Yan Giroux

Its another quiet summer day in Park Dufresne. The neighborhood youth loiter around the park until a new park monitor appears for his first day of work. Two universes clash and a territorial struggle begins.

One day, David leaves town to pay a visit to his father. A somewhat ordinary trip to the country. But looking closer, thousands of little details catch your attention. In usual films, these details are arranged to build a story, while we tried to subject the story to its details.

The band Chocolat traveled to the Magdalen Islands to perform two shows and shoot a music video, but after drinking two bottles of whisky too many, the course of events shifted. Just seven hours after landing, both shows were cancelled due to the havoc they had wreaked. Their musical journey turned into a wandering odyssey across islands that had become hostile to their presence.

A rebellious poet befriends a woman and her son, leading him from the verge of self-destruction to the path of redemption.

July 14th. France’s national holiday. A public holiday, non-working and paid. In Marseille, it’s not blue, white, and red that stands out, but all the other colors that together form a portrait of contemporary France.

After years apart, a woman living alone in the forest is troubled by the sudden return of her estranged son. Against her will, she must accompany him on his final journey.

Anne, who’s 54, takes part in simulated consultations used to evaluate medical students. Gradually, though, the script she’s been given starts to ring true, forcing her to confront her own condition.

Cubanos, a completely independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship, a people struggling to leave the 20th century behind. While music may barely camouflage the misery and corruption in Cuba, the sounds of engines and commercial radio can’t mask the cultural gap between the island and the very active community in Miami. The main character, Catuey, a Cuban musician who has been living in Québec for a number of years, brings to his journey and his songs the image of an ideal Cuba hurt by the division in its people and the group-think that prevails in Miami. Confronted with the contradictions among his countrymen and his own demons, Catuey ends his odyssey drained and disappointed not to have found a simple path to reconciliation.