Alongside a new boarder, a young girl tries to escape from the mysterious and strict school where they are taught values of obedience and chastity.

Reflecting on the notion of heroism in contemporary cinema, the director explores what influences us more, our minds or our bodies, thinking or acting.

Staying at a cottage to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, two young women reveal darker sides of their personalities with dramatic consequences.

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.

Thanks to his new assistant, an astrophysicist, obsessed with the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life, broadens his horizons and explores new dimensions of human existence.

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 troubled teen tries to rescue her foster sister, stalked by a dangerous impostor with supernatural powers.

The awakening of a reserved teenager through contact with a popular student at her new high school and an Abenaki classmate.

In 1991, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet secretly in Oslo, Norway, in an effort to resolve the conflict that has divided them since the late 1940s.

After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son move to a beachfront summer home to find a sort of spiritual healing.

The tribulations of an aspiring writer and the dysfunctional members of her Jamaican family in Brooklyn.

When her uncle, an environmental activist in British Columbia, dies, a teenage girl decides to speak out against the construction of an oil pipeline.

For generations, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the stars have defined the relationship of the inhabitants with their environment.

During their first year of marriage, an aspiring screenwriter and an actor look outside of their unconventional relationship.

Inheriting the fortune of her father, whom she never knew, a tormented young woman moves into his apartment, where she is visited by his ghost.

A black police officer who is racially profiled by his own colleagues takes revenge on the privileged white population he was supposed to protect.

In an old industrial town in the Saguenay, an anti-social teenager develops an ambiguous relationship with her guitar teacher, 20 years her senior.

A wedding in a Montreal hotel is disrupted by a love affair between members of the two families.

An Alcoholics Anonymous counsellor is forced to deal with her own addiction issues as well as conflicts with family members.

A delivery man comes into possession of a fortune with ties to organized crime and sets out to wash the dirty money using a bogus humanitarian foundation as a front.

While doing community service at a senior’s residence, an overweight, foul-mouthed teenager pursues her dream of becoming a cheerleader.

After arriving in the United States with a temporary work permit, a Romanian nurse is blackmailed by the immigration officer in charge of her case.

A year after her father’s arrest, a young lesbian goes in search of her brother, who has mysteriously disappeared.

When her husband dies suddenly, a British Columbian woman with Parkinson’s disease finds her son, an oil company employee in Alberta, struggling with his sexuality.

An actress and an aspiring screenwriter amaze attendees at their corporate seminars with their use of more or less relevant artistic processes.

In the Manitoba Cree community of Norway House, children benefit from a wonderfulschool curriculum that celebrates Indigenous culture and language.

In the 1920s and 1930s in Montreal, the career and family life of Mary Travers, author and performer of songs about the working class, unflods.

In 2001 in Kabul, an 11-year-old girl, whose father is detained by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to work.