Catherine Brunet

Farador

Charles, Louis, and Guillaume are three friends who live together as roommates in the same house, where they spend all of their free time still playing the same Farador campaign they began as teenagers; their other friend Paul has recently moved out of the house and abandoned the game to live with his girlfriend. When Charles's sister Kim, who has recently broken up with her longtime Belgian boyfriend Tom after realizing that she might be a lesbian, moves into Paul's vacated room, her presence, and her determination to push her brother to finally take the plunge on his unrealized ambition to write and publish an erotic fantasy novel, upset the group dynamics and force them to make one last push to finally reach the Castle of Farador and end the game.

Printemps

Chloe drives along deserted roads seeking to find a trace of her brother and needs to let the ice melt before she can confront her own denial.

Anna Kiri

Escaping death after a failed robbery, a reckless and dreamy writer abandons her delinquency to pursue her quest of recognition.

Two Days Before Christmas

On December 23, the holiday season is in full force and the destinies of strangers intertwine: a hardened bachelor wants to find love; a couple expect their first child; a singer returns to the stage after a break; a mother tries to organize the perfect Christmas; a teen carries a big secret; a man struggles with the modern world; and the new manager of a large hotel must prove her worth.

Errance

Young people wander in the polar cold, looking for a meaning to their lives.

Butterfly Tale

A pair of rival butterflies form an unlikely friendship.

Dumb Tulip

Following a sinister dream, a young man tries to come to terms with a series of extraordinary events.

Mommy

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Nelly

A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.

Wolfe

One night, Andie, figurehead of a four friends group, plans out her death in front of all her relatives. Through a broken monologue, Andie reveals her deep thoughts about each person she has harmed. This staging destabilizes the group and questions the links previously made. While each member of the gang tries to regain control of the group, both emotionally and physically, a fifth person interferes from the outside and comes to stir up chaos.

Matthias & Maxime

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Mad Dog Labine

A fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village.

Smoothie

Following a drunken evening, four friends discover the body of their fifth friend, Robin. For fear of reprisals from the police, they will try by all means to cover up the tragedy.

Memories Unlocked

In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.

The Last Breath

A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.

Ce qu’on respire sur Tatouine

Adapted from Jean-Christophe Réhel's novel, Ce qu'on respire sur Tatouine follows Christophe, a young poet with cystic fibrosis, whose humor, intelligence, and candor lead him down a strange path strewn with obstacles and laughter, resounding failures and moving encounters; a host of colorful characters accompany him on his inner odyssey. From Repentigny to Tatooine, by way of the CHUM (Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal), the Super C (a supermarket), and New York, Christophe rarely makes the right choices, doesn't really take care of himself, but struggles as best he can to find his way between money and inspiration, between illness and pleasure, between love and death.

The Shedding

When his lover, a rising actor, leaves him for his own stand-in, Jean spirals into doubt and obsession. Caught between dream and reality, on a chaotic film set where everything is an illusion, he embarks on a troubling quest. Must he reinvent himself to win him back, or risk losing himself entirely?

Sortie de zone

A mother who has neglected herself for too long decides to find herself again by joining a garage hockey league.