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The mothers of Quebec cinema

Fr. 2025. Dramatic comedy by Ken Scott (II) with Leïla Bekhti, Jonathan Cohen, Joséphine Japy. For 50 years, a Parisian Jewish mother strives to provide a fabulous life for her youngest son, who has never been able to walk due to a disability.
Runtime: 102 min.

Sisters and Neighbors!

V.O.: Nos belles-soeurs
Can. 2024. Dramatic comedy by René Richard Cyr with Geneviève Schmidt, Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé. In a working-class apartment, a housewife invites her neighbors to help her glue the thousands of bonus stamps she's just won.
Runtime: 102 min.

A Woman My Mother

V.O.: Une Femme, ma mère
Can. 2020. Essay film by Claude Demers. At the end of a long and meticulous investigation, the director revisits the stages of the life of his biological mother, who had abandoned him at birth.
Runtime: 76 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. 2017. Drama by Alexis Durand-Brault with Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault, Sophie Lorain. Eight years after cutting ties, a novelist visits his mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease, with the hope of settling scores with her.
Runtime: 103 min.
Can. 2014. Psychological drama by Xavier Dolan with Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément. A widow's difficult relationship with her hyperactive teenager is soothed by the arrival of a mysterious neighbor in their lives.
Runtime: 138 min.
14A
Can. 2019. Drama by Sonia Bonspille-Boileau with Lake Kahentawacs Delisle, Carmen Moore (II), McKenzie Kahnekaroroks Deer. A Mohawk girl goes with her mother to look for her teenage sister, who went missing after being seen with a white man on her school campus.
Runtime: 101 min.

I Killed My Mother

V.O.: J'ai tué ma mère
Can. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Xavier Dolan with Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément. The hard road to adulthood of a precious teenager at odds with his mother, an unusual woman who raised him alone.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2016. Drama by Dominic Goyer with Marc Paquet, Sylvie de Morais, Marc Béland. After the death of his mother, an animation filmmaker who led a double life, a thirty-year-old architect seeks to discover his father
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2009. Comedy by Ricardo Trogi with Jean-Carl Boucher, Sandrine Bisson, Claudio Colangelo. In 1981, an 11-year-old boy lies to his new classmates to hide the fact that his parents can't afford to buy him anything he wants.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2010. Psychological drama by Catherine Martin with Guylaine Tremblay, François Papineau, Denis Bernard. Shattered by the murder of her only daughter, a woman leaves Montreal and moves to her family's country home, where she gives up all desire to live.
Runtime: 87 min.

Wetlands

V.O.: Marécages
Can. 2011. Drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard. A teenager, who accidentally caused the death of his farmer father, is suspicious of a stranger who hangs around his mother under the guise of helping her.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 2010. Drama by Denis Villeneuve with Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. When their mother dies, Montreal twins discover disturbing facts about her youth in a Middle Eastern country ravaged by civil war.
Runtime: 131 min.
14A

Last Call for Mom

V.O.: Maman Last Call
Can. 2005. Mores comedy by François Bouvier with Sophie Lorain, Patrick Huard, Anne-Marie Cadieux. A 37-year-old journalist and ardent feminist finds her life turned upside down when she learns she is pregnant.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 1996. Documentary by Anne-Claire Poirier.
Runtime: 98 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. 1992. Chronicle by Jean-Claude Lauzon with Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar. A young boy living in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal tries to forget his tough family life by cultivating his taste for dreams.
Runtime: 107 min.

J.A. Martin Photographer

V.O.: J.A. Martin photographe
Can. 1976. Mores drama by Jean Beaudin with Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Jean Lapointe. At the beginning of the twentieth century, an itinerant photographer on an annual tour is forced to take his wife with him.
Runtime: 101 min.

The Plouffe Family

V.O.: Les Plouffe
Can. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Gabriel Arcand, Émile Genest, Pierre Curzi. In the late 1930s, members of a family living in Quebec City's lower town face various situations.
Runtime: 180 min.

Good Riddance

V.O.: Les Bons Débarras
Can. 1979. Mores drama by Francis Mankiewicz with Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Germain Houde.
Runtime: 113 min.

The True Nature of Bernadette

V.O.: La Vraie Nature de Bernadette
Can. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard. A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her home to live in the countryside with her young son.
Runtime: 96 min.

Little Aurore's Tragedy

V.O.: La Petite Aurore, l'enfant martyre
Can. 1952. Melodrama by Jean-Yves Bigras with Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell, Paul Desmarteaux. A farmer's second wife abuses his daughter.
Runtime: 103 min.
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