Films & Events

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

Following a car accident, Suzanne loses custody of her three children. She has no choice but to seek treatment at a center for alcoholics. As soon as she arrives, she meets Alice and Diane, two women with strong personalities. Denis, a sports instructor, will try to bring them together around the same goal: to participate in the Dune Rally in the Moroccan desert. He will need a lot of patience and teaching skills to prepare this unlikely team to achieve their goal.

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

Violette and Florence no longer understand what is happening to them. Respectively, on maternity leave and off work, one is on edge, the other no longer feels anything. The neighbors are both filled with a feeling of failure: despite their careers and families, they are not happy. Florence's first infidelity will be a revelation. What if happiness was rebelling against our rigid society of performance? In a context where having fun is very low on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy is perhaps downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it will be the breath of fresh air they were hoping for.

In Fairy Creek, director Jen Muranetz documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, creating a searing portrait of contemporary environmental activism, bearing witness to the lengths activists are willing to take to protect British Columbia’s last old growth forests.

In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.

Inspirée de l’univers de Menteur (2019), Menteuse est la nouvelle comédie d’Émile Gaudreault. Habitée par l’idée de rendre les gens autour d’elle heureux, Virginie ment constamment. Comme le craint son conjoint Phil, ses multiples mensonges deviennent réalité et façonnent des multivers qui bouleversent complètement leur vie et celle de leur entourage. Ayant menti toute sa vie sur sa vraie nature, Virginie pourra-t-elle retrouver le chemin vers la vérité? … Driven by the desire to make those around her happy, Virginie lies constantly. As her partner Phil fears, her many lies start becoming reality, shaping multiverses that completely upend their lives and those of their loved ones. Having spent her life lying about her true nature, will Virginie find her way back to the truth?