Lou Scamble

As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.

Hypochondriac, germaphobe, and depressive, Jean-Marc Sumac leads a vacuum-packed life in a bland city. One morning, colorful imposters invade his neighborhood and steal his disinfectant. Determined to follow them, he will see his life changed forever.

When Jimon Sodoin loses his job at the newspaper Le Noir, he has no choice but to move into a new building with his wife Mérédith.

After an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting her diary entries and remembering the ghost of her lover, she relives what she never dared to say. Desire, sorrow, fear, femininity, illness – emotions surge and blur, blending into chaos, swallowed by an absurd algorithm overwhelmed by too much data.