The son of an Illinois prostitute and pimp, Richard Pryor establishes himself as one of the greatest African-American comedians of the 20th century.
The director explores what mindset we should adopt when facing death through the testimonies of friends, health specialists, and philosophers.
Having lost her parents in a car accident, a young woman slowly regains a taste for life through her aunts, her friends and a new neighbor.
Reflecting on the notion of heroism in contemporary cinema, the director explores what influences us more, our minds or our bodies, thinking or acting.
In 1973 Stockholm, a clumsy, randy, little crook finds himself locked up in the bank he was trying to rob, along with three hostages.
In Greenwich Village, guitar maker Rick Kelly makes exceptional guitars from wood salvaged from the demolition sites of century-old buildings.
The story of four North American and European civilians who left to fight the armed group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, alongside Kurdish forces.
Due to a booking error, a dog owner must share a lake house with a cat owner.
Staying at a cottage to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, two young women reveal darker sides of their personalities with dramatic consequences.
Young people from different backgrounds question the notion of national identity using images of emblematic sites from Quebec’s recent history.
A substitute teacher is concerned about her daughter’s sudden friendship with a popular student who will do anything to be prom queen.
Archaeologist and botany enthusiast Yolande Simard Perrault discusses her relationship to the land at the heart of the work of her late husband, filmmaker Pierre Perrault.
Two young Quebecers in Cuba, experience highs and lows that put their friendship to the test.
The stories of men and women who, by choice or necessity, live in attics on top of dilapidated buildings in the Cuban capital.
By organizing the escape of her younger brother threatened with deportation, a young North African immigrant woman provokes a great movement of solidarity.
In the 19th century, on an island off the coast of British Columbia, a young man learns to survive alone in the forest after his friends, believing him dead, have left the area.
In 2004, a young white teacher forms a lacrosse team in order to counter a wave of suicides among teenagers in a Nunavut village.
A young woman fleeing from her abusive husband with her two little boys, crosses paths in New York with an ex-convict turned restaurateur and a nurse devoted to others.
A disgruntled factory employee unleashes a killer smart doll that attacks people who are hostile to the deaf boy who received it as a gift.
Forced to reconnect with his bourgeois family, a Montreal drug addict relives deep wounds that threaten everyone’s stability.
A psychopath covets her twin sister’s successful teaching career and happy family life.
Comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, former greats of American comedy cinema, tour Great Britain in 1953.
Profile of the Israeli editor Ziva Postec, who took six years to analyze and assemble the 350 hours of film shot by Claude Lanzmann for his documentary “Shoah.”
Heiress to a wildlife reserve in South Africa, an American web designer must choose between her tidy boyfriend and the handsome ranger who shows her around the estate.
Profile of the life and work of Quebec filmmaker André Forcier, through anecdotes and reenactments of key scenes from his films.
A pioneer in the study of giraffes in the 1950s, Canadian Anne Innis Dagg has had to struggle within a misogynistic academic world to have her work recognized.
A boy steals his new supervillain boss’s ultimate weapon and gains the protection of one of his boss’s deputies, who unwittingly becomes a hero.
In a future where a plague has infected much of the population, two brothers are tasked with traveling to Canada to retrieve a mysterious package.
A bank manager’s wife and daughter are kidnapped by the violent burglar he was trying to catch with the help of an efficient police officer.
Adopted by her cousins after her mother’s apparent suicide, a twelve-year-old girl fights against her abusive father’s attempts to regain custody.