Luc Paul Maurice Besson is a French filmmaker. He directed or produced the films Subway (1985), The Big Blue (1988), and La Femme Nikita (1990). Associated with the Cinéma du look film movement, he has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films Léon: The Professional (1994) and the English-language The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film The Fifth Element (1997). He wrote and directed the 2014 sci-fi action film Lucy and the 2017 space opera film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Isabelle Yasmina AdjaniLdH is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting—all in the Best Actress category—for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994), and Skirt Day (2009). She was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2010 and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014.
Pierre Garand, known by his stage name Garou, is a Canadian singer, actor, and entertainer from Sherbrooke, Québec. He sings in French and English, like his co-stars Daniel Lavoie and Bruno Pelletier.
Louis Garrel is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his starring role in The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. He has regularly appeared in films by French director Christophe Honoré, including Ma Mère, Dans Paris, Love Songs, The Beautiful Person and Making Plans for Lena. He has also been in films directed by his father, Philippe Garrel, including Regular Lovers, Frontier of the Dawn, A Burning Hot Summer, and Jealousy.
Jacques Perrin was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet.
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together. They also own the production company Les Films du Fleuve.
On the Trail of Igor Rizzi is a 2006 Canadian drama film starring Laurent Lucas, written and directed by Noël Mitrani. The film's production companies are Atopia and StanKaz Films. The distributor is also Atopia in Canada and United States. This film won the Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at 2006’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais is a Canadian film and television actress and singer.
Borderline is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Lyne Charlebois and co-written with Marie-Sissi Labrèche, based on her novels Borderline and La Brèche.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
The Novena is a Canadian drama film, directed by Bernard Émond and released in 2005.
The Nest is a Canadian psychological thriller film, directed by David Paradis and released in 2018. The film stars Pierre-Luc Brillant as Pierre-Luc, an actor who agrees to his girlfriend Isabelle's request that he spend five days confined to a locked room, with no contact with the outside world except webcam conversations with her.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
The 8th Jutra Awards were held on March 19, 2006 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2005. Nominations were announced on February 8.
La Run is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Demian Fuica and released in 2011. The film stars Jason Roy Léveillée as Guillaume, an academically gifted university student who agrees to participate in drug smuggling to help his father pay off gambling debts.
Fear of Water is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Gabriel Pelletier and released in 2011. The film stars Pierre-François Legendre as André Surprenant, a police officer in the Magdalen Islands who is investigating the rape and murder of the mayor's daughter Rosalie.
Emmanuel Bilodeau is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in the 2000 film Soft Shell Man , for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002, and the 2006 television miniseries René Lévesque, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2007.
How to Get Your Parents to Divorce is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and released in 2022. The film stars Charlotte St-Martin as Justine, a preteen girl who is frustrated by the constant fighting of her parents Julie and Martin, and plots with her friends to figure out how to convince them to divorce.
Invincible is a 2022 Canadian short film directed by Vincent René-Lortie. Inspired by a true story, the thirty-minute short stars Léokim Beaumier-Lépine as Marc-André Bernier, a troubled young man who has been incarcerated in a youth detention centre; after spending a weekend with his family on a furlough, he is willing to go to any lengths necessary to avoid having to return to the facility.
