Gabriel Arcand

Four university teachers gather to prepare a dinner. Remy - married, Claude - homosexual, Pierre - girlfriend and Alain - a bachelor discuss sex... (imdb)

Set in the mid-sixties, Maman est chez le coiffeur focuses on teenaged Élise. Her principal instructors are her father, the local doctor, and her mother, a frustrated career woman and part-time journalist. When a frustrated Élise is disciplined, she begins meddling, sparking her mother's abrupt and angry departure. While the impact of this absence is disastrous for them all, it is especially devastating for Élise, who is now forced to care for her father and brothers. (tiff08.ca)

Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec and given up for adoption shortly afterward. Michel goes there and meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. An accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. (imdb)

Gaby raises lambs on his farm, the Gagnon & Sons farm. Except that he doesn't have a son. He has two daughters he has raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, his older daughter asks him for a loan to save her from losing her home. Gaby, whose sense of paternal duty exceeds all reason, chooses to sell off his farm. (semainedelacritique.com)

A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room. (imdb)

Mathieu has never known his father. His mother has always told him he was the fruit of a one-night-stand. One morning, in his Parisian flat, he receives a call from Quebec telling him his father just died. Mathieu decides to go to the funeral and meet the two Canadian brothers he just found out he had. In Montreal, nobody is aware of his existence, and Mathieu realizes he is in a hostile territory. (imdb)

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II. (imdb)

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... (jhailey@hotmail.com)

Robert Filion has to travel south to identify the body of his father who died of a sudden heart attack in a Florida resort. Robert, separated from his wife, flies south with his young son, Maxime. The road movie begins after the body has been shipped north by train to be buried. Then, father and son drive north in the dead father's car on highways lined with overbooked motels.