Dans un coin de pays isolé, un ex-mafieux et sa belle-fille frondeuse Coralie cherchent des solutions à la stagnation et surtout aux problèmes financiers chroniques. Désespérés, touchés par la disparition récente de la mère/épouse et, entourés par des bandits intimidants, le duo cherche les issues. La vengeance de Coralie sur ce monde mâle cruel devient inévitable. Elle veut le chaos est un mélodrame singulier, peuplé de grosses têtes écorchées et fortes; où l’humour est bien présent; où rien ne semble se passer en surface mais où tout bouillonne à l’intérieur.

A group of teens from the wrong side of Budapest's tracks band together to make themselves rich by traveling back in time, burying a horde of wooly mammoths under the city's streets, then returning to the present and drilling for oil. As creators of a new oil-producing nation, their scheme draws the attention of Putin (who uses the district's Russian hookers as spies), Blair and George W. Bush. In the midst of it all, star-crossed teen love is in bloom. This outrageous and visually stunning animated satire plays like an unhinged ghetto updating of Romeo & Juliet smash-filtered through a politically-charged — and politically-incorrect - kaleidoscope of clashing world views and social unrest, complete with musical numbers and a wicked soundtrack of Hungarian hip-hop. You have never seen anything like it.

Christmas Eve. With a camera in one hand and a syringe in the other, a man enters a long-term care facility with the intention of putting his father on trial and eventually executing him. Complications: the old man is autistic and the attendants bothersome. Countdown: the closed-circuit proceedings last 24 hours. Progression: the avenger finally condemns his whole family, himself included. Finale: the encounter with death ends over a box of chocolate cookies.

After a lengthy virtual relationship over the internet, Milena and Philip take the plunge and agree to finally meet. Having lived in Montreal for over a decade, Milena, an immigrant of Bulgarian descent, accepts to greet her correspondent Philip, a flirtatious photographer from Sofia. Out in an isolated cottage in Quebec’s countryside, the couple abandon themselves to one another. Between periods of cultural clashes and fleshy pleasures, the two assess each other and the possibilities for true love. But strange, uncanny events soon disrupt Milena and Philip’s quiet intimacy as secrecy and silence slowly set in.

The population is the battleground in “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world,” where war continues between rebels and the Ugandan government. As rebels abduct and force children and adults into their ranks, thousands flood into towns searching for security. In response, the government forces 1.7 million people into camps in an attempt to cut off the rebel’s supplies and recruits. Instead of protection, the camps offer disease and death. Politically crisp and salient, the film captures the realities of war in northern Uganda through the interconnected stories of five people, including: a mother turned activist after her daughter’s abduction; a young girl traveling miles daily looking for a safe place to sleep; a 7 year old boy who moved onto the streets to survive; and an increasingly outspoken and courageous man whose job takes him to the heart of the war. The film powerfully elucidates what it means for people to live through a war carried out by rebels and played down and drawn out by a complicit government. Shot entirely onsite and told exclusively through the images, voices and perspectives of Ugandans.

On the eve of his 50th birthday, Jimmy, an indebted man, finds himself at the crossroads of his existence. For him it’s now or never - the time has come to escape from mediocrity. Pretending to be a big shot American ad producer, he offers his services to a Northern Quebec rodeo extravaganza. As Jimmy tries to sell his ad campaign to the Rodeo, filmmaker Simon Sauvé documents his whereabouts but a chain of events transforms the film into the making of a crime. Operating from his kitchen, Jimmy plans an elaborate scheme to extort the beer stock from the Rodeo valued at a quarter of a million dollars. The story unfolds mainly in the Mile-End neighborhood of Montreal yet this tale takes us through the trails of Quebec’s Far East on a live-action road movie. The film is a cross between film noir, biopic and cinema vérité.

A grief-stricken and destitute French ex-soccer player has moved to Montreal, the home town of his lost love, in an effort to recapture her presence. He is haunted by the regret of never having told her how much he loved her. To earn money he accepts to kill a certain Igor Rizzi…

The narrative unfolds from the point-of-view of a single character named Roach. As part of the filmmaking process, he’s been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there’s a war against squeegee kids. This documentary is from the point of view of the kids themselves, in order to provide alternative voices. Roach’s camera is positioned behind “enemy” lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: hungry on the streets in one of the world’s most prosperous countries—considered thugs, criminals, and enemies. This film shatters the windshield between Us and Them. Roach’s camera acts as the hammer: hard, forceful, direct, impacting with the force of an actual life. Cross’ camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of individual lives, mirrored upon the shards of flying glass.

n this stylistic thriller, a woman runs away from a nightmarish life and a nightmarish past, until the “truth” catches up to her in the form of a former female lover, a lover on a mission to defend betrayal and all those who have been hurt by “love.” Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town their separate paths come together with explosive results.

Norman, a quiet, middle-aged college teacher from Montreal embarks on the adventure of his life when he goes to Mexico to propose to Gladys, a young woman he met through an Internet agency. Gladys accepts Norman, but impulsively requires him to bring her widowed mother, Fernanda, with them to Canada. Delighted and intrigued, Norman agrees and brings his new family north. But love eludes the newlyweds. Despite their best efforts, Gladys gets impatient and restless, while Norman grows introverted and confused. And Fernanda, the anxious mother-in-law, becomes the marriage counselor for both. Silently, Norman falls in love with Fernanda, a charming woman only a couple of years younger than he is. She senses his attraction and fears the worst - that it might be mutual. Abruptly, she returns to Mexico. In the emotional showdowns that follow, Norman, Gladys and Fernanda must find the courage to overcome great distance, foolish desire, and the obstinate fear of solitude.

Montcerf, the last village before Abitibi. The forest, the night, silence… twigs snap, big black boots make their way forward cautiously. The hunter on the hunt. With tenderness and simplicity, documentarian André-Line Beauparlant plunges into this world and paints the portrait six hunters. Alternating between interviews and hunting sequences, the film overflows with breathtaking authenticity as it touches subjects such as love, death, and religion.

José Antonio Gutierrez was one of the 300,000 soldiers sent by US Armed Forces to war in Iraq. A few hours after the war began, his picture was broadcast all over the world: he was the first American soldier to be killed in the war. He was there as a so-called ‘green-card soldier’ — one of approximately 32,000, fighting in the ranks of the US Armed Forces for a foreign country.

Teresa, an alluring Mexican woman, comes to Montreal in search of her husband who had abandoned her in Mexico, cutting her life in two. In Montreal, she meets Fenton, a young man who falls in love with her. Fenton convinces Teresa to let him help her find her husband. In their pursuit, Teresa and Fenton criss-cross Montreal, persuading a string of comical characters to reveal clues that will finally lead them to the wayward husband. In the end, Teresa must decide whether to reveal the painful secret that haunts her.

In 1990, Victor Pellerin, a young painter and darling of the Montréal art scene, burns his work and disappears without a trace. Fifteen years later, the documentary filmmaker Sophie Deraspe revisits the events that led to his disappearance, meeting the people who were part of his inner circle and who succumbed to his troubled personality. Alternating between documentary and cinema vérité Missing Victor Pellerin takes a close look at this charismatic character, exploring the contradictory points of view of those who knew him.