Winter Claire

In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-something Quebec man before fleeing. With help from a Vietnamese former refugee, they try to solve the mystery.

Fleeing the Quebec winter and her professional and romantic disappointments, the young filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte embarks with her director of photography on a road-movie across the United States, which should lead them all the way to Los Angeles to meet the artist and filmmaker Miranda July. Obviously, nothing will happen as planned.

On a film set, director Denis Côté and his crew are shooting his latest feature; Vic+Flo saw a bear, starring Romane Bohringer, Pierrette Robitaille and Marc-André Grondin. A contemplative film where we can observe and listen in on what actually went on, where technicians make the final adjustments, actors giving their best performances and a calm and collected director orchestrating it all. To sum it up, it's cinema at work.

A filmmaker and her entourage. Three young women filled with ambition, exhilarated by countless possibilities. Yet disenchantment sets in. Through careers that are slow to take off, boring jobs, debaucheries that become commonplace, break-ups, the desire to escape and the search for happiness at all costs, a kind of state of affairs emerges. Shot between Montreal and Berlin, vacillating between intimate portrait and impressionistic self-portrait, J'AI COMME RECULÉ, ON DIRAIT captures the daily lives of its characters with a raw, immediate aesthetic and a self-deprecating sense of humor.

While going through a period of limbo, filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte turns her camera on her playwright neighbour. Together, they dissect the various stages of artistic creation in irresistibly funny chapters.

A young couple on a hiking trip is forced to face the distance that has grown between them.