Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism.
The Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma is a festival created in 1982 to celebrate the cinematographic production of Quebec, Canada.
Denys Desjardins, is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and film historian for more than twenty years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.
Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy is a 2008 Canadian documentary film by Richard Brouillette which was awarded the Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize at the 11th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the Grand Prize at the 15th Visions du réel festival, the Audience Award for Best feature film, along with a Special Jury Mention for the Amnesty International Award, at the 6th IndieLisboa festival, the Pierre and Yolande Perrault Award for Best first or second documentary at the 27th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, and the La Vague Award for Best documentary film at the 23rd Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie.
Quebec City Film Festival is a film festival held annually in September in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It screens short and feature films and premieres movies from all over the world.
François Delisle is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, actor, and composer.
The Prix Luc-Perreault, formerly known as the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson, is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma to a film deemed to be the best film of the year from Quebec, from among the films screening at that year's Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec.
Before We Explode is a Canadian sex comedy film, directed by Rémi St-Michel and released in 2019. The film stars Étienne Galloy as Pier-Luc, a teenager who fears that the diplomatic war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is going to escalate into World War III, and embarks on a quest to lose his virginity before the world blows up.
Patrice Laliberté is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2015 short film Overpass (Viaduc), which won the Toronto International Film Festival award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.
Jeanne Leblanc is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose full-length directoral debut Isla Blanca was released in 2018.
The Measure of Your Passage is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Esther Valiquette and released in 1992. Inspired by her own diagnosis with HIV/AIDS a few years earlier, the essay film presents her thoughts on the meaning of life, and the traces we leave behind after death, through the prism of the collapse of ancient Minoan civilization.
The Tournée Québec Cinéma is an annual touring film festival, organized by Québec Cinéma to promote and distribute French language films from Quebec in cities in English Canada where such films would not ordinarily receive theatrical distribution.
Underground is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Dupuis and released in 2020. Produced by the Montreal based company Bravo Charlie, the film stars Joakim Robillard as Maxime, a troubled miner in Val-d’Or, Quebec, who must attempt to rescue his coworkers when an explosion happens inside the mine.
Heart Bomb is a Canadian short film, directed by Rémi St-Michel and released in 2019. The film stars Alexis Lefebvre as an actor who must confront his fears when a role requires him to perform a dangerous stunt.
Social Hygiene is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denis Côté and released in 2021. The film stars Maxim Gaudette as Antonin, a petty thief who is confronted by five different women — his sister Solveig, his wife Eglantine, his love interest Cassiopée, a tax inspector and theft victim Aurore — about the need to get his life back on track.
Mont Foster is a Canadian drama film, directed by Louis Godbout and released in 2020. Freely adapted from the poem Erlkönig by Goethe, the film stars Patrick Hivon and Laurence Leboeuf as Mathieu and Chloé, a couple spending time at an isolated cabin in the country, where Chloé begins to go crazy after seeing and hearing strange visions.
No Trace is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2021. An exploration of the conflict between rationality and faith, the film centres on N, a cynical smuggler who is escorting Awa, a devoutly religious woman, to their country's border after an unspecified event has threatened Awa's safety.
Archipelago is a Canadian animated documentary film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and released in 2021. A poetic essay film that blends diverse styles of animation, the film is a psychogeographic meditation on the islands in the St. Lawrence River, forming a metaphor for Quebec's status as an "uncertain country" defined by the tensions between its status as a province of Canada and the Québécois people's conception of themselves as a distinct nation.
