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In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.

A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

-Two very close brothers, one autistic, spend their days living in fantasy together until a girl inevitably comes between them.

It's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead character to make those around him understand the reason for his crime.

The Algonquin people once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century.

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

A sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried; her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their sister.

Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organizes field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.

Criss-cross stories adapted by author Michel Tremblay's popular plays from the Plateau borough in Montreal.

The psychological tensions which are driving four bourgeois couples apart are blithely ignored, as they attempt to party through them, all the while discussing politics, flirting, and drinking heavily.

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...

A runaway actress desperate to learn English, a screenwriter working on the story of a bomb-defusing poet, a priest with a penchant for smell-based sermons and . . . Denzel Washington.

A Biopic of French Canadian singer Mary Travers known as La Bolduc.

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

Forty years old and pregnant again, raising mostly alone her three children, a sailor's wife is thinking about abortion.

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long to live. But after more than 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere else. His wife, Rose, has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.

Sous les draps, les étoiles est un drame psychologique réalisé par Jean-Pierre Gariépy qui relate le coup de foudre entre un astronome désabusé et une jeune femme en partance pour un ailleurs qu'elle cherche encore. Audacieux dans sa forme et très assuré pour un premier film, Sous les draps, les étoiles avait été élu par les membres de l'Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (AQCC) parmi les cinq meilleurs films de fiction de 1989. Rapidement tombé dans l'oubli, ce drame « intellectuel » avait réussi à attirer presque 6 000 spectateurs à sa sortie en salles.

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.