FILM DU QUÉBEC RECENT

Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white Quebeckers, survived unscathed. The official version: drinking binge gone wrong. Until now, the crime has remained unsolved.

Sixteen-year-old Billie works as a water park lifeguard with her two best friends, but her summer turns upside down when she falls for a charming cyclist.

Naïlle enters Emma's life after she re-evaluates her professional and personal relationships with a demanding partner. The cellist and single mother offers Emma a new family dynamic.

In the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer.

Suzanne's husband has disappeared and she has no idea where he is. She's stuck in her old house with Linda and Nicole who just won't leave her alone. Linda is caring and wants to help Suzanne whereas Nicole is mounting suspicions on her.

Two RPG players' lives are turned upside down by the appearance of their roommate and DM's sister. The young woman is going through a bad breakup, and everyone's adventures in the fantasy and real worlds take on a new dimension.

Diane Messier, living on a farm with family, experiences trauma after an accident, believing her house is haunted. Her daughter Angèle returns from Florida to support Diane and reunite the family amidst Diane's concerning behavior.

For Gaby, not much has changed since last summer. For everybody else, apparently everything is different.

Abdel's summer is upended by the arrival of his cousin. Fatima craves a stable life while she begins a new job as a supermarket cashier. Toussaint finds a bottle washed up on the shore while fishing, and there's a message inside.

Ducarmel is an anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker. And sometimes, he's the best basketball player of all time.

In the early 70s, after leaving their troubled hometown in Haiti, a young boy and his mother settle in a small rural village in Quebec where the boy counts on his invisible friend to understand the new world around him.

While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, Katak departs on a perilous journey to the Great North.

Tells the story of Jean who pins his hopes of recovering from his wounds on a miracle: his ten-year-old son. He is convinced that Loulou is the new Messiah.

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.

Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. She becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.

A mesmerising contemplation of moving bodies and painting, with three magnificent contemporary dance performers from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara and Sophie Corriveau.

Young Elsie is shocked to learn that her eccentric mother wanted her ashes to be scattered among her five ex-husbands. Elsie is adamant about carrying out her mother's wishes, but the trip fundamentally alters her course.

A group of homeless people and a priest inherit a property and take a vacation there for one summer.

A woman takes her former husband and his children by another woman into her home, and becomes attached to the children.

After a bad breakup, Ariane moves home and gets a job as an interpreter for seasonal migrant workers. Witnessing workplace abuses, Ariane must decide how far she is willing to go to speak out against injustice.

Based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam, before landing in Quebec.

Follows Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.

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.

Emma, 14, comes under the toxic influence of her new friend Odile, a manipulative teenager, who tries to convince her that her mother killed her father to live with her new boyfriend.