The history of cinema in Quebec started on June 27, 1896 when the Frenchman Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room. However, it would have to wait until the 1960s before a genuine Quebec cinema industry would emerge. Approximately 620 feature-length films have been produced, or partially produced by the Quebec film industry since 1943.
Claude Fournier was a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. He is one of the forerunners of the Cinema of Quebec. He was the twin brother of Guy Fournier.
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
Bluff is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It was directed, written and produced by Simon Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie.
The Necessities of Life is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Benoît Pilon and starring Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas and Paul-André Brasseur. Told in both French and Inuktitut, the film is about an Inuit man who is sent to Quebec for tuberculosis treatment.
Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Claude Gagnon is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who frequently works in both Canada and Japan. His most noted films include Keiko (1979), Kenny (1988), The Pianist (1991), Kamataki (2005), Karakara (2012) and Old Buddies (2020).
The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge was the first full-length feature film by Canadian film director Philippe Falardeau, released in 2000.
The Prix Iris for Best Film is an annual film award presented Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best film made within the Cinema of Quebec.
Lise Roy is a Canadian actress who has appeared in stage productions, film and television.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Deliver Me is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Chouinard and released in 2006. The film stars Céline Bonnier as Annie, a woman who has just been released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence for killing her former partner, and is attempting to make amends and reconcile with her daughter Sophie over the objections of Irène, Sophie's paternal grandmother who has been raising the girl since her son's death.
Mesnak is a Canadian drama film, directed by Yves Sioui Durand and released in 2011.
Thrill of the Hills is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011. Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aurèle is killed in a workplace accident, who responds to his grief by enlisting his father's friend Tom to take him to Woodstock so that he can see his musical idol, Jimi Hendrix, perform.
The Prix Iris for Best Cinematography is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in the Cinema of Quebec.
Crying Out is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robin Aubert and released in 2010. The film centres on a grief-stricken widower who unexpectedly digs up his dead wife's corpse and runs off with it, forcing his father and son to set off in an attempt to find him before he gets arrested or commits suicide.
Kamataki is a Canadian-Japanese co-produced drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2005.
Gurov and Anna is a Canadian drama film, directed by Rafaël Ouellet and released in 2014. The film stars Andreas Apergis as Ben, a literature professor in Montreal who is obsessed with Anton Chekhov's short story "The Lady with the Dog", and begins trying to act it out in his real life by commencing a love affair with his student Mercedes in which he can be the Gurov to her Anna.
Exile is a Canadian drama film, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud and released in 2012. The film stars Francis Cleophat as Samuel, a teenager in Haiti who is left alone after his father is kidnapped by government forces; learning that his mother whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive and merely ran off to the United States, he embarks on a quest to find her, and is helped by various "guardian angels" as he travels to Miami, New York City and Montreal in his search.
How to Conquer America in One Night is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Dany Laferrière and released in 2004. The film centres on the relationship between Fanfan, a Haitian Canadian man who has resided in Montreal for 20 years but still does not feel entirely at home in Canada, and his nephew Gégé, who has recently come to Montreal to visit his uncle before moving to the United States to pursue his vision of the American Dream, which mainly involves eating hamburgers and seducing large-breasted blonde women.
