Illustration of author Lewis Hyde’s philosophical thinking through four current examples of creative practices in the context of the gift economy.

In the South African savannah, a boy frees an elephant that has been captured by dangerous poachers.

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.

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.

A raw look at the effects of childhood trauma through the eyes of two estranged cousins.

In a remote region of Quebec, two feisty teenage girls kill time while waiting for the men of the village to return from moose hunting.

Learning that a new Santa’s reindeer position has just opened up, a miniature horse from North Dakota tries his luck even though no one believes in him.

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.

A fake psychic kills a wealthy client in self-defense, who mistakenly believed that she knew about his involvement in a hate crime.

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.

A family of Inuit, now living in the city, return to their ancestors’ native land.

After a car accident in Vermont leaves her with amnesia, a successful writer falls in love with the doctor who is treating her.

Returning to Quebec after an exile in the American West to avoid the draft, a Charlie Chaplin impersonator confronts the disturbing residents of a ghost town.

After an accident in the mountains, drug traffickers temporarily leave their merchandise in the cabin of a lumberjack, who gives them a hard time.

A high school soccer coach takes extreme measures to win, much to the chagrin of her daughter and her new friend the team captain.

In a city rife with corruption and crime, an honest tow truck driver tries to make a living and provide for his family.

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.