Linda Sauvé

Johann Hari'nin "Chasing the Scream" adlı kitabından uyarlanan film, 1940'larda Amerika'nın en büyük yıldızlarından biri olan caz sanatçısı Billie Holiday’ın hayatına odaklanıyor. Caz sahnesinin en önemli seslerinden biri olan Holiday zorluklarla dolu bir hayat yaşadı. Holiday’in iş ve özel yaşantısına yer verilen filmde, ünlü FBI ajanı Jimmy Fletcher ile olan ilişkisi ve nasıl FBI’ın hedefi haline getirildiği gözler önüne seriliyor.

Québec’ten çıkan bu renkli komedi, vaktiyle bağışladığı spermlerden 533 kadar çocuk doğduğunu yeni öğrenmiş olan orta yaşlı bir dalgacıyı konu alıyor. Üstelik çocukların birçoğu, varlıklarına sebep olan kişiyle tanışmak üzere kliniğe dava açıyor. David tam hayatını kontrol altına almaya karar vermişken hayatı düşündüğünden çok daha karmaşık bir hal alıveriyor. Sperm bağışlamak belli ki onun tek yeteneği ve namlı bir boğaya göndermeyle kendisine “Starbuck” diye bir lakap bile takılmış. Bu gelişmeler üzerine, arkadaşı olan sakar avukatın yardımıyla, kimliğini gizli tutmak üzere harekete geçiyor. Ancak kim olduğunu açık etmeden çocuklarıyla buluşmaya da başlıyor. Bu kadar çocuk varken, çeşitlilik kaçınılmaz oluyor elbette...

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.

Rejeanne and Gilles are a married couple whose devastating setbacks--she is laid off from her job and he suffers a debilitating stroke--only begin to fester in the face of corporate greed and personal struggles when they attempt to start over in a new neighborhood.

Réal and François are two old buddies in their early 30s who reunite at last to unearth a time capsule bottle which contains their dreams and ambitions from 15 years earlier. The problem is, their little treasure is buried on a plot of land that now belongs to a grumpy old coot, Antoine. Paying big bucks to get at their bottle, they discover that Antoine's daughter, Lea is trying to become pregnant and seeks the help of a gay friend to do it. Back in boyhood mode, Lea becomes the object of their desire.

To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show.

William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.

Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the past year.

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

In the 1950s, young boys were placed in orphanages and endure harsh and austere living conditions. As a united group, they supported each other and survived despite bullying, hardship and little hope for better days. While these children were doing their best to survive, they had no way to suspect the secret dealings between the clergy, the medical profession and the government that will inevitably seal their fates. The institution faced with a precarious financial situation, the solution is to transform the orphanage into a psychiatric institute in order to obtain additional subsidies. To demonstrate the need for this change in status, the orphans are labeled as insane by the very people who took them in to help them. While their future as orphans was already precarious, they become prisoners of an asylum system from which they have little hope of being able to free themselves even as they grow older.