SEDUCING DOCTOR LEWIS
Synopsis: In the little harbour village of St-Marie-La Mauderne, the vanishing fish stocks have plummeted a once thriving community into decline, forcing the fishermen to rely on government welfare. When a small company considers building a factory on the island, the inhabitants see an opportunity for the village to be restored to greatness. But the factory cannot be built without a resident doctor.
Seeking to attract the young Doctor Lewis, Germain spearheads the transformation of the village. It's the beginning of the seduction. From the women's dress code to the food, even the patient's illness, everything is done with the soul purpose of pleasing the doctor. While sometimes ruthless and often clumsy, even the most disillusioned villagers rally to the cause. The entire village works harmoniously and with great dedication towards trying to convince the doctor that St-Marie-La-Mauderne is the ideal place to live.

HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT!
Synopsis: Sam lives with his mother in the Anishnabe Native community in the Abitibi region of Quebec. His girlfriend, Migona, a student who lives in the Huron-Wendat community just outside Quebec City- is a 10-hour-drive away. Winter comes, and the young Native man leaves home to visit his girlfriend. Along the way, he meets Tania, a young Russian woman, and decides to accompany her in her flight across a terrain devoid of navigable roads. This road movie was largely shot on location in the Anishanable, Innu and Wendate communities of Quebec over the course of 2500-kilometre-long journey.

THE FIVE OF US
Synopsis: Manon Cloutier, 32, accepts a dinner invitation from her colleague Stephane Lebeau. Romance is on the menu! A few days later, still aglow from this fledgling relationship, Manon is at a carwash when she becomes completely distraught at the glimpse of a man with tattooed arms. Terrified, Manon hurries home and double-bolt the door.
So begins a series of flashbacks. She remembers a summer day, when she was 17, when she and her girlfriends, Anne, Claudie, Isa and Sophie, are getting read for a party at Sophie's cottage. She remembers how much fun they used to have together...and she remembers the young tattooed man who gave her a lift in his jeep as she hitchhiked on the very night of the party. Since that time, Manon has steadfastly refused to see her old friends: her survival depends on avoiding anything that could remind her of the tragedy that marked her young life.
But 15 years later, she realizes that despite all Stephane's kind attentions, only her childhood friends can really help her overcome her pain...

MANNERS OF DYING
Synopsis: Kevin Barlow will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington, director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting violently to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. Father Preston is on hand to provide spiritual guidance, if needed. Doctor Lowe can provide pills to relieve the tension. The tie-down crew, all veterans of many executions, work swiftly and efficiently. All angles appear to be covered, until Parlington discovers there are many more angels to Kevin Barlow than he had first imagined.
When Barlow makes a baffling and unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make. The iron grip Parlington usually maintains on the execution procedure begins to slip as the final hours become a maze of manners of dying.

LOVE AND MAGNETS
Synopsis: Back in Montreal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual morals... Disillusioned with love, Jeanne is nevertheless engaged to Noel. However, Jeanne and Noel lead separate lives, and only communicate by leaving each other messages posted on the fridge door.
Everything suddenly becomes very complicated. Jeanne compels Julie to take up with Noel so she can have a fling with a passionate musician. Noel, meanwhile, looking to end his relationship with Helene, a married woman who is madly in love with him, sets Julie up with Michel - without Jeanne's knowledge.
Julie mixes things up even further. Egged on by her friend Marie-eve, she alters the contents of the messages on the fridge in an attempt to breathe new life into Jeanne and Noel's relationship. Along the way, she also begins to fall for the seductive Michel. The tables are turned on everyone...In the game of love and truth, illusion leads to betrayal, but love conquers all.

SEVEN TIMES LUCKY
Synopsis: Harlan the aging, small-time grifter, and Fiona, the beautiful, ambitious student, both of them shilling for chicken feed while dreaming of the larger score. When they finally get their big chance, all bets are off in a game of wits and outwits that leaves Harlan's life in deeper and deeper shambles. Living in his father's shattered shadow and going on tilt for the girl only make matters worse.

DESOLATION SOUND
Synopsis: The film tracks the disintegration and resurrection of a woman struggling to accept her involvement in the shocking death of her friend.
Laurel has moved to the beautiful but isolated wilderness of Desolation Sound with her daughter and frequently absent husband, Michel. The seeming calm of this rural existence is shaken by the unexpected arrival of Laurel's lifelong friend Elizabeth.
Michael's apprehension of Elizabeth's arrival belies a secret past, a secret that Elizabeth is no longer willing to hide.
Once Elizabeth has Laurel to herself, she drunkenly exposes Michael's duplicity. An argument and tussle ensues, ending with horrific abruptness when Elizabeth falls to her death.
Laurel turns to her only friend in Desolation Sound, Benny, an introverted ex-con who is attempting to escape from his own demons. Together they hide Elizabeth's body. But guilt and obsession take their toll...and Laurel slowly begins to absorb the persona of her dead friend.
Doug, a lonely small town Sheriff, becomes increasingly drawn to Laurel as she explores her new identity.

ILL FATED
Synopsis: Jimmy, a relatively urbane 18-year old has finished High school and is now eager to leave Thithily, his small, isolated community. However, he must first overcome the town's odd populace as well as the shadow of Earl, his high-spirited father who abandoned Jimmy and his mother when he was an infant.
Just as Jimmy begins his attempt at leaving, Earl returns. And, we soon learn, he is just in time to see his son confronted with the same dilemma that he faced years before.
Meanwhile, his family and friends have other plans for him. Bobby, Jimmy's friend, finds it incomprehensible that his buddy will just take off on his responsibilities, leaving everyone else to "take care of the chickens and shit?!" To complicate things further, Barb, Bobby's sister, the young woman with whom Jimmy has had drunken sex with at a local bush party, claims to be pregnant with his child.
Things begin to look, when Barry, Bobby and Barb's father, is caught in bed with Jimmy's stepmother, putting Stan into a violent rage resulting in Jan's hospitalization and Stan's incarceration.
The drama escalates when Earl seeks out redemption for his wrongs, with both his children. Realizing that Earl's other child is Barb, the young girl that now claims to have been impregnated by Jimmy, we recognize that Earl's mistakes are more profound than anyone anticipated...

CQ2 (SEEK YOU TOO)
Synopsis: Rachel is a 17-year-old teenager. She is too lucid about the people around her, about what's going on in general and it hurts. Her rage to live seems to be hurling from within her.
Inside the prison, Jeanne, a contemporary dancer, is purging a short sentence with steel-like good patience which she maintains by following an intense physical training program. She becomes friendly with Odile. She was imprisoned for the minor property damages done.
The day Jeanne is released from prison, Rachel, instinctively, follows her. Little by little she manages to become part of Jeanne's life. Jeanne can recognize the fault line's in the personality of the young woman and helps her with the only tool she knows: dance.
Jeanne and Odile can see that Rachel's talent for dance allows her to transcend her depression; contemporary dance, a dance where her revolt finds expression, opens her up to others, to her sexuality, to the first measures of self-fulfillment as an artist.
And just as Rachel is coming of age, at the moment she least suspects it's presence, her destiny will have her confront violence once more.

THE WILD GUYS
Synopsis: Randall, Andy and Robin - all modern men for whom "hunting and gathering" means looking in the produce section of a grocery store - head north from Seattle to Lone Pine for a "soul exploring" weekend in the woods. Each bring s his own, vastly different, expectations and agendas.
When their guide, Stewart, turns out to be in need of some guidance himself, the guys find themselves lost deep in the woods. And without any food or shelter, their hike takes on deeper meaning as they argue, cope with life - threatening dangers, are stalked by man and beast and start to come to terms with their blind spots, bald spots and deeply hidden fears. The weekend where nothing goes right becomes the weekend that changes everything.
The film is a comedy that finds the humor in the absolute sincerity of each of the characters. They are middle-aged men who are confused about where life has taken them. They need some answers...any answers.