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V.O.: Une Langue universelle
Can. 2024. Comedy by Matthew Rankin with Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Mani Soleymanlou. Returning to his native Winnipeg to visit his ailing mother, a Montreal civil servant is plunged into an unusual adventure.
Runtime: 94 min.

Shepherds

V.O.: Bergers
Can. 2024. Drama by Sophie Deraspe with Félix-Antoine Duval, Solène Rigot, Younes Boucif. A young advertising executive from Montreal gives up everything to become a shepherd in Provence, despite his total inexperience in the field.
Runtime: 113 min.

You Are Not Alone

V.O.: Vous n’êtes pas seuls
Can. 2023. Sentimental drama by Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien with Pier-Luc Funk, Marianne Fortier, François Papineau. An anxious pizza delivery man, recently dating a beautiful young woman, is targeted by an alien posing as a cab driver.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2023. Biography by Louise Archambault with Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Andrzej Seweryn. During World War II, Polish nurse Irene Gut Opdyke saves the lives of 12 Jews by hiding them in the villa of a German officer.
Runtime: 121 min.
Can. 2023. Mores drama by Sophie Dupuis with Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Anne-Marie Cadieux. Engaged in a toxic relationship with a new colleague, a popular Montreal drag queen tries to reconnect with his singer mother, whom he has always idealized.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2023. Drama by Henri Pardo with Rayan Dieudonné, Penande Estime, Martin Dubreuil. In 1975, a Haitian boy, who fled the country with his schoolteacher mother, who was attacked in the middle of a carnival, struggles to adapt to life in Quebec, their new home.
Runtime: 122 min.
Can. 2023. Essay film by Denis Côté with Larissa Corriveau, Évelyne De la Chenelière, Olivier Aubin. In charge of guarding unoccupied homes, a lonely woman becomes obsessed with these anonymous interiors, which she haunts like a ghost.
Runtime: 80 min.

Days of Happiness

V.O.: Les Jours heureux
Can. 2023. Drama by Chloé Robichaud with Sophie Desmarais, Sylvain Marcel, Nour Belkhiria. A conductor navigates between her career, led with an iron fist by her father and manager, and her love affair with a cellist, mother of a 5 year old boy.
Runtime: 118 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Stéphane Lafleur with Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin. Five men and women form a B-team on Earth to remotely deal with the interpersonal problems of the five astronauts who will soon land on the planet Mars.
Runtime: 104 min.

Coyote

V.O.: Le Coyote
Can. 2022. Drama by Katherine Jerkovic with Jorge Martinez Colorado, Enzo Desmeules Saint-Hilaire, Eva Avila. On the verge of moving to the regions to revive his career, a Montreal cook of Mexican origin is forced to take in the son of his drug-addicted daughter.
Runtime: 89 min.

Drunken Birds

V.O.: Les Oiseaux ivres
Can. 2021. Drama by Ivan Grbovic with Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault. The getaway driver of a Mexican drug lord gets hired as a worker on a farm in the Montérégie region, owned by a family in turmoil.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2021. Drama by Sébastien Pilote with Sara Montpetit, Sébastien Ricard, Hélène Florent. At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Lac Saint-Jean region, the daughter of a settler is courted by three men with very different personalities.
Runtime: 159 min.
Can. 2020. Drama by Tracey Deer with Kiawentiio, Paulina Alexis, Rainbow Dickerson. In 1990, during the Oka Crisis, a young Mohawk woman from the Kahnawake reserve asks a feisty teenager to teach her to overcome her fears.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Bruce LaBruce with Félix-Antoine Duval, Tania Kontoyanni, Alexandra Petrachuk. After finding his mother, whom he thought was dead, a young Montrealer spots a seminarian in the courtyard of a monastery who looks strangely like him.
Runtime: 101 min.
Can. 2020. Documentary by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt. Portrait of the American jazz musician Billy Tipton, whose transmasculinity was only revealed after his death in 1989.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Sophie Deraspe with Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Antoine Desrochers. By organizing the escape of her younger brother threatened with deportation, a young North African immigrant woman provokes a great movement of solidarity.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2019. Satire by Matthew Rankin with Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Catherine St-Laurent. In 1899 Toronto, an ambitious politician, who dreams of becoming prime minister of Canada, falls in love with a Quebec nurse.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Kim Nguyen with Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Salma Hayek. 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.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2018. Drama by Xavier Dolan with Kit Harington, Jacob Tremblay, Ben Schnetzer. 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.
Runtime: 123 min.

The Fall of the American Empire

V.O.: La Chute de l'empire américain
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Alexandre Landry, Maripier Morin, Rémy Girard. 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.
Runtime: 130 min.

The Fireflies Are Gone

V.O.: La Disparition des lucioles
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Sébastien Pilote with Karelle Tremblay, Pierre-Luc Brillant, François Papineau. In an old industrial town in the Saguenay, an anti-social teenager develops an ambiguous relationship with her guitar teacher, 20 years her senior.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 2018. Drama by Maxime Giroux with Martin Dubreuil, Reda Kateb, Sarah Gadon. 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.
Runtime: 95 min.

Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin

V.O.: Les Salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau
Can. 2018. Mores drama by Renée Beaulieu with Brigitte Poupart, Vincent Leclerc, Nathalie Cavezzali. 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.
Runtime: 97 min.

Roads in February

V.O.: Les Routes en février
Can. 2017. Drama by Katherine Jerkovic with Arlen Aguayo-Stewart, Gloria Demassi, Mathias Perdigon. A young grieving newly arrived Quebecer travels to her grandmother’s house in Uruguay to find out more about what caused her parents to flee their country 10 years earlier.
Runtime: 83 min.
Can. 2018. Satire by Ian Lagarde with Ludovic Berthillot, Sylvio Arriola, Yaite Ruiz. A bulimic tourist acting strangely becomes the centre of attention at a Caribbean all-inclusive resort.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Ravenous

V.O.: Les Affamés
Can. 2017. Horror by Robin Aubert with Marc-André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Micheline Lanctôt. In a rural region isolated from the world, the paths of various individuals are crossed as they are chased by the undead.
Runtime: 96 min.
14A

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches

V.O.: La Petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
Can. 2017. Drama by Simon Lavoie with Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer, Jean-François Casabonne. Living in isolation in a dilapidated mansion, a girl raised as a boy and her brother must come to terms with the suicide of their father who kept the truth about their family from them.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 2017. Essay film by Denis Côté. Intimate portraits of six Quebec bodybuilders whose relationships with their bodies border on obsession.
Runtime: 93 min.

It's Only the End of the World

V.O.: Juste la fin du monde
Can. 2016. Drama by Xavier Dolan with Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel. Twelve years after leaving home, a playwright returns to his family, where he is met with mixed feelings.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 2016. Biography by Anne Émond with Mylène Mackay, Mickael Gouin, Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau. A look into the life and work of Quebec writer Nelly Arcan, who took her own life in 2009, at the age of 36.
Runtime: 101 min.

Boundaries

V.O.: Pays
Can. 2016. Drama by Chloé Robichaud with Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Nathalie Doummar. A mediator is sent to a small island country on the Atlantic coast to settle a dispute with its neighbour Canada.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2016. Sentimental drama by Kim Nguyen with Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany, John Ralston. Two lovers, stranded in the Canadian Arctic to escape a troubled past, embark on a long journey south on snowmobiles.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Vincent Biron with Étienne Galloy, Constance Massicotte, Alexandre Lavigne. A lonely, insecure teenager joins a gang of tricksters who film their exploits with a cellphone, hoping to win the heart of the leader
Runtime: 78 min.
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