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Can. 2002. Fantasy comedy by Richard Ciupka with Marie-Chantal Perron, Gildor Roy, Ève Lemieux. An eccentric substitute teacher gets a class of unmotivated sixth graders excited about learning again.
Runtime: 110 min.

Snowtime!

V.O.: La Guerre des tuques 3D
Can. 2015. Animation by Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson. During the Christmas vacation, two gangs of children compete in a fight to the finish for possession of a snow fort.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 2012. Sports drama by Éric Tessier with Antoine Pilon, Alice Morel-Michaud, Rémi Goulet. A twelve-year-old boy grieving for his mother joins a pee-wee field hockey team where his prodigious talent overshadows the star player.
Runtime: 122 min.
Can. 2017. Sports drama by Éric Tessier with Antoine Olivier Pilon, Rémi Goulet, Alice Morel-Michaud. The professional careers of two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League stars have been jeopardized by their dangerous and immature behaviour.
Runtime: 115 min.
Can. 2013. Comedy by Ricardo Trogi with Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson. The summer before he enters college, a teenager sets out to raise the money needed to open a nightclub for minors like himself.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2015. Dramatic comedy by François Bouvier with François Létourneau, Gilbert Sicotte, Julie Le Breton. In 1999, in the suburbs of Quebec City, a printer and aspiring cartoonist witnesses the slow decline of his father-in-law who has pancreatic cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2024. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Rémi Brideau, Éric Bruneau, Rémy Girard. In a working-class neighborhood of Montreal, an apprentice typographer who dreams of freedom sees his life transformed by the publication of a pro-secularism pamphlet.
Runtime: 94 min.

Compulsive Liar

V.O.: Menteur
Can. 2019. Fantasy comedy by Émile Gaudreault with Louis-José Houde, Antoine Bertrand, Catherine Chabot. A supernatural event propels a compulsive liar into a parallel reality where all his fabrications have become reality.
Runtime: 111 min.

Racetime

V.O.: La Course des tuques
Can. 2018. Animation by Benoît Godbout, François Brisson. Beaten at their village’s annual sled race by a cheating, arrogant newcomer, a small, cross-eyed inventor negotiates a second round, the stakes of which remain secret.
Runtime: 89 min.
Can. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Patrice Sauvé with Louis-José Houde, Émilie Bibeau, Louis-Philippe Dandenault. When his girlfriend leaves him, a Canadiens fan is forced to re-evaluate his obsession with hockey and his attachment to the sports memorabilia store he inherited from his father.
Runtime: 90 min.

Louis Cyr - The Strongest Man in the World

V.O.: Louis Cyr - L'homme le plus fort du monde
Can. 2013. Biography by Daniel Roby with Antoine Bertrand, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, Guillaume Cyr. At the turn of the twentieth century in Quebec, the story of a French-Canadian worker's son with incredible physical strength.
Runtime: 130 min.
Can. 2011. Drama by Philippe Falardeau with Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron. An Algerian awaiting refugee status is tricked into replacing a Montreal teacher who hanged herself in her Grade Six classroom.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 2008. Tale by Luc Picard with Luc Picard, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Alexis Martin. The general merchant of a small village comes into conflict with the new priest, who wants to eliminate a simpleton who is said to be the son of a witch.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Time Harvester

V.O.: L'Arracheuse de temps
Can. 2021. Fantasy comedy by Francis Leclerc with Jade Charbonneau, Michèle Deslauriers, Céline Bonnier. Worn out by illness, an elderly woman tells her grandson about a legend she bore witness to in her village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton during her adolescence.
Runtime: 114 min.
Can. 2012. Tale by Luc Picard with Nicola Frank-Vachon, Gildor Roy, Maude Laurendeau. The new strongman of a village hit by crisis is convinced by the blacksmith to bet on the possible arrival of the railroad rather than on a community garden project.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2022. Drama by Charles-Olivier Michaud with Chloé Djandji, Chantal Thuy, Jean Bui. In the mid-1970s, a shy young Vietnamese woman is having trouble adjusting to Canada, where her family has taken refuge.
Runtime: 116 min.

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

V.O.: Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Can. 2023. Horror comedy by Ariane Louis-Seize with Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Noémie O'Farrell. A vampire who refuses to kill out of empathy devises an acceptable modus operandi following her encounter with a suicidal teenager.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2013. Psychological drama by Louise Archambault with Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry. A young woman with an intellectual disability demands her independence after her lover, who also has a disability, is forbidden by her mother to date her.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2005. Chronicle by Jean-Marc Vallée with Marc-André Grondin, Michel Côté, Danielle Proulx. Born in 1960 in a Montreal suburb, a young man who denies his homosexual impulses seeks his father's approval.
Runtime: 129 min.
Can. 2024. Comedy by Manon Briand with Julie Le Breton, Édouard Baer, Élodie Fontaine. Despite a run-in with an intransigent customs officer, a French chef agrees to help her little daughter win a culinary competition.
Runtime: 112 min.

Billie Blue

V.O.: Coeur de Slush
Can. 2023. Sentimental comedy by Mariloup Wolfe with Liliane Skelly, Joseph Delorey, Camille Felton. A tall, slender teenage water park lifeguard falls in love with a young cycling prodigy who is also coveted by her older sister.
Runtime: 115 min.
General

A No-Hit No-Run Summer

V.O.: Un Été sans point ni coup sûr
Can. 2008. Chronicle by Francis Leclerc with Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacinthe Laguë. In the summer of 1969, the father of a young baseball enthusiast forms a team with the children rejected by the parish coach.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 1993. Fantasy comedy by Roger Cantin with Marc Labrèche, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Jod Léveillé-Bernard. A young boy helps a ghost who is trying to retrieve a scroll that pirates are also after.
Runtime: 112 min.

Winter Stories

V.O.: Histoires d'hiver
Can. 1998. Chronicle by François Bouvier with Joël Drapeau-Dalpé, Denis Bouchard, Luc Guérin. The life of a boy who, in 1966, dreams of meeting his idol, hockey player Henri Richard.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2014. Fantasy comedy by Martin Talbot with Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Sophie Desmarais, Marcel Sabourin. Forced to leave the convent of nuns where he was raised, a naive young man finds his true calling with a lamp maker.
Runtime: 100 min.
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