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The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.
A type of docu-dramatic comedy, straddling both documentary and fiction, FĂ©minin/FĂ©minin delves into the lives of six 20-something friendsâlesbian, bisexual, and, yes, even straightâas they âlive and loveâ in Montreal.
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After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
A man tormented by old age reluctantly accepts to abandon the last remaining tie to his youth: his motorcycle.
The explosive lives, loves and losses of an intermingled group of MontrĂ©alers are explored as they confront the subject of difference. Managing a modern relationship can be a mess. Single? Attached? Married? Divorced? Open? Closed? The most common answer is âItâs complicated.â
A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism.
Abandoned by her mother in a group home of the DPJ, Ămilie (13) tries to flee her new reality. Influenced by the people she meets on her getaway, her ray of hope lies in learning a musical instrument.
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because heâs been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of RĂ©al Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child. RomĂ©o, 17, is the son of the accused. Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and RomĂ©o fall for each other.
A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.
Montreal 1992 âEstranged from his cancer-stricken mother, Stan, a quixotic 19-year-old, dons a disguise and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her.
