Alexandre Leblanc

Eight-year-old Émile is enjoying the last of the warm summer evenings with his sister Françoise. While they are eagerly scanning the night sky for shooting stars, they are suddenly interrupted by a despicably cruel act.

A young woman is doing construction work in her apartment. She is interrupted by the arrival of her sister. They are late for an event.

Louis, defeated mayor of his small town’s latest election, has to bid farewell to his seat after twenty years of loyalty. Following his defeat, he goes trough a rough patch that leaves him confused towards his future. As events seem to conspire to remind him the bitter taste of his failure, he finds unlikely solace at his neighbour’s house.

Stefie, an unremarkable teenage loner, is recruited by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily capers with his cellphone. The four pranksters decide to set up a stunt that go beyond anything they’ve done so far… But this time, who will be the victim? A funny and cruel coming-of-age story about love, friendship, peer pressure and loss of innocence.

During a heat wave in Montreal, Tom, 11, meets Édith, who’s the same age. He soon discovers that Édith has a terrible secret.

In this tale, halfway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. But as the night begins to rumble, Amani’s joie de vivre disappears to give way to his pain.

Pippa lives in a supervised home for young mothers struggling to adapt, where she must prove her ability to fulfill her parental role. Over the course of one night, and despite the curfew imposed on her, Pippa leaves the shelter with her baby.

A man is getting ready for a peculiar date.

A Sister's Song is the intimate, delicate story of two sisters Marina and Tatiana, who live separated by a choice that Tatiana made when she became a nun.

A guy tries to convince his ex-girlfriend to have sex with him, on the very same day that they both plan to commit a robbery with her new boyfriend.

Returning from a party, as the day dawns, two young men cross a rich neighborhood, discussing its architecture with its facades without imperfections and their own desires.

Jean-François Boisvenue tells us about his childhood fears and his history of mental illness. On the screen, we can see a series of hand-drawn animations projected onto his body that plunges us into psychosis and depersonalization. The whole was captured by the camera without postproduction effects.

Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to get revenge on her former boss, who owns a right-wing radio station. His story blends conceptual artists, amateur theatre troupes, hallucinogenic vinyl record and other magical powers. All that nonsense leave Angie wondering if he made that up only to win her back.

Fourteen-year old Juliette lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother left the family to pursue her career in New York; from that moment, Juliette started to gain weight. Today, she’s not obese, but she’s clearly the heaviest girl at her high school. But that doesn’t stop her from being vivacious, funny and unrepentantly rebellious. Juliette has big dreams: she wants to throw the best parties, move to New York to live with her mother, and date the most gorgeous guy in her school, an older boy who is about to graduate. In short, she wants everything she can’t have—which sometimes makes her forget to appreciate those who really love her. We follow this brazen and endearing girl during her hectic last few weeks before summer vacation, and watch as she does some growing up—but not too much.

A boy emerges from a lake. In front of him, there is an island formed by a volcano. This island is a world where time doesn’t exist, a landscape sculpted by his mind. On this island, he can live and live again what has already been experienced.

When winter arrives and the water freezes over, neighborhood skating rinks across Quebec come to life. Les joueurs d'hiver tells the stories of the people who bring the magic of skating rinks to life, from the alleys of Montréal to the mountains of Gaspésie and the shores of the Côte-Nord. This film provides a glimpse of the sociocultural characteristics of each region and captures the collective imagination that reigns throughout the province. Les joueurs d'hiver showcases community spirit and the sense of belonging through an intimate and poetic look at how skating rinks reflect Quebec society.

Always passionate about hockey, young Jean-Philippe Tanguay dreams of only one thing: becoming a player agent. He idolizes his cousin Yves Tanguay, a former NHL player, now playing with the Barbares de La Malbaie amateur hockey team. When the team advances to the Canadian championship, Yves convinces his young cousin to accompany him to Thunder Bay to attend the championship. The two cousins ​​see this as a unique opportunity for their careers and will embark on a road trip that will lead them to discover the price to pay to make their dreams come true.

Jerome's world turns upside down when his son disappears. This new ordeal rapidly sets aside an important business deadline he had the same morning. A race against the clock begins to find the lost child.

An actor shows up fifteen minutes to curtain for his commedia dell'arte theater play facing the dilemma of quitting the stage because of an overwhelming feeling of being alone with everybody.

Jeanne is a black artist in her sixties who hasn't had the career she'd hoped for. She has fallen into a deep depression. Bitter, she is unable to communicate with her thirty-year-old daughter, whose mere presence reminds her of her failures. Will she be able to rise above her bitterness to start living again and break out of her solitude? Perhaps one day.

A medium welcomes three different customers. They all seek guidance and comfort.

Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins and the two become friends. One night, he assaults her. Years later, in prison for the deaths of two people, Billy is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the help of the filmmaker, his only remaining relationship apart from his family, his personal archives become an invaluable resource for understanding his illness. A formal deconstruction of schizophrenia through a remarkably open-minded gaze.

Constructed from Canadian prairie archival images taken between 1920 and 1940, this film lyrically explores a transgender son's relationship with his father and the family's relationship to their land.