The teenage daughter of a nomadic clown with libertarian ideals causes an uproar when she expresses her intention to attend a private school.
At the court of Camelot, young Gawain, nephew of King Arthur, volunteers to undertake the terrifying Christmas challenge designed by the mysterious and fearsome Green Knight.
After yet another break-up, a young woman opens a gallery dedicated to relationship souvenirs, which becomes a rallying point for broken-hearted romantics.
In the year 10191, a young nobleman finds himself at the heart of an intergalactic war over a rare and precious spice.
An illustrator welcomes into her home the young second wife of her ex-husband, who died suddenly and left her broke.
Having lived in Quebec for 16 years, Haitian poet Alain Philoctète returns to his native country, where he hopes to contribute to the development of an ecovillage.
At 80 years of age, Paul “The Butcher” Vachon recalls the glorious era when he and his older brother, “Mad Dog,” reigned supreme in professional wrestling.
In 1961 Nunavut, a Canadian government emissary meets with members of a nomadic Inuit tribe to convince them to move to a permanent village.
In 1949 Charlevoix, a priest and educator leads his students in a search for the remains of a possible Viking colony from the turn of the year 1000.
At the request of the priest in charge of her father’s funeral eulogy, a young Toronto woman recalls her troubled relationship with the widowed restaurateur turned health inspector.
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.
Rejected and suffering from serious mental health issues, a clown with comedic ambitions is repeatedly humiliated and driven into a state of murderous madness.
Concealing her true identity, a Quebec oceanographer meets in Vietnam the biological mother of the child she and her husband adopted 17 years earlier.
An Indigenous woman from Northern Ontario travels to Toronto to conduct her own investigation into the disappearance of her twin sister.
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.
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.
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.”
Profile of the life and work of Quebec filmmaker André Forcier, through anecdotes and reenactments of key scenes from his films.
In Iqaluit, on a rocky island not far from the Arctic Circle, migrants from all horizons have landed with a similar impulse: to leave and try again.
In mourning for the death of her husband, a retired nurse from Baie-Comeau finds more comfort in her deceased son’s ex-girlfriend than in her other two children.
Portrait of three Chinese elders who were exploited as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
As he nears death, gardener and horticulturist Frank Cabot reflects on the creation of his private garden ‘Les Quatre Vents,” located at the top of Mount Murray in Charlevoix.
An Indigenous doctoral student in archaeology reveals the major discoveries he made following a land collapse in a Montreal university stadium.
A child upset about his mother
The father of a family of small-time schemers enters politics and becomes prime minister, while his girlfriend, on vacation in Cuba, finds love with a beautiful stranger.
Twelve years after leaving home, a playwright returns to his family, where he is met with mixed feelings.
In the 1950s, a young Irish woman who has found love in the United States is courted by a charming fellow countryman during a brief return to her homeland.
During the Christmas vacation, two gangs of children compete in a fight to the finish for possession of a snow fort.
In a small Gaspesian town, a young journalist investigates a series of murders that could be linked to the sinking of a ship in the 1930s.