Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on niche, low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.
The Montreal International Documentary Festival is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec.
Aristomenis (Meni) Tsirbas is a film director, producer, writer, editor, animator, concept designer, storyboard artist, and visual effects supervisor. He has directed two feature films, several national television commercials, music videos, and short films. Meni's films have received over two dozen international awards from film festivals such as Sundance, Hollywood, and Palm Springs. He is president of MeniThings Productions
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 is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec.
Wilcox is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Côté and released in 2019. Told entirely without dialogue, the film tells the story of Wilcox, a mysterious drifter travelling in an apparent search for adventure. Although he does interact with other characters in the film, the dialogue taking place in the story is not heard by the audience.
Origami is a Canadian science fiction thriller film, directed by Patrick Demers and released in 2017. The film stars François Arnaud as David, a man struggling to make sense of whether his apparent ability to travel back and forth in time is the result of a psychotic break or a timeline that is genuinely folding in on itself.
You Will Remember Me is a Canadian drama film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2020. Based on the theatrical play by François Archambault, the film stars Rémy Girard as Édouard Beauchemin, a successful academic who is beginning to suffer from the early stages of dementia.
The Association coopérative de productions audio-visuelles (ACPAV) is a Canadian film cooperative, which serves as a production company for films by emerging film directors from Quebec. Established in 1971 in Montreal, the organization has played a central role in the development of the Cinema of Quebec, by producing and releasing early-career films by many of the province's most prominent and successful filmmakers. Key producers associated with the cooperative have included Marc Daigle, Bernadette Payeur and René Gueissaz.
Babysitter is a 2022 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Monia Chokri. Adapted from a theatrical play by Catherine Léger, the film stars Patrick Hivon as Cédric, a man who goes viral after video surfaces of him drunkenly kissing a reporter during a live broadcast. Meanwhile, his wife Nadine (Chokri) is struggling with post-partum depression following the birth of their child. Cédric hires a babysitter to take care of the baby, to the surprise of Nadine, with whom she eventually develops her own special relationship.
Where Rabbits Come From is a 2023 animation short film, written and directed by Colin Ludvic Racicot. The film stars Sophie Cadieux and Eric Paulhus.
The Pedophile is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Ara Ball and released in 2015. Switching back and forth between two time periods, the film centres on Nina, a lesbian woman who was sexually abused in childhood, and who decides as an adult to exact revenge on her abuser.
Farador is a Canadian fantasy comedy film, directed by Édouard Albernhe Tremblay and released in 2023. Expanded from his 2011 short film La Bataille de Farador, the film centres on a group of underachieving geeks who have never grown out of their teenage obsession with Farador, a role-playing game which is essentially a fictionalized version of Dungeons & Dragons.
Ababooned is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2024. Set in the Faubourg à m'lasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Simply Johanne is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nadine Valcin and released in 2024. The film is a portrait of Johanne Harrelle, the actress and fashion model who became one of the first significant Black Canadian public figures.
