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- To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.
- After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
- After surviving a car wreck virtually unscathed, a young model compels her best friend to impregnate her at the salt flats in Utah.
- Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.
- Immigrant cabbie connects nervous filmmaker, lawyer, mystery man, possibly HIV+ gay man. Comedy and tragedy mingle, awash in philosophy.
- Set in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy's dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live.
- Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
- At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
- 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.
- An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol.
- A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
- On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
- A small plane crashes in the Caribbean, leaving only two survivors: a precocious teenage girl and a simple-minded grown-up. They end up on a desert island, with no inhabitants and no rescue in sight, and split. Then, a friendship bond develops between the two. The teenager, realizing she may not live long enough to see this experience, and the grown-up, never faced with this reality, soon fall in love.
- Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
- In the whiteness of the Quebec countryside, in St-Étienne-de-Bolton in Estrie, Dédé Fortin and his Colocs withdrew to compose what became their most famous but also their last album, Dehors Novembre.
- Boy lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father Courge, a tyrannical giant who reigns triumphant and prevents his son from exploring beyond limited boundaries. Ignorant about the ways of men, the boy grows up wild, with the placid ghosts who haunt the forest his only company. That is until the day that he is forced to go to the nearest village, where he mets young Manon...
- Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and "biology without a veil". This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
- A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
- After a terrible accident, a psychiatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks, we learn that his family had to flee from New York City, after his father uncovered a large case of corruption. Bruce didn't know this for most of his life, until he found a passport with a different name in it. After the first shock, he tries to continue living like a normal teenager. Unknowingly, his cute little girlfriend "Patrick" brings them in danger.
- Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the Canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.
- Laurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility.
- A seismologist investigates the mysterious cessation of the tides near her Quebec home town.
- Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves.
- An old man comes up with a subterfuge to reconcile his estranged sons.
- Jean-Charles, a young man about to turn 30, lives in a large house in the Montreal suburb of Outremont with his mother and his sister, both public library employees. They form a close-knit family, but Jean-Charles feels more and more smothered by the two women, who treat the majority of men with contempt, with the exception of Rasoir, the lover that the mother and daughter share between themselves. Jean-Charles confides in Marlène, a psychologist with whom he is in love, without realizing that she repeats everything he tells her to his mother. Then one day, he falls madly in love with Cassandre, to the consternation of his mother, who doesn't welcome the arrival of this intruder into their small clan.
- This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
- Diagnosed with a terminal illness, hedonist writer Francois helps his two bickering sons reconnect before his death.
- A disturbed young man pairs up with his grumpy grandfather for a road trip in search of his father who left town after digging up the corpse of his wife.
- After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
- A coat-check attendant in a bar decides to take an unclaimed coat back to its owner, but soon finds herself in the middle of a criminal intrigue. A regular at the bar who has long harboured a secret love for the attendant will put his life on the line to help her.
- A Toronto police officer finds her husband and son violently murdered.
- Montreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to search for his first love Paula Paul, the Countess of the title: the loveliest bearded lady ever to grace a circus sideshow. To win her love he takes on the job of Human Cannonball; wins her and loses her tragically, then tries to commit their love story to film. An exploration of self-image and memory, and the glamour (used in the sense of a magic spell or illusory reality) which the movie camera can weave.
- Two estranged brothers try to deal with their father's worsening Alzheimer's disease.
- A literature professor successfully lives two fulfilling lives: one with his wife and two children, and another with his librarian mistress. He loves everyone equally but something occurs that threatens everything.
- Romaine, a tall 30-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living with her boyfriend Justin for several years. When Justin drags her after him to Canada to start a new life, with absolutely no notice, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises, but she's also scared to death of taking the plane. Once at Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start.
- -Pastor of the parish of Saint-Rémi de Damas, Jean-Marie, an ex-biker, leads a rather tidy life. One fine day, he sees Fred and Violaine, the two daughters of Pauline, his ex-girlfriend, arrive at the presbytery and are imprisoned for three years. The problem is that with two mischievous kids on his hands, whose origins he doesn't know, his life is turned upside down.
- A court bailiff who has left his job, his wife, and Canada for a Florida beach house he inherited finds a woman con artist and thief squatting there.He decides to let her stay and see what happens.
- Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He's a bookish scholar with glasses; she's a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit... Guylaine's brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine's friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles...
- Documentary about the new generation of tango composers, interpreters and dancers.