Marie-Hélène Panisset
Directing
Known For

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.
Target Number One

Two women, with diametrically-opposed lives, get stuck into an elevator together by happenstance, and learn about each other's life and story to pass the time
Chiennes de faïence

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing, and thus help her make peace with her past.
Marguerite

Bone tells the story of four friends who get caught up in a crooked venture to transport illegally-obtained genetic material across national borders.
Bone

A homophobic technician helps a transvestite record the tale of a writer who longs to lead her characters' lives.
Panic

Véronique ne cache rien en amour. Mathieu est simplement un brin fatigué. Fred peuts'adapter à tous les genres de femmes. Rémi doit trouver ce qui l’allume dans la vie.Ce n'est que dans de brefs instants de lucidité que l'on parvient à voir le monde telqu'il est.
Lucidité passagère

Strictly Spanking is a gothic, suburban tale about the disastrous sexual awakening of a young woman.
Strictly Spanking

Em and Jay, respectively a woman film director and her lead actress, both with an ailing career, embark on a journey between Montreal, Canada and Durham, North Carolina, where a short film of theirs is being presented at the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. They drive a Jeep and pull a pop tent, and decide to shoot a film along the way. Nothing much happens except that they develop a beautiful friendship and debunk quite a few taboos.
Two Straight Girls at a Queer Fest

The stories of refugees who fled Vietnam and came to live in Canada.
A Moonless Night: Boat People, 40 Years Later

The love-hate relationship between two women in the context of patriarchy.