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- McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
- A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
- After an unpleasant run-in with a group of bikers, a young convenience store robber (Marc) gets approached by the same bikers to help out with a picnic. After the picnic, seeing he has guts, the bikers propose him for membership. As the story unfolds, Marc winds up questioning his own morality and wondering whether he's going down the wrong path. The biggest problem, however, is that one of his friends got him into trouble, and he has little time to fix it...
- A fictitious Vancouver film crew documents the professional life of a parking enforcement officer.
- The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.
- Danny is a romantic young man looking for love, the son of a gay dad and a top model mom who died of an overdose when he was still young. He wants to become part of a society that values luxury, glamour and appearances above all, by becoming a model. He embarks on a quest to find his real identity in a world that would make him gay because of his work, because of his paternal heritage, or simply because of his looks. He takes modeling to its extreme by becoming a stripper and finally finds the love he was looking for on the set of a porno shoot, with Karine, a photographer who's as voyeuristic as he is exhibitionnist. But destiny soon catches up with him...
- McLibel is the inside story of the postman and the gardener who took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris, anonymous campaigners who become unlikely global heroes. Struggling to defend themselves in the longest trial in English history, they face infiltration by spies, secret meetings with corporate executives, 40,000 pages of background reading, and a visit from Ronald McDonald. Using interviews with witnesses and reconstructions of key moments in court, the film examines the main issues in the trial: nutrition, animals, advertising, employment, the environment, and freedom of speech.
- Filmmakers Tricia Regan, David O. Russell and Juan Carlos Zaldivar interview dozens of people about the 2004 Iraq war, including soldiers, journalists, politicians, psycholgists, and even a two star general that led the Marines to victory in the first Gulf war. Soldiers Pay listens to people from all sides, and of varying opinions, giving a full picture of a morally ambiguous war which is exacting an enormous toll on our soldiers, on Iraq, and on America.
- -Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo-colonial exploitation and the cancer of alienation. To the very Canadian multi-culturalism of Trudeau and the métissage of the multinationals, celebrated by the high priests of the dominant ideology, is contrasted the idea of acculturation, even deculturation. A way of resisting as good as any other.
- L'ESCORTE is a comedy of manners where cynicism and false naiveté mingle in a bittersweet study of love, lies and friendship in the age of AIDS. Amid the laughter and the tears, the hustle and bustle of life goes on.
- Documentary about Montreal's Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s.
- En attendant d'avoir un peu d'emprise sur sa propre existence, Irène habite dans une cage qui fait barrière à Grégoire, son amant, un jeune homme naïf et passionné, fasciné par l'étrange femme dont il ne connaît rien. Barricadée dans sa tour de fer au milieu d'un appartement à moitié détruit, c'est elle qui contrôle l'univers restreint qui est le leur. Irène vit dans sa cage, Grégoire habite l'appartement. Elle ne quitte son antre qu'en l'absence de son amant. Les barreaux de fer constituent la condition de leur amour et sa limite. Grégoire est le sosie de Tania, femme décédée de son patron russe lors du siège de la ville rouge - Irène, hantée par Tania, saura-t-elle contrer la reproduction d'événements tragiques ?
- Les derniers jours d'un homme qui filme avec humour sa propre mort. Un film surprenant et singulier comme il existe peu d'exemples dans notre cinématographique et qui s'impose par la démarche unique des deux réalisateurs.
- 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.
- Using the reflections and analysis of many renowned intellectuals, this documentary draws a portrait of neoliberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.
- A rich and powerful chief chases away the local men who pursue his beautiful daughter, so a handsome shaman transforms himself into a spirit and tricks the girl into running away with him.
- When the Chemical Sisters, Montreal's fabulous club kid duo find an unconscious naked boy on their way out from yet another jetset event, they decide to bring him home and take matters into their own glittery hands. After baptizing their amnesiac boy-toy Chris, the infamous pair takes him on a grand tour of their wild nightlife frolic, their spontaneous media extravaganza and their dazzling diva lifestyle in order to help him find his identity and his way home.
- The film does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change: people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships.
- -Suzie and Samuel have known each other since childhood. With their friend Judith, they form a friendly trio. Now in their mid-twenties, at the age when everything is possible but nothing is easy, they find themselves at a crossroads.
- -"RANG 5" deals with essential themes such as: the next generation of farmers, the role of women and children on the farm, the conquest and globalization of markets, questions about chemicals and the biological shift, environmental concerns about the future of the planet, consumer responsibility, the straitjacket of crop and animal husbandry standards, technological advances and new approaches, love of animals versus the inexorable need for slaughterhouses, social achievements and union organization, the astonishing versatility and passion of farmers, and so on.
- A look at the history and cultural impact of Tarzan.
- A story of deep commitment, bitter betrayal and humour. Wounded in the Spanish Civil War, blacklisted by Hollywood and censored by the CBC, Allan nonetheless enjoyed a remarkable career as a playwright, actor, screenwriter and novelist.
- Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his daughter by a sinister cult. Wallowing in self-pity for years, he decides to commit suicide. However, the manner in which he decides to suicide is quite peculiar: he allows himself to be abducted by a cult, whose members treat him as their "king" for one year (he is given a castle, concubines, gifts, etc...), and then murder him as an atonement for their yearly sins.
- To the music of Mozart and Bach, a desperate man tries to write his suicide note. The perfection of his last moments is disturbed by his upstairs neighbor's newfound passion for playing the cello.
- Apart from the sight of the earth and the moon in the sky at the same time, and the flaming rocks that fall at irregular intervals into the streets, it could be a slum anywhere on Old Earth... like the slums of Montevideo where Uncle Tio grew up. In fact, it is an abandoned mining colony in a giant crater of a large asteroid, precariously protected from vacuum. Just like the slums of Earth, the strong prey on the weak and the weak upon the weaker; and Tobi, who makes a meager living as a scrap collector and occasional bare-knuckle fighter, knows that the only chance of escape for himself and his friends lies in the monthly rocket from the Russian colony outside the crater. But the cost is more than he would usually make in a decade. Does the solution lie at the gaming tables of El Senor, who with his enforcers rules over the colony with an iron hand?
- Mary, a troubled teenager, lives with her mothers Betty and Doris in a nice little house in a nice little suburb with nice neighbours. It's a nice little world populated only by queers. But Mary feels different, alone, an outcast. She is discovering her true feelings: she thinks she's straight. Her doubts are confirmed when she meets Brad, a newcomer from San Francisco. It's love at first sight. What will happen to our sweet Mary? Will Brad steal her heart away? But what will her mothers say?
- Claude, a shy young filmmaker wants to make a biopic about a former television host from the 1960's-1970's Serge Laprade. He agrees to cooperate but when he views footage of himself from his early shows, he becomes bitter. He drops out of the project and disappears.
- Maryse, la jeune propriétaire d'une pension de personnes agées, tombe amoureuse d'un escroc poseur de systèmes d'alarme. Tandis que sa mère perd la tête, victime de la maladie d'Alzheimer, Maryse est de plus en plus désemparée. Pendant ce temps, alors qu'elle délaisse sa pension, Étienne, employé dévoué, prend les rennes de la maison de retraite.
- In 1997, Marije lives with her mother in Canada. When her grand-father dies, she goes to the funerals in the mountains of Albania and steps into a past of blood feud and ancient customs. She meets her uncle Zef who, in fact, is an aunt. Zef is a 'vowed virgin' that is a woman who lives her life as a man never marrying of having children.
- At the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal, Roger Toupin owns a corner grocer that has become an impromptu social club frequented by people who belong to a way of life that is fast disappearing. The film captures the touching and revealing last moments of this unique place.
- The Creole language and culture, as examined across four island territories in the Lesser Antilles.
- A brutal act committed by an embittered husband. A literary voice silenced forever. Two young girls left adrift and parentless. Water Marks is the compelling story of Beth and Chris Lowther who piece together missing images and memories of their mother, poet/activist Pat Lowther.
- -The return to the land as lived by a group of young people from 'Bas du fleuve'. The legacy of tradition and the search for new survival alternatives.
- Trois mémoires, celle du Montagnais, celle du Jésuite et celle de Lamothe, se juxtaposent sans se contredire, se définissent sans se nuire, s'évaluent sans se diminuer. «Mémoire battante marque un pas en avant important. Au regard bienveillant mais forcément extérieur qui marquait jusqu'ici la démarche de Lamothe, s'ajoute ici une tentative de pénétrer à l'intérieur de la réalité amérindienne.» (Luc Perrault, 1983).
- Alenka indulges in the belief that her lover is dead in order to account for his absence. On her nightly retreat to an abandoned cemetery, Alenka is surprised by a singular night-guard whose duty it is to ensure that no ghosts escape the premises. That night, however, a ghost does escape, tailing the young girl in the city of Prague.
- Faultlines is an exposé of the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Turkey at a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale, killing 40,000 people. It is a personal chronicle in that the director, Eylem Kaftan goes back to her hometown -- the quake's epicenter -- to find it in shambles. The film adds a political dimension to disasters by showing that the effects of the earthquake weren't solely linked to a "sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust."
- -A sequence plan that doesn't care about the consequences. An evening without a date, a street corner without a corner, a crowd without a name at the entrance of a nightclub, a nightclub with surprises. Subjective camera. Point of view of a selective doorman. Better to be on the guest list than to make the line-up. Constant coming and going. Club kids, flyer boys, door divas, model posters, cigarette girls, barmaids, dancing queens, psycho freaks, drag bitches, sex addicts, candy children, sugar daddys. Nervous, authentic, duly improvised, bilingual, just like Montreal. (Canada). Crazy subtitles, in the opposite language, poorly translated, relating a different version of the speech. Conversations without head or tail, just like the characters. Words that are futile, rarely subtle, often very funny, out of clumsiness. Silences as revealing as spontaneously superficial dialogues. Groove IS in the heart. In the mixed toilets of the bar, camera hidden behind the mirror, we find the same characters, in the same clothes, holding the same conversations. Suddenly, their humor provokes yellow laughter.
- Regard sur le 15 novembre 1976, date de la prise du pouvoir par le Parti québécois aux élections provinciales, victoire qui donna lieu à un débordement de joie sans précédent au Centre Paul-Sauvé, lieu de regroupement des sympathisants péquistes.