At the Centre William-Hingston, in Montreal’s Parc-Extension neighbourhood, adult newcomers from diverse backgrounds learn French.
In the cold condo of a Montreal high-rise, the impulsive relationship of a 40-year-old man, whose mother is dying, with a Russian acrobat who has suffered a leg injury.
Inspired by the ghost of Brother Marie-Victorin and a journalist, a mead producer comes to the aid of Mexican workers exploited by a pesticide manufacturer.
Every year in Mexico, thousands of people disappear or die by gunfire, to the great agony of their loved ones, who are also confronted with the indifference of the authorities.
In 1940s Nunavut, an Inuit woman leaves her family and her village to move with her son to the isolated camp where her uncle lives.
In New England at the end of the 19th century, tensions mount between two lighthouse keepers on an inhospitable island cut off from the rest of the world.
Over a period of one year, the activist and artistic activities of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Innu poet, director, and actor.
In 1899 Toronto, an ambitious politician, who dreams of becoming prime minister of Canada, falls in love with a Quebec nurse.
As they approach adulthood, the friendship of two North Shore Innu women is tested by their differing dreams for the future.
A history teacher, who is losing his memory, is placed under the care of a rebellious and somewhat lost young girl.
A shy aspiring DJ visits his father, whom he hasn’t seen in over 25 years, but his father claims to have no memory of inviting him.
A teenager from La Malbaie, who dreams of becoming a sports agent, takes in his unruly cousin, a former professional field hockey star.
Two Quebecois women in mourning for their sister attend the preparations for the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.
In the early 1970s in the Eastern Townships, tragedy strikes a small family consisting of a Romani man, a prostitute from a wealthy background, and their seven-year-old daughter.
From childhood to early adulthood, three inseparable classmates take increasing risks by trafficking drugs.
Kevin Hearn, member of the rock band The Barenaked Ladies, sues the gallery that sold him a fake painting by Norval Morrisseau, the first big star of Indigenous art.
About to leave their convent at almost 100 years old, the cloistered sisters of Berthierville, the only French-speaking community of Dominican nuns in North America, share their experiences.
A passionate blacksmith encounters many difficulties while renovating an abandoned heritage building to create a training facility.
While her parents are in the middle of a divorce, a shy teenage girl falls in with the delinquents at her high school and gets a taste of fool’s paradise.
A man and a woman, who have each bought half of the same duplex to renovate and resell, see their rivalry turn into love.
A mother becomes attached to the student who rents the room of her dead son, without suspecting that this young man hides a heavy secret.
A Palestinian filmmaker compares the virtues of Paris and New York, where he tries to sell his new film project to producers.
After giving his childhood friend a loving kiss for a student film, a heterosexual lawyer experiences deep emotional turmoil.
Suspended for six weeks after a violent arrest, two policemen set up a twisted scheme to steal a gangster’s loot.
Each year, a Quebec summer camp welcomes 300 children with disabilities supervised by a hundred counselors ages 16 to 20.
A doctoral student in philosophy, who has a codependent relationship with her psychologist brother, is distraught when he falls in love with a gynecologist.
A plastic surgeon’s career and family life are threatened by a misguided patient.