A young grieving newly arrived Quebecer travels to her grandmother’s house in Uruguay to find out more about what caused her parents to flee their country 10 years earlier.
Having undertaken the production of a film about her heartbreak, a filmmaker is forced to change her plans during the shooting.
In Toronto, a deadbeat drunk and a junkie hooker join forces to scam the necessary $98 to pay their bus tickets out of town.
A teenage girl raised in a West Bank refugee camp joins the Palestinian National Security Forces.
Illustration of author Lewis Hyde’s philosophical thinking through four current examples of creative practices in the context of the gift economy.
A young woman uses a friend, about to be released from prison, as an instrument in her revenge against her stepfather, whom she holds responsible for her mother’s suicide.
In the 19th century, an English explorer helps a Sasquatch from America, considered by science as the missing link, to find his fellow creatures, the Yetis of the Himalayas.
At 98, lawyer Ben Ferencz recalls the highlights of his career, from his participation in the Nuremberg trials to the birth of the International Criminal Court.
In a shopping mall, a relationship built on affection and misunderstanding develops between a self-effacing security guard and a charismatic bartender.
A strange road accident triggers a series of unusual events in a Quebec village in the throes of winter.
The Intertwined stories of four students at the Quebec Superior Ballet School.
A troubled teen tries to rescue her foster sister, stalked by a dangerous impostor with supernatural powers.
In 2013, a statue of Apollo dating back to Ancient Greece is fished out of the sea off the coast of Gaza, before disappearing under murky circumstances.
Four decades after Franco’s death, Catalans take to the streets to hold a referendum on self-determination, deemed illegitimate by the Spanish government.
A family man who spends most of his time playing computer games, makes a drastic shift in his life when he suddenly decides to leave his wife.
The awakening of a reserved teenager through contact with a popular student at her new high school and an Abenaki classmate.
In order to gain a better understanding of his mother, who has a degenerative disease, an impulsive young man poses as a cripple to a group of disfigured people.
The reunion of two Israeli sisters separated for nearly 20 years because of their radically different life choices.
To beat their former boss, two experts in high-frequency stock trading stretch an underground fibre-optic cable between the Kansas and New York stock exchanges.
Gifted with supernatural powers by contact with mysterious glowing orbs, a teenage girl and her friend flee from members of an agency that investigates aliens.
In Montreal, a landlord investigating the disappearance of a tenant is haunted by visions of a nine-year-old girl who is chained up in the apartment.
Although its population has declined by 90% over the last three decades, the shark continues to be hunted on a massive scale, perpetrated with general indifference.
When a famous American actor dies, a young actor recalls the correspondence he once had with him, and the effect these exchanges had on their lives.
The upheavals that the Earth’s ecosystems have undergone since the Industrial Revolution lend credence to the thesis that the Earth has entered the Anthropocene, the age of Man.
A university professor and happily married mother participates in a research project on the physiological reaction of the cells of the human body during sex.
A year behind the scenes of the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, in the midst of preparing its first international tour, under the direction of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
In 1980, a Montreal woman discovers her Dutch origins when she travels to Italy to return her mother’s ashes.
In 1995, a few days before a second referendum on Quebec sovereignty, a nomadic 50-year-old man moves into a friend’s house in the Gaspé.
After learning that her son was involved in an incident during a visit to his father’s home in Maine, a woman travels there with her new husband to figure things out.
To win a prestigious journalism award, a student with dashed romantic dreams begins a column describing her self-serving affair with a divorced professor.