Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
AMIES
Marie Davignon
O.V.
French | st English
Following a long stay abroad, Amélie invites Maude and Pascale to a cottage. Amélie tries to reconnect with Maude, while she develops a rivalry with...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 19 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Brotherhood
Meryam Joobeur
O.V.
Arabic | st English
Mohamed is shaken when his son returns home after a long journey with a mysterious woman. Tension between father and son rises until reaching a breaking...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 25 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
CUBA MERCI GRACIAS
Alex B. Martin
O.V.
French | st English
Two young women from Québec, Manu and Alexa-Jeanne, head to Cuba for a holiday. There, they soak up the rays, frolic in the surf, dine out and wander...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 65 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Constellations
Anna Maguire
O.V.
English | st English
A young woman realises her sexual needs have grown beyond her relationship with her boyfriend, a chance encounter allows her to control her fantasies.
QUéBEC/CANADA, United Kingdom | 18 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Dialogue entre elle et moi
Simon Roberge
O.V.
French | st English
Ginette Lafontaine is a 70-year-old painter whose works are created in response to a tormented career. Through art, she has found release.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 13 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
DÉRIVE
David Uloth
O.V.
French | st English
Marine is 11; her sister Océane is 16. When his life is tragically cut short, their father leaves them with a grieving mother and a pile of debts. Each...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 104 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
EN ATTENDANT AVRIL
Olivier Godin
O.V.
French | st English
A mysterious, absurdist romcom, Olivier Godin’s latest brings together a singing bone, an actor with a gorilla arm, a spectacularly vulgar female cop and...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 78 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
HAPPY FACE
Alexandre Franchi
O.V.
English | st English
Stanislas, 19, is left on his own when his mother is hospitalized. Terrorized by her illness, he wraps his face in bandages and infiltrates a therapy...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 100 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
L'appétit des garçons
Raphaël Massicotte
O.V.
French | st English
A Daddy, a Twink, a bear and a Hunk are cruising outdoor in a suburban neighborhood of Montreal.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 7 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
La couleur de tes lèvres
Annick Blanc
O.V.
- Without dialogue
In an unbreathable atmosphere, a diver and a woman are the only survivors. Their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?
QUéBEC/CANADA | 18 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Le chapon
Gabriel Vilandré
O.V.
French
At a warm-hearted Christmas dinner, something unexpected comes to disturb the evening.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 15 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Le ver
Charles Grenier
O.V.
French | st English
A house's strange force is preventing Jules and Alice from writing their own family history. is it nostalgia driving Jules to madness?
QUéBEC/CANADA | 15 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous
Mélanie Charbonneau
O.V.
French | st English
Daniel, an astronaut, is on a mission to scatter his mother's ashes and Claude, a woman-tampon, is hoping for her period to return.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 15 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
MAD DOG LABINE
Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr, Renaud Lessard
O.V.
French | st English
The heroes of this inventive film are kids and teenagers from Pontiac in the Outaouais, a land of lakes and rivers light years away from the big city. They...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 85 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Ma pipe
Étienne De Massy
O.V.
French
A video essay that would be outside any theory of probability; a continumum that would make us escape any logic.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 7 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Mahalia Melts in the Rain
Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Emilie Mannering
O.V.
English | st French
Mahalia feels different in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to get her hair straightened for the very first time.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 12 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Marées
Juliette Granger
O.V.
- Without dialogue | st English
Marées is a singular ode to the spirits of the Gaspesian Sea as experienced by its inhabitants.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 22 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Mon Boy
Sarah Pellerin
O.V.
French | st English
As he takes part in his brother's bachelor party, Louis is confronted by this ritual that both celebrates and denigrates commitment and masculinity.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 13 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Nuit pour jour
Nicolas Roy
O.V.
French | st English
Going through a difficult ordeal, Lucie and marc are trying to open up to one another again and resume, in a way, a normal life.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 14 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
LES ROUTES EN FÉVRIER
Katherine Jerkovic
O.V.
Spanish | st French
Mourning her father, twentysomething Sarah returns to her home country of Uruguay, hoping to reconcile past and present. There she finds her paternal...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 84 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
LES SALOPES OU LE SUCRE NATUREL DE LA PEAU
Renée Beaulieu
O.V.
French | st English
University dermatology professor Marie-Claire is a strong-willed woman. She lives her sexuality freely, which some consider subversive. As she embarks on a...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 97 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Tandem
Étienne Galloy, Christophe Levac
O.V.
French | st English
David and Camille take advantage of the game of chess that is set before them to place the pawns of their visions of love on the timeline of modern...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 6 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
LA VERSION NOUVELLE
Michael Yaroshevsky
O.V.
French | st English
Alone in an apartment, a young woman works on a nameless film, editing footage left by an absent lover, fleeting images of Russian melancholy. This mise en...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 70 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Une forteresse
Miryam Charles
O.V.
French | st English
After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who has the power of resurrection.
QUéBEC/CANADA, Haiti | 6 minutes | 2018