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- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA 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.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalXavier DolanFrançois ArnaudA semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsMohamed FellagSophie NélisseÉmilien NéronAt a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéMarc-André GrondinDanielle ProulxA young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMaxim GaudetteSébastien HuberdeauKarine VanasseA dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsLothaire BluteauPatrick GoyetteJean-Louis MilletteThe year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1994, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) has returned to Québec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc (Patrick Goyette), who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Québec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMatthew McConaugheyJennifer GarnerJared LetoIn 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
- StarsPeter StormareFriedrich von ThunPeter O'TooleA profile of the life of Adolf Hitler with a unique slant, as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers Party prior to World War II.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsRoy DupuisJacques GodinJean-François PichetteIt'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.
- DirectorJean-François PouliotStarsDavid BoutinLucie LaurierRaymond BouchardA 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.
- DirectorPaule BaillargeonStarsMarianne Coquelicot MercierDenis MercierTobie PelletierCamille don't like the man her mother is seeing. She still dreams about her father, who's living in New York. One day, she sees her mother arguing with a woman for some time. Camille recognizes in this woman her father, who has had a sex change. Not accepting his transformation, Camille will try to convince him to become her father again.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsÉric BruneauMélanie ThierryMelanie MerkoskyLuc, an architect and married man from Quebec, begins an extramarital affair with Lindsay while on a business trip to Toronto.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanMonia ChokriNiels SchneiderThe story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsMelvil PoupaudEmmanuel SchwartzSuzanne ClémentA drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanPierre-Yves CardinalLise RoyA grieving man meets his lover's family, who were not aware of their son's sexual orientation.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsThomas GibsonRuth MarshallCameron BancroftSet 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.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRémy GirardDorothée BerrymanStéphane RousseauDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsOlivier GourmetPaul AhmaraniJean-Pierre CasselAn eccentric Belgian inventor travels to Québec to search for his family, which uncovers a secret history between two seemingly unrelated people.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsCarlo CecchiJean-Luc BideauChristoph KonczA red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsSerge ThériaultGilles RenaudSébastien DelormeThe owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
- DirectorLyne CharleboisStarsIsabelle BlaisJean-Hugues AngladeAngèle CoutuAn 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.
- DirectorJoe BalassStarsNaim KattanA documentary on the Canadian writer, Naim Kattan, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Jewish family. He has written over 50 books including Farewell Babylon. He was a central figure in Quebec's Quiet Revolution and through his eyes we see the changes from a traditional society to the pluralism we find in Quebec today.
- DirectorJoe BalassStarsSister Missionary PositionSpiritual sanctuary, sex, sisterhood and a gathering of faeries. A bearded nun. Through an intimate lens, this feature documentary takes us on a journey with Sister Missionary P. Delight, one of the founders of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. In 1979, Mish, as he is affectionately known by his friends, created an Order of gay male nuns to promote a philosophy of promulgating universal joy and expiating guilt. Both he and the Order have come a long way since then. Today, the Sisters are spread out across the globe, and Mish lives in the middle of the woods of the Deep South, in a community of Radical Faeries. JOY! follows Mish and his community over a seven year period, along the way we discover the history of the movement and the highs and lows of his own personal journey.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalAntoine Olivier PilonSuzanne ClémentA widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsPierrette RobitailleRomane BohringerMarc-André GrondinTwo lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from Flo's past.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsEmmanuel BilodeauPhilomène BilodeauRoc LafortuneOn the fringe of society in a remote part of the French-Canadian countryside, the fragile relationship and unusual private life of a father and daughter is jeopardized by dreary, unforeseen circumstances.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- DirectorSimon BeaulieuStarsGaston MironA veritable aesthetic fresco blending portrait, political documentary and experimental cinema, Miron: a man returned from outside of the world recounts the people of Quebec's collective journey trough the work of their greatest poet, Gaston Miron. Consisting exclusively of archive material and found footage, this cinematographic essay takes on the form of fragmented memories and stands as a contemplation on the survival of threatened cultures around the world.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsJacques GagnonLyne ChampagneJean DuceppeSet in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
- DirectorPaul CowanAmer ShomaliStarsAlison DarcyWalaa EltitiYazeed FarujaA small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureLewis FureyJean ComptoisLove story between a woman who is brutally murdered and the angel who resurrects her.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGaspard UllielMarion CotillardLéa SeydouxLouis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
- DirectorGuy ÉdoinStarsMonica BellucciPascale BussièresLarissa CorriveauAn actress mother and her estranged gay son's lives intersect with those of two medical professionals after an unexpected tragedy, forcing secrets to be revealed and personal demons to be dealt with.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
- DirectorJulien FréchetteStarsHanna BohmanRebazWilliam SavageA disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The feature documentary MY WAR probes the complex motives behind the need to take up arms on someone else's behalf.
- DirectorLaurent Gagliardi-Documentary about men who break the silence about their homosexuality. They talk about their difficulty in accepting themselves and their difference; about the place of sensuality in their lives; about their fierce will to love freely. By celebrating the love of a young couple, this film aims to break the sometimes negative image that surrounds the gay world.
- DirectorPaul Émile d'EntremontDocumentary tells about 5 refugees escaping homophobic violence.
- DirectorJulien CadieuxStarsJean GuildaA portrait of Guilda, the timeless beauty from the golden age of Montreal cabaret culture.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsClaude JutraJohanne HarelleVictor DésyA 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.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJean-Pierre RonfardRaymond BarrePierre BrodeurMade shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRobin SpryGisèle TrépanierDenys ArcandA documentary about Maurice Duplessis and the quebec nationalism which to new levels after the death of this Premier of the Province of Quebec. The director used the electoral campaigns of 1936 and 1970 and the Durham report of 1838 to illustrate his subject.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGabriel D'Almeida FreitasXavier DolanPier-Luc FunkHidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.
- DirectorRichard DesjardinsRobert MonderieStarsRichard DesjardinsThe Algonquin people once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century.
- DirectorRichard DesjardinsRobert MonderieStarsRichard DesjardinsA documentary on past and current business practices in Canada's mining industry, and the involved natural resources, health and taxation issues.
- DirectorLéa Clermont-DionGuylaine MaroistStarsLaura BoldriniGlen CanningKiah MorrisA look at the effects of online misogyny and hatred directed at women.
- DirectorSophie DupuisStarsThéodore PellerinFélix MaritaudNico RacicotFollows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.