While travelling the roads and villages of the Quebec countryside, one often sees off-beat structures and fabulous installations that reveal a unique world of surprising originality. These curious constructions are the work of local people who, even with no artistic training, are compelled by an...

A young girl, Liliane, leaves her empty house. She meets Maya, who’s just a bit older. They bond, flee, fight, exchange passionate declarations… The dialogue is destabilizing and enigmatic, the shots are ingenious, and the black and white imagery nothing less than majestic. A film about wandering...

Anick is a social worker turned filmmaker, working on a documentary about reintegration. She moves into the remote house that Scott, an ex-con in his 50s, shares with his young girlfriend, Jessie.
Soon, the filmmaker’s objectivity gives way to the subjectivity of desire, and Anick falls for Jess...

Fiction · Anne, 54, takes part in simulated consultations used to evaluate medical students. Little by little, the memorized lines begin to ring true and confront her with her own condition.

Directed by Yan Giroux · 2022

It’s another quiet summer day in Park Dufresne. The neighborhood teens loiter about until a young park monitor arrives for his first day of work. Tension rises as the two worlds clash in an unbalanced territorial struggle. In this impressionistic film, the banal day-to-day rituals of a suburban p...

Documentary, 85 min., Quebec, Canada, 2015

Amina Arraf, a pretty Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following. ...

Among the concrete highways, as life constantly keeps driving people crazier and crazier, a small group is peacefully enjoying its coffee break. Momentarily without their day-to-day concerns, rescued by the sunny temperature from their every-instant run life, everyone is slowly enjoying its caffe...

Documentary · Equal parts family saga, sports film and intimate portrait, The Athlete offers a unique window into the story of Stevens Dorcelus.

Directed by Marie-Claude Fournier · 2024

Directed by Andrew Przybytkowski · 2024

In a distant and surreal place, a secret society of ladies called “The Bingo Sisters” periodically elect their leader by playing bingo. Mrs. Geneva plans to hold on to power by exploiting the photographic memory of an autistic orphan in order to cheat, how...

28 min, documentary, animation, Canada, 2019

Directed by Jérémie Battaglia
Produced by Les Films Extérieur Jour
Language french/japanese

Synopsis
Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kais is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body,...

Short Film, 13 min., Quebec, Canada, 2013

Pierre, an eight years old young boy, spends most of his summer vacation behind the curtain of the dining room's window. He dreams of playing basketball with the other kids what his overprotective mother constantly denies him. One day Pierre decides to...

Réalisé par Laurence Turcotte-Fraser ·2021

Le long-métrage documentaire The End of Wonderland est le portrait de Tara Emory, une artiste vétérane qui travaille de manière indépendante dans l’industrie du sexe depuis le début des années 2000. Faisant face à l’éviction imminente de son immense stu...

85 min, Documentaire, Québec, 2022

Directed by Laura Rietveld
Produced by Katarina Soukup - Catbird Productions 2, Inc
Language French

Synopsis
Gérard Mathar and Catherine Jacob left family, friends and homeland for a life of self-sufficiency in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec....

93 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023

Directed by Émilie B. Guérette & Peggy Nkunga Ndona
Produced by Colonelle films - Justine Chevarie-Cossette, Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering
Languages French, Lingala

Synopsis
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon a...

Documentary
French with English subtitles
75 minutes
Quebec, Canada
Production: Les films de l'Autre

Festival - RIDM, Special Jury Prize Canadian Feature

In the heart of a deep forest runs a river. On its banks, men and women sit and talk, opening up to each other. In this remote settin...

Between the abandoned factories and crumbling buildings of Griffintown is concealed Montreal’s oldest stable, last remnant of a time gone by. In this intriguing, anachronic enclave, running alongside modernity, it seems like time has withheld its course. But since its aging owner has decided to s...

74 min, Documentary, Québec,Canada, 2013
Director(s) : Sicotte-Lévesque, Alexandra
Producers : Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque, Yanick Létourneau (Périphéria)
Language : Arabic and English with French subtitles

"The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, is referred to...

Fat, thin, fit, or decrepit, naked bodies come out of the closet in the kingdom of clothing. But rather than make love, they garden, they cook, they do taichi... Are they trying to regain the lost freedom?

Short film, 17 min., Quebec, Canada, 2015

When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route. During this intimate journey, we discover what provoked Vlace’s uncharacteristic act, as fathe...

78 min, Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2012
Director: Phil Comeau
Producer : Cécile Chevrier
Language : French, English
Subtitles: English

The Nature of Frédéric Back draws a masterful portrait of an exceptional man. A visual artist and animation filmmaker, he has produced an immense body of...

Documentary
88 minutes
Original language : Portuguese with English subtitles
Québec, Canada 2017
Production : Colonelle Films

Rio de Janeiro, August 2016. The Summer Olympics are in full swing. A few steps away from the Maracanã stadium, but far from the international attention, a hundre...

Directed by Nicolas Lachapelle · 2025

Forty years after the mysterious disappearance of an enigmatic figure known as “The Punk of Natashquan”, a remote Quebec community reflects on his fleeting yet unforgettable presence.

This is the story of a friendship and burgeoning love between two Romanian Gypsy kids in a camp on the outskirts of Bari in southern Italy. Vitalis just arrived from Romania. On his first day at school, Vitalis gets taken there by Giuly, but at school he is the victim of an act of racism. Giuly a...

19 min, fiction, Canada, 2019

Directed by Sami Mermer & Houman Zolfaghari
Produced by Leitmotiv - Patricia Bergeron
Languages French, English, Kurdish

Synopsis
In the midst of the sadness of exile, of the living wounds of wars, failures and solitude, two men, both strangers, unexpectedly find t...