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Barbie Boomer Barbie Boomer
Barbie Boomer and Sugar Rot
Anna Kiri (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Francis Bordeleau; Writer: Francis Bordeleau, Valérie Chevalier, Alexandre James Taboureau; Stars: Catherine Brunet, Maxime de Cotret, Charlotte Aubin)
Escaping death after a failed robbery, a reckless and dreamy writer abandons her delinquency to pursue her quest of recognition.
Au Pied Du Mur (Inner-Walls) (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandra Elkin; Stars: Jack Lambert, Dierdre Wolownick)
Two seasoned climbers in their seventies push the boundaries of age in the extreme sport of climbing.
Barbie Boomer (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Joly-Corcoran; Stars: Sylvie Longpré, Lydia Bouchard, Linda Joanisse, Jacqueline Van de Geer)
67-year-old Sylvie is a passionate Barbie collector. To make sure that her collection lasts over time, she decides to donate some of her childhood dolls to the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, which agrees to evaluate the proposal. But will she be able to cope with the grief of separation, especially as the physical condition of her best friend Linda, also a Barbie collector, is affected by severe illness?
Beans (Country: Canada; Year: 2020; Director: Tracey Deer; Writer: Tracey Deer, Meredith Vuchnich; Stars: Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson, Joel Montgrand, Paulina Alexis, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, Taio Gélinas, Caroline Gelinas, Dawn Ford, Kelly Beaudoin, Brittany LeBorgne, Ida Labillois-Montour, Adam LeBlanc, Emilie Paquet)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Cardboard City (Ville Jacques Carton) (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jean-Marc E Roy, André Forcier; Stars: Jean-Marc Desgent, Pierre Curzi, Gaston Lepage, France Castel, Sandrine Bisson, Charlotte Aubin, Michèle Deslauriers)
The story of how, in 1969, Longueuil absorbed the much larger, and poorer, city of Jacques-Cartier, where many people had constructed their homes with the materials available to them.
Death Does Not Exist Death Does Not Exist
Death Does Not Exist and Beans
Death Does Not Exist (La Mort n’Existe Pas) (Year: 2025; Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière; Writer: Félix Dufour-Laperrière; Stars: Karelle Tremblay, Barbara Ulrich, Zeneb Blanchet, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Irène Dufour)
After a failed armed attack on wealthy oppressors, Hélène, the leader of a freedom-fighting group, finds her convictions shaken in a world that becomes more surreal with each step.
Nesting (Peau À Peau) (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Cinq-Mars; Stars: Rose-Marie Perreault)
A new mother grappling with sleep deprivation and postpartum depression, finds herself unable to separate dream from reality. After she witnesses a violent hold-up in a convenience store, her already fragile psyche begins to crack.
Old Guys In Bed (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: JP Bergeron; Writer: JP Bergeron; Stars: Duff MacDonald, Paul James Saunders, Vasta Vlarna, Domenic Di Rosa, Joan Hart)
A gay film historian, new to online dating, enlists his teenage niece to help him navigate the uncharted waters of the digital world, in pursuit of the 70-year-old man of his dreams.
$Positions (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Brandon Daley; Writer: Brandon Daley; Stars: Michael Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, Kaylyn Carter, Jeffrey A Hunter, Reagan Fitzgerald)
A Midwest worker risks his savings on crypto, spiraling into gambling addiction and straining ties with his girlfriend, disabled brother, and recovering addict cousin in this anxious modern comedy.
Stuntman (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2024; Director: Herbert Leung Koon-Shun, Albert Leung Koon-Yiu)
When an old-school, high-risk Hong Kong action director is hired for a modern, safety-first production, which style will win out?
Sugar Rot (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Becca Kozak; Writer: Becca Kozak; Stars: Warren Dean Fulton, Chloë MacLeod, Magalie, Drew Forster, Cynthia Loewen)
A girl at an ice cream shop is assaulted and becomes horrifically pregnant with some... thing that begins to turn her into ice cream.
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