Camille Trudel

Waterloo will now have its own semi-pro men's hockey team, thus expelling the amateur women's leagues from the arena. To avenge their lost ice time, an impulsive hockey player and a ruthless octogenarian—a former derby champion—have a plan: recruit the city's disenfranchised and form an underground roller derby team. With the help of the Women's Club, they will prove that women's sports can also inspire crowds and that sisterhood is the ultimate act of resistance.

Adèle, a somewhat overwhelmed mother, panics when her eight-month-old daughter, Olivia, supernaturally disappears without a trace. When Adèle finds Olivia at a dangerously seductive garden party where a neighbor claims to be her mother, the young woman must fight to stay grounded as the scrutiny of others forces her to confront her own anxieties.

Championed in her sporting activities by her teenage brother, Pierre-Amelia’s innocent world shatters when her experience among an elite soccer team of older girls precipitates her sexual awakening and reveals an unsuspected desire for her brother. 'Blaze' delicately explores the taboo of forbidden desire in an adolescent world where nascent passions are often at odds with social norms.

In an isolated psychiatric ward, Laurence, a young woman suffering from depression, has her world turned upside down by another patient who is her exact opposite.

Through the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships.

Zav, a young 16-year-old hyperpop musician, dreams of breaking into the music industry. Along with this desire, Zav questions his gender identity. These questions make him fear repercussions on his relationships with his family and his Franco-Ontarian community. This is why he uses social networks to anonymously live his femininity and share his art. However, this reality cannot remain hidden forever.