Imagem

Movies

325 itens
PlaceCanadá
Movie
Hold Fast
2013
When Michael’s parents are killed in a car crash, he and his younger brother are split up and Michael is sent to live in a city far from his out-port home. Stubborn and hot-tempered, Michael tries to adjust in spite of trouble at school and the dictates of his authoritarian uncle Ted. Michael...
Movie
Saudade
2013
Miguel is a 17 year-old boy that sees the future as a distant horizon, immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook with sentimental poems, and has to deal with the end of high school. His biological mother, whom he never met, asks his father to visit her in the USA upon finding herself...
Movie
Two Days and a Half
2012
Pablo and his young son Leon spent a canoe camping week-end with Mara, an old canny dog. They share this trip through the Canadian forest, where they are alone in the midst of nature. During this two and a half days, every minute is perfect – until is time to separate.
Movie
Blindness
2008
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine....
Movie
Whitewash
2013
In the midst of a violent snowstorm, a drunken man runs over and kills someone with his yellow sidewalk snowplow. He wakes up at the wheel, deep in the forest unaware of where he is, and must rely on the weapon of his crime to survive the harsh winter conditions.
Movie
Inch’Allah
2012
Chloe is a young Canadian doctor who works in a West Bank refugee camp where she monitors the pregnancies of young Palestinian patients. Between checkpoints and stray bullets, Chloe learns about the war as she becomes torn between the two sides of the conflict.
Movie
The Dismantlement
2013
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs, the Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn’t end up losing her house. Gaby, for...
Movie
Blood Pressure
2012
Nicole, 41, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if “this is it” or whether there is something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He has a plan for...
Movie
Old Stock
2012
Stock Burton simply chose to drop out of life and ‘retire’, joining his recently separated grandfather, Harold, at the Golden Seasons senior’s home, where life is safe, comfortable and worry free… with three delicious meals a day. But after two years of denying his problems, Stock is forced...
Movie
Tom at the Farm
2013
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for the funeral of his lover, Guillaume. There, he’s shocked to find out no one knows who he is, nor who he was to the deceased. Guillaume’s brother Francis, a monstrous embodiment of rural machismo, soon confronts him and sets the...
Movie
Kike Like Me
2007
People have always asked filmmaker Jamie Kastner "Are you Jewish?". Kike Like Me is Jamie Kastner’s personal and highly idiosyncratic journey through the realm of implications opened by answering the question with a hypothetical "Yes". With who are you suddenly allied? For what are you suddenly...
Movie
24 Measures
2007
On Christmas Eve, four young people that were never meant to meet share a moment of each other’s existence. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets...
Movie
3 Seasons
2008
Three stories unfold over the course of 9 months. Two couples live at extreme opposites of each other, yet they share one commonality: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a comfortable world where the arrival of a child should be a time that fills them with joy. Instead, it blows...
Movie
45 Rpm
2008
In the fall of 1960, fifteen year old Parry Tender doesn’t know where to turn. Small town life is driving him crazy and a precocious girl who looks and acts more like a boy wants to be his girlfriend. When a fluke atmospheric condition allows a fifty thousand watt Manhattan radio station to pump...
Movie
Pandora’s Beauty
1999
Her name is Pandora, and like the character of myth, she also has a secret to keep. She does not feel happy about this and would like to share it with someone. One day she meets Vincent who has an affair with Ariane. They do not realize that their relationship is like a time bomb that can go off at...
Movie
The Corporation
2003
Awarded a prize by the popular jury at the Sundance and the FIC-Brasília Festivals 2004, the documentary conducts a type of psychoanalysis on big corporations. From this point, the authors draw some polemical conclusions: that is, that these corporations share a series of characteristics: they...
Movie
Cooking With Stella
2009
For 30 years, Stella has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, India. She is brilliant as a cook and has a special skill in padding her salary: uses a few pilfered items, applies some minor overcharging, and a leads a special phone-order duty free business. Things become even...
Movie
The Delicate Art of Parking
2003
Yet again, documentarist Loney Goose has had his car towed away. With almost three thousand dollars to pay in fines for parking in forbidden places, he has decided to make a film on the corruption in the traffic department. It is not difficult to find those who will speak out against the system....
Movie
The Age of Ignorance
2006
In his dreams, Jean-Marc is a brave knight, a theater star, an artist who has women to his feet and to his bed. But, actually, he’s very different. Common citizen, his job is to patiently hear people who go to his department looking for help. At home, his wife is always too busy to pay him...
Movie
Far Side of the Moon
2004
Two brothers, Philippe and André, lead a completely separate existence. Philippe works at night as a telemarketing operator and during the day thinks only of his doctorate thesis that deals with the philosophy of scientific culture and the narcissistic motivations behind exploring space. His...
Movie
Seducing Doctor Lewis
2003
The subsistence of the few inhabitants of the island of Sainte-Marie-La Mauderne was always based on fishing. But, in the last few years, the fish have become scarce and the population lives on unemployment benefits. Destiny then smiles on the little place when a plastics company announces its...
Movie
The Saddest Music in the World
2003
During the Great Depression in Winnipeg, Canada, millionaire Lady Port-Huntly announces an international competition for the saddest music in the world. Musicians from all over the world flock to it in the hopes of winning a prize of over 25 thousand dollars. The Brothers Kent decide to try their...
Movie
West of Pluto
2009
The day-to-day lives of a dozen teens living in the suburbs, told over a 24-hour period. In this web of stories that mixes humor and drama, each character confronts the perceptions they have of one another; more importantly, they confront themselves.
Movie
The Neighbor
2010
Shirin lives in Vancouver. Estranged from her mother, and involved in a long-distance relationship that seems to be hitting a dead end, she tries to keep her life together as best as she can. She supports herself as a folk dancer and instructor, but it’ her passion for Tango and her relationship...