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SYNOPSIS : It is the story of a passionate collector, Mithat. When the neighbors decide to have the building rebuilt with the fear of earquake and the wish for a more valuable house, Mithat's most challenging struggle to save his collections begins.

SYNOPSIS : A group of adventurers set out to rob a gold mine deep in the interior of Guyana. But the operation doesn’t go off as planned.The inhospitable climate, insects, fatigue, the threat of pursuers, all compete to make their long trek a miserable experience. The jungle seems to want to swallow them up. And the unity of the group is corroded by gold fever Un groupe d’aventurier s’est donn� comme plan de faire la casse dans une mine d’or en Guyane. Mais tout ne va pas comme pr�vu.Le climat, les insectes, la fatigue, la menace des poursuivants, tout concourt � rendre leur longue marche impossible. La for�t semble devoir se refermer sur eux. Et la coh�sion du groupe est rong�e par la fi�vre de l'or.

SYNOPSIS : Is music accessible to all? On May 25th, 2009, Renaud Capu�on decided to take part in this film by interpreting Gluck’s masterpiece La m�lodie d’Orph�e on a 1737 Guarnerius nicknamed le Vicomte de Panette on line 6 of the Paris subway. At the end of the day, over 18 000 people had passed him by and his final haul was only a few euros. Two days later, he gave a sold-out concert at the pretigious Th��tre des Champs-�lys�es in Paris. La musique est-t-elle universellement accessible? Le 25 mai 2009, Renaud Capu�on a tenu � participer � ce film en interpr�tant sur la ligne 6 du m�tro parisien La M�lodie de Gluck sur un Guarnerius de 1737 surnomm� � le vicomte de Panette �. � la fin de la journ�e, 18 000 personnes �taient pass�s devant lui et il n’avait r�colt� qu’une poign�e d’euros. Deux jours plus tard, sa prestation au Th��tre des Champs-�lys�es affichait complet...

SYNOPSIS : The picture reveals the problem of drug addiction in contemporary life. Drug addiction can be resisted by strong character young people while others lose everything: friends, love and life? Metiss is a talented rapper, who managed to overcome drug addiction, but paid high price for it losing the girl he loved. One day, he comes across Linda, a young woman whom he tries to save.

SYNOPSIS : After 40 years in Africa, Norbert is forced to return to Canada despite himself. When a kid spoils his plan to get rid of his pet monkey, what first started as a confrontation evolves to a true friendship.

SYNOPSIS : La r�alisatrice apprend qu’elle a un cancer du sein. C’est le choc. Sa vie s’arr�tera-t-elle demain ? Comment faire face ? La cin�aste en elle d�cide d’�pauler la malade en qu�te de sens. The director learns that she has breast cancer. It’s a shock. Will her life end tomorrow? How to cope? The filmmaker in her decides to support the patient in search of meaning.

SYNOPSIS : A football star named Divine] is a feature documentary about Ademir da Guia, one of the most important names in Brazilian football and the greatest star in the history of Palmeiras, one of Brazil's five most popular teams. Considered an artist for his refined and elegant football, Ademir made history in the 1960's and 1970's. Despite his qualities, he was systematically ignored by the coaches of the Brazilian national team. This film looks at his history, based on extensive audiovisual material, with emphasis on the anthological highlights found in television and film archives

SYNOPSIS : Poetic text of a muted violence, illustrated by a collage of images whose grey areas are palpable. Texte po�tique d’une violence sourde et illustr� par un collage d’images dont les zones de gris sont bien palpables. Proc�s � main nue et/ou d�versement contr�l�.

SYNOPSIS : One man deals with loneliness. Un homme tente d’affronter la solitude.

SYNOPSIS : A story about love, revenge, and moustaches, all set against the highly dangerous world of underground competitions. Hot sauce competitions. Danger has never been this delicious. Ol�! Une histoire d’amour, de vengeance et ... de moustaches! dans l’univers p�rilleux des concours clandestins de sauces piquantes. Le danger n’a jamais eu autant de saveur. Ol�!

SYNOPSIS : An examination of a woman’s life through the filter of cognitive decline. Meditating on life’s choices and consequences we come to know her heart. Une femme de 74 ans en perte d’autonomie m�dite sur ses choix de vie et leurs cons�quences, d�voilant ainsi son cœur.

SYNOPSIS : This documentary provides knowledge to layman's about the history, art, culture and passion in the world of Lowriding cars. Take a journey through the steps of building a lowrider, from custom rims, custom paint, even to custom suspension. Bienvenu dans l’univers et la culture des lowriders, con�ues � partir de voitures anciennes qui sont personnalis�s et dont le syst�me de suspension est modifi�.

SYNOPSIS : The stoy of a woman, her husband, their staff, her lover, a gun, a policeman and how they all clash. What ensues is an hilarious dance of murder, theft and well-choreographed combat L'histoire d'une femme, de son mari, leurs employ�s, l'amant de la femme, un policier un fusil et le choc de leurs rencontres. S'en suit une une hillarante suite de meurtres, de vol et de combats bien chor�graphi�s.

SYNOPSIS : Tout ce qu’ach�te Kimberly Clancy, propri�taire de frugalshopper.ca, elle l’ach�te avec des bons. Regard sur un sous-groupe d’avides chasseurs d’aubaines rassembl�s autour de ce site Internet qui compte 10 000 membres. Au cours d’un week-end � la campagne, les conflits latents entre Bill, Elle et Lucy, sa fille de 16 ans Lucy, ressurgissent Le film �voque les difficult�s que rencontrent les femmes dans un monde o� elles sont constamment d�finies par leur sexualit�.

SYNOPSIS : AGHET tells the story of the massacre of Armenians during World War I in which over a million people were killed in the Ottoman empire (today Turkey) and follows the ongoing debate and its political consequences AGHET se penche sur le g�nocide arm�nien durant la Premi�re Guerre mondiale au cours duquel 1,5 millions de personnes furent massacr�es dans l'Empire ottoman (aujourd’hui, la Turquie) et dresse le bilan sur les d�bats toujours actuels qui entourent cette affaire et ses cons�quences politiques

SYNOPSIS : Unable to meet in the city, Alice and Alex embark on an emotional journey of love and loss.

SYNOPSIS : It is a beautiful Spring of 1981 in Poland. In a seaside town, Janek, an 18 year old son of a navy captain, forms a punk-rock band to express the things that matter to him most. His life is all about music and his first great love – Basia, but things are about to change. Massive strikes organised by “Solidarity” sweep through Poland and the Communist party is secretly preparing to impose a martial law. Tension in the country grows. Teenage rebellion becomes dangerous during political turmoil. A clash with a martial law commissar and a death of a loved one will change Janek's world forever...

SYNOPSIS : On a trip to meet the Other, a young woman visiting India finds herself. Partie � la rencontre de l’Autre, une jeune femme en voyage en Inde y fait la rencontre d’elle-m�me.

SYNOPSIS : Johan is infatuated with Yati and Sharifa, two girls from the local madrasah. How can he impress them? Johan s’est entich� de Yati et Sharifa, deux filles de l’�cole islamique. Comment peut-il les impressionner?

SYNOPSIS : Martha and her two adolescent daughters and their successively arriving and departing “daddies” try to make the best of their dissident life in Czechoslovakia after the post-“Prague Spring” crackdown. Les mouvements contestataires de 1968 en R�publique tch�que bouleversent la vie d’une femme et de ses deux filles adolescentes.

SYNOPSIS : Ninety-year-old Hali, a Kazakh shepherd, recounts his own life and that of his aunt Wukubula, whose beauty attracted all manner of suitors but who never seemed to be able to decide who among them she would marry. Un vieil homme de 90 ans du territoire kazakh raconte l’histoire de sa famille.

SYNOPSIS : In a crazy filming set, nothing is working well, camera operators are on drugs, actors live La Vida Loca, and the Assistant Director is a re-encarnation of Harpo Marx...There is Dreyer, and Gance, and a lot of De Niro,,,it is pure Dogma!!

SYNOPSIS : Angel chronicles an evening in the life of drag queen, Angel Divine, who finds herself unexpectedly thrust on a breakneck midnight odyssey through the downtown city streets. Une soir�e dans la vie d’une drag queen, Angel Divine, qui se trouve subitement au cœur d’une folle odyss�e nocturne � travers les rues du centre-ville.

SYNOPSIS : In 1979, at the peak of the Lebanese Civil War, a young Armenian girl�€™s life in a small village becomes forever linked to a group of 1915 genocide survivors.

SYNOPSIS : An experimental portrait of Anna Konjetzky, a German contemporary dance choreographer based in Munich. Portrait exp�rimental de Anna Konjetzy, chor�graphe allemande de danse contemporaine, bas�e � Munich.

SYNOPSIS : Inspired by Norman McLaren’s 1968 film, Pas de deux, comes a colourful twist on multiple exposure printing. The film infuses elements of contemporary and hip-hop dance with the unique aesthetic of optical visual effects. Inspir�e du film Pas de deux (1968) de Norman McLaren, une exp�rimentation visuelle qui utilise les techniques de superposition d’images. Le film associe danse contemporaine et hip-hop � des effets visuels optiques.

SYNOPSIS : On the outskirts of S�o Paulo, four black girls who have been singing together since young fight to fulfill their dream of making a living of their music. With their rap group "Antonia", they find a manager and begin to put on shows in bars and parties. But, just as the dream seems to be coming true, their hopes are dashed by the daily events which accompany poverty, chauvinism and violence which threaten the group and place their friendship in jeopardy.

SYNOPSIS : Dimitris, a 23-year-old swimmer who has just been successful at the European Championships, dives into the water of a dark pool. He won the gold medal he coveted but the price he has paid in his personal relationships now seems excessively high... Dimitris, un nageur de 23 ans, plonge dans les eaux sombres d’une piscine juste apr�s sa victoire aux championnats d’Europe. M�me si avec cette victoire il r�alise le r�ve de toute une vie, il se sent plus vide que jamais...

SYNOPSIS : The patriarch Suryashekhar Chattopadhyay, steeped in traditional values, treats the predictions of his horoscope like axiomatic truth. Until he decides to go to the holy city of Benares... Nourri de valeurs traditionnelles, le patriarche Suryashekhar Chattopadhyay est un homme pieux et de fermes convictions, et qui croit aux vertus de l’horoscope.

SYNOPSIS : What are the universal characteristics that all humans share? Robbie Hart and Luc C�t� explore this question as they meet again with five people they originally interviewed 16 years ago for the TV series Turning 16. Quels sont les traits universels que partagent les destin�es humaines? Voil� la grande question pos�e par Robbie Hart et Luc C�t�, qui ont retrouv�, seize ans plus tard, les personnages de leur s�rie documentaire, Avoir 16 ans, tourn�e en 1992.

SYNOPSIS : A fantasy film penned by renowned Quebec storyteller Fred Pellerin that recounts the outlandish adventures of Babin and his villagers. Film fantastique de la plume du conteur Fred Pellerin qui raconte la folle hisoire de Babine et de ses villageois.

SYNOPSIS : A wildly gruesome and funny cartoon featuring two badly behaved Catholic schoolgirls who discover the mystery behind the meanest nuns around. Un dessin anim� � la fois horrible et amusant mettant en vedette deux �coli�res catholiques dissip�es qui percent � jour le secret de religieuses des plus mesquines.

SYNOPSIS : Noha is about to get married, but on this special Sunday of August 1976 in Lebanon, fifteen days prior to her wedding, Noha changes her mind. Noha est finalement sur le point de se marier, mais en ce dimanche du mois d’ao�t de l’an 1976 au Liban, � quinze jours des noces, Noha change d’avis.

SYNOPSIS : In 1910, around 30 000 dogs were deported to the desert island of Oxia (Sivriada) and left to their own devices. Constantinople 1910. Les rues de la ville sont envahies de chiens errants. Le gouvernement en place depuis peu, influenc� par un mod�le de soci�t� occidentale, fait appel � des experts europ�ens pour choisir une m�thode d’�radication, avant de d�cider brutalement et seul, de d�porter massivement les chiens sur une �le d�serte, au large de la ville.

SYNOPSIS : Batimam and Robim are two friends, actually Leo and Mario, two outlaws. The nickname caught on after they dressed up as super heroes in a street Carnival. To get some easy money, they plan a hold-up, but the owner of the grocery store shoots them, hurting Mario. The two run away and take refuge in an old, deserted factory. Time goes by and the waiting intensifies the anguish and brings more tension. Leo decides to leave and Mario feels betrayed. They quarrel and Mario takes a violent stand aiming the gun at his friend. The trigger is pulled. Leo falls dead. Mario embrace his friend's body. Now he can say everything he couldn't say before in complete loneliness.

SYNOPSIS : Junichi, an emergency medical technician, and his wife Takako, a nurse, who work with life and death daily, now want a new life of their own, a baby. Junichi Inoue, 44 ans, et sa femme Takako, 39 ans, travaillent tous deux en milieu hospitalier et affrontent la vie et la mort au quotidien. Ils souhaitent avoir une nouvelle vie, un enfant.

SYNOPSIS : Set during the last days of East Germany, BELOVED BERLIN WALL is a screwball comedy played out against the harsh background of history, the tale of a love affair that becomes an act of civil courage. Dans le Berlin de 1989, deux jeunes gens, lui de l’Est, elle de l’Ouest, doivent trouver le moyen de sauver leur amour naissant que la Stasi voit d’un mauvais œil.

SYNOPSIS : Niagara Falls has been called the honeymoon capital of the Canada but many people are unaware that Niagara Falls is also the suicide capital of the Canada - an average of 15 suicides each year. Wes Hill Jr. devoted his entire life to the Niagara River, he has been called the 'Niagara River Man' and said to have had an 'encyclopedic knowledge' of the river. During his lifetime, Wes recovered an estimated 500 bodies from the Niagara Gorge. The story follows Dave Hill, Wes's youngest son, as he tells the story of his father's legacy. Si les chutes du Niagara sont la premi�re destination pour les lunes de miel au Canada, elles sont �galement la capitale du suicide. Racont�e par son fils Dave, l’histoire de Wes Hill Jr., qui connaissait la rivi�re Niagara mieux que quiconque et y a rep�ch� plus de 500 cadavres.

SYNOPSIS : At eighteen years old, Bezerra de Menezes leaves the northeastern Brazil to Rio de Janeiro in order to study in Medical School. At this time, Rio was the capital of the Republic, and he was elected congressman in various legislatures, becoming one of the most prominent defenders of abolitionist ideas and, ahead of his time, started to raise environmental debates. But what brings him greatest recognition was his anonymous work on behalf of the needed. Being known lovingly as the ''Doctor of the Poor''. Whether as a politician devoted to humanitarian causes or a physician known for never denying relief to those who knocked on his door, Bezerra de Menezes becomes an important spiritual leader and remains alive in the hearts of millions of Brazilians. A life history marked by fraternal love and charity. Bezerra is also known as the Brazilian Allan Kardec.

SYNOPSIS : When Bibinur has a dream that she is going to die next Friday, she quickly prepares to settle her debts. Along the way, she helps out a young businessman, she tells him about life in the village and he discovers that he has roots here. He also discovers that Bibinur is a righteous woman. For her sake, Juhangir is even ready to confront his own partner Bibinur, une vieille femme, r�ve qu’elle va mourir le vendredi suivant. Elle profite du temps qui lui reste � vivre pour r�gler ses dettes et se pr�parer � sa mort. Un jeune homme d'affaire s’installe dans la maison de Bibinur pour la nuit et elle lui raconte sa vie. Il r�alise que Binibur est une femme int�gre, et que ce village est celui de ses anc�tres. Pour d�fendre la vieille Bibinur, il est pr�t � faire face � ses adversaires.

SYNOPSIS : In 1967, a young journalist arrive at aretirement home to interview Billy, a 94 year old Black man. Billy tells him the story of his eventful life, dating back to his early recollations of a time when he left the United Strates to move to northern Manitoba. He recalls his struggle as a homesteader, the racism he endured, his love of a woman, and hois gift of photography. Billy is the story of one's man constant search for acceptance.

SYNOPSIS : It's Saturday night at the bingo hall, and Lucille and her pregnant daughter, Denise, arrive for some mother/daughter time. But its definitely not an evening of family fun as the two of them pick at old wounds, push each others buttons, and blame each other for the bad cards they've both been dealt. C’est samedi soir, et Lucille et sa fille Denise, qui est enceinte, se retrouvent � la salle de bingo. Elles finissent par se chamailler et rouvrir de vieilles blessures. Denise estime qu’elle a r�t� sa vie et a peur de finir comme sa m�re. Elle prendra bient�t une d�cision radicale...

SYNOPSIS : When Georg is released on parole after a long stay in jail , Daniel, reluctantly invites him to stay at his place until he can get back on his feet. As the layers of Georg’s past life begin to peel away, we begin to care for the man we’ve loved to hate Apr�s un long s�jour en prison pour meurtre, Georg est plac� en libert� conditionnelle. Le temps qu’il puisse se d�brouiller, il s’installe chez Daniel. Olafur demeure aussi chez Daniel et lorsque ces trois soi-disant anciens amis se retrouvent, les choses commencent � se g�ter.

SYNOPSIS : When a young shepherd decides to leave the plains for the big city, he comes up against the resistance of his father, who has always seen his son as an heir to the nomadic ways of his ancestors. Croyant fermement que le commerce du b�tail n’est pas un travail honn�te, Sadi Bisi n’approuve pas la relation que sa fille entretient avec Ni Gelai, un vendeur de moutons.

SYNOPSIS : WHEN THEIR TRAIN OUT OF TOWN IS DELAYED, TWO STRANGERS, MAY, AN ARTIST DEVOID OF INSPIRATION, AND mARK, A DETERMINED BUSINESS MAN, HAVE ONE NIGHT IN A BOUNDLESS CITY TO StEER THEIR ClASHING LIVES IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. Retenus � l’ext�rieur par un retard de train, deux �trangers, May, une artiste en panne d’inspiration, et Mark, un homme d’affaires d�termin�, ont devant eux toute une nuit dans une ville fourmillante pour remettre leurs vies troubl�es sur les rails.

SYNOPSIS : Fifteen-year-old Deborah is introduced to big city nightlife by her 18-year-old friend Jennifer. When Jennifer admits she's an escort girl, Deborah is intrigued by what appears to be an easy way of getting cash... Deborah, 15 ans, veut fuir la monotonie de la vie de banlieue et go�ter aux attraits que peut offrir la ville d’Anvers. Jennifer, 18 ans, sa nouvelle copine, la conduit dans la vie nocturne scintillante et mouvement�e de la grande ville.

SYNOPSIS : A legist faced the discovery of body that stay preserved for more than 30 years.

SYNOPSIS : Based on a case in Japan in mid 1960s, the story centres on two men who was born in the same year; one is sentenced to death for murder and the other is the judge who believes his innocence. They then struggle for 40 years to overturn the verdict. En 1966, Iwao Hakamada, un employ� d’usine, est arr�t� pour avoir assassiner son patron, ainsi que sa femme et ses deux enfants. Il nie l’avoir fait, mais finit par avouer suite aux mauvais traitements qu’on lui inflige.

SYNOPSIS : The encounter with a growing, and mostly undocumented, Brazilian community allows us to bear witness to its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity. This film attempts to work for a larger acceptance of foreigners in their land of exile.

SYNOPSIS : Jos� Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista, his Hungarian teacher, and with her help learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects".

SYNOPSIS : Centers on four young childhood friends who start a rock band in the mid-1980s. They enjoy dazzling early successes, but. the sudden arrival of a girl and the stresses of life in the rock world take their toll... Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s’aiment depuis l’enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l’espoir. Ils r�vent de musique et de gloire.

SYNOPSIS : In the latter days of the Edo era, Japan was facing a period of upheaval. The great Tenpo famine of the 1830s and other developments have left the finances of the Kaga Domain in a precarious financial position... Naoyuki est le 8e chef de la lign�e Inoyama, une famille de commissaires aux comptes de g�n�ration en g�n�ration. Il s’occupe du domaine appartenant � la famille Kaga.

SYNOPSIS : One year after a terrible seperation, Jean and Gabrielle meet again. Jean explores the memory of their common history and is overwhelmed by the desire to understand the reason for their failure. Jean et Gabrielle se sont s�par�s il y a un ans apr�s une passion d�vastatrice. Ils se retrouvent et replongent dans le souvenir de leur histoire commune d�sirant comprendre la raison de cet �chec.

SYNOPSIS : Jacotte, 13 ans, d�cide de f�ter les 7 ans de son fr�re Bastien dans leur coin de for�t habituel, avec Mathieu, Alex et Chacha, leurs amis de toujours. Tout se d�roule comme pr�vu jusqu’� ce qu’ils d�couvrent une carcasse de voiture abandonn�e.

SYNOPSIS : Salma, a 15-year old Bangladeshi hijra (hermaphrodite) leaves her village and family to enter the effervescent city life in search of a clear identity, love and above all, a sense of acceptance. C’est le cri d’une femme. Un combat exemplaire, pour d�fendre son identit�. Elle s’appelle Salma et n’a que 15 ans. Elle crie contre sa famille, contre son pays, contre son corps. Salma est transsexuelle.

SYNOPSIS : For a while we wanted to travel to Cameroon, but a pregnancy got in the way… An account of a hope, of fears and a disappointment. �Pendant un moment nous avions projet� nous rendre au Cameroun, mais une grossesse impr�vue a chang� nos plans.� Une chronique d’espoir, de crainte et de d�ception.

SYNOPSIS : CAMP UNITY takes the viewer on an entertaining journey through a unique landscape of cross-cultural experiences, where cultures, egos, and dreams collide in the process of reaching a mutual understanding between Americans and Iraqis. Ils sont Am�ricains et Irakens, chr�tiens et musulmans. Ils �tudient tous dans l’une de ces acad�mies am�ricaines vou�es � l’art install�es au Kurdistan irakien.

SYNOPSIS : A summerful of a woman’s contemplations, memories and presence as she wonders looking for balance. Com�die musicale qui suit une femme en qu�te d’�quilibre.

SYNOPSIS : Carmen Miranda was famous for her broken English and her provocative, wildly garish costumes and banana bedecked turbans. She became an international sensation on stage, television and radio, and one of Hollywood's biggest stars - at one time she was the highest paid entertainer in the United States. In Hollywood, Carmen was the ultimate cliche, and for moviegoers everywhere, she symbolized all of Latin America. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business is the story of a show-business legend who began life in a rustic village in rural Portugal, was raised in Rio de Janeiro, and rose to fame first in Brazil and then in Hollywood. Her success came with a price-tag: she was caught between being a "real" Latin American or being Hollywood's version of one - with all the fame and money it would bring. Her star would shine brighter and brighter, but at the expense of her own identity and ultimately, her life.

SYNOPSIS : Caron, flic m�diocre, mari rat�, voit sa vie basculer quand un clochard lui demande de l’arr�ter pour qu’il puisse passer l’hiver en prison et ainsi �viter de crever de froid. En mettant alors en place un syst�me dont les rouages risquent de le broyer, il basculera bient�t de l’autre c�t� du miroir.

SYNOPSIS : Cathy, 30, is a dog-handler who works in a garage. She leads a simple life. But her daily routine is upset when a film shoot takes over her work space. Cathy, 30 ans, est ma�tre-chien dans un parking. Elle m�ne une vie simple. Son paisible quotidien est boulevers� quand le tournage d’un film investit son lieu de travail.

SYNOPSIS : A young girl’s escapism through her art leads her to more trouble than she imagined. Une petite fille de sept ans atteinte de d�ficience auditive �teint son appareil afin de garder � distance les sons envahissants du monde des adultes.

SYNOPSIS : Clara spends her birthday working the night shift at a furniture store. When she learns that James, her secret crush is leaving, she seeks solace in a gift from her mother- a bottle of champagne. Emboldened, Clara tries to find a real connection in a world of artificial displays.

SYNOPSIS : While the upper-class family they work for plans to leave for a shopping weekend in Miami, To�a and Paquita have very different plans for them... To�a et Paquita travaillent comme aides domestiques chez les Gonzalez-Dubois, une grande famille d’aristocrates du Panama qui ne les traitent pas comme elle auraient voulu.

SYNOPSIS : Change Over follows Rita Greer and David Mitchum, who have been lovingly operating a repertoire movie theatre together for oever 20 years. Now due to financial problems, the theatre is closing. With only the final screening left, the two co-owners discover that they may have more to lose than just a buisiness. Il ne reste qu’une projection avant la fermeture du cin�ma de r�pertoire op�r� avec amour par Rita Greer et David Mitchum pendant plus de 20 ans. Tous deux r�alisent alors qu’ils perdent bien plus qu’une affaire.

SYNOPSIS : Nicolas is an artist, a Gergian filmmaker in the Soviet Union, who merely wishes to express himself and whom everyone wishes to silence. He leaves for France and freedom... but the honeymoon doesn’t last Nicolas est un artiste, un cin�aste qui ne demande rien tant que de pouvoir s’exprimer, et que tous voudraient r�duire au silence.

SYNOPSIS : A man receives the sun’s call. Un homme re�oit l’appel du soleil.

SYNOPSIS : A young and dysfunctional couple visits New York City with a unique stowaway travelling in their suitcase. Un jeune couple dysfonctionnel visite la ville de New York avec un passager clandestin bien sp�cial dans leurs bagages.

SYNOPSIS : When up and coming filmmaker Chase Thompson is hired to direct a lackluster romance film, the foolhardy director takes it as an opportunity to fire the crew and turn the film into his own zombie slaying masterpiece, starring himself. Quand Chase Thompson, un cin�aste prometteur, est engag� pour r�aliser un m�diocre film � l’eau de rose, le t�m�raire r�alisateur profite de l’occasion pour renvoyer l’�quipe et transformer le film en un chef-d’œuvre d’�pouvante, le mettant en vedette.

SYNOPSIS : A subjective portrait of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who remains an icon of “revolution” four decades after his death. Portrait subjectif d’Ernesto Guevara, dit “le Che”, l’une des personnalit�s les plus influentes de notre �poque.

SYNOPSIS : Phillip has started going bald, how long will it be before alopecia takes over? His dermatologist is categorical : only his father can answer that question. Philippe, la trentaine, d�couvre qu’il est en train de devenir chauve. Pour ce musicien adolescent attard�, la perte de ses cheveux est une v�ritable catastrophe. Combien de temps lui reste-t-il avant la calvitie? Son dermatologue est formel : seul son p�re a la r�ponse � cette question.

SYNOPSIS : At an age when they should be curious and carefree, the children of Canadian Forces Base Petawawa live in fear. Fear that a parent may never return from his or her deployment. Or come back forever changed... � l’�ge o� ils devraient d�couvrir le monde en toute insouciance, les enfants de la base des Forces canadiennes de Petawawa vivent dans l’angoisse. Incursion dans le quotidien d’une jeunesse assujettie aux priorit�s de l’�tat.

SYNOPSIS : The first woman in history to make a living with her pen, thanks to the poems she wrote and published, was Cristina da Pizzano, an Italian who lived in France during the period of transition between the darkness of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Enlightenment. N�e � Venise en 1364 et morte au monast�re de Poissy vers 1430, la premi�re femme de l’histoire � pouvoir vivre de sa plume gr�ce � ses trait�s de politique et de philosophie et � ses recueils de po�sies �tait Christine de Pizan. Elle a v�cu en France � une �poque de transition entre le Moyen-�ge et l’aube du Si�cle des Lumi�res.

SYNOPSIS : Un homme retourne dans la maison de son enfance et est replong� dans ses souvenirs.

SYNOPSIS : Sophie and Louis are in love. Anton is Louis’s best friend and Sophie’s next-door neighbour. Relationships of love and friendship are explored through the eyes of these young adults. Sophie et Louis sont amoureux. Anton est le meilleur ami de Louis et le voisin de Sophie. Nous les suivons chacun leur tour dnas leurs histoires d’amour et d’amiti�.

SYNOPSIS : The paths of a privileged Arab male, a disillusioned Indian taxi driver and a European air hostess are about to collide in Dubai and irrevocably impact one another’s lives. L’exp�rience de quelques individus dans le Duba� d’aujourd’hui.

SYNOPSIS : On set, when the star of a film and the first-time director face off over how to play the climax, the producer comes down on the actor’s side. But the film is about the young director’s grandfather and he won’t have anyone steal his real life. Tragi-com�die sur un plateau de tournage. Jonathan, le r�alisateur, n'arrive pas � obtenir de G�rard, l'acteur, qu'il joue la sc�ne-cl� du film comme elle est �crite. Le sc�nario raconte la vie de son grand-p�re et Jonathan se bat pour ne pas se faire voler � la fois le film et �son� histoire.

SYNOPSIS : Madalena, sells clothing door, and her husband, Santinho, a former militant against the dictatorship, carves statutes of saints, they struggle bravely to survive without losing hope for better days. To overcome their difficult financial situation they play the lottery until Madalena dreams of a treasure buried in the small cemetery in the imaginary city of Fartura (Abundance). A fine line separates reality from dreams and nightmares, in this desperate and comic search for treasure.

SYNOPSIS : Performers of an itinerant vaudeville company struggle to get by on day at a time during a war that has taken everything from them and has ravaged their country. Les artistes d’une troupe de vaudeville sont aux prise d’une guerre qui leur a tout vol� et les a laiss� mourir de faim.

SYNOPSIS : A short film about the fragility of love and life. Un court m�trage sur la fragilit� de l’amour et de la vie.

SYNOPSIS : A forgotten father returns to his past home to pressure his only daughter into forgiving him. Un vieillard s’enfuit de la maison de retraite pour retrouver son ancienne maison... et indirectement, sa fille Natalie.

SYNOPSIS : The story of virtuoso pianist Andr� Mathieu who moves to the countryside where he plans to give a concert while drifting on the lake. Nobody gets to attend, yet a man lives to tell the story. La gen�se d'une l�gende. Andr� Mathieu, pianiste virtuose passionn� et fragile, se retire dans la campagne qu�b�coise. La rumeur circule qu'il offre un r�cital de piano au rythme du lac majestueux et des brises d'octobre... Personne ne s’y rend. Pourtant des ann�es apr�s, le souvenir persiste.

SYNOPSIS : Lester is a young man disillusioned with the absurdities of life and work. He is tempted to exploit the corruptions of wealthy society when he discovers an affair between a client’s sultry wife and her husband’s accountant. Lester, un jeune homme d�sillusionn�, d�couvre une liaison entre la sensuelle femme d’un client et le comptable de ce dernier. Un film noir sur les travers de la nature humaine, o� il est question de cupidit�, de d�ception et de trahison.

SYNOPSIS : The northern Chinese kingdom of Lu, circa 500 B.C. Feudal China is controlled by princes, and Confucius, a commoner already in his 50s, is made minister of law by the Lu king so the territory can be managed according to civilized principles. The struggle begins... Saga biographique sur une partie de la vie de Confucius, grand philosophe chinois, dont la pr�occupation majeure �tait de faire r�gner l’ordre dans l’�tat en formant des hommes qui vivent en conformit� avec la vertu.

SYNOPSIS : This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes Leopold II, King of the Belgium's private colony of the Congo between 1885 and 1908 as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.

SYNOPSIS : A mother is informed that her only son, who is serving in a combat zone, has gone missing in action. Un jour, on apprend � une femme que son fils unique, servant dans une zone de combat, manque � l’appel.

SYNOPSIS : When Rapha�lle is attacked one night on her way hom from the gym, she decides she no longer wants to be a woman. But how far can one go in denying reality? Rapha�lle travaille dans un gymnase. Un soir en rentrant chez elle, elle se fait agresser. Confront�e � la violence des autres, elle d�cide de ne plus �tre une jeune fille... Mais jusqu’� quel point peut-on refuser ce que l’on est?

SYNOPSIS : With her bubbly personality and zest for life, Connie Diletti is the quintessential optimist. Happy, healthy, 32, Connie really only has one problem, but it’s a big one: she’s afraid to die. Connie was leading quite a deathless life until recently... En principe, Connie Diletti est une jeune femme optimiste, et c’est sans doute gr�ce � sa personnalit� et � son amour de la vie. Elle est en bonne sant� et se sent heureuse. Mais Connie a un probl�me de taille: elle a peur de mourir.

SYNOPSIS : C�smico, Luna e Maninho live in a futurist world where their lives are totally programmed. One night the three of them get lost in the universe of a little circus. After playing and all the new experience their world send an special mission to rescue them.

SYNOPSIS : Une femme. Un drame. Une tentative d�sesp�r�e de corriger le pass�.

SYNOPSIS : Un joggeur s’arr�te, essouffl�. Il s’est �gar�. Il retrouve son chien. Des portes rouges attirent son attention. Il fait le tour de la cabane, rien. Il repart quand soudain, il entend un bruit. Le joggeur regarde par la fen�tre. Mal lui en prit...

SYNOPSIS : Benjamin is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It's all going to change once he becomes friends with Christian, his social worker, and Annika, a student in music. Ben est clou� dans un fauteuil roulant pour le restant de sa vie. Celle-ci va changer lorsqu’il se lie d’amiti� avec Christian, qui fait son service civil en s’occupant de lui, et Annika, �tudiante en musique.

SYNOPSIS : "Loucos de Futebol" (Crazy About Soccer) portraits the universe of the soccer fanatic. Their craziness, anguishes, frustrations, moments of joy and ecstasy are all told by short segments, proving that the most popular sport in the world is much more than 22 big buys running towards a ball.

SYNOPSIS : Cristina still lives with her mother and wants to find her true love. She looks for help in a matrimonial agency, that arranges a meeting between her and Paulo. She likes the guy, but Paulo doesn't seem too enthusiastic. As time goes by, Chico, the owner of the agency, feels he is becoming too fond of Cristina.

SYNOPSIS : Les membres d’un club de curling de l’est de Montr�al se rassemblent � l’occasion d’un tournoi tr�s sp�cial. Portrait d’une communaut� conviviale et fraternelle r�unie autour d’une passion commune.

SYNOPSIS : Julie Bataille is finished with school and wants to start a real job. Full of enthusiasm, dreams and hopes, she is confronted with the harsh reality of the workplace. During a job interview she meets the carefree Ben who suggests that she come along with him to the south of France. She declines at first. but curiosity overcomes her and she joins him on a summer to remember. Julie Bataille cherche un vrai travail. Pleine de r�ves et d'espoir elle et vite confront�e a la dure r�alit�. Elle fait la rencontre de Ben qui lui propose de le suivre dans le sud de la France. Bien qu'elle h�site d'abord, la curiosit� l'emporte et elle accepte de le suivre pour un �t� m�morable.

SYNOPSIS : A filmed record of the Roland Petit’s well-known ballet but also a union of dance and film that reflects the serendipitous meeting of the great talents of Chaplin, Petit and Japanese director Masayuki Suo. Le grand chor�graphe fran�ais Roland Petit a toujours souhait� que son c�l�bre ballet Charlot danse avec nous face l’objet d’une adaptation cin�matographique. Il a confi� le projet au cin�aste japonais Masayuki Suo.

SYNOPSIS : Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. New Iberia, en Louisiane. Le d�tective Dave Robicheaux est sur les traces d’un tueur en s�rie qui a d�j� fait plusieurs victimes, toutes des jeunes femmes. Dave fait la connaissance de la star hollywoodienne Elrod T. Sykes, qui est venu � New Iberia pour le tournage de son dernier film, produit avec le soutien de la fine fleur du crime local, �Baby Feet� Balboni.

SYNOPSIS : Rosas and Jes�s, a young couple, are driving at night through a dense forest. When Rosa realizes she is not carrying her handbag, Jes�s pulls over. While she looks for it all over the vehicle, he steps into the forest to urinate. Not finding her handbag, Rosa gives up and waits for Jes�s. But he is not coming back. Rosas et Jes�s, un jeune couple, traversent une for�t tr�s dense la nuit. Quand Rosa se rend compte qu’elle n’a pas son sac avec elle, Jes�s arr�te la voiture et s’enfonce dans la for�t pour uriner pendant qu’elle cherche. Rosa ne trouve pas le sac dans la voiture et s’asseoit en attendant Jes�s. Mais il ne revient pas.

SYNOPSIS : Ferdinand a hot-headed former dart champion was suspended for two years. One day, a spider went to his house and was fascinated with the design of the dartboard. The Spider got preoccupied with building webs of the same design and Ferdinand started tossing darts at the Spider. Ferdinand, ancien champion de fl�chettes imp�tueux et comp�titif, est suspendu pour deux ans. Un jour, une araign�e lui rend visite et est vite fascin�e par le motif de la cible. L’araign�e aimerait bien tisser des toiles semblables et Ferdinand commene � lui lancer des fl�chettes.

SYNOPSIS : DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY follows the story of a woman suffering from total memory loss. Found unconscious in the middle of the downtown Montreal strip, she was brought in by police who proceed to interview her. Does she remember who she is and where she came from? Can anyone else remember? We are carried through the story by the woman's haunting voice-over narration as she describes the utter loneliness she experiences, until a visit from someone who claims to know her sheds unexpected light on the woman ‚�� and her past.

SYNOPSIS : Voyage dans le temps et dans l’espace alors que la vie d’un �tre cher s’enfuit.

SYNOPSIS : Forced isolation and assimilation of aboriginals stole their identity and independence, leaving them at the mercy of the ‘superior culture.” This system has failed, creating turmoil, suspicion, and disfunction. Outsiders have again injected themselves into La Loche in an attempt to solve the problem, one originally of their making.The European attitude of “we know best,” shrouded in best intentions, is not working. Non one is talking about it. Le choc des cultures entre l’id�ologie occidentale et les valeurs traditionnelles autochtones menace les habitants de La Loche. Il y a deux si�cles, l’isolement forc� puis l’assimilation des peuples autochtones les ont laiss�s � la merci de la culture dite sup�rieure. La situation semble sans issue...

SYNOPSIS : Karim, 7 ans, et Coralie, 11 ans, vivent avec leur m�re dans une cit� qui surplombe Marseille. Chaque matin, du grillage, ils observent au loin la prison o� est incarc�r� leur p�re. Apr�s une ultime perquisition d'une violence feutr�e, Karim et Coralie se jettent dans l'inconnu avec l'utopie de ramener le p�re protecteur.

SYNOPSIS : No�mie and Priscilla are two small town girls with the same taste in black clothes and in even darker thoughts. The people close to them are affraid because they know they could be cappable of the worst. Une ville de province. No�mie et Priscilla, deux filles de 17 ans de milieux modestes, nourrissent le m�me d�go�t du monde et la m�me violence. Elles inqui�tent fortement leurs proches qui les sentent capables de tout.

SYNOPSIS : In the country that used to be called Yugoslavia, men didn't asked women whether war is the right thing to do. Now, those women are asking what kind of a life can they be expected to bring into a postwar world. Five countries, five women, five stories. Cinq pays, cinq femmes, cinq histoires. Cinq regards sur la maternit� parmi des jeunes femmes de cette r�gion du monde autrefois appel�e Yougoslavie.

SYNOPSIS : A cowboy discovers that it’s no longer the “wild west” out there Mort le western? Non, il survit � travers D�sar�onn�, un cowboy sortant de sa cabane � la poursuite de sa propre destin�e. De rencontre en rencontre, il devra apprendre � s’ajuster dans un monde qu’il ne reconna�t plus.

SYNOPSIS : Three couples in their forties, having lost track of each other since their days at university, find themselves re-united at the villa of one of them, after having received a strange invitation, ostensibly from an old friend who had gone missing since the last time they were together... Trois couples quadrag�naires, s’�tant perdus de vue depuis les folles ann�es de l’universit�, se retrouvent r�unis dans la villa de l’un d’eux. Un �v�nement inattendu les oblige � se rappeler de leur pass� commun.

SYNOPSIS : Patrick has recently suffered through the death of his girlfriend, the last joyful refuge of his life. Longing for the blissful days of his youth, Patrick reflects on his past trying to discover a new beginning now that all he once held dear is gone. Patrick vient de subir la perte de sa petite amie, dernier refuge paisible de sa vie. R�vant des jours bienheureux de sa jeunesse, Patrick m�dite sur son pass� afin d’amorcer une nouveau d�but maintenant que tout ce qui lui �tait cher est disparu.

SYNOPSIS : God No Say So finds the uplifting spirit in those who suffered horrible war in Sierra Leone. From the hard working Bonka people, through the prostitute Julietta, and the wild, hilarious, organized antics of the school children, we are treated to a spirit of togetherness, optimism, and sheer joy. Dieu Dirait Non r�v�le le courage, source d’inspiration, de ceux qui ont v�cu les horreurs de la guerre au Sierra Leone. Du dur labeur des gens du Bonka, � Julietta la prostitu�e, en passant par les pitreries hilarantes et farfelues des enfants de l'�cole, nous d�couvrons ici un esprit de camaraderie, d'optimisme, et de pure joie.

SYNOPSIS : Piero, an openly homosexual gay rights activist, runs as the more progressive candidate in the mayoral election of Udine, Italy. At the other end stands the bigoted right-wing candidate, who builds physical walls � la Padua around his community to keep foreigners and drug dealers confined to their various neighbourhoods, and his candidate for vice-mayor, pro-family values champion Adele. In an odd twist, Piero temporarily sets his political loyalties and gayness aside and sleeps with the gorgeous Adele, betraying his male partner, Remo in the process…

SYNOPSIS : The sweet and shocking life of enhabitants surviving in a 'Paris of South America', Buenos Aires

SYNOPSIS : Oton, 38, has a good job as a metalworker in S�o Paulo. He has a young son, Caio, and his wife Camila is expecting a baby girl. Then his world collapses. His company is becoming computerized and in an effort to cut costs has laid off workers, Oton among them... Oton, 38 ans, travaille dans une usine m�tallurgique S�o Paulo. Il est mari� � Camila, qui attend un fille, et p�re d’un gar�on, Caio. Mais bient�t il perd son emploi.

SYNOPSIS : The spirit of the Court Jester makes a come back in a movie about the revealing and unexpected way clowns look at the world. The movie portrays the award-winning group Doctors of Joy interacting with hospitalized children, and through their work the film invites us to think about the role of Art in our lives.

SYNOPSIS : Pierre, a teen of 17, spends all his time with Nadia, a flamboyant mathematician in her forties. Their rapport is friendly, ambiguous, bordering on amorous. The anarchy that reigns in Nadia's life fascinates this young man on the threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a wounded soul, dependent on alcohol. Little by little, she slips away. Pierre thinks he can help her, bring her back from the brink...

SYNOPSIS : Fifteen year old Rory carries a backpack filled with homemade fireworks, a procket knife and a polaroid camera. He’s planned a surprise for Rebecca, but everything is destroyed when she finally reveals her motivse for hanging out with him. Rory, 15 ans, porte un sac � dos rempli de feux d’artifice maison, un couteau de poche et un Polaroid. Il pr�pare une surprise pour Rebecca, mais tout tombe � l’eau quand finalement celle-ci lui r�v�le les vrais raisons qui l’incitent � le fr�quenter.

SYNOPSIS : After a small accident, Lara realizes that she has swallowed her own tooth. Afraid that it will grow out of her stomach, Ben, an older gentleman, reassures her with a story of his past. Apr�s un accident mineur, Lara s’aper�oit qu’elle a aval� une de ses dents. Elle craint que la dent ne pousse dans son estomac, mais Ben, un monsieur plus �g�, la rassure en lui racontant une histoire de son pass�.

SYNOPSIS : During World War II, Japan allegedly prearranged coded weather forecasts to alert its diplomats overseas of planned attacks. A Chinese agent in Shanghai decodes the "East Wind, Rain" message and tries to pass along the intelligence. Au cours de la Deuxi�me Guerre mondiale, le Japon aurait organis� � l’avance des pr�visions m�t�orologiques cod�es afin d’alerter les diplomates d’outre-mer des attaques imminentes dans un pays �tranger.

SYNOPSIS : Victime d’un coup de foudre, un jeune homme re�oit la visite d’un Cupidon peu conventionnel.

SYNOPSIS : A couple’s daily routine is threatened by an unexpected discovery. Un jeune couple vit tr�s simplement. Chaque jour est rythm� de mani�re identique. Mais sa routine est menac�e par une d�couverte inattendue.

SYNOPSIS : Nuno works in a humble sandwich stand but he has also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry. Nuno travaille dans un kiosque � sandwiches, mais il est �galement l’inventeur d’une machine qui va sans doute r�volutionner l’industrie de la chaussure.

SYNOPSIS : Amelia, a Filipina nanny, decides to work abroad to help her family. She finds a job in the Middle East taking care of a Sheik's wife who is about to give birth, and later acts as the nanny to their first-born son, Ahmed, introducing the young boy to the culture, values, and language of the Philippines. Amelia, une gardienne d’enfants philippine, d�cide d’aller travailler � l’�tranger pour aider financi�rement sa famille. Elle aide la femme du Sheik � accoucher et plus tard devient la nourrice de son fils, Ahmed, lui montrant les valeurs, la culture et la langue des Philippines.

SYNOPSIS : There is an energy crisis in Empire City. When Mickey gets involved in the criminal underworld, he finds himself in the middle of a dilemma that could affect the entire city. Une crise de l’�nergie menace Empire City. Quand Mickey s’acoquine avec la p�gre, il se trouve pris dans un dilemme qui pourrait affecter la ville tout enti�re.

SYNOPSIS : William Burke feels empty inside. And no, it's not because of a broken heart, or a lost loved one; it's because William is empty inside. Mysteriously losing all of his organs, William quickly grows paranoid and begins to believe that his friends, his family, and even the general public are conspiring against him. Watch as William digs deep down inside of himself and finds the guts to take matters into his own hands. William Burke ressent un vide int�rieur. Pas � cause d’une peine d’amour, ni rien de tout cela. Il est litt�ralement vide � l’int�rieur. Perdant myst�rieusement tous ses organes, il devient vite parano�aque et commence � croire que ses amis, sa famille et m�me les autres conspirent contre lui. Il trouvera bient�t le cran de prendre les choses en main...

SYNOPSIS : Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of thirteen renowned intellectuals, the documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

SYNOPSIS : A telegram arrives in a small Romanian town telling Nae that his long lost uncle Luca has died. The wire, sent by the executor of Luca’s estate, asks Nae and his mother to go France to make proper arrangements for disposal of the body... Dans son petit village de l’est de la Roumanie, Nae apprend le d�c�s de son oncle Luca, disparu depuis fort longtemps. Le t�l�gramme du notaire convie Nae et sa m�re � se rendre en France.

SYNOPSIS : This is the story of three orphans who after World War 2, returned home to discover everything was lost. With no family or home, they realized the only safe haven for them was Palestine. The survivors of the Exodus, with their spirit, determination, endless faith and bravery set the standard for establishing the state of Israel.

SYNOPSIS : Ana works in a doll factory. Her whole life revolves around performing the mechanical motion of inserting eyes in dolls. But a small change at her job changes her life forever. Ana travaille dans une fabrique de poup�es. Toute sa vie tourne autour des mouvements m�caniques qu’elle effectue en mettant des yeux aux poup�es. Mais un petit changement dans son travail modifiera sa vie � tout jamais.

SYNOPSIS : Khieu Samphan was head of state of one of the most brutal regimes ever, the 1970s’ Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. This film offers a portrait of the man made over a period of one-and-half years before his arrest in 2007. Portrait de Khieu Samphan, � la t�te de l’�tat cambodgien entre 1976 et 1979, qui vient d’�tre inculp� pour g�nocide.

SYNOPSIS : The conditions of detention at the Ouagadougou jail are more than rude in the women's quarter as well as the rest of the jail. How do they react to such a situation? Les conditions de d�tention � la prison de Ouagadougou sont plus que rudimentaires dans le quartier des femmes comme dans le reste de la prison. Comment r�agissent - elles face � cette situation ?

SYNOPSIS : Les conditions de d�tention � la prison de Ouagadougou sont plus que rudimentaires dans le quartier des femmes comme dans le reste de la prison. Comment r�agissent - elles face � cette situation ? The conditions of detention at the Ouagadougou jail are more than rude in the women's quarter as well as the rest of the jail. How do they react to such a situation? Compagnie(s) de production :

SYNOPSIS : My band is made up of two white guys, and two Asian guys. Whenever we go out to eat, which is quite often, it always end up being a Chinese restaurant and the Asian dudes always end up ordering all sorts ot weird food that isn’t even on the menu. This music video is about that situation... perhaps to the power of ten! Buckle up. IMR is behind the wheel, and the menu. Mon groupe de musique est form� de deux Blancs et de deux Asiatiques. Quand nous sortons manger, nous finissons toujours par nous retrouver au restaurant chinois, et les Asiatiques commandent toutes sortes de plats �tranges qui ne figurent m�me pas au menu.� Une vid�o musicale sur la musique de IMR.

SYNOPSIS : Dark comedy in which we follow a patient’s journey through the hospital to find the cure to his aching leg. Une com�die noire o� l’on suit un patient dans un h�pital en qu�te d’un rem�de pour gu�rir la jambe qui le fait souffrir.

SYNOPSIS : Fifteen years after he gave us FLAMENCO, which became a landmark in the history of Spanish music and dance, Spain’s premier director, Carlos Saura introduce us to a new generation of flamenco artists... singers, musicians and dancers. Quinze ans apr�s FLAMENCO, Carlos Saura se penche sur une nouvelle g�n�ration œuvrant dans cette discipline qui combine � la fois musique, chant et danse.

SYNOPSIS : Une petite fille s’empare de toutes les carottes qu’elle peut trouver sur des bonhommes de neige.

SYNOPSIS : Axun and Maite met at secondary school during a repressive era that never allowed their relationship to go beyond friendship. Fifty years later... Axun et Maite se sont rencontr�es au lyc�e, � une �poque r�pressive qui ne permettait pas que leur relation d�passe la simple amiti�. Cinquante ans plus tard...

SYNOPSIS : Diego is a doctor so used to dealing with crises that he has become inured to the suffering of others. Things are about to change after a confrontation with the lover of one of his patients. En tant que m�decin, Diego doit si souvent venir � bout de situations extr�mes qu’il s’est endurci par rapport � la douleur des autres. Mais les choses vont changer lorsqu’il doit traiter Sara, une de ses patientes.

SYNOPSIS : The Garden of Eden is being created by God with the input of Mother Nature and Gabe (God’s designer). Mother Nature sees something is missing and asks God to add Adam to the Garden of Eden. Consequently, Adam is taken by boredom and from one of his ribs, God creates the beautiful Eve. The story takes a comical turn when Eve is persuaded by Lucifer to eat the forbidden fruit. Au commencement, Dieu cr�e le jardin d’�den , avec les conseils de m�re Nature et de Gabe, son concepteur. M�re Nature constate qu’il manque quelque chose et demande � Dieu d’ajouter Adam dans le jardin d’�den. Mais Adam s’ennuie et Dieu cr�e la belle �ve de l’une de ses c�tes. Puis, Lucifer persuade �ve de manger le fruit d�fendu...

SYNOPSIS : Les relations entre quatre sœurs qui font face au d�c�s de leur m�re. En attendant la venue du m�decin qui doit constater le d�c�s, elles se disputent au sujet des produits pharmaceutiques de leur m�re, s’insultent et tentent d�sesp�r�ment de pr�server les derniers vestiges de leur enfance.

SYNOPSIS : When career criminal John is granted parole, he hastens to Jutland to visit his son who is in difficulty. John might be a dedicated father, a perfect employee, and a great line-dancer, but life isn't exactly plain sailing. Lorsque John est mis en libert� conditionnelle, il se rend vite � Jutland pour voir son fils qui, apparemment, semble avoir de s�rieux probl�mes.

SYNOPSIS : Two brother from the slum: Daniel's an exceptional soccer player, a striker. Julio's the team's captain, a born leader. he opportunity of their lives knocks when a soccer scout invites them to a tryout with the city's best team. They must choose, on a dirty soccer field, what is more important: family, revenge or the dream of their lives. On this field, more than a game is on the line. Daniel est un joueur de soccer exceptionnel, un buteur. Julio, capitaine de l’�quipe, est un leader sportif-n�. La chance de leur vie arrive le jour o� un d�nicheur de talents se pointe dans leur quartier et les invite � montrer leur savoir-faire afin qu’ils joignent � la meilleure �quipe de soccer de la ville. Ils devront choisir entre la famille, se venger ou r�aliser le r�ve de leur vie.

SYNOPSIS : In 1989 two young East Germans, Tom and Veit, head to America with nothing more than 100 Deutschmarks in their pocket and a dream in their head: to reach San Francisco and find Veit's Dad, who fled East Germany long ago. Apr�s la chute du Mur de Berlin, deux copains de l’ex-R�publique d�mocratique allemande r�alisent leur r�ve et s’embarquent vers l’Am�rique.

SYNOPSIS : Niebla, a teen gang member, is killed in a shootout with the police, and his ghost returns to help ten-year-old Francisco, who is a victim of constant abuse and beatings by Basilio, his father. Un jour, Niebla, chef d’une bande d’adolescents, est tu� lors d’une fusillade avec les forces de l’ordre. L’esprit de son fant�me retourne sur terre afin d’aider Francisco, victime constante de son p�re abusif. Niebla prot�ge Francisco et l’accompagne durant sa premi�re exp�rience amoureuse.

SYNOPSIS : Rosalba loves Danilo, a young man who is serving a long prison sentence. To ease his detention, she decides to write him a sweet letter every day. But, as she isn’t very good at writing, she recruits her friend Katia to do the job. But Katia does a better job than Rosalba expected... Rosalba aime Danilo, un jeune homme � qui le juge a inflig� 30 ans de prison. Elle veut correspondre avec lui, mais n’est pas tr�s dou�e en �criture. Elle demande � sa meilleure amie Katia de l’aider.

SYNOPSIS : Kimberly Clancy, owner of Frugalshopper.ca is just that - a frugal shopper. Everything she buys, she buys with a coupon... Tout ce qu’ach�te Kimberly Clancy, propri�taire de frugalshopper.ca, elle l’ach�te avec des bons. Regard sur un sous-groupe d’avides chasseurs d’aubaines rassembl�s autour de ce site Internet qui compte 10 000 membres.

SYNOPSIS : In a whimsical ghost story travelogue, a foreigner finds himself in the midst of a culture where “the dead are not dead”. Dans ce qui ressemble � une histoire de fant�mes, un �tranger se trouve au milieu d’une culture o� les morts ne sont pas vraiment morts.

SYNOPSIS : A full-length feature honouring the 25th anniversary of the Zingaro Theatre created by the equestrian artist Bartabas. Through the years Bartabas has created a new form of theatre; a subtle blend of equestrian choreography and world music. His riders explore world civilisations, skilfully marrying spectacular entertainment with poetry Ce film revisite les 25 ans du Th��tre Zingaro. cr�� par l'artiste �questre Bartabas. � travers les ann�es, Bartabas a cr�� une nouvelle forme de th��tre; m�lange subtile de chor�graphie �questre et de musique.

SYNOPSIS : A private struggles to stand at attention during a long official ceremony despite the baking sun, sweat, fatigue and an insistent mosquito. As he listens to the speech, the soldier becomes aware of the difference between the many who follow and the few who lead. Un soldat tente de rester au garde-�-vous pendant une c�r�monie officielle, en d�pit du soleil, de la chaleur, de la sueur, de la fatigue et d’un moustique insistant. Tout en pr�tant l’oreille au discours, le soldat se rend compte du foss� qui existe entre la multitude de ceux qui servent, et ceux qui commandent, en nombre beaucoup plus restreint.

SYNOPSIS : Rod decides to return to Guiana, his native country, accompanied by Gonz, his childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an investigation into Rod’s past. A quest that will lead them right into the heart of the virgin forest, into the camps of the illegal gold prospectors…

SYNOPSIS : In 1980, at the samba school of Mangueira - one of the biggest in Rio de Janeiro - homage was paid to one of the icons of Brazilian soccer: Garrincha! Through the music, the eroticism and the carnival lights we see how this forty-six year old soccer player is carried in an allegorical chariot, especially designed for him, although he is not as glorious as this magical atmosphere might suggest. He has just been released from an alcohol rehabilitation center, and the "medication" that enables him to stand makes him appear lost and dejected. In this brilliant frame the character who is being profiled will become the legend of the town, the man that from nothing reaches the world with his "feet". The real carnival blends with the one of his life in which he triumphs, and past glories are placed opposite his most intimate problems and defeats. Through the steps of the parade his own history is a journey with his friends and lovers. The memories are blended with the dance, and the image of a delirious hero that at the World Cup in Chile in 1962, gave Brazil the joy of winning its second World Cup - catapulting him as a champion of world soccer.

SYNOPSIS : Gateway is a Sci-Fi Short film about a Kansas farmer, a mysterious glowing green orb, and the old man that changes his life forever. Apr�s la mort tragique de sa jeune femme et de sa fille, un fermier du Kansas est t�moin de ph�nom�nes lumineux myst�rieux chez lui. Un suspense de science-fiction.

SYNOPSIS : Two decoders working in a basement in the communist State of Chirokystan live in constant conflict with each other. When one day one of them starts criticizing the government, the second one gets a code message, telling her that her fellow decoder is a traitor. Deux d�codeurs qui travaillent dans un sous-sol dans l’�tat communiste du Chirokystan sont continuellement en conflit l’un avec l’autre. Quand l’un, un jour, critique le gouvernement, l’autre re�oit un message cod� la pr�venant que son coll�gue est un traitre.

SYNOPSIS : In Cannes, from the top of the stairs of the Palais du Festival, Gilles Jacob has seen the film world come to him for more than 30 years. Portrait de Gilles Jacob, figure mythique du Festival de Cannes, le plus important �v�nement cin�matographique du monde.

SYNOPSIS : Obdulio is an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living while he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro" who not only introduces him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of life through the lyrics of the "Murgas" (Carnival Pierrots) during the mythical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan carnival.

SYNOPSIS : U.S. Army Sergeant Frank O'Farrell served three years in Iraq. Convinced of his mission of liberation, he becomes aware, in Iraq, of the more complex reasons for the U.S. invasion. He befriends Dyar, an Iraqi interpreter who helps him discover another face of the country. Le Sergent Franck O’Farrell a �t� envoy� par l’arm�e am�ricaine pendant trois ans en Irak. Convaincu de sa mission de lib�rateur, il prend cependant conscience, en �tant sur place, des raisons plus complexes de l’invasion am�ricaine.

SYNOPSIS : Jonas, 19, loves his older brother Sebastien, 21, but has trouble accepting that Sebastien is mentally handicapped. Maybe an “escort” girl would help him. Les rapports compliqu�s entre Basti, un jeune homme timide atteint du syndrome de Down, son jeune fr�re Jonas, un nationaliste de droite, et Alexia, une prostitu�e, dans l’Allemagne rurale.

SYNOPSIS : Roots Time is the story of Baboo and Jah Bull, two Rastafarians that sell LP records in an old colorful car in the countryside of Jamaica. By chance they pick up their favorite and well known radio broadcaster Farmer Roots hitch-hiking en route to the hospital with his sick girlfriend. Jah Bull and Baboo do not believe in traditional medicine for their Rastafarian principles and convince Farmer Roots to take her to a well known herbal doctor 'Bongo-Hu'. Getting to the doctor turns out to be much more difficult than expected and all kinds of adventures happen before reaching their destination.

SYNOPSIS : This powerful documentary investigates today's globalized, profit-centered food system -- while agribusiness reaps record wealth, starving protesters cry for affordable food and peasants choose between land and death. But this feature documentary goes further, providing proof that farmers and workers are organized and fighting back, while implementing their own sustainable alternatives. Filmmaker Katie Curran traveled through Mexico, Cuba, India, Kenya, Zambia, Brazil, Haiti and the United States to capture intimate footage of food crisis and justice, with interviews from farmers, workers and activists, government and corporate officials, and intellectuals such as Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Noam Chomsky.

SYNOPSIS : Cette nuit-l�, quand Bruno regarda Carine, il eut l’impression de regarder le visage d’une �trang�re. C’est cette nuit-l� qu’il eut cette impression pour la premi�re fois. Il regarda autour de lui et se demanda ce qu’il faisait l�.

SYNOPSIS : Once the town hockey hero, Ray has returned home to Newfoundland from the US following a drug conviction, only to have his wife Lillian leave him for aspirations of stardom. Ray flails from woman to woman trying to replace her, while struggling against a growing awareness of his homosexuality. At loose ends for lack of guidance, Ruby attempts to follow her mother's starlet dreams with make up and sexual behavior. She ends up putting herself in increasingly risky situations, spending more and more time with Ray's best friend Stuart, a photographer who confined to a wheelchair following a hunting accident involving Ray. When Stuart finds himself attracted to Ruby, dangerously motivated by fear and anger, he leads the three of them towards a heartbreaking conclusion.

SYNOPSIS : A golf course becomes the battle ground where Mexican and Chinese gardeners fight for the job. Un terrain de golf sert de champ de bataille o� des jardiniers mexicains et chinois s’affrontent pour leur emploi. Un regard humoristique sur notre soci�t�.

SYNOPSIS : Makers of HAITI, THE WOUNDED NATION, followed haitan and french care-givers and the wounded from all social classes. A documentary on an incredible trauma, that of an entire nation. Les auteurs de HA�TI, LA BLESSURE DE L'�ME on suivi des ha�tiens, soignants ou souffrants, issus de toutes les couches sociales, et des fran�ais, secouristes, eux aussi touch�s. Un documentaire sur une blessure inou�e, celle d’une nation toute enti�re.

SYNOPSIS : In 1975, when Spain left its last North African colony, Western Sahara, Morocco and Mauritania quickly occupied the territory and thousands of Moroccan colonists pushed out the native Saharawi people, who fled deep into the desert. Dadah, enfant sahraoui qui vit dans le camp de refugi�s de Djala, en Alg�rie, ne conna�t rien d’autre que la vie dans le d�sert:. Les r�fugi�s sont l� depuis plus de 30 ans.

SYNOPSIS : Dorian Winters, a musician by profession, is miserable: A failing musical career, a comatose ex-professional wrestler father who is driving him nuts, and a personal life going nowhere…. Despite everything, Darian does not give up. What transpires is sometimes bizarre, but always funny.

SYNOPSIS : A portrait of music emanating from the respective barrios of New York and Havana. The rebellious discourse of the musicians invites us to reflect on the counterculture and the parallel realities that arise under different governments. Le discours � la fois rebelle et contestataire des musiciens cubains et nord-am�ricains nous incite � r�fl�chir sur la subculture et les r�alit�s parall�les qui en �mergent.

SYNOPSIS : After being smuggled into Israel for a suicide bombing, a Palestinian girl must convince her handler that she is prepared to go through with it. But is she really? Apr�s �tre entr�e clandestinement en Isra�l pour un attentat suicide, une Palestinienne doit convaincre le responsable de la mission que, bien qu’elle soit une femme, elle est pr�te � mourir. Mais une fois int�gr�e � l’�quipe, la bombe sangl�e sur elle...

SYNOPSIS : Newlyweds Alex and Alice Javal host a New Year’s Eve party at a cabin in the mountains for their closest friends and an unexpected guest in this nuanced and often funny portrait of marriage and anxiety in the late blooming professional class. R�cemment mari�s, Alex et Alice ont l’intention d’organiser un week-end de r�jouissances pour f�ter le nouvel an, quelque part dans une cabine �loign�e en pleine montagne. Les convives arrivent avec leur lot de surprises.

SYNOPSIS : In 16th century France, racked by religious wars, Catherine de Medici proposes that young Henry of Navarre marry her daughter, Marguerite, so that the the Catholics and Huguenots may coexist in peace. But the momentum of political, military and amorous intrigue is not so easily stopped. Les �v�nements dramatiques entourant l’accession au pouvoir d’Henri IV, apr�s l’assassinat d’Henri III, fils de Catherine de M�dicis.

SYNOPSIS : Actress Maria de Medeiros directs a documentary to pay homage to another actress that she admires, Micheline Presle, whose career started in the early thirties. Evoking the renowned filmmakers with whom she worked, Micheline Presle mentions Luis Aramcheck, a director she worked with in 1939. Maria tries to track the mysterious director without ever imagining that this could in any way endanger her life. The scraps of one of the films of Aramcheck, who has disappeared since the Second World War, launches the Pulp Fiction actress on the trail a forbidden work that could have changed the history of international filmmaking forever, Hitler in Hollywood. Hitler � Hollywood is a thriller that, using the form of a treasure hunt, blends archives and recomposed images, true or false interviews and action scenes.

SYNOPSIS : Oto, Nato & Germain are going on a unique and emotional journey in a quest for identity. They were born in Israel to foreign workers, and are going back to their supposed "Homeland", where their parents are from.

SYNOPSIS : Based on the bestselling novel by Clarice Lispector, the movie tells the story of Macab�a, a young orphan, who moves to the big city. She then suffers because of the solitude of her life and the lack of adaptation to her new reality. At last, feeling miserable, she goes to a fortune-teller that promises the imminent arrival of a young foreigner, in a great car. Macab�a leaves in a radiant mood, buys a bride's dress but she will be surprised by reality as will the viewers.

SYNOPSIS : The film traces the rise of one of the world’s foremost architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Le film raconte le parcours de Norman Foster, pilier de l’architecture contemporaine.

SYNOPSIS : Love can make us do weird things. Sadie does a weird thing. She does it to her boyfriend Dennis. Keep in mind she only wants the best for both of them, a perfect relationship. It could be the perfect relationship, too, as long as nobody bleeds to death.

SYNOPSIS : Julien est po�te. Il affronte aujourd'hui sa premi�re journ�e de travail dans un centre de sondages t�l�phoniques.

SYNOPSIS : A new film adaptation of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freisch�tz, which premiered in 1821 and is considered the first important German romantic opera. Its plot is based on German folk legend and many of its tunes were inspired by German folk music. Adaptation � l’�cran de l’op�ra Der Freisch�tz de Carl Maria von Weber.

SYNOPSIS : Lorsque Marie, jeune fille de 25 ans sans pass� ni avenir, rencontre Jaume, un vieux monsieur, ancien champion cycliste devenu artiste peintre, une grande amiti� se lie. Gr�ce � Jaume, Marie va se d�couvrir une identit� que lui m�me est en train de perdre.

SYNOPSIS : I HEART REGINA's 13 wildly different, genre-spanning short films, assert that lives lived in this small city in the middle of North America are as important as lives lived anywhere. Dans l’esprit de films comme PARIS, JE T’AIME et NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU, 13 r�cits se d�roulant � Regina, petite ville en plein centre de l’Am�rique du Nord, l� o� tout est possible.

SYNOPSIS : Elisa is a young roman girl who lives her apparently calm and easy life, dividing her time between her loving and caring boyfriend Fabio, her two friends Matteo and Cristina, university problems and a troubled relationship with her mother. Soon her daily path seems to be shaken by sudden and unexpected news that will take her and her friends to go on a trip by the sea. At her parents villa while she’s looking for comfort from the others she will only discover the true nature of the relationships she has created all her life, bringing her to a terrible decision.

SYNOPSIS : Failed romance and family scandal disrupt Michael's enjoyment of an otherwise pleasant country wedding. Invit� � un mariage avec ses parents dans un ranch de l’Alberta, Michael, jeune photographe � l’aube de la vingtaine, fuit la r�alit� et s’isole dans son monde int�rieur, � l’abri des scandales familiaux et des �checs amoureux.

SYNOPSIS : Fifteen-year-old Javier watches his middle-class existence come apart as his leftist brother Adrian, whom he idolizes, risks all to stand up against the right-wing military takeover in Argentina. Ils l’ont tu� lorsqu’il avait 20 ans. J’en avais 15. Il a disparu � Buenos Aires en 1976, et cette disparition a fa�onn� ma vie. Adrian �tait mon fr�re... et il me manque �norm�ment.

SYNOPSIS : Laila, an Arab immigrant in Canada lives a three-sided love story involving Sami, a fellow immigrant who writes Laila’s story and Jad, left behind in the old country, but for whom Laila’s flame still flickers. Le monde spirituel de Leila, immigrante d’origine arabe qui vit en ce moment une histoire d’amour � trois dimensions.

SYNOPSIS : A love story that overcomes everything, all that it builds, even until bridges that no longer exist.

SYNOPSIS : Once upon a many time is a memory film told through the brutally simple point of view of a child. It deals with the relationship to things, places and people left behind when one is forced, by whatever circumstances, to leave what they considered home. Il �tait plusieurs fois... un film d’animation sur le souvenir, selon la perspective d’un enfant, qui �voque la relation aux choses, aux lieux et aux gens que l’on quitte quand on est forc�, d�pendant des circonstances de la vie, de laisser ce qu’on consid�re son chez-soi.

SYNOPSIS : When psychiatrist Robert Block discovers that his young wife, Carole, is cheating on him the knowledge so disturbs him that he becomes obssessed and cannot focus on his patients. He doesn’t know how to cope... until Leo, a despressive bachelor shows up. Psychiatre et analyste, Robert Block d�couvre que sa jeune femme, Carole, le trompe. Cette situation le d�sarme totalement.

SYNOPSIS : Deux adolescents s’interrogent sur les raisons qui ont mis fin � leur relation.

SYNOPSIS : A young man sees a vision of the future as we discover his thoughts in his mind.

SYNOPSIS : This experimental road-movie transports us in the heart of the Indian continent. Led by a kathakali actor’s mysterious and graceful art, India 66 reveals part of true India. All to Auroville, land of universal community-life and spiritual utopia. Un road movie exp�rimental , v�ritable parcours initatique au cœur du continent indien. Un acteur de kathakali nous guide dans ce voyage sur la rmythique route 66 en direction d’Auroville, la cit� de l’utopie spirituelle.

SYNOPSIS : Woven around a road journey across the country, INDIA BY SONG brings together history, colourful Bollywood song clips, live testimonies and a variety of contemporary images to form a portrait of the place of song in India since 1947. Orchestr� autour d’un voyage � travers le pays, INDIA BY SONG r�unit Histoire, extraits spectaculaires de chansons bollywoodiennes, t�moignages vivants et belles images de l’Inde d’aujourd’hui.

SYNOPSIS : Geneva today. Sam and Lise, in their early 30s, are childhood sweethearts, but they were raised on the wrong side of the tracks and Lise works as a hostess in an upscale bar to make ends meet. Gen�ve, de nos jours. Lise et Sam, la jeune trentaine, forment un couple qui joint difficilement les deux bouts, vivant principalement des revenus de la jeune femme, h�tesse dans un club priv�. Leur vie bascule le jour o� Henri, veuf et notable local, tombe amoureux de Lise et la demande en mariage.

SYNOPSIS : 12th May 2006. The "September 11 Brazilian." Entire cities are attacked by a criminal organization, terrorizing the population and mobilizing the police force. All the media turn their lenses to the case. However, several other forms of violence continued to occur, away from the focus of the press, and receiving much less attention from the police. One type of violence committed by criminals above suspicion: the middle class. In this context, a newly formed delegate tries to solve the disappearance of a powerful businessman. Immersed in a world led by men, pressed for everything and everyone, the girl will be forced to abandon everything we believed in life to learn to live with the criminal world and the stunning reversal of societal values.

SYNOPSIS : Amidst the isolation of windswept fields, Loretta confronts the oscillating nature of grief and loss. Dans des champs isol�s, balay�s par le vent, Loretta affronte les fluctuations du chagrin et de la perte.

SYNOPSIS : A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. Ends? No. Island of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

SYNOPSIS : When two friends who are gifted classical pianists prepare for their next competition in Hungary, it isn’t professional rivalry that gets in the way but their increasingly complicated romantic relationships. Andreas Goodman et Jake Solochek, deux jeunes pianistes de formation classique, font connaissance lors d’un concours � Kansas City. Leur amiti� sera affect�e par la rivalit� qui les divise sur le plan professionnel.

SYNOPSIS : Jean Messier is teetering on the brink. During a torrential downpour, his car plunges deep into the forest. Things are tense between Thomas and Marianne. To give their relationship one last chance, Thomas borrows his uncle's cabin for a weekend in the country. There, they meet Ben, a neighbour, and hang out with him. Unfortunately, the weekend doesn't have the desired effect. Absorbed in their own squabbles, the couple fails to notice that Ben is not who he says he is. His real name: Jean Messier, and he isn't Uncle Michel's neighbour… Who is he? What does he want? When the weekend is over, Thomas and Marianne head home sharing a dark secret.

SYNOPSIS : L’univers d’un �crivain en qu�te d’inspiration bascule quand il accepte une proposition malhonn�te, point de d�part d’un �trange encha�nement d’�v�nements.

SYNOPSIS : Young Joel doesn’t quite fit in anywhere so he desperatly tries to make friends with a local motocross gang. Se sentant rejet� de toutes parts, le jeune Joel tente d�sesp�r�ment de se faire accepter par une bande d'adeptes du motocross. Un jour d’�t�, l’occasion s’offre enfin � lui...

SYNOPSIS : This is the start of a frantic journey, a cineastic essay, which hijacks the onlookers, leading them through Austria, Mexico and India into the world of Josef Winkler�s "images of remembering". The camera's eye accompanies the successful Austrian author and the audience in a poetic road movie, jumps in clips and reverse angles from the "hallowed stable" in a Carinthian mountain village to the banks of the Ganges, and immediately afterwards to the foot of the Popocat�petl, experiencing a volcanic eruption.

SYNOPSIS : Joseph has just come out of prison after serving 20 years, his debt for a career of hold-ups. He is determined to do one last job before retiring, and he knows who he’ll do it with... Joseph vient de passer vingt ans en prison. � peine lib�r�, il n’a qu’une obsession: pr�parer un ultime braquage.

SYNOPSIS : Joy has never known her biological mother. She was abandoned as a baby and grew up in several orphanages. This experience weighs heavily on her and she suffers greatly because she has no family roots. What she needs in her life is an anchor. Joy, enfant abandonn�e, devenue adulte, n’est convaincue que d’une seule chose: elle ne pourra �tre vraiment heureuse que lorsqu’elle et sa m�re naturelle seront � nouveau r�unies.

SYNOPSIS : Joyce is a 12 year old girl that dreams about love, about hapiness and about being a dancer on tv. One night, she and her sister Larissa go out for a walk. Joyce meets by accident the guy she's in love with, and decides to give him her love letter.

SYNOPSIS : After discovering her blind grandfather murdered, a young Japanese peasant and her mystical friend exact gruesome poetic justice on the malevolent samurai lord responsible. Apr�s l’assassinat de son grand-p�re aveugle, une jeune paysanne japonaise et son renard mystique se vengent sur le samoura� responsable en un acte horrible de justice po�tique. Le film m�le l’esth�tique du kabuki, du manga contemporain et des techniques d’animation par ordinateur.

SYNOPSIS : "Just Between Us" is a wicked, indiscreet contemporary story set in Zagreb about the whirling erotic passions that percolate beneath the dull, composed surface of everyday bourgeois life and manners. It is about things that happen in well-established families that are mainly kept secret, but that nevertheless remain painful. We meet two brothers, their wives and lovers - and their children who do not know who their real fathers are. Double lives and parallel relationships are blended into a bittersweet story about the relentless quest for love and happiness, about passion that never ceases, and the terrible consequences that arise, even by chance, when one ends up in a bed that is not one’s own.

SYNOPSIS : �ric, un �tudiant fran�ais en �change pour un an � l’�cole Polytechnique de Montr�al, d�couvre un monde surprenant. Son s�jour � Montr�al finira par changer sa vie et celle de son colocataire qu�b�cois, Thomas.

SYNOPSIS : Kazu is in love of Azul, the mermaid. He tries to seduce her in all the wrong ways. Is not until he shows his true self that he is able to get close to her and undergo transformation.

SYNOPSIS : Dawn. Winter. Crosshairs. Two expert snipers face off in a moment of truth. Koestler is a hungry sharpshooter with his sights on the master, Spinoza, the kill distance record holder. But after they meet face to face, who pulls the trigger?

SYNOPSIS : The Fourth World War ended with the civilized world, cities that survived became states. At the end of the war, there were only corpses. The city of Avileim managed to survive, but the gangs and violence took over the streets. La Quatri�me Guerre mondiale a sonn� le glas du monde civilis�, les villes qui ont r�sist� sont devenues des �tats. � la fin de la guerre, il ne reste que des cadavres. La ville de Avileim a surv�cu mais la mafia applique sa loi et la violence r�gne dans les rues.

SYNOPSIS : Budapest, 1959. B�la Kreuzer is handcuffed and arrested. An inveterate gambler who, through a bit of cunning, has hit a jackpot, B�la has foolishly bragged about his exploit, unaware that the secret police have been on his tail... B�la Kreuzer est tr�s loin d’�tre un saint. Ayant particip� activement � l’insurrection de 1956 en Hongrie, il a la passion des jeux du hasard. Un concours de circonstances l’oblige � revenir sur son pass�.

SYNOPSIS : Through relationships involving control, money, rivalry and love, each seeks his place among the others in a Kurdistan where paganism is still very much alive and where magic mixes with the most trivial events of everyday life. � travers des relations d’emprise, d’argent, de rivalit� et d’amour, chacun cherche sa place au milieu des autres dans ce Kurdistan o� le paganisme est encore vivant, o� le monde magique se m�le au quotidien le plus trivial.

SYNOPSIS : Dans un monde o� le travail est associ� � l’identit� et � la productivit�, rencontre avec un homme dans la cinquantaine qui ne travaille pas depuis des ann�es. Que s’est-il pass� � l’�poque pour qu’il laisse son travail?

SYNOPSIS : When Gabriele Rossetti returns to his small town in southern Italy to say goodbye to his dying father, the old man's last words reawaken memories from the forgotten past. Gabriele Rossetti retourne dans le sud de l’Italie pour revoir une derni�re fois son p�re, ancien chef de gare d’une petite ville proche de Bari. Le vieil homme r�veille de nouveau en lui des souvenirs de son enfance

SYNOPSIS : Re-reading, one by one, the letters she sent herself when she was 7, Margaret plunges back into memories that upset all her certainties and cast doubt on her life choices. For she has become the opposite of what she hoped as a child. Can she change course at forty? Does the “age of reason” have an expiry date? Relisant , les lettre qu'elle s'est �crite lorsqu'elle avait 7 ans, Marguerite retombe dans des souvenirs qui viennent g�ner ses certitudes et mettent le doutent sur ses choix de vie. Peut-elle changer de route � quarante ans? Est-ce que l'�ge de raison � une date de p�remption?

SYNOPSIS : His hand on my big belly, I say: “Don’t you want to come down from this hill?” Il a sa main pos�e sur mon gros ventre, je dis: �Tu ne voudrais pas descendre un peu de cette colline? Venir voir s’il y a toujours quelque chose entre mes cuisses?� Il me dit: �Bient�t tu sera m�re.� Et la femme, o� sera-t-elle?

SYNOPSIS : Dans le cadre de l’ann�e de l’Alg�rie”, on cherche des acteurs d’origine maghr�bine pour un film historique. Le casting rassemble un certain nombre d’acteurs, fra�chement sortis des cours parisiens. Leur profession les a d�j� amen�s � miser sur leur physique typ� et leur culture familiale. Pour autant, individuellement, chacun a son histoire. tr�s fran�aise.

SYNOPSIS : The morning of September 16, 1897, Arnulfo Arroyo, a young law intern, drunk, dirty and unkempt, is getting ready to make good on the bet he made at dawn with the person he spent all night drinking with in a downtown bar in Mexico City. Le matin du 16 septembre 1897, Arnulfo Arroyo, un jeune �tudiant en droit, ivre, malpropre et d’apparence n�glig�e, est pr�t � concr�tiser un pari fait avec la personne avec qui il a bu toute la soir�e dans un bar du centre-ville de Mexico.

SYNOPSIS : A young couple are discussing their future. The girl is pregnant, which makes the loving couple at once happy and surprised. From time to time, their dialogue is interrupted by a homeless child attracting attention by his behaviour. Un jeune couple discute de son avenir. La femme est enceinte, et ce couple amoureux est partag� entre la joie et la surprise. De temps en temps, la conversation est interrompue par un jeune sans-abri dont le comportement attire l’attention.

SYNOPSIS : Le jeune soldat nordiste William Grayrock se perd en for�t pendant son tour de garde. Il commence � �tre tourment� par des hallucinations et des souvenirs �ph�m�res, pr�lude � une d�couverte macabre.

SYNOPSIS : The L�vesques are gathered at the family home on Christmas Eve. But there is a pall over the event: the father, once accustomed to controlling everyone's life, now suffers from a debilitating case of Parkinson's. A prisoner in his own body, his children shudder whenever he takes a bite of food. What do you do when you're with someone for whom all pleasures are denied? In the months that follow, the family remains divided. But the mother's profound love for her husband, his eldest son Andr�'s friendship and his grandson Sam bring the father the happiness that had always eluded him.

SYNOPSIS : In The Hidden Face of Suicide, filmmaker and creative arts therapist Yehudit Silverman enters the world of the survivors, those who have lost loved ones to suicide, and reveals their remarkable stories. Yehudit Silverman jette un regard neuf, singulier et intelligent sur la question du suicide.

SYNOPSIS : Comme un carnet de croquis anim�, regard sur les participants des c�l�brations de la Saint-jean-Baptiste, f�te nationale des QU�b�cois, � Montr�al.

SYNOPSIS : Marion est morte, elle avait 20 ans. Son fr�re, sa sœur et son amant se sont donn� rendez vous un an apr�s sa disparition devant sa tombe. Chacun son chemin, ses lignes et sa fa�on de vivre le deuil, de l’accepter ou non. A travers leurs parcours, il y a des rencontres et puis les vibrations autour. Seront-ils au cimeti�re � 16h? Julio, son amant, entra�ne le film dans une course qui ira au-del� de la pierre froide, peut �tre m�me jusqu'� l’ange.

SYNOPSIS : At fifty something, Betina finds love over the Internet. She leaves her monotonous life behind to go meet her virtual fianc� on the other side of the country. � cinquante ans et des poussi�res, Betina conna�t l’amour gr�ce � l’Internet. Elle laisse derri�re elle sa vie monotone en ville pour aller rejoindre son fianc� virtuel � l’autre bout du pays.

SYNOPSIS : A well-off family, unmistakenly urban, is trapped in the small world they have built at their measure. Each member of the family is fighting alone to rescue whatever can justify them. Luis goes through his teenage years discovering around him men and women who are both guilty and innocent. Les membres d’une famille ais�e, ind�niablement de la grande ville, sont prisonniers du monde qu’ils se sont cr�� � leur juste mesure. Chacun d’eux lutte individuellement pour prot�ger ce qu’il peut. Luis, le fils, traverse ses ann�es d’adolescence en d�couvrant autour de lui des hommes et des femmes � la fois coupables et innocents

SYNOPSIS : Edmond, getting on in years, dismisses any suggestion of going to a nursing home or even accepting help from Rose, the nurse sent out to look in on him. He puts up a brave front -- which cracks a bit in a bad fall... C’est une histoire de cœur. Celui d’Edmond n’est plus tr�s solide. Mais il bat au rythme d’une ind�pendance farouche, celle qui lui fait refuser l’id�e m�me d’entrer en maison de retraite et refuser l’aide de Rose, infirmi�re � domicile.

SYNOPSIS : France, 1562. The wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants rage against a backdrop of intrigue and shifting alliances. Marie de M�zi�res, a beautiful young aristocrat, and Henri de Guise, one of the kingdom's most intrepid heroes, are in love, but Marie's father promises her hand in marriage to the Prince of Montpensier... 1562, la France est sous le r�gne de Charles IX, les guerres de religion font rage. Marie de M�zi�res, une des plus riches h�riti�res du royaume, aime le jeune Duc de Guise, celui que l’histoire pr�nommera plus tard “le Balafr�”. Mais son p�re a d’autres projets pour elle.

SYNOPSIS : The Dooman River marks part of the boundary between North Korea and China. Crossing it is dangerous, not merely because of the brittle ice on its surface, but also because of the heavily armed soldiers that patrol the North Korean border. But poverty and need know no borders... LA RIVI�RE TUMEN suit quelques moments dans la vie de quelques personnages pris dans l’engrenage de la pauvret� et des fronti�res qui divisent. C’est aussi l’histoire de Chang-ho, jeune gar�on de 12 ans.

SYNOPSIS : In this whimsical ghost story, a foreigner finds himself in the midst of a culture where “the dead are not dead.” Village by village, locals take him on a road trip through Cameroon’s most joyous funeral celebrations. Along the way, he befriends his guides and becomes increasingly haunted by memories of his own ancestors.

SYNOPSIS : Film en trois tableaux pr�sentant un critique environnementale apocalyptique sous forme d’all�gorie du passage de la vie � la mort.

SYNOPSIS : Fiftysomething Germain lives a quiet life. One day, in the park, he meets Margueritte, an old lady whose work as a scientist took her all over the world. She has has a passion for literature, which she soon shares with Germain. Soon, a true bond of affection unites them, and Germain realizes that he has the right to take control of his destiny... Germain, la cinquantaine, presque analphab�te, m�ne une vie tranquille. Un jour, il va rencontrer Margueritte, une vieille dame tr�s �rudite qui va lui lire � haute voix des extraits de romans. Germain va d�couvrir la magie des livres, dont il se croyait exclu � jamais. C’est l’histoire d’une de ces rencontres improbables qui peuvent changer le cours d’une vie

SYNOPSIS : Two soldiers awake in a trench. The soldiers get acquainted with each other. One of them is old enough to be another’s father. They start arguing on the reasons of the war. Then they come to terms and begion recolelcting personal stories. Finally they dance Georgian dance together, although it turns out that neither of them is alive. Deux soldats se r�veillent dans une tranch�e. L’un est assez vieux pour �tre le p�re de l’autre. Ils commencent � se disputer au sujet de la guerre. Ils finissent par s’accepter et se raconter des histoires personnelles. Enfin, ils dansent ensemble des danses g�orgiennes, bien qu’ils semblent que ni l’un ni l’autre ne soient en vie.

SYNOPSIS : Three days before his death in 1553, Fran�ois Rabelais, the great French renaissance writer, poet, doctor and humanist whose reputation has sometimes reduced him to a composer of bawdy satire, seeks to revisit some of the major events of his life before it comes to an end... Sensuel, fac�tieux, satirique et railleur, Fran�ois Rabelais n� � la fin du XVe si�cle, incarne � lui seul le Moyen-�ge, cette �re f�conde d’o� le monde moderne est sorti. Ceci est son histoire.

SYNOPSIS : When Bram Stoker wrote his novel Dracula in 1897, the Romanians didn’t pay much attention to their despotic medieval leader Vlad Tepes. Then they realized that he wasn’t so bad after all, especially for tourism. De mani�re divertissante, ce documentaire parcours la Transylvanie et tente de percer le myst�re du mythe Dracula.

SYNOPSIS : Marie tries to survive in a world which gives few chancse to a woman like her. She could be a victim as so many others, but she decides to change everything on one night. Marie se d�bat pour survivre dans un monde qui donne peu de chances � une femme comme elle. Elle pourrait �tre une victime comme tant d’autres, mais elle d�cide de tout changer en une nuit.

SYNOPSIS : Shirin lives in Vancouver, a city in a “foreign” land. Estranged from her mother, and involved in a long-distance relationship that keeps hitting a dead end, Shirin tries to keep afloat. Then she meets her new next door neighbour... La rencontre avec une voisine bouleverse la vie d’une jeune femme, mais lui permet, par un concours de circonstances, d’exorciser ses d�mons int�rieurs.

SYNOPSIS : Yuma, a strong-willed girl from the gang-infested barrios of Managua, dreams of becoming a boxer. In the street, gangs battle for control of the neighbourhood. At home, lovelessness prevails. But Yuma has a dream... Celle qu’on appelle “La Yuma” ne caresse qu’un r�ve: devenir boxeuse. Dans un des quartiers pauvres o� elle habite, des bandes rivales se battent pour avoir le contr�le.

SYNOPSIS : When his mother commits suicide, Mazhar returns to Istanbul from France for the funeral. His reunion with his sister is painful and their joint encounter with their reclusive father is an occasion for a lot of dirty laundry to be aired. Les 24 heures dans la vie d’une famille turque.

SYNOPSIS : The Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas collected an array of early moving image devices which he, as a 'magical lanternist', wove into his final masterpiece "Comrades". Magical Lanterns, Zoetropes, etc. were little mechanical wonders, pre-cinema optical experiences, dating back to the 19th century. They attracted audiences, evoking a sense of magic and wonderment, stimulating the public's imagination with the original peep shows and shadow-plays. They heralded the eventual development of the slide and film projectors; along with early contributions of filmmakers like the Lumiere Brothers. Taken together, the story of these remarkable but under-appreciated visual contraptions, proto-cinema, form a SECRET HISTORY OF FILM.

SYNOPSIS : La torture blanche est un type de torture psychologique qui implique un isolement complet et qui est pratiqu�e sur les victimes des r�gimes totalitaires. Gioza, gardienne de prison, tombe obsessivement amoureuse de Nick, le prisonnier plac� sous sa supervision, sans qu’il ne connaisse son existence. Quand Nick sera confront� aux proc�dures finales de la prison, Gioza devra choisir entre son amour pour lui ou violer les r�gles de la prison.

SYNOPSIS : At the hospital, a little boy wants to live a moment of intimacy with his sick mother, but a group of visitors, strangers to the child, make that difficult. Un jeune gar�on cherche � s’approcher de sa m�re mourante tandis que les proches de la malade prennent d’assaut son chevet. Ce court m�trage d’animation utilise la rotoscopie de fa�on � �voquer le dessin au fusain ainsi que les techniques d’animation 3D et d’objets.

SYNOPSIS : Capi is the oldest gravedigger in the cemetery. Used to working amidst the suffering of others and the jokes of his colleagues, there is only one person capable of taking him out of his daily routine. Every month for the last couple of years, he has waited for Marta to take flowers to the grave of her husband. She is his last hope. Capi est le plus vieux fossoyeur du cimeti�re. Il est habitu� � travailler au milieu de la souffrance des autres et des plaisanteries de ses coll�gues. Une seule personne arrive � le sortir de sa routine. Chaque mois, depuis quelques ann�es, il attend Marta, qui vient porter fleurir la tombe de son mari. Elle est son dernier espoir.

SYNOPSIS : Guven works as an accountant. He has a happy marriage and a daughter. But when he comes home after a day at the office, he is really alone. His “family” is a facade... G�ven est chef comptable. Depuis son mariage, il a toujours v�cu heureux en compagnie de sa femme et de sa fille. Aujourdhui, quand il arrive chez lui apr�s une journ�e de travail, il se sent seul.

SYNOPSIS : Society in India is still defined by its caste system, even despite constitutional outlawing of caste-based discrimination. Investigation. La soci�t� indienne se caract�rise toujours � l’heure actuelle par sa division en castes, et ce malgr� les avanc�es constitutionnelles. Enqu�te.

SYNOPSIS : A projectionist in a moviehouse in Algiers, Amou Salah is pushed into retirement and irrelevence. But he refuses to do nothing. Despite his age and declining health, he decides he is going to travel. Projectionniste dans un salle de cin�ma d’Alger, monsieur Amou Salah est pouss� � la retraite et mis � l’�cart. Mais il refuse de c�der et de demeurer inactif. Malgr� l’�ge avanc� et la maladie, il d�cide de prendre la route.

SYNOPSIS : Tizangara, a small town in Mozambique, a short time after the end of the civil war. Explosions have killed five U.N. peacekeeper. The U.N. sends Massimo Risi, an Italian officer stationed in Maputo, to investigate. It seems that everyone has a different explanation for the murders. � Tizangara, un petit village de la Mozambique, quelques mois apr�s la guerre civile, au d�but des ann�es 1990, cinq soldats des forces des Nations unies meurent � la suite d’une s�rie d’explosions. En poste � Maputo, le lieutenant italien Massimo Risi est charg� par l’organisation internationale de mener une enqu�te pour pr�server la mission de paix au pays. La t�che devient de plus en plus difficile.

SYNOPSIS : Isol� au milieu d’un d�sert de neige et de glace, Charles a perdu la m�moire. Il est obs�d� � l’id�e de creuser un trou dans la terre gel�e. Il se rem�more peu � peu la raison pour laquelle il s’impose ce fardeau.

SYNOPSIS : In this creative and experimental documentary Lazlo Pearlman continues his mission to explode prejudices and dogmas about sex and identity Documentaire cr�atif et exp�rimental montrant les essais sc�niques de l’artiste conceptuel Lazlo Pearlman, dont le but est de renverser une fois pour toutes les syst�mes acquis de l’indentit� sexuelle.

SYNOPSIS : At the end of the Second World War, a 16-year German sniper is left behind in a ruined house by the retreating Nazis. One day, a Jewish family return to their home opposite that of the young sniper. He watches them through his gunsight... Apr�s la guerre, dans une maison abandonn�e est rest� un jeune sniper allemand. Il va tomber amoureux d’une jeune fille juive.

SYNOPSIS : the life of the film’s heroine is but a never-ending chain of (mis)adventures. And a reflection of life in modern Russia where the senior generation, out of ideas, is mired in stagnation and younger generation in frustration. Un film sur une vie dans la Russie d’aujourd’hui o� la g�n�ration des a�n�s est en plein marasme tandis que celle des jeunes est frustr�e.

SYNOPSIS : Author Auguste is struggling to get over the departure of his wife Harriet while working on his new play. Toward that end he has invited for lunch to his country house, the play’s director and its two principal actors, who just happen to be Harriet and her new young lover Th�o... Le temps d’un d�jeuner � la campagne, un �crivain re�oit les acteurs de sa nouvelle pi�ce.

SYNOPSIS : Behind the most ruthless of multinationals there is only one thing. Man. Derri�re la plus impitoyable des multinationales, il n’y a qu’une seule chose, l’homme.

SYNOPSIS : A portrait of four children's lives submerged in poverty in Nicaragua. In spite of their struggle for survival under difficult social conditions, the film is an optimistic one, full of humour, surprise and hope. Au Nicaragua, quatre enfants vivent dans la pauvret� la plus extr�me. Le film nous conduit dans leur quotidien, laissant l’�cho de leurs voix envoyer des messages � la frois dr�les et pleins d’espoir et d’optimisme.

SYNOPSIS : En brossant le portrait de sa famille, le r�alisateur pose un regard personnel sur la ferme � �chelle familiale.

SYNOPSIS : Between fear, guilt and forgiveness, this short film looks at intergenerational relations marked by mental illness. Entre la peur, la culpabilit� et le pardon, ce court m�trage pose un regard sur les relations interg�n�rationnelles marqu�es par la maladie mentale.

SYNOPSIS : Quand un enl�vement du r�sau Al-Quaeda croise le test de d�gustation � l’aveugle de Pepsi. Voil� ce qui arrive qand les terroristes veulent am�liorer leur image de marque.

SYNOPSIS : Marc, a young tweleve-year old boy, regains consciousness in a field. His body is wounded by multiple injuries. Back to his home, remained in a deep silence and a stage of stupor, he provokes strange reactions from his relatives. What happened to him? Marc, jeune homme de quatorze ans, reprend conscience dans un champ. Il a le corps meurtri par de multiples blessures. De retour � son domicile, plong� dans un profond silence et dans un �tat d'h�b�tude, il provoque d'�tranges r�actions de la part de ses proches. Que lui est-il arriv� ?

SYNOPSIS : Luisa’s 7th birthday celebration promises to last into the next day because her grandparents are coming from far to visit her. But the course of their lives will be changed by the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. La f�te du septi�me anniversaire de Luisa promet de se prolonger au jour suivant, car ses grands-parents sont venus de loin lui rendre visite. Cependant leurs vies vont basculer � cause du tremblement de terre de 1985 � Mexico.

SYNOPSIS : During a medical exam, H�l�na, a student in anatomical drawing, meets Beno�t, a young radiologist. Their mutual fascination with the human body prompts them to begin a passionate romance that seemingly has no boundaries. A l'occasion d'un examen m�dical, une �tudiante en dessin anatomique fait la connaissance de Beno�t, un jeune radiologue. Partageant une m�me fascination pour le corps humain, ils vont c�der � un amour passionnel mais � leur fa�on...

SYNOPSIS : Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home decorated and honoured from the secont Sino-Japanese War in 1940, but without arms and legs. Everyone in the village look to his wife for vindication: she must honour the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the “war god”. Le lieutenant Kurokawa rentre de la deuxi�me guerre sino-japonaise bard� de d�corations. Il a perdu bras et jambes lors d’une attaque. Bient�t, tous les gens du village (voisins, amis et parents) tournent leurs regards vers sa femme Shigeko. Elle doit honorer l’empereur, accomplir son devoir envers son pays et donner � tous un magnifique exemple en se sacrifiant pour soigner le h�ros de guerre.

SYNOPSIS : The boys are drinking beer in the forest and shooting bullets at empty bottles. A man approaches them, who is a former soldier and explains that shooting and war is bad. The boys offer beer to the man. He is an authoritative person for them because he has been in the war. At the end of the film, we can see that the war is really bad -- it kills everybody. Des gars boivent de la bi�re et tire des balles sur des bouteilles vides. Un homme s’appproche d’eux, un ancien soldat, � qui ils offrent une bi�re. Il incarne une figure d’autorit� pour eux, parce qu’il a fait la guerre. � la fin du film, on constate que la guerre est vraiment quelque chose d’affreux-- elle tue tout le monde.

SYNOPSIS : Riding on the Twilight Express to El Dorado, Newman Brown begins to disappear when he discovers he is ineligible because his wife is expecting. Will he find a cure or fade away completely? Quand Newman Brown d�couvre qu’il ne peut monter � bord du train en direction de El Dorado parce que sa femme est enceinte, il commence � dispara�tre... litt�ralement.

SYNOPSIS : On September 12, 1980, the Turkish military deposed the government, suspended the constitution and imposed martial law. Gece was four when she was witness to her parents’ killing by the police and she grew up embittered and into a would-be suicide bomber for a terrorist group Le 12 septembre 1980, l’arm�e turque s’en prend au peuple alors qu’un coup d’�tat militaire s�vit dans le pays. Gece, une fillette de quatre ans, est le t�moin du meurtre de ses parents. Apr�s plusieurs ann�es, prise d’un sentiment de vengeance, elle planifie son coup

SYNOPSIS : Cinq amies dans la cinquantaine se retrouvent pour d�cider du voyage qu’elles vont faire ensemble : Kenya ou thalasso... Mais l’une d’elles a du retard. L’attente devient longue. La tension s’amplifie et les conversations se transforment en r�glement de compte. Les masques vont tomber...

SYNOPSIS : Franco’s dictatorship, one of the longest and bloodiest in 20th century Europe, has been shrouded in silence by Spain since his death, more than 30 years ago. This film lifts the veil on this period. La dictature de Franco, r�gime parmi les plus violents et longs de l’Europe du XXe si�cle, a �t� gard�e sous silence par l’Espagne depuis sa fin, il y a plus trente ans. Ce film l�ve le voile sur cette �poque.

SYNOPSIS : Colonel Moresco, with the help of former comrades, takes over a hospital ward and holds patients and staff hostage. The Army has 56 hours to acknowledge the issue or the hostages will die. Police officer Paolo Manfredi and his family will soon be on a secret mission. La famille dont il est question est compos�e de trois personnes: le p�re, la m�re et une fille adolescente qui n’arrive pas � accepter la s�paration soudaine de ses parents. Ils seront bient�t impliqu�s dans une mission secr�te.

SYNOPSIS : Carmen and Jorge are a married couple with two children. A visit to the pool, a ride in the car, a heated argument show us the need for silence to keep them together. Carmen et Jorge forment une petite famille avec leurs deux enfants. Une visite � la piscine, un trajet en voiture et une discussion un peu chaude nous d�montrent que le silence est n�cessaire pour les maintenir unis.

SYNOPSIS : In 1734, Marie-Jos�phe Ang�lique, a black slave in New France, was accused of setting a fire that caused the destruction of a large part of the young city of Montreal. In the streets of Old Montreal, a guide walks us through the key landmarks of Ang�lique’s history, which is parallelly played out by actors in an historical reconstruction. Marie-Jos�phe Ang�lique, esclave noire de la Nouvelle-France, fut accus�e en 1734 de la destruction d’une grande partie de Montr�al par un incendie criminel. Dans les rues du Vieux-Montr�al, un guide nous relate les moments-cl�s de l’histoire d’Ang�lique, �galement illustr�s par une reconstitution historique, interpr�t�e par des acteurs.

SYNOPSIS : An intimate portrait of octogenarian Vera Bondy, an elegant and vivacious guide at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Vera Bondy est une femme impressionnante. Vu son �l�gance et sa vitalit�, on ne devinerait jamais qu’elle a plus de 80 ans. Mais son �ge ne l’emp�che pas de capter l’attention des gens, surtout dans son travail de guide au Mus�e des beaux-arts.

SYNOPSIS : A documentary about soccer, RED EYES follows the Chilean national team over eight years, recording the passions the sport unleashes and observing the qualities and faults it highlights in the team’s host society. Documentaire sur l’engouement que le soccer exerce sur les gens, et particuli�rement la passion qu’il d�cha�ne sur la soci�t� chilienne en comparaison avec d’autres cultures latino-am�ricaines

SYNOPSIS : Hari is a postman. Every day for 20 years, he has been walking through the Thar desert in India to deliver letters to remote villages, holding in his hands the records of secluded lives, of loves, weddings, successes and deaths... Tandis que le monde acc�l�re de plus en plus son pas, Hari ne fait que marcher pour livrer les lettres aux villageois.

SYNOPSIS : It’s a hot summer day at the beach and two 9-year-old girls strike a deal with a stranger for ice cream money. The deal turns sour when he refuses to pay and tries to trap one of them in a creepy game. Une chaude journ�e d’�t� � la plage. Deux petites filles de neuf ans passent un march� avec un �tranger en �change d’argent pour s’acheter des glaces. Mais les choses tournent au vinaigre quand celui-ci refuse de payer et tente d’entra�ner l’une d’entre elles dans un jeu qui donne la chair de poule.

SYNOPSIS : Direct from a 1970s Norwegian environment, Sonia with her two children arrive in Trinidad to join her husband Jo who is working as an engineer in the petroleum industry. She is introduced to a homeless class of men who have the whole world as their workplace; and their wives, who follow them wherever their contracts take them. Dans l’�le de la Trinit�, l’industrie du p�trole attire des �trangers d’un peu partout � travers le monde. Avec le temps, des cercles d’expatri�s se sont form�s dans cet endroit un peu particulier. LIMBO se penche sur ces exil�s volontaires en abordant les th�mes de l’amour, des tentations et des apparences.

SYNOPSIS : Ed the Clown is stuck in a fun house and in the process of trying to escape gets seduced, tries to kill someone, and can't get it up. Ed le clown est coinc� dans une attraction foraine. En voulant fuir, il se laisse s�duire, tente de tuer quelqu’un et en perd sa virilit�.

SYNOPSIS : When he’s not sweeping streets in Bologna, forty-year-old Mario is looking after his elderly mother or browsing pornography. He’s a lonely man. But that all changes when he runs into single-mother Agatha... Mario, 40 ans, travaille comme balayeur dans les rues de Bologne. En priv�, il s’adonne � la pornographie par Internet. Jusqu’au jour o� il rencontre Agatha.

SYNOPSIS : Cuba, 1962. La ville imaginaire de Veredas del Guayabal est assi�g�e de roquettes nucl�caires. Les habitants, quant � eux, sont en train de vivre les premi�res �tapes de grands bouleversements sociaux. Linsaka, elle, pense � l’amour.

SYNOPSIS : As the youngest in the family and the only male, Dylan has drawn the short straw. �tant le dernier de la famille et le seul gar�on, Dylan a tir� le mauvais num�ro. Il ronge son frein en silence. Par une chaude journ�e d’�t� � la plage, il d�cide de prendre sa vie en main, une fois pour toutes.

SYNOPSIS : Tired from his daily walk, Matthew Little stops to rest at an abandoned lemonade stand. Reminiscing his own childhood from sixty-years ago, he takes a seat. When eight-year-old Johnny returns to his stand, he invites Matthew into his world of make-believe, helping him remember what it was like to be a kid again. Matthew Little, un octog�naire, replonge bri�vement dans le paradis de l’enfance, le temps d’une rencontre avec le petit Johnny, huit ans, � un comptoir de limonade.

SYNOPSIS : Who is the man behind the famous whistles heard in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns? Qui est l’homme qui se cache derri�re les fameux coups de sifflets que l’on entend dans les spaghetti westerns de Sergio Leone?

SYNOPSIS : To collect a large inheritance from his uncle in America, Peter Mombin, a Guadeloupe farmer with a passion for bullock cart races, must marry before the end of the month. But not with any woman... Pour toucher un gros h�ritage de son oncle d'Am�rique, Pierre Mombin, Guadeloup�en passionn� de courses de chars � boeufs, doit se marier avant la fin du mois.

SYNOPSIS : A girl arrives at a small, English town, and gets lost in a fairytale. Une jeune fille arrive dans une petite ville anglaise et se perd dans un conte de f�es.

SYNOPSIS : Australian director Gillian Armstrong has been following three lively, working class Adelaide girls since 1976 when they were just fourteen. For more than thirty years, Kerry, Josie and Diana’s struggles have captured all our hearts. Now 47, the women’s stories resonate with universal themes about families, love, loss, hopes and dreams. LOVE, LUST & LIES est le cinqui�me film que la documentariste Gilliam Armstrong consacre � trois sympathiques femmes d’Adelaide issues de la classe ouvri�re, depuis 1976, alors qu’elles �taient toutes trois �g�es de 14 ans. Sur plus d’une trentaine d’ann�es, ces films font la chronique de leurs vies, de leurs espoirs et de leurs r�ves.

SYNOPSIS : Un jeune homme rend visite � son p�re malade qu’il conna�t � peine. Amer, il entreprend un acte de vengeance sournois.

SYNOPSIS : In the middle of a slum in Luanda, the capital of Angola, DJ Buda owns a recording studio where every boys� from the neighbourhood tells his story in his own way. The result of these Buda sessions is a polyphonic cacophony that mirrors life in Angola. En plein coeur d'un bidonville de Luanda, la capitale de l'Angola, DJ Buda poss�de un studio d'enregistrement. Chaque jeune du quartier raconte son histoire � sa mani�re. Le r�sultat est aussi poliphonique et cacophonique que la vie en Angola.

SYNOPSIS : Based on the hugely popular original comic books created by Willy Vanderesteen, this CG-animated feature film produced at a budget close to U$14 million will take you to the Wild Wild West… Co-director Wim Bien worked in Hollywood as an animator for Ice Age 2. English version produced in the USA.

SYNOPSIS : Biopic sur l’ascension de Luis In�cio da Silva, dit �Lula�, dans la politique du Br�sil.

SYNOPSIS : My Father used to sit down and tell me the horror story, Tale of the Peony Lantern...+ACI- After Koto lost her parents in a traffic accident, she unwillingly received the mysterious ability to see the crack of hell and the ghosts of the dead. A year later, Koto escapes from a hospital to visit the intersection where her parents had died. There she sees a man on a pedestrian bridge, attempting suicide. The man, Shinji, had lost his lover in the same traffic accident that put an end to Koto's parents. +ACI-Die, and you'll only go to hell+ACEAIg- +ACI-You're better off here+ACEAIQAi- Oddly convinced by Koto's words, Shinji decided not to kill himself, and the two -who share the experience of losing their loved ones in the same accident- start living together. That's when the real fear closes in...

SYNOPSIS : In the confined spaces of a car and an office in Morocco, Mahjouba, the head of a charity, talks with single mothers -- a series of dialogues which sheds light on the clashes between life and social mores. Au Maroc, dans le huis clos d’un bureau et d’une voiture, Mahjouba, une directrice d’association, s’entretient avec des m�res c�libataires. Ces dialogues r�v�lent les conflits entre la vie et les normes sociales.

SYNOPSIS : Une jeune femme rentre � la maison. Devant elle, des gestes et des bruits quotidiens, des gens qui chaque jour s’engagent � �difier leur propre monde. Regard sur une ruelle montr�alaise. Une jeune femme rentre � la maison. Devant elle, des gestes et des bruits quotidiens, des gens qui chaque jour s’engagent � �difier leur petit monde. Regard sur une ruelle montr�alaise.

SYNOPSIS : All of us are mothers and fathers, even if only potential ones. Even if this never happens in the traditional sense of the word, the possibility exists...Four stories touch on this same subject but from different angles, yet together they create a picture of how complicated and strangely unnatural the most natural process in the world has become in our society.

SYNOPSIS : SU-357 has everything a serving android could want out of life. But how will he cope when a startling discovery threatens all he holds dear? SU-357 a tout ce qu’un andro�de peut souhaiter dans la vie jusqu’� ce qu’une d�couverte spectaculaire menace ce qu’il a de plus cher.

SYNOPSIS : After moving to the city to find a good paying job, A volatile, impulsive young man, Raul falls in with a gang of thieves plotting to get even with their corrupt employer. Hounded by guilt about his hopelessly sick father, Raul decides that desperate times can only be remedied by desperate measures. Un pirate de l’air solitaire et mentalement instable est pouss� � bout alors qu’il se bat pour survivre dans la soci�t� philippine d’aujourd’hui. En fin de compte, hant� par le sens de la culpabilit� d� � la maladie de son p�re, il d�cide en toute conscience de commettre un acte irr�versible qui pourrait avoir de f�cheuses cons�quences.

SYNOPSIS : Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut. They run away to Paris where they enjoy a blissful cohabitation. But it's only the start of a long series of obstacles for the two lovers. L'histoire d'amour et de passion du Chevalier Des Grieux et de son amante, Manon Lescaut. Ils fuient ensemble � Paris. C’est le d�but d’une longue s�rie d’obstacles pour ces jeunes amoureux. Des Grieux va aimer, sans jamais juger, il va apprendre � tricher, � voler, � tuer au besoin, entra�n� avec Manon dans une cavale, une fuite sans fin.

SYNOPSIS : Marieke, 20, lives with her mother Jeanne, a woman left cold and distant ever since her husband died. During the day, Marieke works in a Brussels chocolate factory. At night, she escapes into the arms of much older men. With them she feels strong, cherished and free. Marieke veut vivre sa vie. Mais comment s’y prendre quand autour d’elle, tous les liens d’amour sont bris�s? Elle cherche refuge dans les bras d’hommes plus �g�s pour avoir la force d’affronter le pass� et enfin �tre elle-m�me. Marieke a 20 ans.

SYNOPSIS : After thirty years as an office worker at a Mexico City insurance company, life is suddenly turned upside-down for 75 year-old Martha when a computer is brought in to replace her... Licenci�e de son travail, une femme de 75 ans d�cide de s’enlever la vie. Sauf que...

SYNOPSIS : Martha, a young single mother with an adolescent son, Thomas, finds out she’s pregnant and yet she is convinced she has not had relations with anyone recently. Confused, ridden by guilt and anxiety, she tries to understand. Martha, jeune m�re c�libataire d’un Thomas d�j� adolescent, d�couvre qu’elle est enceinte alors qu’elle n’a pas eu de rapports. D�sorient�e, elle cherche � comprendre, entre angoisse et culpabilit�.

SYNOPSIS : Jose Mart� (1853-1895), writer and poltical activist, is known as the Apostle of Cuban Independence and is revered as a hero by Cubans of all political stripes. Jos� Mart� (1853-1895), homme politique et po�te cubain �tait de tendance lib�rale, nationaliste et r�volutionnaire. Il est certainement l'homme le plus glorifi� par le peuple cubain, qui le consid�re comme un h�ros national, le plus grand martyr et l'ap�tre de la lutte pour l'ind�pendance.

SYNOPSIS : Martin's car breaks down, which forces him to walk through the desert looking for help. Upon entering a brothel on the side of the road as a last resort, a fateful game begins, one which will change him forever. La voiture que conduit Martin tombe soudainement en panne. L’homme est oblig� de marcher en plein d�sert pour chercher de l’aide.

SYNOPSIS : Allen Hall is asked to check on his best friend’s wife. She was supposed to pick him up at the airport but never showed up. For some reason, he fears the worst. Allen Hall attend la femme de son meilleur ami qui doit venir le chercher � l’a�roport, mais la jeune femme ne se pr�sente jamais. Que s’est-il pass�?

SYNOPSIS : Une nuit d'hiver, en 1997, autour de Dinan. Laure, � peine quinze ans, s'�chappe du centre psychiatrique o� son p�re l'a plac�e. Mais cette nuit, tout va rentrer dans l'ordre, c'est s�r..

SYNOPSIS : ANIMATION. Conflict is being. ANIMATION. Le conflit est d�clench�.

SYNOPSIS : The largest DJ tournament in Latin America, since 1997 Hip Hop DJ has mobilized the dreams of young people from all over S�o Paulo, eager to build a successful new life and career through music. Many of these people are from the outskirts of the city and they practice their art (which is fundamental for diferentiating themselves and winning over an audience) in clubs and parties. They work in the most diverse jobs during the day to survive, and at night and on weekends they lead parties that mix genres without prejudice, from sertanejo (country) to pop, from Brazilian funk to music for yoga. All of their energy is focused on this tournament, which will take the winner to compete with the world's best in London.

SYNOPSIS : An examination of self-image and indeciveness. A young woman approaching her thirties turns to online blogging as a means of expressing her doubts and fears. �tude sur l’image de soi et l’ind�cision. � l’approche de la trentaine, une jeune femme se tourne vers le blogging en ligne pour exprimer ses doutes et ses craintes.

SYNOPSIS : The legacy of the world class Russian film director is documented, focusing on one of his most enigmatic declarations: "Death doesn't exist!" Is it possible to prove Tarkovsky's assertion through a cinematic treatment of the diroctor's own posthumus life...?

SYNOPSIS : Smith comes to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to tie up some loose ends. He meets Link, a tourist guide, who agrees to help him. An homage to the road movie genre, where ultimately the road ends when you want it to end. Smith arrive � Dar es Salaam pour r�gler quelques d�tails laiss�s en suspens. Quelques personnes vont l’aider dans sa qu�te.

SYNOPSIS : After the death of his mother, Yehia returns to Alexandria. Encounters with old and new friends introduce him to the new face of the city and bring him to realise just how much his beloved city has changed. Apr�s le d�c�s de sa m�re, Yehia retourne � Alexandrie. Des rencontres avec de vieux et de nouveaux amis lui font d�couvrir le nouveau visage de la ville.

SYNOPSIS : Every day Micky swims with her friends at her beloved bathing club. Micky teaches us that our existence is but the fruit of coincidence. Micky fait partie du club de baignades en mer de sa ville depuis pr�s d’un demi-si�cle. Son histoire met en perspective nos propres vies et comment notre existence est le fruit du hasard.

SYNOPSIS : A portrait of Mine Barral Vergez who, for over four decades, has been making costumes for the most famous Parisian cabarets and theatres such as the Moulin Rouge, the Lido, the Crazy Horse Saloon, the Olympia, even the Com�die Fran�aise. Portrait de Mine Barral Vergez, costumi�re des grands th��tres et des music-halls parisiens.

SYNOPSIS : After a car accident, which leaves his wife Sophie tetraplegic, Cedric hopes to trigger an emotional reaction from her by showing her the video images their daughter shot before the accident. Portrait mosa�que d’une famille dont Sophie, la m�re, devient t�trapl�gique suite � un accident de circulation. C�dric, son mari, esp�re d�clencher chez elle une r�action �motionnelle. Cette initiative sera l’�l�ment d�clencheur d’une s�rie d’�v�nements dramatiques.

SYNOPSIS : Men and women in the 30s and 40s. They confide to Father Viollet, a modern priest. They ask him thousands of questions, trying to conciliate catholic morals and marital relations. No small affair... Des hommes et des femmes dans les ann�es 1930 et 1940. Ils auraient pu �tre nos grands-parents. Comment s’aimer sans faire huit enfants? Comment concilier morale catholique et vie conjugale ? Pourquoi le plaisir est-il coupable? L'abb� Viollet saura peut-�tre r�pondre � toutes ces questions. La mince affaire...

SYNOPSIS : The true story of serial-killing con-man Roy Fontaine, who cut a bloody swath through England and Scotland, hiring himself out as a butler, robbing his employers and in some cases murdering them. His killing spree included his hated illegitimate brother and five other people before he was finally arrested and sentenced to prison for life. L’histoire vraie du tueur en s�rie britannique Roy Fontaine qui a fait des ravages en Angleterre et en �cosse en s’engageant comme majordome, puis en volant ses employeurs et m�me en les assassinant. Dans sa folie meurtri�re, il a m�me fauch� la vie de son fr�re ill�gitime qu’il d�testait et de cinq autres personnes avant d’�tre fianlement arr�t� et condamn� � la prison � vie.

SYNOPSIS : Filmed over the course of four seasons, MONTR�AL, 31 FRAGMENTS D’URBANIT� gathers a variety of life fragments to paint a remarkable and vivid picture of the city of Montreal. A socio-poetic documentary in the tradition of the early urban symphonies. Tourn� sur quatre saisons, MONTR�AL, 31 FRAGMENTS D'URBANIT� brosse, � travers une vari�t� de fragments de vie, un tableau vivant et singulier de la ville de Montr�al. Documentaire socio-po�tique dans la continuit� des premi�res symphonies urbaines.

SYNOPSIS : Nelu works as a security guard in the local supermarket, on the Romanian-Hungarian border, where many refugees try to cross to Hungary and then on to Western Europe. One morning, Nelu “fishes” out something different: a Kurdish man trying to cross the border. Unable to communicate verbally, the two men somehow understand each other. Nelu est vigile au supermarch�, � la fronti�re de la Roumanie et de la Hongrie, o� nombre de sans-papiers tentent de passer en Hongrie puis en Europe occidentale. Un matin, Nelu fait une prise peu commune dans la rivi�re: un Kurde qui essaie de passer la fronti�re. Bien qu'ils ne comprennent pas ce qu'ils disent, les deux hommes arrivent � se comprendre.

SYNOPSIS : Ivan, a high school teacher, must leave Belgrade for a job in a remote village in Bosnia. Along the way he meets a young Bosniak woman who has returned to her homeland from Germany. The two refugees from reality find temporary solace in each other. La rencontre entre un homme et une femme dans la Bosnie d’apr�s-guerre.

SYNOPSIS : Generations of Spanish women were not allowed to dream. All they could do was to resign themselves and accept the fact they were born and brought up in a place and time when their voices, their desires and even their thoughts were silenced. SE�ORA DE nous pr�sente le t�moignage de plusieurs g�n�rations de femmes espagnoles � qui l’histoire n’a pas permis de r�ver.

SYNOPSIS : On the most important day of his career, Geoffrey Hutton wakes to discover that his past has come to pay him a visit. Covered in mud from head to toe, Geoff's dearly departed are making themselves at home in his pristine apartment. Late for work and longing to embrace his muddy family, Geoff is torn between mourning and morning. Le jour le plus important de sa carri�re, Geogg s’aper�oit en se r�veillant que son pass� lui rend visite. Couverts de boue de la t�te, les chers disparus de Geoff font comme chez eux dans son appartement immacul�. Geoff est d�chir� entre l’envie de les serrer dans ses bras et l’urgence de partir au travail.

SYNOPSIS : The term “going postal” has become the way we commonly refer to the mental state of anybody who goes on a shooting spree, typically in a workplace or a school, but also in any other public place... MURDER BY PROXY: HOW AMERICA WENT POSTAL examine le ph�nom�ne croissant des assassinats en s�rie qui s�vit aux �tats-Unis.

SYNOPSIS : In a housing building, monotonous lives follow their paths without even crossing one another. A man confronted by his everyday life makes a discovery that disrupts his daily routine and his neighbors. Dans une tour d’appartements, des vies isol�es et monotones suivent leur cours sans m�me se croiser. Un homme est projet� hors de son quotidien quand il fait une rencontre fortuite, mais r�v�latrice, qui vient briser sa routine et celle de ses voisins.

SYNOPSIS : Today Antonio hasn’t touched a single line in the house’s plan he’s been working for over a week. It is not precisely the best day in his life. Actually, it is not his best year either. He needs, just as his plan, a detail that gives sense to all that lines. Aujourd’hui, Antonio n’a pas touch� � une seule ligne du plan de maison auquel il travaille depuis plus d’une semaine. Ce n’est vraiment pas le plus beau jour de sa vie. En fait , ce n’est pas sa meilleure ann�e non plus Il a besoin d’un d�tail de plus pour donner un sens � toutes ces lignes.

SYNOPSIS : Duca, 15, discovers that the crimes he sees on his computer games can also take place in real life, when his uncle Eder is arrested for an ill explained murder. Duca decides to investigate the case himself, and is joined by his friends Kid and Isa. But Isa seems to be more interested in Kid. And Kid seems more interested in the first female who comes along. And Duca, of course, is actually only interested in Isa.

SYNOPSIS : Mozart had an older sister called Nannerl. Child prodigy, she was introduced with her brother to all European courts. In the end of a three year family travel, she met in Versailles Louis XV's son who encouraged her to write music. But Nannerl is a girl and a girl does not have the right to compose... Mozart avait une sœur surnomm�e Nannerl. Enfant prodige, elle est pr�sent�e avec son fr�re � toutes les cours europ�ennes. Mais elle doit renoncer � la musique.

SYNOPSIS : In May 2008 a cyclone called Nargis raged for hours in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, killing over 140,000 people. Seven days later, this film crew arrives on the scene of the disaster where nothing was ever going to be the same. Birmanie, mai 2008: le cyclone Nargis fait rage dans le delta de l’Irrawaddy. Plus de 140 000 personnes meurent. Sept jours apr�s le cyclone, l’�quipe du film est arriv�e dans des lieux o� rien n’�tait plus comme avant.

SYNOPSIS : Arriv� en Afrique depuis quelques semaines, un jeune Belge voit voler en �clat tous ses pr�jug�s... Film r�alis� enti�rement � partir d’images d’archives de l’Office national du film du Canada.

SYNOPSIS : Roger is a former concert pianist, debilitated by later stage Huntington's disease. His wife, Fay, has become his caregiver. Since the onset of his illness ten years ago, Roger has lost control of his movements, and the ability to think and communicate. Now, no longer able to cope with her husband's incapacitated state and the deterioration of their marriage, Fay struggles to find meaning in their existence. L’histoire d’amour entre Roger, ancien pianiste de concert au dernier stade de la maladie de Huntington, et sa femme Fay. Dix ans apr�s le d�but de la maladie, Roger a perdu le contr�le de ses mouvements et la capacit� de penser et de communiquer. Fay se d�bat pour trouver un sens � leur existence.

SYNOPSIS : A the peak of an overpopulation crisis in the near future, a random lottery grants a couple the right to produce one child. But they become pregnant with twins. Dans un avenir rapproch�, au plus fort de la crise de surpopulation qui affecte le monde, un couple remporte � la loterie le droit de concevoir un enfant. Mais la femme est bient�t enceinte de jumeaux...

SYNOPSIS : Flora, a 72-year-old spinster who has spent her whole life looking after others, is now worried that, with her last nieces gone from the village, she will be carted off the the old people’s home. Her salvation is Purita... Flora, 72 ans, est une vieille fille. Elle vit dans un petit village et elle a pass� toute sa vie � s’occuper des membres de sa famille. Maintenant, il est grand temps qu’on s’occupe d’elle.

SYNOPSIS : A group of friends reunite at a New Year’s party a year out of university. They are all being thrust into the world of adult responsibility and accountability... Un an apr�s leurs �tudes � l’universit�, quelques amis se retrouvent pour f�ter le nouvel an. Cette rencontre les oblige � revoir leurs priorit�s.

SYNOPSIS : Jerome Robbins’ 1958 classic “ballet in sneakers” is given a new screen adaptation featuring dancers of the New York City Ballet, and the histofry and significance of Robbins’ classic is resumed in a documentary epilogue. � partir de t�moignages et de commentaires, ce documentaire en deux sections recr�e de fa�on encore plus vibrante l’œuvre sensuelle et sexy de Jerome Robbins, NY Export: Opus Jazz.

SYNOPSIS : The documentary follows Nigatu, an Ethiopian marathon runner on his way from Addis Ababa to one of the world’s largest marathon races in Frankfurt, Germany. A chance to earn money. La cam�ra suit les pr�paratifs du coureur �thiopien Nigatu, d’Addis Abeba jusqu’au marathon de Francfort, l’un des plus grands du monde. Cette course, � laquelle est rattach�e une somme d’argent importante, pourrait bien �tre le d�but d’une prestigieuse carri�re.

SYNOPSIS : 24 heures dans l'intimit� de cinq �tres tous caboss�s par la vie. Le film explore l'exp�rience de l'immigration ill�gale, l'exclusion sociale et comment les r�ves sont bris�s par des lois absurdes. Cette nuit, leurs destins vont se croiser, se fr�ler, se percuter et se bouleverser. Une nuit qui r�v�lera ce que chacun voulait cacher ou ne pas voir. Le film ne juge personne, mais ne fait aucune concession quant au r�alisme cru qu'il d�crit. / During 24 hours and through the experience of 5 destenies the film explores the fate of African illegal immigrants and how their dreams are shattered in Europe today. The film is topical and incisive in its presentation of the immigrant experience in Europe, and while it presents hopeful moments of intimacy, it refuses any easy optimism in its conclusions.

SYNOPSIS : A disillusioned older woman is trying to hide her true nature from the young girl she is dating. Things heat up considerably when her maker shows up, displeased with her life in denial and her outright refusal to see him. A story about passionate affaires, vicious circles and fresh blood. Une femme m�re d�sabus�e cherche � cacher qui elle est vraiment � la jeune fille qu’elle fr�quente. La situation se corse quand son cr�ateur se ram�ne, m�content qu’elle renie sa vraie nature et qu’elle refuse cat�goriquement de le voir. Une histoire de liaisons passionn�es, de cercles vicieux et de chair fra�che...

SYNOPSIS : Vlad, 25, an orchestra conductor, and Vica, 23, a pianist, have just gotten married. With a baby on the way, they need to make a home together. Strapped for cash they decide to get married again in in Vica’s native Bessarabia, where the tradition of wedding gifts is more generous and includes cash. Vlad, 25 ans, chef d’orchestre, et Vica, 23 ans, pianiste, viennent de convoler en justes noces. Comme ils sont sur le point d’avoir un enfant, ils ont besoin d'argent. Ils d�cident alors de se marier de nouveau chez les parents de Vica, en Bessarabie, o� ils pourront recevoir de nombreux cadeaux en argent.

SYNOPSIS : A troubled high-school kid pretending to be dying of cancer confronts problems with his new girlfriend and terminally ill father as he struggles with his daily existence. Norman Long est un lyc�en solitaire, conscient de soi, un adolescent sinistrement dr�le. Peu de temps apr�s la mort soudaine de sa m�re, il r�alise qu’il doit surmonter la dure r�alit� de voir son p�re atteint du cancer.

SYNOPSIS : A film about the universe of discovery and expectations of adolescents when they come across the emotions of love.

SYNOPSIS : Confronted with the monotony of the 9 to 5 workday, Zach takes refuge in his imagination, bringing Isabelle along with him. Running from reality is never a permanent solution, though. Face � la monotonie de son travail quotidien, Zach trouve refuge dans son imagination et entra�ne Isabelle avec lui. Cependant, fuir la r�alit� n’est jamais qu’une solution temporaire.

SYNOPSIS : When a rabid dog bites young Sierva Mar�a, the bishop declares she is possessed and entrusts Cayetano his pupil, with her exorcism. The priest and the girl find themselves seduced by a demon more powerful than faith and reason. Au temps de l’Inquisition et de l’esclavage, Sierva Mar�a, fille d’aristrocrates, veut conna�tre la sensation que peuvent procurer les baisers. Elle a 13 ans.

SYNOPSIS : Based upon the true story of Olga Ben�rio, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Lu�s Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Get�lio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a concentration camp. After World War II began, Vargas decided to uphold the Allies.

SYNOPSIS : Two days before Christmas in Rio de Janeiro and the lives of several people will be affected by random encounters. Can love change things? 23 d�cembre. Une s�rie de rencontres al�atoires va changer la vie de diverses personnes.

SYNOPSIS : Following the journey of a dolalr bill from factory conception to a dramatic end, One explores the different facets of society affected by the power of currency. � travers la vie d’un billet d’un dollar, depuis sa fabrication en usine jusqu’� sa fin abrupte, exploration de diff�rentes facettes de la soci�t� affect�es par le pouvoir de la monnaie.

SYNOPSIS : In the wake of the violent post-election protests in Iran, a family tries to hide the news of the death of their youngest member from their grandmother. Pendant le mouvement de protestation qui suit les �lections iraniennes, une famille tente de cacher � la grand-m�re la nouvelle du d�c�s de son plus jeune membre.

SYNOPSIS : El�onore, a beautiful, homeless young girl with a missing arm is invited to stay in the largely empty mansion of Georges London, a respectable 50-year-old judge. But is he as respectable as people think? El�onore est une charmante jeune fille d'une vingtaine d'ann�es, dont la particularit� est de n'avoir, depuis sa naissance, qu'un seul bras. Abandonn�e par ses parents, elle a grandi dans un orphelinat en Bourgogne.

SYNOPSIS : A young woman struggles with the pressure to reproduce in a post-apocalyptic setting. Apr�s une catastrophe, une femme est d�chir�e entre la pression d’avoir un enfant et l’envie de demeurer sans attaches.

SYNOPSIS : �crit et r�alis� par le cin�aste � succ�s Jefferson Lewis, et produit en partenariat avec l’ONF, Discovery Canada et Radio-Canada, le long m�trage documentaire L’Ann�e de la variole est inspir� du best-seller de Michael Bliss, Plague : How Smallpox Devastated Montreal. Le film m�le s�quences historiques et contemporaines, d�crivant la tragique et poignante histoire de l’�pid�mie de variole qui s’est produite � Montr�al en 1885 (dernier cas contemporain recens� en milieu urbain) d’une part, et la comparant, de l’autre, aux r�alit�s actuelles de la ville pour poser la question : comment r�agirait Montr�al aujourd’hui face � l’apparition d’une �pid�mie de variole ou d’une autre maladie mortelle ? Un regard lucide et surprenant sur le r�cit du d�clenchement d’une future pand�mie, ses probabilit�s ainsi que ses effets.

SYNOPSIS : Tom is a victim of cystic fibrosis, a disease that slowly destroys his lungs. Xavier also suffers from the same disease but he behaves like an athlete and his joie de vivre rubs off onto Tom. But what good is that against a deadly disease? Tom et son fr�re Lucas, deux jeunes hommes, souffrent de fibrose kystique, une maladie g�n�tique qui d�truit lentement les poumons. Chacun, � sa fa�on, se bat pour survivre.

SYNOPSIS : A 96 years old holocaust survivor tries to 'pay back' the Christian lady who saved her, by giving back some of the good she got to a 5 years old Peruvian girl who lives with her and is facing deportation from the only home she ever had. A different holocaust story about remembrance and future.

SYNOPSIS : Based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the story of child-brides, of two women who are wedlocked under a Talibani controlled tearoom where they both try to find a way of escaping a life of slavery and servitude. � Kandahar, en Afghanistan, deux jeunes filles sont victimes de mariages forc�s dans un salon de th� contr�l� par les talibans et tentent de trouver une mani�re d’�chapper � l’esclavage et � la servitude.

SYNOPSIS : Following the feet that come and go and accompanied by colors and notes of a violin, the village shoemaker seeks the perfect pair, in a fable of love and shoes.

SYNOPSIS : When an 8-year old Catholic girl catches her dad red-handed in a lie, she finds a creative way to get back at him, with violent and humorous consequences. Quand une jeune catholique de huit ans surprend son p�re en plein mensonge, elle trouve une mani�re cr�ative de lui manifester sa r�probation, avec des cons�quences violentes et dr�les.

SYNOPSIS : This work focuses on homosexuality, yet not only as a social issue, but rather as the impact it may have on an individual’s life, aside from the stresses of coming out and being honest about it. Regard sur l’homosexualit� � travers les �mois d’une jeune femme qui vit clandestinement l’intensit� d’un nouvel amour et tente de braver les pr�jug�s du monde ext�rieur.

SYNOPSIS : When uptight health nut Bob pops some pills from his roomate’s zinc bottle, he goes on a wild adventure that leads to unwanted self-discovery. Quand Bob, un obs�d� de la forme plut�t coinc�, emprunte les suppl�ments de zinc de son camarade de chambre, il est plong� dans une aventure dont il ne sort pas indemme.

SYNOPSIS : Steps lead us to a small dance studio in the heart of Brussels where dancers participate in a session of improvisation. Des pas nous m�nent dans un petit studio de danse au cœur de Bruxelles. Les danseurs de passage participent � une s�ance d’improvisation.

SYNOPSIS : A perfect day. Une journ�e parfaite.

SYNOPSIS : Warsaw 1967. Against the background of political dissent and an antisemitic campaign by the Communist government, a secret police informer conscripts his own fianc�e in a plot to snare a prominent Polish dissident writer. Dans la Pologne de 1967, une jeune femme est m�l�e malgr� elle aux enjeux politiques qui secouent le pays.

SYNOPSIS : According to a local legend, many years ago horses in the village of Vasilievka appeared as if by some miracle. Since that time the famous herd of horses has been lovingly protected by the villagers. But now they seem to have no other choice than to send the poor animals to the slaughterhouse. Only little Mitya Vorobiev comes to the defence of the horses Selon une l�gende locale, il y a de cela plusieurs ann�es, des chevaux sont apparus comme par miracle dans le village de Vasilievka. Depuis ce temps, les villageois ont pris soin d’eux. Mais maintenant ils n'ont d’autre choix que d’envoyer les chevaux � l’abattoir. Seul le petit Mitya Vorobiev peut encore d�fendre et prot�ger le troupeau de chevaux.

SYNOPSIS : In far away icy lands, the Pinguinics (rare specie of penguins) get into the most different situations with their friends and enemies, the viptins and the vaptuns, rare species of alien bugs who have landed in the North Pole.

SYNOPSIS : Today is the day we join Ines, Antonia, Marian and Monica. It's the most important day of their lives; it's the day they must choose between returning to their old lives or starting afresh. Quatre femmes dont le destin va changer du jour au lendemain, sans qu’elles s’y attendent le moins du monde.

SYNOPSIS : Play.Stop.Rewind. is a tender tale of two brothers coming to terms with the tragic death of their mother. On the day of the funeral, Joel, a special need child goes missing and sets off the family in a search frenzy. Le jour des fun�railles de leur m�re, Joel, un gar�on avec des difficult�s d’apprentissage, manque � l’appel. Dani, l’a�n�, refuse de partir sans lui. Finalement, tous deux passent la journ�e � �couter la voix de leur m�re sur l’enregistreuse de Joel.

SYNOPSIS : It is summer and 27 year-old Sam is at the wheel of his Ford, heading due south. Sitting in the back seat are Mathieu and L�a, a brother and sister he met by chance on the road. On their long journey, far from highways and major roads, making their way to Spain, they will get to know, fight, and love one another. C’est l’�t�. Sam, 27 ans, est au volant de sa vieille Ford sur la route du Midi. L�a et Mathieu sont fr�re et sœur. Ils font du stop et Sam les embarque pour tromper son ennui sur la route qui est longue. Au cours de leur voyage, le conducteur et ses passagers vont faire connaissance, se disputer, s’aimer.

SYNOPSIS : After the death of their grandfather in a mudslide, Jairo, an itinerant photographer, and Marina, his young amnesic and mute cousin, decide to go back and try to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago... Apr�s le d�c�s de leur grand-p�re dans une coul�e de boue, Jairo, photographe itin�rant, et Marina, sa jeune cousine amn�sique d�cident de reprendre la terre qu’elle a d� abandonner il y a quelques ann�es.

SYNOPSIS : A day before his wedding, Shai visits Tamar, his ex-girlfriend, for a tempestuous encounter prior to becoming established. Tamar leaves him a hickey, entangling the situation. � la veille de son mariage, Shay rend visite � Tamar, son ex, pour une derni�re rencontre houleuse avant de commencer sa vie maritale. La situation se complique � cause du su�on que Tamar lui laisse dans le cou.

SYNOPSIS : Her job as a journalist has taken Ana all over the world. Since her teenage years, thanks to her father’s influence, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its contents, has been the foundation of her perspective on human behaviour, both individually and collectively, Depuis son adolescence et sous l’influence de son p�re, Ana, journaliste, a toujours consid�r� la D�claration universelle des droits de l’homme comme un prisme par lequel observer les comportements individuels et collectifs du d�veloppement humain. Son d�sir d’am�liorer les relations humaines l’a conduite � un document permettant de constater les terribles manquements aux droits de l’homme.

SYNOPSIS : Based on a true story, this is a film about a woman, judged to be sick by society, who heals and brings joy to others around her through her presence and personality. PRINCESSE est un film sur une femme consid�r�e malade par la soci�t�. Mais elle finit par gu�rir, et gr�ce � sa pr�sence et � sa personnalit�, s�me la joie autour d’elle.

SYNOPSIS : "Pros 2" is about Brazilian soccer: rich players, poor players, businessmen, managers, lawyers, journalists, and young women. It is a film of vignettes broken into episodes. It's composed of many stories full of comedy, drama and creativity, just like Brazilian soccer.

SYNOPSIS : In a typical S�o Paulo bar where soccer players' pictures cover the walls, a group of men have something in common: they are all "boleiros" (pros), professionals and former professionals of football. They usually meet to recall events and comment on games, players, teams, and referees. Former players Naldinho and Ot�vio meet every afternoon with other former football players. Sitting at the table, they remember some curious and unforgettable incidents they have heard of, such as the transformation of a corrupt referee; and the player Paulinho Majestade, who is forced to put his trophies and medals up for sale when he is broke. Irreverently nostalgic, Giorgetti crowds his film with ordinary characters and episodes we have once heard about. He does this so skillfully that we end up convinced that everyone really has a story worth knowing about, people just need to learn how to tell it.

SYNOPSIS : Un homme fait �cho aux t�moignages de victimes de diff�rents g�nocides. Les voix s'unissent et se r�pondent pour r�v�ler des fragments de souvenirs longtemps oubli�s.

SYNOPSIS : A man and a woman. A blind date. An urban legend. Eszti is in a park waiting for her blind date, when Zoli turns up to snatch a few quiet minutes for himself. It’s all a misunderstanding... Un homme et une femme. Un rendez-vous arrang�. Zoli a quelques kilos en trop, mais son sourire r�confortant et ses yeux observateurs donnent confiance.

SYNOPSIS : The prisoner R arrives at Denmark’s toughest prison to serve a sentence for violent assault. R is reduced to a number, a letter, just another inmate. Prison is a parallel world filled with rules, honour and debts. R arrive dans l’une des prisons les plus r�calcitrantes du Danemark o� il doit purger une peine pour actes d’agression violents.

SYNOPSIS : When Yumiko Yano travels with her sons from her home in Tokyo to the Taiwanese village of her late husband, the boys discover a culture and a society that is alien to their Japanese existence. Some painful re-assessments ensue. Accompagn�e de ses enfants Atsushi et Toki, Yumiko Yano se rend chez les parents de son mari, r�cemment d�c�d�, afin de leur remettre les cendres de leur fils.

SYNOPSIS : When his parents are about to divorce, a middle-class teenager in Tehran will need to make some bold choices. Lorsque ses parents divorcent, un adolescent de la classe moyenne de T�h�ran doit faire des choix.

SYNOPSIS : Out in the countryside and in a camp near the border, a couple works at defusing the mines which remained after the war. One day before New Year’s they find an antique buried underground in the minefield and their lives are forever changed. Un couple d�samorce les mines, vestiges de la guerre, � l’ext�rieur du pays et dans un camp proche de la fronti�re. Un jour avant les festivit�s du Nouvel An, ils trouvent une antiquit� enfouie dans le champ de mines qui change douloureusement leur vie.

SYNOPSIS : A story of a modern man, successful and ambitious who defines his life through the scope of his job. At the end of a not so common day, he receives an anonymous letter that triggers a feeling that he might have missed something... L’histoire d’un homme d’aujourd’hui, prosp�re et ambitieux, dont la vie est d�finie par le travail. � la fin d’une journ�e pas si ordinaire, il re�oit une lettre anonyme qui d�clenche chez lui le sentiment qu’il a manqu� quelque chose...

SYNOPSIS : REGARDING VANCOUVER looks at the city's mythologies and processes of image-making. Mixing archival and contemporary elements to defamiliarize expected visions of Vancouver and rediscover the visible evidence of urban decay and development, the film experiments with documentary form itself to create deliberate anachronisms and unsettle the official account of the city's history. Vancouver est une de ces villes qui se r�inventent continuellement. Le film m�le images d’archives et prises de vue d’aujourd’hui pour pr�senter une vision inattendue et d�stabilisante de la ville.

SYNOPSIS : Rodrigo is going to die at age 20. Before that, he becomes isolated in his subconscious mind and builds a reliquary of his life.

SYNOPSIS : Roland is the master of his relationship with Judith. Over time, bit by bit, Judith’s voice has grown dim; she rarely gets a word in edgewise. She lost her job at the hospital and has been trying to tell Roland but he always has something “more important”... C'est l'histoire d'un couple. Judith, jeune infirmi�re, modeste et effac�e, travaille dans un service de canc�rologie. Roland, id�aliste et tourment�, est vendeur dans un magasin d'Hi-Fi, mais surtout passionn�, hors de raison, par l'op�ra.

SYNOPSIS : Rene Dadiani, 37, teaches video arts and also works as a driver for a propane gas company. Rene likes to say that a man should try everything in life; a person can enrich himself with via fantasy and imagination. Rene Dadiani, 37 ans, enseigne l’art vid�o dans une �cole de cin�ma tout en travaillant pour une soci�t� de livraison de gaz propane. Selon lui, un homme doit tout essayer dans sa vie. Il est convaincu qu’une personne doit nourrir ses fantasmes et son imaginaire, et se construire un soi-disant monde de fantaisie.

SYNOPSIS : EXP�RIMENTAL. A collage of cropped video images that unify to create three alternating cubist video canvases. A satirical portrait of the relationship between ruler and subject in a day of political turmoil set in a fictitious nation. EXP�RIMENTAL. Un collage d’images vid�o recadr�es qui cr��ent trois toiles vid�os cubistes en alternance. Portrait satirique de la relation entre gouvernants et gouvern�s au sein d’une nation fictive, un jour d’agitation politique.

SYNOPSIS : �lvaro returns to his home village after an absence of ten years to attend his father’s funeral. He tries to reconcile with his brother and to rebuild his relationship with his daughter, but things get complicated when he finds a woman’s body on the road. Apr�s dix ans d’absence, �lvaro retourne dans son village pour assister aux fun�railles de son p�re.

SYNOPSIS : In response to forestry work that his father imposed on him in his youth, what a man once scorned has become, over time, the foundation of his person. En r�action face aux travaux forestiers que son p�re lui imposait dans son jeune �ge, un homme nous r�v�le que les actions qu’il m�prisait autrefois sont devenues, au fil du temps, le fondement de sa personne.

SYNOPSIS : Rhonda, a reclusive nursing home resident with a tough exterior, has spent months planning her best friend’s 100th birthday party. The band is booked, the cake is ordered, and everyone is invited. But when her friend dies on the eve of the celebration, a young nurse must deliver the crushing news, and Rhonda is forced to overcome her loneliness and decide whether or not the party will go on. Dans une maison de retraite, Rhonda, une vieille dame solitaire, s’affaire aux pr�paratifs d’une f�te � l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de sa meilleure amie, � l’aide d’une jeune infirmi�re, Amy (Karine Vanasse). Mais la veille de la c�l�bration, un �v�nement impr�vu met la f�te en p�ril...

SYNOPSIS : Pendant trois ans, les realisateurs ont documente le mode de vie et les tribulations d'un groupe de jeunes qui vivent a la maniere des ann�es 1950 sous l'influence de la musique rockabilly. Avec des performances et entrevues exclusives de la part des legendes du rockabilly tels que Wanda Jackson, The Comets et Joe Clay. / For over three years, the filmmakers documented the lives and tribulations of a handful of characters within the rockabilly subculture in Montreal. The film is about a community of people who are dedicated to the 1950s rockabilly music and lifestyle.

SYNOPSIS : Gilles and Bob. two old friends and small-time crooks, decide to hit the road for a little crime spree. Their journey is sprinkled with unforeseeable encounters and the voyage takes an unexpected turn, leading Gilles and Bob on the path of hope and renewal. Deux vieux amis Bob et Gilles, d�cident de prendre le large sur la route 132, en direction du Bas-du-Fleuve, pour commettre de menus larcins. Leur p�riple sera parsem� de rencontres impr�visibles et le voyage prendra une tournure inattendue, amenant Gilles et Bob sur le chemin du renouveau.

SYNOPSIS : The mind of a very young girl who's going to be kissed for the first time. Doubts and fears drowned in saliva.

SYNOPSIS : A celebration of the human body in motion. The exhilarating of flight is captured as the performets run, jump, leap, soar, flip, and spin through the movements of dance, Parkour, free-running, tricking, and martial arts acrobatics. C�l�bration du corps en mouvement. D�fiant la gravit�, les danseurs et acrobates courent, tournent, bondissent , s’�lancent et prennent leur envol, m�lant mouvements de danse et acrobaties, parkour et arts martiaux. Une symphonie de figures anim�es.

SYNOPSIS : A look into Scientology, which was founded in 1950 by Ron Hubbard and re-baptized a "church" in 1954. Whether it is considered a "mental technology", a church or a sect -- it has succeeded within 50 years in establishing itself as a formidable organization across the western world. Fond�e en 1950 aux �tats-Unis par Ron Hubbard et rebaptis�e “�glise” en 1954, la Scientologie, qu’elle soit consid�r�e comme une technologie du mental, une �glise ou une secte, a r�ussi en 50 ans � s’imposer dans le monde occidental.

SYNOPSIS : Loin de leur Alg�rie natale, Rajaa et Mehadji se d�m�nent sans compter pour d�marrer leur petite entreprise de recyclage dans un quartier industriel de Montr�al.

SYNOPSIS : Mathilde is in love. She’s dying to tell her brother Louis. Only, Louis is dead! Fortunately, his grave is endowed with the Second Life option, one that gives the living the illusion of communicating with the dead. Mathilde est amoureuse. Elle aimerait bien en parler � son grand fr�re Louis, mais Louis est mort ! Heureusement, sa s�pulture est �quip�e de l'option Seconde vie qui donne aux vivants l'illusion de communiquer avec les d�funts.

SYNOPSIS : Seeing Maggie Pootoogook is a gently comedic short exploring tensions between the north and south among youth in contemporary Iqaluit. Dix-sept ans apr�s avoir adopt� Julien, ses deux mamans, des artistes de Montr�al, d�cident de d�m�nager dans son Iqaluit natal. Bien qu’il soit Inuk, l’adolescent se sent peu � sa place dans son nouvel environnement, jusqu’� que Maggie Pootoogook d�cide de le prendre sous son aile.

SYNOPSIS : September 2008. Soldiers in a village notice a child abandoned after the occupation. They take a medallion from the child and drive off. But the child runs after them. They try to scare him off with gunfire but he is not easily frightened... Septembre 2008. Les soldats remarquent un enfant abandonn� dans un village d�sert apr�s l’Occupation. Le conflit qui surgit entre eux illustre bien l’impuissance d’une arme contre un �tre humain qui d�fend sans fl�chir sa propre dignit� jusqu’au bout.

SYNOPSIS : 300 kilometers west of Toronto lies the forgotten town of North Buxton. Established by abolitionnists and runaway slaves, it was founded as a place where communities could live free. While away at the University, Chris Prince felt this obligation to his family and tradition, returning home to farm the land of his ancestors. Chris Prince retourne cultiver la terre de ses anc�tres, dans la petite ville oubli�e de North Buxton, � 300 km � l’ouest de Toronto, fond�e � l’origine par des abolitionnistes et des esclaves affranchis comme une terre de libert�.

SYNOPSIS : 1992 - A 12 years old child calls out to the whole planet. 18 years later, The Earth is still in the same state and Severn speaks again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course of things in order to respect biodiversity. Who will answer Severn’s call?

SYNOPSIS : People are not who they seem when a misdirected text message leads a yong woman to meet with the wife of her boyfriend and ask what is really going on in their relationship. Les gens ne sont pas qui ils semblent �tre. Quand une jeune femme re�oit un message qui ne lui est pas destin�, elle d�cide de rencontrer la femme de son copain pour comprendre ce qui se passe vraiment dans leur relation.

SYNOPSIS : Alfredo, 51, is an established painter who finds himself stuck in an artistic rut. His young wife, Luciana, 24, has been his muse in recent years, but something between them has been lost. Alfredo, 51 ans, peintre �tabli, traverse une crise de cr�ativit�. Luciana, 24 ans, sa femme, a d�j� �t� sa muse. Mais aujourd’hui, quelque chose s’est bris� entre eux.

SYNOPSIS : The man in the sentry box at a bank is at once a guard and a prisoner. Le poste du garde de s�curit� d’une banque est un micro-univers sombre et oppressant qui retient entre ses murs un homme et son histoire. Mais nous ne sommes pas pr�s de d�couvrir toutes les contradictions de cet homme, confin� � un abri devenu prison

SYNOPSIS : Suichi is madly in love with his wife, but he suspects that she is unfaithful, and this gnawing jealousy leaxds to a bizarre murder. Un homme vit confortablement gr�ce � l’h�ritage de son p�re, mais il est incapable d’arr�ter de penser que sa femme ne l’aime plus.

SYNOPSIS : Kitz, hoping to become a secret service agent, acquires an eye chip, an implanted permanent video camera. Images appear on it that he can't remember taking: trouble, disturbing news and paranoia ensue. The movie is about the price of looking (away), the ambiguity of waking, dream states, and the delicate balance among what we witness, what we want, and what we remember.

SYNOPSIS : While in the Philippines searching for her long-lost daughter, Dolly, a Filipino-American is reunited with her former revolutionary comrades, forty years since they last saw each other. Times have changed and so have the former revolutionaries. Dolly retourne aux Philippines pour retrouver sa fille, perdue de vue depuis plusieurs ann�es et elle y retrouve aussi ses anciens camarades r�volutionnaires. Leur rencontre est l’occasion de dresser le bilan d’une �poque charni�re aux Philippines.

SYNOPSIS : A magical summer interlude awaits a young woman in a dark moment in history when she reluctantly accepts an invitation to a couple’s farmhouse in the south of France. As teasing, complicity, and jealousies give way to love and laughter, the power of sheer joy makes time stop for a moment in occupied France. Ce film s’inspire d’un �pisode de la vie de la philosophe fran�aise mystique Simone Weil (1909-1943): sa rencontre avec le philosophe-paysan Gustave Thibon (1903-2001), qui l’accueillit un �t� dans sa ferme de l’Ard�che, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

SYNOPSIS : Ce film met en sc�ne cinq chapitre de la vie sentimentale de cinq femmes, kilongo, Rita, julie, Bijou, Micheline… Amour, jalousie, infid�lit�… This film puts in scene five chapters of love life of five young women Kilongo, Rita, Julie, Bijou, Micheline… Love, Jealousy, inaccuracy…

SYNOPSIS : Do you want some?

SYNOPSIS : Mustaches. Vaseline. Sleepwalking. Moustaches. Vaseline. Crises de somnanbulisme.

SYNOPSIS : When Walter is hired to keep watch on his boss’ villa in the mountains, it seems like a holiday for the luckless gangster. But the snowy idyll comes to an abrupt end when the boss’ young wife accidentally shoots herself at a party. Walter must get rid of the body or suffer mob retribution... Tueur � la solde sans emploi, Walter se voit confier une nouvelle mission qui va le conduire malgr� lui dans des terrains glissants. Film noir a mi-chemin entre Tarantino et les fr�res Coen.

SYNOPSIS : Une cordonnerie est au cœur de Soled Out, une exploration m�taphorique qui confronte le paradoxe et la vie. Tout le monde cherche � vivre �ternellement, tandis que personne ne veut mourir. Mais comment savoir qu’il est temps de quitter la partie? Comment m�me engrener le processus?

SYNOPSIS : Someone Else's Abortion is a film about borderline maternity and the wrenching decisions made by Brazilian women faced with unwanted or difficult pregnancies in a society where most abortions are illegal. In Brazil abortion is a crime except in the case of rape, danger to the life of the mother, and certain instances of severe, fatal birth defects. The film focuses on women who obtain these legal abortions, which are performed in the public hospital system and also reveals the drama of illegal, clandestine abortions. It shows the perverse effects criminalization has on women and demonstrates the need for the reform of Brazil's abortion laws.

SYNOPSIS : Two teenagers, Caio and Mari, go out for a great night of fun in the streets of Sao Paulo. They dance, they laugh, they play, they learn more about themselves.

SYNOPSIS : Full breath and into the final sleep. A lullaby, eyes closed, into silence. Plein cap � pleins poumons et � toute vapeur sur l’ultime repos. Une berceuse les yeux ferm�s pour sombrer en toute qui�tude.

SYNOPSIS : Quartier Saint-Michel, Montr�al. Jecko, m�tis ha�tien qu�b�cois, voit son enfance basculer lorsque, � l'�ge de huit ans, il voit son p�re assassiner sa m�re, un crime qu'il se jure de venger. Recrut� par un gang de rue apr�s avoir �t� ballot� d'une famille d'accueil � l'autre, il chemine dans la violence jusqu'� ce qu'il d�cide de prendre son destin en mains en refusant le chemin qu'il croyait in�luctablement trac� pour lui. Son �veil � des valeurs plus humaines l'am�ne � changer de trajectoire, m�me au risque d'�tre rejet� par ses pairs. Saint Michel district, Montreal, Ronald, an eight year-old bi-racial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often, moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by another family… a street gang, led by the notorious Brooklyn, where he dwells in a life of crime and violence. As he waits patiently for his father's released from jail to avenge his mother, Ronald realizes that he has choices. He doesn't have to follow his father's footsteps nor the path chosen for him. Against all odds, he decides to take control of his destiny. His awakening to new humane values pushes him to change course despite the unequivocal risk of losing the only family he's ever known.

SYNOPSIS : The adventures of Abila, a 14-year-old Kenyan boy who is tasked with saving his father’s “stolen” soul. Les aventures d’Abila, un jeune adolscent de 14 ans, qui cherche � retrouver l’�me perdue de son p�re.

SYNOPSIS : A fantasy about gardeners in Los Angeles who use their leaf blowers in surprising and magical ways. Deux jardiniers de Los Angeles utilisent leurs souffleurs de feuilles de mani�re surprenante et magique.

SYNOPSIS : Daniel and Lyne have lived together for some time, but their relationship is deteriorating. They look outside of their relationship for a solution, but that might not be wise. The decline continues... La relation de Daniel et Lyne, qui vivent ensemble depuis quelque temps, d�rape. Ils cherchent des recours ext�rieurs, mais est-ce bien ce qu’il faut faire? Chaque jour les s�pare un peu plus l’un de l’autre.

SYNOPSIS : Though Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane live in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and sometimes work as prostitutes in order to survive, they refuse to allow poverty or family troubles deprive them of their youthful optimism Comme c’est le cas de toutes les jeunes filles � travers le monde, Jessica, Sabrina et Daiane ont des r�ves. Leur histoire a lieu dans une de ces favelas de Rio de Janeiro.

SYNOPSIS : Tbilisi, Georgia, today. Checkie, 45, is a jobless and penniless junkie with a reputation of doing anything for drugs. One day he gets an “offer” from the cops... Checkie, toxicomane sans le sous, est pr�t � tout pour se procurer de la drogue. Il doit de l’argent � tout le monde: amis, parents, voisins. Maintenant, tous essaient de l’�viter.

SYNOPSIS : When Stijn's wife Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer, he starts to live a second life. By day he's all support to Carmen, by night he's out drinking and philandering.Then a miracle: Carmen is better. She asks Stijn to quit cheating and to work things out between them. Apr�s l'op�ration de sa femme pour le cancer du sein, Stijn commence � vivre une vie secr�te. Il sort plus souvent et la trompe avec d'autres femmes. Soudainement, sa femme est r�tablie et elle lui demande de cesser ses infid�lit�es et de tenter de reconstruire leur couple ensemble.

SYNOPSIS : An intimate look at a cautious and pragmatic family man, woodworker, and self taught luthier(guitar maker). Through risk, passion, introspection, a changing economy, and a "Eureka" moment, our subject reinvents himself and the design of an instrument over 600 years old. In this close look he reveals the essence, or the denominator, of creative minds - the string of genius. Face � la n�cessit� de faire vivre sa famille, Pete Swanson, un constructeur de bateaux au ch�mage, s’est mis � travailler le bois jusqu’� ce qu’il ait l’id�e de devenir luthier. Depuis, il s’est pris de passion pour son nouveau m�tier.

SYNOPSIS : When an old photo dredges up the glamorous life that Mrs. Wong, an aging piano teacher could have had as a singer in the Beijing Opera, she joins a busker in song wowing frigid Toronto subway crowds Madame Wong vit modestement. Une vieille photo vient rappeler � cette professeure de piano vieillissante, ancienne chanteuse � l’Op�ra de Beijing, la jeune femme talentueuse qu’elle a �t�. Dans le m�tro de Toronto, elle se joint � un groupe de musiciens ambulants.

SYNOPSIS : When he was young, Occi was tormented by the local bullies relentlessly because he had no father. As he grows up in 1970s Ireland, those taunts escalate in his mind into a chorus, but this troubled soul never gives up his search for peace. Tourment� et tyrannis� par ses camarades parce qu’il n’a pas de p�re, Occi Byrne grandit la rage au cœur, d�sorient� et rempli de douleur. Il vit avec l’espoir de trouver un jour une identit�.

SYNOPSIS : Ruriko, an artist, has been married to Satoshi for three years and on the surface their marriage seems ideal. In fact, however, they have been gradually growing distant. Perhaps they are too close to each other to see the problem... Ruriko est une artiste qui fabrique des ours en peluche. Depuis trois ans, elle partage sa vie avec Satoshi, son mari. Mais tous les deux commencent � sentir que leur relation devient de plus en plus distante. Un changement radical s’impose.

SYNOPSIS : During the Edo Period in Japan, Kanemi Sanzaemon, a skilled swordsman and chief of the Unasaka battles to rid his clan of political corruption all the while trying to fulfill his familial obligations. Le film traite d’un samoura� exp�riment�, qui s’�tait charg� officieusement d’assassiner une prostitu�e cherchant � faire chanter un seigneur.

SYNOPSIS : To France, a private letter on the subject of wandering that is at once sober and ironic. Sous forme de lettre intime � l’intention de la France, Symptomatique aborde en toute sobri�t�, mais avec une pointe d’ironie, le th�me de l’errance.

SYNOPSIS : A chronicle of the vicissitudes of four young adults at two moments of their lives which are in turn linked to two dramatic episodes three years apart. SINESTESIA raconte la vie de quatre jeunes adultes, notamment lors des deux �pisodes dramatiques s�par�s l’un de l’autre par trois ann�es.

SYNOPSIS : An American couple, Frank and Cathy, take their lovesick son, Julian, on a trip to Ghent to discover his Belgian roots. When Julian meets the love of his life there, the goal of their trip is achieved in a most unexpected way.

SYNOPSIS : Oliver and Elena, a young Swiss couple, are crossing the Sahara in a truck, heading for Timbuktu in Mali, where their client Moussa is waiting impatiently to buy the vehicle. But when the truck breaks down in the middle of the desert, Oliver and Elena are forced into an unscheduled stop in Tar. Oliver et Elena, un couple suisse, traversent en camion le grand d�sert en direction de Tombouctou, au Mali, o� ils doivent remettre le v�hicule � Moussa, un client qui attend avec impatience leur arriv�e. Une panne en plein d�sert va les contraindre � s’arr�ter � Tar.

SYNOPSIS : A stereoscopic portrait of life in contemporary Tehran by two filmmakers of different generations. Regard sur la soci�t� iranienne d’aujourd’hui pos� par deux r�alisateurs engag�s de g�n�rations diff�rentes.

SYNOPSIS : Three short stories. Three characters whose lives intersect. Three windows on ignorance, stigma and loneliness in the face of AIDS. Trois histoires courtes. Trois personnages qui se croisent dans un m�me drame. Trois fen�tres sur l’ignorance, la stigmatisation et la solitude face au d�ni de la maladie: le sida.

SYNOPSIS : A documentary investigation into the unique sexual culture of the Mosuo people -- a small minority situated in the southwest of China -- and one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world. Documentaire sur les coutumes insolites des Mosuo, une petite minorit� situ�e dans le sud-ouest de la Chine, une des derni�res soci�t�s matriarcales au monde.

SYNOPSIS : After blowing up a car to impress his buddies, then saving the man caught inside, 14-year-old Bora becomes the object of a citywide search -- both as the good samaritan who saved the man’s life and, unbeknown to city hall, the one who nearly killed him in the first place. Bora, 14 ans, et sa petite amie Nina, 14 ans, projettent de fuir la cit� dortoir o� pour la Turquie o� Nina compte retrouver son p�re. Mais avant de partir, Bora commet une erreur qui aura des r�percussions sur lui-m�me et sur son entourage.

SYNOPSIS : During World War II, Brazil sent an Expeditionary Force to Europe, to fight alongside the Allies against Nazi-Fascism. In this Force, there was a battalion formed mostly by young men from the interior of Minas Gerais state. This battalion made up the Brazilian front lines during the most violent fighting in Italy. Its men wrote one of the most heroic pages of Brazilian history in World War II.

SYNOPSIS : An actress who is unhappy with the small part the director has given her, decides to change her role in the play. Acting on impluse, she does everything to show her every talent. Short film based on a story by Arkady Averchenko.

SYNOPSIS : A contemporary, historically rooted drama reflecting profound changes in Serbian Society beginning with the century. Adhering to the spirit of modern neo-liberalism, profound changes are illustrated by three separate stories set in three different time periods linked by mutually connected characters. An ambulance becomes the focus for telling the stories.

SYNOPSIS : Through hundreds of generations, animals have always been a man's best friend. They have been there for us, relieving our daily stress.Having spent a year to complete this work, we were able to capture special moments when animals surprise us with their unique performances, or when their loving expressions make us feel warm. We guarantee this show will make you smile+ACEAIQ-

SYNOPSIS : A tale of greed in the wild, untamed Arctic that crowns our earth. Une histoire de cupidit� dans l’immensit� sauvage de l’Arctique qui nous surplombe.

SYNOPSIS : A spanish-Morrocan family that is going out on vacation is stopped by the police. After the humiliating search, things will never be the same. Une famille espagnole d’origine marocaine prend la route des vacances. La voiture est arr�t�e par la police. Apr�s une fouille humiliante, rien ne sera plus jamais pareil.

SYNOPSIS : The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and their conductor Paavo �rvi accept the challenge of playing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in 4 days at the “Beethovenfest Bonn”. Les 40 musiciens de la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen forment l’un des orchestres les plus inusit�s d’Allemagne. Portrait d’une passion pour la musique.

SYNOPSIS : Fortysomething Pavlos has his hands full. Two kids, an appartment building he has to manage, his mother and his wife. But Pavlos has a dream: he wants to make this little world better Pavlos, la quarantaine pass�e, s’occupe de l’entretien de l’immeuble o� il habite avec ses deux enfants, sa m�re et sa femme. Mais Pavlos caresse un r�ve: il veut que les choses aillent mieux dans le petit monde qu’il s’est b�ti.

SYNOPSIS : Since childhood, Hichem has dreamed of making the clandestine trip to Europe, where, supposedly fortune awaits. Now, after finally making the trip, Hichem has returned. But others keep dreaming. Hichem r�ve de Harga depuis qu’il est tout petit. Il a tent� le grand voyage clandestin pour l’Europe sur des bateaux de fortune, avec 27 autres compagnons d’infortune. Seul Hichem est revenu. Les uns apr�s les autres, habitants du quartier et proches, racontent les motivations, les d�ceptions, les r�ves de demain et tous les espoirs noy�s de ces br�l�s d’aujourd’hui.

SYNOPSIS : When four friends get together over easter weekend, they discover an horiffic video tape contaning the images of three kids being tormented. Things just get worse when people start suspecting them of being responsible and everyones true character gets revealed. Lors du long cong� pascal, quatre amis se retrouve pour un beau s�jour qui se transforme vite lorsqu'ils trouvent une vid�o au contenu sadique. La m�fiance et les soup�ons commencent alors � peser sur les quatre amis et transforment ce week-end idyllique en cauchemar qui va changer les rapports qu’ils entretiennent les un avec les autres.

SYNOPSIS : A loveable, yet neurotic, english student Henry is determined to complete a reading of Hamlet to a tank of fish before their owner returns. Henry, �tudiant en litt�rature anglaise, charmant mais n�vros�, est bien d�termin� � terminer la lecture de Hamlet aux poissons d’un aquarium avant le retour de leur propri�taire.

SYNOPSIS : A family welcomes home a missing child, but he may not be all he seems to be in this suspense drama based on the amazing true story of Frenchman Fr�d�ric Bourdin who passed himself off as a 13-year-old American who had vanished four years earlier. Espagne, 2000: un jeune homme sort de son mutisme. Il dit s’appeler Nicholas Mark Randall, �tre Am�ricain et avoir �t� enlev� quatre ans plus t�t par les membres d’une secte.

SYNOPSIS : When a 10-year-old girl is left at home alone for many days, she meets an absurd and insensitive grown-up world. Multi-award winner.

SYNOPSIS : During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, a young german woman discovers that the people who raised he are not her real parents. Lors d’une halte � Buenos Aires, une jeune femme apprend que ceux qui l’on �lev�e ne sont pas ses g�niteurs.

SYNOPSIS : Kater, the Swiss president, is about to receive the King and Queen of Spain on a state visit. Just before the official dinner he learns that Pfiff, the head of the Secret Service, has plotted a wily intrigue to overthrow him... Kater, le pr�sident de la Suisse est au sommet de sa carri�re. Il est sur le point d’accueillir le roi et la reine d’Espagne, en visite officielle. Mais il s’aper�oit vite que son meilleur ami, chef des Services Secrets, complote pour le renverser.

SYNOPSIS : An electrical blackout hits Mexico City. The capital is suddenly plunged into darkness. In the shadows, some prominent people transgress against God. Soudain, une panne d’�lectricit� s’abat sur la ville de Mexico. Dans la noirceur, abandonn�es de Dieu, quelques personnages importants accomplissent un acte de transgression. Lorsque la lumi�re revient, ils r�alisent qu’ils ont commis une faute qu’ils doivent expier

SYNOPSIS : A young man watches a group of teenagers playing basketball. Suddenly the four lads chase him and start terrorizing him. Or so it seems. Un jeune homme observe une bande d’adolescents qui jouent au basket. Les quatre types se jettent soudain sur lui et commencent � l’importuner. Du moins, cela en a tout l’air.

SYNOPSIS : Connu pour sa d�termination, sa force, son honn�tet� parfois brutale et inconfortable, Laferri�re pr�sente � ses lecteurs une image du " premier monde" � partir de son regard d'homme sauvage mais lucide, assoiff� de vie et de litt�rature, avec un app�tit vorace pour absolument tout ce que lui offre la vie. Dans La d�rive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Go�ve, on l'accompagne dans une douzaine des villes dont Montr�al, Paris, New York, Port-au-Prince jusqu'au mythique village de p�cheurs de Petit-Go�ve. La promenade en Ha�ti, pays de contrastes o� un bonheur sensuel c�toie une violence anarchique, nous m�ne � une r�flexion sur le pays de son enfance et celui d'aujourd'hui, principale source de son inspiration, et sur l'exil. C'est l� que s'impose L'�nigme du retour, son dernier livre. Plus qu'un voyage physique, le documentaire pr�sente un voyage cin�matique fascinant et nous plonge tout droit dans l'imagination d�cha�n�e de l'auteur.

SYNOPSIS : When a 10-year-old girl is left at home alone for many days, she meets an absurd and insensitive grown-up world. Multi-award winner.

SYNOPSIS : A gothic western about a mail order bride who must fight for her life when she arrives at her new home. Western gothique au sujet d’une �pouse command�e par la poste qui doit d�fendre sa vie quand elle arrive dans son nouveau foyer.

SYNOPSIS : This isn’t your mother’s hula hoop. Today, “hula-hooping” is vibrant with singular moves, outrageous styles, and a strong sense of community . A fascinating glimpse into a complex subculture. Hoopalicious, f�tarde rave connue dans le milieu, transforme radicalement un jouet d’enfant, le cerceau, en une nouvelle danse.

SYNOPSIS : Dix personnes r�pondent � une offre d’emploi, un projet � court terme cens� rapporter gros. Ils se retrouvent confin�s dans la myst�rieuse villa Ankikan sur la promesse d’�tre r�mun�r�s 112 000 yens de l'heure. Les heureux �lus rentreront chez eux avec 18 millions de yens en poche. Mais d�s le deuxi�me jour, l'un des participants est abattu. Ten people respond to a preposterous job posting -- a short term project promising to pay 112,00 yen. They gather at the Ankikan complex and are informed that all they have to do is be observed 24 hours a day for seven days. On the second day, someone is shot.

SYNOPSIS : Historical documentary feature on the modernistic capital of Brazil covering from the geological formation of the Central Plateau, where it is located, to the present, including the saga of the city's construction. The collective adventure of the Brazilian people building a new capital lasted only 46 months, during which work and pleasure met, utopia and solidarity coexisted, and technique and ingenuity joined hands. Brasilia is the fruit of a remarkable generation that wished to transform an archaic, proslavery and colonial country into a modern, authentic and utopic Brazil.

SYNOPSIS : Jack MacKenzie, a once hot shot Hollywood composer is down on his luck and has to take a job as a limo driver so he can make ends meet. However, in the city of dreams, life takes on surreal twists that eventually throw Jack into a world known as the Land of the Astronauts. Autrefois compositeur de musiques de films fort appr�ci� � Hollywood, Jack MacKenzie est oblig� de travailler comme chauffeur de limousine pour arrondir ses fins de mois. Dans la cit� des r�ves, la vie prend des contours parfois surr�alistes

SYNOPSIS : As she nears the important transition point of high school graduation, April writes a letter to her childhood friend Jiyoon. Against the mundane backdrop of her life in a small rural town, April reveals to her friend the world of her dreams, as well as the fears that accompany her uncertainties regarding the future. Sur le point de terminer ses �tudes secondaires, une �tape importante dans sa vie, April, qui vit dans dans une petite communaut� rurale, �crit une lettre � son amie d’enfance Jiyoon et lui r�v�le ses r�ves, ses craintes et ses incertitudes face � l’avenir.

SYNOPSIS : Andr�, 20, who works as a photocopier operator at a stationer's, desperately needs thirty-eight reais to impress the girl of his dreams, Silvia, who lives in the building across the street and is a salesgirl in a store selling women's clothes. With the help of his friend Cardoso, and also of his work colleague Marin�s, Andr� makes devises several plans to get hold of the money. And they all work. And that is when his troubles begin.

SYNOPSIS : A David vs. Goliath story about an extraordinary man, Mahesh Chander Mehta, trained as a lawyer he becomes an environmentalist and activist, initially successfully lobbying India’s Supreme Court to save the gleaming white walls of the Taj Mahal from the debilitating effects of pollution. He then turns his charisma, leadership and spirit towards saving the Ganges River and other major tributaries from human and industrial pollution. The operating philosophy is that only the people can save the country, not the government; and, certainly not the multi-industrial corporations.

SYNOPSIS : “This film marks Giorgio Diritti, here on his second feature, as one of Italy’s directors to watch and is inspired by the SS massacre of 770 women, children and elderly people in the hills above Bologna over two months in 1944.” -- Lee Marshall (Screen Daily) Pendant l’hiver de 1943, Martina, fille unique d’une humble famille de paysans, a huit ans et vit sur le flan du Monte Sole. Plusieurs ann�es auparavant, elle a perdu un petit fr�re n� depuis � peine quelques jours et depuis, elle est mutique. Autour d’elle, c’est la Deuxi�me Guerre mondiale qui tra�ne ses horreurs et ses inepties.

SYNOPSIS : Vika, a young provincial woman triying to find her place in Moscow, meets an old Uzbek man who has come to find his missing grandson. She takes the old man’s problems to heart and becomes his companion as she helps him in his search. Une jeune femme se prend d’affection pour un vieil homme et l’aide � trouver son petit-fils, perdu dans Moscou.

SYNOPSIS : Every member of the Danner familly, including the children and the new servant have been brutaly murdered. Two years later, a young nurse will try to discover what really happened. But she realizes that this case has much more to do with her than she would have liked to admit. Tous les membres de la famille Danner, une famille de fermiers, ont �t� assassin�s: le p�re, la m�re, les enfants, et m�me la nouvelle servante. Deux ans plus tard, une jeune femme va sans doute d�couvrir ce qui s’est vraiment pass�.

SYNOPSIS : The future of classical music hinges on the survival of the tree for which Brazil was named. Brazilwood (also known as pernambuco), a dense orange-red heartwood, was exploited for its red dye by European settlers and is now threatened with extinction. Found only in the remnants of the devastated Atlantic Rainforest on the coast of Brazil, this tree has been vital in the manufacturing of ne violin bows and other instruments ever since Mozart was composing his masterpieces in Vienna. A stellar list of violinists and cellists, including Joshua Bell, David Garret, Marc Coppey and Ant�nio Meneses, demonstrate how this unique wood expresses the soul of the music. The film explores a path to saving these imperiled trees, along with the music that depends on them.

SYNOPSIS : A poignant and tender coming-of-age drama, the film follows four young people on the last night of summer -- their final night of freedom before the new school year starts. C’est la derni�re nuit de l’�t� pour Maggie, Rob, Claudia et Scott. Les quatre adolescents esp�rent y trouver le grand frisson.: celui des premiers baisers, premiers d�sirs, premi�res amours.

SYNOPSIS : The curious case of Emitt Rhodes, the mysterious forgotten American pop star from the 1960s/70s, once dubbed as the secret alter ego of Paul McCartney. The journey of a young director discovering the artist’s pure talent, but also the bitter delusion of the American dream and the traps of the music business.

SYNOPSIS : Le voyage d'Amy, jeune femme vivnt en France et au Burkina pour retrouver sa m�re dont elle est s�par�e depuis l'�ge de 8 ans.

SYNOPSIS : Victoria tombe sur une lettre qu’elle s’�tait �crite � elle-m�me � l’adolescence et o� elle promets de retrouver Jimmy, son premier amoureux, sur le Mont-Royal aux douze coups de minuit de l'an 2000. Il ne reste plus que quelques heures avant la nouvelle ann�e; la tentation est tr�s forte... Victoria et Jimmy tiendront-ils leur promesse? One day, Victoria comes across a letter that she wrote to herself as a teenager, in which she promises to meet her adolescent boyfriend, Jimmy, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve 2000. Memories of the past come to her mind; the temptation is very strong… After all, a promise is a promise!

SYNOPSIS : What is the measure of true friendship? Jamir, a devout Muslim, and Lando, a Christian, are among an elite group of young recruits formed by military officers for a clandestine operation. Amidst all the hardships, the young men set aside their differences and become brothers. Quelle est la mesure d’une v�ritable amiti�? Jamir, un fervent musulman, et Lando, un chr�tien, font partie d’un groupe de recrues d’�lite form�es par des officiers militaires pour une op�ration hautement confidentielle. Ces �preuves les forcent � oublier leurs diff�rents et � devenir fr�res.

SYNOPSIS : This is a story about one night in a motel. People from different walks of life gather at the Seaside Motel. All the guests are curious why it is called "Seaside Motel" since it is located in the mountains and no sea is found anywhere near. In each room, strange incidents and unexpected coincidences occur. When the sun rises, as each hope for just a small dose of happiness, will they be able to find the sea in the Seaside Motel?

SYNOPSIS : While stars and planets move through the sky of S�o Paulo, randomly shooting their magic, men and women ask what will become of their dreams and desires. Gil is married and alone. Lydia flirts with danger. Josialdo was born to be a woman. M�nica just wants to do well in life. In her night radio show where she answers anonymous listeners, the astrologer Teca sees herself between her own problems and the wishes of others. Little by little, fate weaves everyone together in its own web. In the struggle to break their isolation and find the way to redemption, these people will discover the transforming power of solidarity.

SYNOPSIS : Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading inventors of computer programs and and peripherals in the fields of scanning, music synthesis and speech recognition takes us on a tour of his theories on artificial intelligence. Ce film m�le documentaire et fiction. Il est question, entre autres, de l’�volution de la technologie et sa courbe exponentielle � travers le temps.

SYNOPSIS : A romantic tale for adults. A woman lures a teenaged boy into coming with her to an ice villa where she lives as a recluse, freezing her body to stop the proliferation of cancer cells. She believes she has to break a young boy’s heart to survive. Une femme de 40 ans charismatique attire un adolescent dans le palais de glace o� elle vit recluse. Le jeune homme devient tellement envo�t� par cette femme qu’il en oublie la r�alit�. La femme ne d�voile pas son secret: atteinte de cancer, elle pense qu’il lui faut briser le cœur d’un jeune homme pour survivre.

SYNOPSIS : The Spirit Molecule investigates dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an endogenous psychoactive compound, which exists in humans and potentially every living organism on the planet. The documentary traces Dr. Rick Strassman's government-sanctioned, human DMT research and its many trials, tribulations, and inconceivable realizations. A closer examination of DMT's effects through the lens of two traditionally opposed concepts, science and spirituality, The Spirit Molecule unravels the connections between cutting-edge neuroscience, quantum physics and human spirituality.

SYNOPSIS : At six years, Roberto Carlos Ramos is sent by his mother to an institution for poor children in Belo Horizonte. Endowed with a fertile imagination, at 13 he’s still illiterate, with more than 100 breaks in his record, and having been diagnosed as irredeemable. The encounter with a French pedagogue will forever change the life of Roberto.

SYNOPSIS : This is a tale of the relationship between a man and his sword. How does it change, when he uses his sword for its intended purpose? Dans les reconstitutions m�di�vales, il arrive parfois que les batailles simul�es d�g�n�rent. Un homme doit subir les cons�quences d’avoir mani� son �p�e en oubliant de faire semblant.

SYNOPSIS : A father and son forge a twisted pact: one shot will decide between freedom and death. Un fils met le feu � sa maison et d�clenche la fureur de son p�re. Son ch�timent: une balle. Les termes sont n�goci�s mais une condition demeure ind�finie.

SYNOPSIS : What would you do if someone farted in an elevator? And if the elevator was packed with women in bikinis? Or if a person jumped out of garbage can at a park?? The content is fairly simiple and at times very silly, but we are pround to present this funny candid camera moments which surly will make you laugh!

SYNOPSIS : On January 1, 2003, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a unionized worker, became the president of Brazil, the tenth most powerful economy in the world. Lula is determined that things must change. To this day, he and his team undertake the largest diplomatic offensive ever initiated by a country from south America. In his campaign, this working-class leader promises to transform not only his country but also the landscape of the global marketplace. From Bras�lia to Paris, from Moscow to New York City, from Port-au-Prince to Mardel Plata, we see Brazilian diplomacy laying the groundwork for a new world order. Will Lula succeed?

SYNOPSIS : Gabrielle, Nelly and Chantal are traveling to the wedding of an ex in La Rochelle. The decide to to make the trip together. During the eventful trip, the three women will share their secret crushes, rants and middle-aged blues, in turn funny, fragile and poignant. Gabrielle, Nelly et Chantal se rendent au mariage d’un ex � la Rochelle. Elles d�cident de faire le trajet ensemble. Au cours de cette vir�e pleine de p�rip�ties, les trois femmes partageront coups de cœur, coups de gueule et coups de blues de la cinquantaine, tour � tour dr�les, fragiles et �mouvantes.

SYNOPSIS : Director Tyler Hagan mixes philosophy, comedy,documentary style footage, and classic narrative scene construction together in a mish-mash faux-documentary where he attempts to enlighten his younger brother Scott, and ends up being outwitted in a short that proves to be an intimate portrait of their relationship. Int�grant p�le-m�le philosophie, com�die, s�quences de type documentaire et sc�nes de fiction classiques, ce faux documentaire brosse en find e compte un portrait intime de la relation du r�alisateur avec son fr�re cadet Scott.

SYNOPSIS : Unbelievable: Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight -- tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favorite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.

SYNOPSIS : The focus is on interviews with five famous Korean film directors to discover the roots and evolution of Korean Cinema: What do we know about Koreans, their lives, their thoughts, their culture, their way of working...?

SYNOPSIS : Xiao Jing, a box office attendant in an old Singapore theatre, has come from China to study acting and break into in the Singapore film industry. Xiao Jing, originaire de Chine, est guicheti�re dans un vieux cin�ma de Singapour. Elle �tudie l’art dramatique et son ambition est de percer comme actrice dans l’industrie du film.

SYNOPSIS : An earth-friendly, animal lover, sensitive young man murders the girls who reject him until he meets his match. Jeune homme sensible et �cologique, ami des b�tes, Bob tue les femmes qui le rejettent jusqu’� ce qu’il trouve l’�lue.

SYNOPSIS : “Bon vivant, ranconteur, and legendary producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier passed away in 2003, but his flamboyant personality lives on in the hours of TV interviews assembled in Isabelle Partiot-Pieri's documentary.” -- Jordan Mintzer (Variety) Toscan, Daniel, Monsieur du Plantier, Daniel Toscan du Plantier. Inutile de le pr�senter � sa famille du cin�ma o� persiste une sensation de manque aigu sept ans apr�s sa mort.

SYNOPSIS : Out walking, Alessandra is hailed by a man she doesn’t recognize even though he keeps telling her about important moments of her life. Dans la rue, Alessandra est interpell�e par un homme qu’elle ne reconna�t pas. Il a beau lui rem�morer les moments importants de sa vie, son visage lui demeure totalement inconnu.

SYNOPSIS : Gale is a tow truck driver working to keep a grip on a decent life when a call to a suburban neighbourhood drags him into a domestic nightmare.

SYNOPSIS : Tremor, a dance-for-camera short created by Montrealers with Parkinson’s disease and filmmaker Marites Carino, tanslates the common symptomatic movements of the neurological disorder intopoetic movement-based imagery. Dans cette vid�o-danse cr��e pour un groupe de Montr�alais atteints du Parkinson, les mouvements symptomatiques de cette maladie neurologique se traduisent en images po�tiques.

SYNOPSIS : Rome nowadays. The father is convinced for murder, his daughter speaks her mind. The river Tiber splis the city, yet it is bonding their lives together... for a few hours in an afternoon. Rome aujourd’hui. Un p�re condamn� pour meurtre, une fillette qui n’a pas froid aux yeux. Le Tibre s�pare la ville et unit leurs vies... le temps d’un apr�s-midi.

SYNOPSIS : Viviane is a professional photographer. However, since Frederick - her brother and main source of inspiration - ran away from her following a memorable fight, she feels lost. The unsolved conflict with her brother drags her down and prevents her from moving on. Viviane est photographe. Jusqu’ici tout allait bien, mais du jour au lendemain, Fr�d�ric, son fr�re qui lui servait de mod�le, est sorti de sa vie en claquant la porte. Et un jour Viviane rencontre Guillaume, un jeune m�canicien, qui d�gage la m�me force farouche que Fr�d�ric. Elle voit en lui une chance de cr�er � nouveau.

SYNOPSIS : This town cannot be foound on the map, it exists only on the waybill. But Egor Matveev, Pyotr Matveev's son, heads for it, for he wants to live, love and, most important, he wants to know hilmself. La petite ville dont il est question ne se trouve sur aucune carte du monde. Elle existe seulement dans quelques r�c�piss�s. Mais Egor Matveev, le fils de Pyotr Matveev, a d�cid� de s’y rendre. Tout d’abord parce qu’il s’agit de sa ville natale, mais aussi parce qu’il veut vivre, aimer et surtout, apprendre � se conna�tre.

SYNOPSIS : After burying their father in Istanbul, three Belgian-Turkish brothers return to Belgium to resume their lives. But things are not quite the same as before... Apr�s avoir enterr� leur p�re � Istanbul, Timur, 28 ans, et ses deux fr�res, Ediz, 36 ans et Bora, 16 ans, rentrent � Gand. Leur m�re est rest�e � Istanbul.

SYNOPSIS : TuTuMUCH is a documentary film that follows nine young ballet dancers as they pirouette and compete for highly-coveted spots in an intensive four-week professional ballet summer program at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Leaving behind their families and friends, often for the first time, each girl confronts the painstaking and sometimes rewarding realities of actually living her dream. In the last few days of the program the girls find out which of them will take the next step toward the dream of becoming a professional ballerina...

SYNOPSIS : Bright, handsome and sure of his future at 22, Jeff is also socially awkward and a sexual novice, and when he enters the comfortable but dysfunctional family of his new girlfriend, Mel, he loses his moral and sexual bearings. This is a coming of age he had not anticipated... Elles sont trois femmes chez les Langley: Vivien, la m�re, et ses deux filles, Mel, 19 ans, et Maura, 22 ans. Elles habitent dans la m�me maison, mais chacune d’elles semble seule.

SYNOPSIS : Before Iraq, before Afghanistan, the U.S. bombed Kosovo... 10 years later, the former Serbian province remains impoverished, ethnically fractured and dependant on the internationalcommunity. What does it means to live in perpetual frozen conflict, a purgatory forgotten by the rest of the world? The documentary profiles the lives of five Kosovo Serbs and six Kosovo Albanians before and after the declaration of independance in 2007, exploring the segregated education systems, entrenched political corruption,the country's refugee centres and ethnic enclaves, and finally, the folly of the international community's 'nation-building" efforts.

SYNOPSIS : When dementia strikes their loved ones, some families cope and some are in denial. Three cases, three different reactions. Trois histoires autour du th�me de la d�mence.

SYNOPSIS : Recently widowed Laura becomes ensnared in a series of bizarre lies as she tries to reconnect with her son, her family, and an old flame -- who happens to be her sister’s husband. Laura, 35 ans, a toujours eu le vent dans les voiles, sans doute gr�ce � sa beaut� et � sa personnalit� � la fois charmane et exub�rante. Mais derni�rement, tout semble indiquer que le vent tourne du mauvais c�t�.

SYNOPSIS : Un souvenir ronge progressivement la m�moire de Jacques. Sa fille Maya et sa femme Martine arriveront-elles � trouver un donneur ayant le m�me souvenir souche pour le sauver de l’amn�sie totale?

SYNOPSIS : Art vs. life. El�as is a poor playwright faced with a dilemma -- remain faithful to his art, or give in to pressure from the producer. A comedy about the city of Caracas, about art and the creation process, and finally about love. Or the lack of it. Dramaturge dans le besoin, El�as n’a que deux choix: demeurer fid�le � son art ou succomber aux pressions de son producteur. Par le biais de la com�die, le film propose aussi une r�flexion sur l’art et le processus de cr�ation ainsi que sur l’amour et l’absence d’amour.

SYNOPSIS : A three episodes series reveals the inner workings of the mind and the spirit of someone in a suicidal state by telling the story of those left behind and in search of alarming signs.

SYNOPSIS : Ditte’s devotion to her father is tested when she’s offered her dream job as a curator for a New York art gallery just as her recently remarried father falls ill and asks her to take over the family business. Galeriste � Copenhague, une jeune femme doit renoncer � un poste important � New York lorsque son p�re tombe gravement malade.

SYNOPSIS : Within the walls of an ideal home, in one of the city's upscale districts, lives the family of Mickey. They compete to win the title of the "Ideal Family" on a television show, aiming to prove to society that they are just that; The Ideal Family. As unexpected events intrude on this reality throught the day, the question remains: what should an ideal family should be like? La famille de Mickey vit dans un des quartiers les plus hupp�s de la ville, � l’int�rieur de ce qui para�t �tre le foyer id�al. La famille d�cide de participer au concours d’un show de t�l�vision pour gagner le titre de �famille id�ale�. Le jour de la comp�tition, une s�rie d’�v�nements surviennent, obligeant � ce qu’on se pose la question cruciale: est-ce ainsi que devrait �tre une famille id�ale?

SYNOPSIS : Unforgotten is a tale of heartache and a celebration of love, as it follows the journey of a couple’s life through contemporary dance. Key moments in their relationship are poignantly portrayed through dynamic partnering and precise/exacting camera work. This couple sees themselves as forever young, full of energy with their whole lives ahead of them, just as most of us do (or would like to).

SYNOPSIS : Miguel goes to see his exwife. He is happy, life is great . Paula is not happy. And she has another ideas about divorce…

SYNOPSIS : Shashin is a young Indian-Canadian man struggling to find his identity following the loss of his parents. He contemplates his reasons for losing contact with them while he gets the family home ready for sale and empties it of all the seemingly worthless odds and ends packed inside. Replete with Hindu mythology, Useless Things is a dreamily crafted journey of forgiveness, enlightenment, and self- discovery.

SYNOPSIS : The act of life-giving is a dance that is at once tender and violent. It ends only to begin again. L’acte de donner la vie devient, ici, une valse � la fois tendre et violente qui, m�me une fois termin�e, n’en finit jamais de (re)commencer.

SYNOPSIS : An animated documentary about a baby-faced 12 year-old who comes up with an ingenious disguise in an attempt to get into a strip club. Dans l’espoir d’entrer dans un club de strip-tease, un gar�on de 12 ans au visage de poupon imagine un d�guisement ing�nieux.

SYNOPSIS : Eleven-year-old Marek loves Venice. His family has gone to visit the city for generations. Now, in the summer of 1939, it is his turn to go. But war with Germany looms and while he father goes off to the army he and his mother end up in his aunt’s country villa. But Marek still dreams of Venice... Marek, 11 ans, aime Venise. Depuis des g�n�rations, sa famille visite cette ville: ses arri�re-grands-parents, ses grands-parents, ses parents, et m�me Victor, son fr�re de 14 ans, y ont fait le p�lerinage. Mais il n’y a jamais �t�.

SYNOPSIS : Ventra takes place in a near-future society obsessed with updating to the newest product. The Ventra Corporation regularly sends employees into consumer's homes for mandatory upgrade checks and to confiscate old technology. One employee, however, doesn’t exactly follow the correct company procedure. L’action se situe dans un avenir proche. La Ventra Corporation envoie r�guli�rement des employ�s chez les consommateurs afin de proc�der � des mises � niveau obligatoires et confisquer tout appareil technologique d�suet. Cependant, un employ� ne suit pas tout � fait les proc�dures en vigueur.

SYNOPSIS : Twelve-year-old Lali wins a bar of chocolate at cards that contains a winning coupon for a Vespa motor scooter inside the wrapper. But the Vespa is in Budapest... along with his father. En jouant aux cartes, Lali, 12 ans, obtient une tablette de chocolat o� se trouve le coupon gagnant d’une Vespa � l’int�rieur du papier d’emballage. Comment fera-t-il pour r�clamer son prix?

SYNOPSIS : Yoshino Ishibashi is found strangled in a mountain pass. Hey boyfriend is now missing and her parents are discovering the secret live she lived. Revelations put every charachter in a death ride where lies and truth make things even less clear. Yoshino Ishibashi est retrouv�e morte dans le col d'une montagne. Son copain est disparu et ses parent d�couvrent alors la vie secr�te de leur fille. Des r�v�lations parfois paradoxales placent tous ces personnages dans un man�ge infernal o� mensonges et v�rit�s ne font qu’embrouiller les pistes

SYNOPSIS : Jinman, a shy Korean exchange student studying in Canada, volunteers at a retirement home in a desperate attempt to make a Canadian friend and improve his English. A dramatic comedy about cultural differences, alienation, and the unexpected nature of friendship. Jinman, un jeune Cor�en timide qui �tudie au Canada, fait du b�n�volat dans une maison de retraite dans une tentative d�sesp�r�e de se lier avec un Canadien et d’am�liorer son anglais. Une com�die dramatique sur les diff�rences culturelles, l’ali�nation et les amiti�s improbables.

SYNOPSIS : Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the

SYNOPSIS : Tard dans la nuit, en rentrant d’un concert, un groupe d’amis croise une femme en d�tresse et d�cide de l’aider, co�te que co�te.

SYNOPSIS : WE'RE THE WEAKERTHANS, WE'RE FROM WINNIPEG follows one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved rock bands on an epic cross-country tour from St. John's, Newfoundland all the way up to Whitehorse, rocking and rolling into the hearts of thousands along the way. From vast big-city venues to tiny small-town taverns, this feature-length documentary weaves the band's special blend of lyrical majesty and blistering instrumentation with unforgettable characters and a rare behind-the-scenes look at the shenanigans that only a touring band would dare. Thoughtful reflection, oddball anecdotes and the strange mix of cramped quarters and vast scenic vistas over the unmistakable tones of The Weakerthans will delight your senses and make you proud to say, "We're from Winnipeg."

SYNOPSIS : As the only First Nations student in a 1940s all-white school, 8-year old Wato is bullied and ostracized, but she finds solace, strength and inspiration in her magical dreams. Unique �l�ve autochtone d’une �cole de Blancs dans les ann�es 1940, Wato subit � huit ans l’intimidation et le rejet, mais puise du r�confort, de la force et de l’inspiration dans ses r�ves magiques. FIlm inspir� de l’exp�rience personnelle de la r�alisatrice Alanis Obomsawin.

SYNOPSIS : A m�nage-a-trois between a father, his new wife and his son, is revealed through dance. A film about jealousy, seduction, desire and broken pieties. Un m�nage � trois entre un p�re, sa nouvelle femme et son fils. Un film de danse sur la jalousie, la s�duction et le d�sir.

SYNOPSIS : 60 years after the second world war. My father want's to return to the old family's house in Poland. A place he only knows from the stories of his mother. In his vivant phantasy, it's the paradise. But our journey back to the roots of our family soon turns out to be something different.

SYNOPSIS : At first sight, young Berliner Gianni Meurer looks a lot like a southerner, and that's how he feels and acts. The Italian blood coursing through his veins pushes him to take a journey to the unknown in order to seek out his roots and his father, whom he last saw 25 years earlier. Besides faded childhood memories, the only reminders he has of his dad are a few letters and a photograph. Gianni sets out for Rome, showing the photo to everyone he meets on the way in the hope that someone will eventually recognize his dad.

SYNOPSIS : William Vincent assumes a new identity for the sole purpose, it seems of disappearing in plain sight. He lives on the margins of New York City, both figuratively and literally. But when William meets Ann, he is forced to emerge from the shadows. William Vincent coule des jours tranquilles en marge de New York, au propre comme au figur�. Apr�s quatre ann�es d’exil, William rentre � New York sous une nouvelle identit�, bien d�termin� � lib�rer Ann, la fille dont il est amoureux, du joug du Patron.

SYNOPSIS : Janela da Alma confers voice and soul to nineteen persons, in answer to a request to talk about how they see themselves, how they see one another, and in what way they relate to the world. All have some degree of visual deficiency, in common, ranging from discrete myopia to total blindness: from Nobel Prize winner Jos� Saramago to Councilman from Minas Arnaldo Godoy, German Director Win Wenders, neurologist Oliver Sachs and Franco-Slovene photographer Evgen Bavcar, who is completely blind. With humor and often poetry, they embark on personal, surprising, most revealing statements on divers aspects pertaining to a sense of vision.

SYNOPSIS : The protagonist in winter's end continually falls through a labyrinth of rooms and environments. Each place represents a moment in the grieving process.

SYNOPSIS : A gypsy village. Immigrants who have camped their caravans and tents on the outskirts of any given European city. Smells of sweat, dust and animals, A car arrives. A stranger gets out. He is in serch of a mircale. He is looking for Yanindara. Un village gitan. Des immigrants qui ont plant� leur tente ou leur caravane aux portes d’une ville europ�enne. Des odeurs de sueur, de poussi�re et d’animaux. Une voiture arrive. Un �tranger en descend. Il attend un miracle. Il cherche Yanindara...

SYNOPSIS : Young women learn how to become maids at a recruitment centre in Indonesia. Tens of thousands of them leave each month for Asia or the Middle East in the hope of bringing money back home. But hope sometimes turns into a nightmare... Jogjakarta, Indon�sie, 2009. Dans un centre de recrutement, des femmes sont form�es au m�tier de bonne. Elles y apprennent l’usage des micro-ondes, les r�gles de politesse, la langue de leur futur employeur et l’endurance au travail.