only one way to do it: money. For that, Richie goes back in time to eradicate mammoths and turn them into oil he'll be able to sell later.
- A young mother is forced to shelter five soldiers for a night in her isolated house.
- After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina's road to ruin.
- Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
- Honoré Blanchard, 85, earned his living cleaning up bodies for the mob and as a freshwater fisherman. He lives with his son Fernand, operator of a "gaz bar" in Coteau Rouge. Its prices are low, but mostly it has a large pétanque alley adjoining the Ekonogaz where the local association of pétanque players meets. Fernand has two children: Hélène and Henri. Hélène is married to an unscrupulous promoter, Éric Miljours, who wants to raze Coteau Rouge and turn it into an upscale development. Hélène is the only Blanchard not living in Coteau Rouge. Since she was unable to have children on her own, Micheline, her own mother, agreed to be a surrogate. Henri lives with Estelle. He borrowed $ 125,000 from his brother-in-law for Estelle to take experimental treatments in Mexico. They have a 15-year-old son, Alexis, who, fed up with the family's hard-up circumstances, has decided to start a company that offers environmental manual mowing. Éric is not welcome in Coteau Rouge as he has his sights set on a major project: a 128-storey condominium tower on Île aux fesses. The day he visits the future site with his wife, a monstrous sturgeon crashes into the hull of his boat and Éric and Hélène are thrown into the water. Eric is lost forever, but Hélène is saved by her prosthesis, which serves as a lifebuoy. It's harvest time. Micheline has finally given birth and Hélène is a mother at last. The atmosphere is festive. Micheline has concocted her famous recipe for rabbit with evaporated milk to relieve her mammary congestion because Fernand would rather play pétanque...
- In the 90's, Victor Pellerin, a young star of the Art scene, burns a fortune in paintings and leaves Montreal without a trace. Sophie Deraspe revisits the events, and meets the many people who got charmed by this troubling character, who seemed as comfortable with the paint brush as with other firearms. Rechercher Victor Pellerin (aka Missing Victor Pellerin) reveals the contradictions in this character thought the perspectives of lovers, art dealers, fellow artists and friends: people who all claim they knew him, oh so well...
- Over a summer, young friends discover their creative paths while dealing with nostalgia and heartbreak. Ben and Seb become friends while taking a course taught by an artist they both admire. Seb falls in love with the artist and tries unsuccessfully to express his feelings to her. Meanwhile, Ben must decide whether to return to his homeland to help his sister Jasmine care for their aging father. Letty and Stanley, two other students, struggle to define their relationships and ambitions. The story is told through a series of whimsical episodes in a minimalist visual style.
- In Abitibi, in 1948, Richard Bombardier, a miner,dies tragically on Saint-Valentine's Day night. The entire mining community believes it was Mathilde his wife, who killed him, which is not true. To avenge herself, Mathilde seduces Robert Sincennes and Roch Devos, the town's union leaders and husbands of Anita and Marguerite, who started the rumour. She becomes pregnant, not knowing if it was Roch or Robert who is the father! This vengeance does not help Mathilde who obliterates herself with alcohol. Anita does not forgive Rober, who exiles himself in the foreign legion to please his son Louis, who dreams of becoming a soldier like his childhood hero, Simon le Légionnaire. Robert brings Roch with him after Marguerite Devos throws herself at the mining boss, Iram Walker, whom she marries without love and lives a life of luxury and decadence with her artist friends. Anita lives alone and works as the night operator for the telephone company and where she follows the conversations between Maurice Duplessis and his moral advisor, Monseigneur Madore. Liam Hennessy is a political exile from Ireland who sells Irish lottery tickets in Northern Quebec. His best buyer is Mathilde's father, Amedee Marechal, who often loses at poker. To keep an eye on him, Liam establishes himself in Sullidor where he teaches Nemesis, Mathilde's 9 year old daughter, Gaelic. Having refused all her life to speak a single word outloud, she willingly adopts Liam's native tongue. The film is narrated by 14 year old Louis Sincennes, in 1958. Louis goes to Ireland with his possible half-sister, Nemesis and falls in love with Elen, a beautiful Irish girl his own age. As for Nemesis, she meets others who speak Gaelic within the gaelstach.
- Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of crime and violence. As he waits for his father to be released to avenge his mother, he realizes that he doesn't have to follow his father's footsteps or the path chosen for him. Against all odds, he takes control of his own destiny. His awakening to new humane values enables him to change change course despite the obvious risk of losing the only family he has ever known.
- The narrative unfolds from the point-of-view of a single character named Roach. As part of the filmmaking process, he's been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. This documentary is from the point of view of the kids themselves, in order to provide alternative voices. Roach's camera is positioned behind "enemy" lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world's most prosperous countries-considered thugs, criminals, and enemies. This film shatters the windshield between Us and Them. Roach's camera acts as the hammer: hard, forceful, direct; impacting with the force of an actual life. Cross's camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of individual lives, mirrored upon the shards of flying glass.
- In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Caz , a beautiful but psychopathic ex-lover from years ago has discovered her whereabouts, she is on a mission to fight Betrayal and defend those who have been hurt by "Love". She wants Marie all to herself, and if she can't have her then no one can. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.
- A grief-stricken and destitute French ex-soccer player has moved to Montreal, the home town of his lost love, in an effort to recapture her presence. He is haunted by the regret of never having told her how much he loved her. To earn money he accepts to kill a certain Igor Rizzi...
- A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first U.S. soldier to die in the American-led war in Iraq.
- Teresa, an alluring Mexican woman, comes to Montreal in search of her husband who had abandoned her in Mexico. In Montreal she meets Fenton, a young man who falls in love with her and convinces her to let him help her find her husband. They criss-cross Montreal in their pursuit, persuading a string of comical characters to reveal clues that will lead them to the wayward husband. In the end, Teresa must decide whether to reveal the painful secret that haunts her.
- Tomas and Sofia have lived in Montreal a long time, but Sofia is feeling nostalgic. One day they befriend another couple, Luisa and Mariano, recent arrivals here who are feeling adrift. In a moment of desperation, Luisa speaks longingly of the Charuflauta, an apparently curative procedure for the melancholy. Sofia convinces Tomas they should help Luisa and Mariano launch a local Charuflauta business together. Tomas is skeptical - he's the only one who can't remember what the Charuflauta is. Nevertheless, the four start up an agency dedicated to providing this mysterious service. When their first clients, another couple, call them up and actually request the fabled service, a poignant comedy of errors ensues.
- Guy Lemon is a still life artist who believes the only reason he hasn't sold a single painting is because he is "too far ahead of his time". In a case of mistaken identity, Guy is believed to be dead and his last work, a half finished pear, is misinterpreted as a naked pregnant woman and hailed as a masterpiece. With the help of Shep, a shyster opportunist with day dreams of his own, Guy embarks on a madcap mission to correct the misperception and show the world his true genius. Along the way, he must overcome deception and delusion to ultimately find self-acceptance and maybe even Love.
- Montcerf, the last village before Abitibi. The forest, the night, the silence... twigs snap, big black boots make their way forward cautiously. The hunter on the hunt. With tenderness and simplicity, documentarian André-Line Beauparlant plunges into this world and paints the portrait of six hunters. Alternating between interviews and hunting sequences, the film overflows with breathtaking authenticity as it touches subjects such as love, death, and religion.
- A sensitive depiction of the real and imaginary worlds of a little six-year-old boy, who is lucid, confident and blind.
- On the eve of his 50th birthday Jimmy W finds himself at the cross roads of his existence. For him it's now or never. The time has come to become rich and maybe even famous. Pretending to be an American Producer, he offers his services to the St-Tite Rodeo to develop an ad campaign to attract American tourists. Charmed as much by his demeanor as well as by his proposition, the Rodeo organizers call him in for a meeting to present his project. The meeting turns out to be a complete fiasco. Suspicious about Jimmy, they politely turn him down. Jimmy returns home furious and determined to get his revenge. Operating from his kitchen, he plans an elaborate scheme to extort the beer stock from the Rodeo valued at a quarter of million dollars.
- Based on a series of Black & White stills by Photographer Carl Valiquet, Filmmaker Richard Gravel edited and animated a captivating portrait of young Cuban Boxers and their struggle in the Centro Havana neigbourhood.
- Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.
- A shy man confronts the boundaries of his identity as he takes a Salsa course while his older brother films him.