Monique Spaziani

Cannes 2009'un en çok konuşulan filmlerinden biri olan Annemi Öldürdüm?ün merkezinde gay lise öğrencisi Hubert var; onun en yakınındaki, aynı zamanda da en uzağındaki insan ise annesi Chantale! Aralarındaki aşk-nefret ilişkisi öyle boyutta ki oğlan, okuldayken annesinden ölmüş gibi bahsedebiliyor. Birlikte olduklarında ise mekan gözetmeksizin kavga ediyorlar?Hubert, annesinin düzenbazca manevralarından ve suçluluktan bunalmış, onu küçümsemekten kendini alamıyor. Bu aşk/nefret ilişkisinin kafa karışıklığıyla Hubert ergenliğin gizemlerine sürükleniyor. Henüz yirmi yaşındaki Xavier Dolan yazıp yönettiği ve başrolünde oynadığı ilk filminde son derece açık sözlü.

Matthias ile Maxime, çocukluktan beri bir arada olan iki yakın arkadaştır. Rol aldıkları bir kısa film, iki arkadaşın hem hayatının değişmesine hem de arkadaşlıklarının sarsılmasına neden olur. Film için Matthias ve Maxime’nin öpüşmesi gerekince, ikilinin arkadaşlığı farklı bir boyuta taşınır. Kısa sürede aralarına giren şüphe, ikisinin de hayatının bambaşka olmasına neden olur.

Bu yıl Tom Çiftlikte ile festivalin Uluslararası Yarışması’nda yer alan Xavier Dolan’ın bir önceki filmi Laurence Anyways 10 yıla yayılan benzersiz bir aşk öyküsü. 80’lerde başlayan filmde, Melvil Poupaud ameliyatla kadın olmak isteyen yazar ve edebiyat öğretmeni Laurence’i canlandırıyor. Kız arkadaşı Fred’e (müthiş bir performans sergileyen Suzanne Clément) yanlış bedende doğduğunu açıkladığında, inanılmaz zorluklara yıllar boyunca birlikte göğüs gerecek bir ikiliye dönüşüyorlar. Dolan’ın sinemasında olgunlaşma dönemine işaret eden bu melodram, 3 saate yakın süresine rağmen seyirciyi asla avucunun içinden bırakmıyor.

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

Dany Rabbit is the improbable encounter between an old lady and a teenager standing at a crossroad in their lives.

Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.

Three friends meet one summer at a skydiving center. Adventurous, they spend most of their time jumping - for thrills and to escape what haunts them. When his dream of becoming a pilot is shattered, Rafaël, a young daredevil of 20 years, puts his life in danger by pushing his limits as a parashooter. Her friend Charles, the older owner of the skydiving center, tries to make her understand reason while developing a love passion for Manu, a young woman who, at 20, has to deal with her mother's cancer. But Manu and Rafaël also develop a strong passion, which comes to compromise the strong bond between the three friends. Things don't work out when Rafaël, who has been forbidden to jump, comes to miss a particularly dangerous jump prepared by Charles.

In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide whether she wants to follow her head or her heart...

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

A 12-year-old girl finds herself stranded on a lonely Caribbean island with a 20-year old retarded man in this sensitively rendered Canadian drama from Quebec. Emile and Cedrine are first seen during their rescue in which both are nearly in a coma. Their story of how they got there and survived is told via flashback. The two were the only survivors of a plane crash and at first Cedrine is terrified of Emile, thinking he might lose control and rape her. Fortunately, Emile is gentle and the two become friends, playmates, and eventually lovers in scenes that exploit neither character.

Thomas has killing headaches, Jean-François has stage freight and Benoit's wife has left him. After countless misfortunes the three of them bag a white collar thief that has been evading justice for ten years.

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...

Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.

Henri was raised by religious in a convent and lived with them until the women, now elders, moved, leaving him alone. Henri fixes lamps. Since his young age, he's been replacing burned light bulbs and illuminates people's lives. After following signs, he finds himself working in a lamp company. Through his new work, he meets an old man trying to never forget his glory days and a blind woman, teller in an adult cinema, with whom he falls in love.

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.

On Christmas eve a journalist witnesses a theft in a mall and then tracks one of the thieves to later be taken as his hostage in the radio station he works for.

Dramatic reenactments of major Quebec trials.

When Anthony Sullivan disappears on his tenth birthday, his family is devastated. However, as more and more time passes without the police being able to locate him, long-buried family secrets are dragged to the surface, turning the Sullivan family against one another.

A 37-year-old teacher falls for the charms of a student 20 years younger, causing a family crisis and her brutal fall to prison.

Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli.

Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure is always up for a challenge. Being cooped up in the massive structure that is the colony – the inhabitants simply call it “The Wall” – soon presents her with some challenges that exceed her investigative efforts.

Béatrice Clément is a 48-year-old emergency room doctor. She is pretty, charming and at the top of her professional game. The only problem is, Béatrice hasn’t been feeling well. Having undergone every test available without any conclusive results, she is at the end of her rope. Finally, she overcomes her skepticism and agrees to visit a psychologist. Dr. P is gentle, attentive and compassionate. Despite Béatrice’s initial resistance, he slowly but surely gains her trust. Every week, Béatrice is confronted with patients who remind her of her own personal struggles. It is becoming clear that although she is fully in control of the ER, her private life is another matter entirely. In her drive for constant perfection and control, she is faced with comical and embarrassing situations, but also painful ones.

Benim Tuhaf Ailem, isminin hakkını veren bir komedi dizisi. Başrolünde Martin Matte, kendi hayatından esinlendiği bir hikâyeyi anlatıyor. Ünlü bir komedyen olan Martin ve karısı Julie, çift terapisine gitmeye başlarlar.

L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995. The series explores different complex sexual and taboo issues. Some notable subjects include: Rape, Teen Obsession, Age Difference in love, Homosexuality and Married, Schizophrenia, Spousal Abuse. The series lasted 7 years and was very popular in Quebec. It was written by Janette Bertrand.

The elevator is therapy for a man trying to get to the top floor of an enormous skyscraper in the company of some of humanity’s most annoying specimens.

Marianne is a rising star in the highly competitive world of video game design. At the dawn of her thirties, she develops her own game in a large Montreal studio where her fiancé, Julien, also works. After participating in a panel, where she denounces the trolls who pour their venom on the Internet, Marianne is drawn into a controversy that ignites social networks. In the wake of this storm, she is the victim of an aggression of which she will have no memory. A total blackout that haunts her like a nightmare and tries to elucidate the mystery.

The story of a Polish family during the Second World War.

Marc, a ufologist, searches for his missing brother, Gabriel, believing he was abducted by aliens. An encounter with a mysterious woman challenges his presumptions, raising questions about an imminent alien invasion.

The story revolves around the character of Daphnée Roussel, who is in a coma for three months after falling from the rooftop of the skateboarding center Dédales. Her best friend Jennifer wonders if it really was a suicide attempt. Daphnée's brother Adrian's suggestion to take her off life support creates a shock wave in the family. His insistence to convince Gilles and Diana, his parents, and Maya, his sister, raises doubts about the purity of his intentions. Daphnée's former boyfriend, Laurent doesn't seem to be above suspicion either. In Daphnée's entourage, there are many the secrets.