Known for Acting
Sirius, a lone star in the form of a dark-skinned man, has collapsed to earth. What little space he found on his host planet, he works to provide food and shelter for him and his wife, Angèle. One winter's day, the firmament calls him back, Sirius takes the long way leaving his wife behind. Their journey tells of the fertility of this sojourn for Sirius. The story that's often overlooked, that of how the earth fed the sky.
When Julie begins a new love life, she finds herself sucked into an unusual family and becomes the stepmother of two children, one of whom is Antoine: disabled, autistic, mentally deficient, non-verbal and a high-level epileptic.
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.
Six strangers are invited to stay at the prestigious estate of a billionaire. The helicopter transporting them is forced to make an emergency landing. What can an ex-policeman, a religious art dealer, a retired teacher, a marketing director, a star criminal lawyer and a businesswoman have in common that they are trapped in this way?
The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.
A girl who comes from a long line of circus performers tries to fulfill her dream of going to private school.
In an ever-expanding but nondescript North American city, Christophe, a middle-aged businessman, unexpectedly encounters Micha, a Russian acrobat recovering from an injury, while house-hunting. An instant attraction is quickly consummated and they embark on a torrid affair that helps each of them cope with their respective trials. A provocative, poignant drama about intimacy in an age of anonymity.
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.
Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.
