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Ailleurs (2017)
Character: Samu
The story of Tv, beginning on the night he agrees to run away from his affluent suburb in Quebec City to save his best friend Samu. The two 15-year-olds' escape quickly turns into a desperate flight from the police and adults. Their encounter with a group of young orphans living in a cave in the heart of the city will put their friendship to the test. The transition from adolescence to adulthood, the discovery of love, freedom, and the experience of resilience will not be without its challenges.
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Rosa (2021)
Character: Le Patient
After being touched by a patient's story, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.
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Boy Erased (2018)
Character: Xavier
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
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La Dérive des continents (au sud) (2022)
Character: Albert Adler
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
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La course navette (2017)
Character: Wojtek
Wojtek is a mysterious new student at school. This is why he is a prey designated for Thomas and Philippe, two students in search of entertainment. Not finding the words in front of his assailants, Wojtek will go back to his physical education course to express the substance of his thoughts.
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Nino (2025)
Character: Nino
Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he will face a major challenge.
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Les démons (2015)
Character: David
While Montreal is in the throes of a string of kidnappings targeting young boys, ten-year-old Felix is finishing his school year in the seemingly quiet suburb where he lives. A sensitive boy with a vivid imagination, Felix is afraid of everything. Little by little, his imaginary demons begin to mirror those of the truly disturbing world around him.
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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Character: Beau’s Son
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.
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Carla en 10 secondes (2016)
Character: Anthony
During a party, Gaby begins to suspect that spreading rumours of a football team gang-bang may well involve her best friend, Carla.
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Chien de garde (2018)
Character: Vincent
JP lives with his brother Vincent, his mother Joe and his girlfriend Mel in a small appartement of Verdun. Constantly walking a tightrope, JP tries to maintain a proper balance between the numerous needs of his family of which he feels responsible for, the collecting job he is doing with his brother and his involvements in his uncle’s drug cartel who he sees as a father figure.
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Isla Blanca (2018)
Character: Émile
Mathilde returns home after eight years to say goodbye to her terminally ill mother.
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Souterrain (2021)
Character: Julien
Maxime is a young Valdorian who works in a gold mine. As he experiences several difficulties as he goes through life, he will question his definition of masculinity. It's with the help of the tightly knit brotherhood of colleagues in the mine that he will find the necessary support to overcome a feeling of stubborn guilt which prevents him from achieving happiness. Until the day an explosion breaks out underground. As part of the rescue mission, Maxime descends into the mine lair with the firm intention of bringing each of his colleagues back to the surface alive.
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Boost (2017)
Character: Dev
Hakeem and A-Mac are like brothers. Together facing immigrant life in Montreal, while 'spotting' cars after school. Boost gives us a glimpse into the awkward adventures of teenage boyhood, then the jolt, when that innocence ends abruptly.
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Lurker (2025)
Character: Matthew
When a twenty-something retail clerk encounters a rising pop star, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
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Sigismond sans images (2016)
Character: Sigismond Langlois
Sigismond Langlois is submitted to a psychiatric evaluation on account of his violent behavior. He just turned 18, and pretends he was born with no image. Throughout the questionnaire, he recounts the peculiar existence of a young man who never saw himself, neither in reflection nor on photo, to the point of sometimes doubting of his own existence. But today, Sigismond is determined to make himself heard.
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Solo (2023)
Character: Simon / Glory Gore
Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Olivier and a cold relationship with his mother, who's just returned after fifteen years.
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Incel (2019)
Character: Sam
Sam is a reclusive young man who finds solace with those who share the same self-described title as him: Incel. When his countless real-life efforts at love fail, Sam turns to this anonymous community of the “involuntarily celibate” for help, but instead finds himself increasingly pushed towards extremism.
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Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
Character: Jamie
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
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Endorphine (2015)
Character: Grégoire
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
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Maîtres nageurs (2016)
Character: Maxime
During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Character: Oliver Larsson
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
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At First Light (2018)
Character: Sean Terrel
High school senior Alex has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities, and turns to her childhood friend Sean. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.
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Juste la fin du monde (2016)
Character: Antoine (age 16-22)
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
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My Salinger Year (2020)
Character: Boy From Winston-Salem
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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Embrasse (2022)
Character: Hugo
Hugo is an only child. A public altercation seems to confirm the rumor of domestic violence. Passionate about fashion and infatuated with beauty, this teenager dreams of becoming a couturier, like the master of French ready-to-wear Yves Saint Laurent.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Character: Jasper
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
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Ville Neuve (2019)
Character: Ulysse
Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend's house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.
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Genèse (2019)
Character: Guillaume
Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
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Mayday (2021)
Character: Dimitri
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and time is running out for her to get home.
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