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- A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
- Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated and surprised that at night they dance. - Such frankness among Arabic women is all too rare in film... - Variety
- "The Promise (La Promesse)" is an urban romantic comedy that recounts 24 hours in the life of Victoria, an aspiring young singer who works as a bike courier in downtown Montreal. It is the eve of the new millennium, and Victoria celebrating her 25th birthday at the stroke of midnight. At the age of twelve, for her French class, Victoria had written a letter to the young woman of 25 that she would become on this first night of the year 2000. That letter recalls her two old promises: 1) to become a Star and 2) to meet Jimmy, her first adolescent boyfriend, on Mount-Royal the night of December 31st, 1999. Will they keep their promise?
- A portrait of artist and seed producer Patrice Fortier, who dedicates his passion and expertise to preserving plant biodiversity.
- Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines and booze to cure her boredom.
- Louise enjoys a private moment to open her treasure box in the room she shares with her little sister. She does not know that she has been hiding under her bed to spy on her. The film deals with sensuality through a both charming and erotic experience of an involuntary interaction between two sisters.
- A killer waylays and torments a young Montreal man who has hit emotional rock bottom.
- In the circus-like atmosphere of Kensington Market in Toronto, the camera of Anne J. Gibson is a silent witness, a potential threat, and an offer of human connection, sometimes all at once.
- Filmed over the course of two years, Fighting Through the Night is a long journey to the heart of Greece today. In this country thrown into torment by a totalitarian economy, institutional violence is met with stubborn resistance. Driven by both complementary and dissonant energies, the film is suffused with a desire for freedom and the rebellious power of the people it brings together.
- The documentary Autour de Maïr, traces the long and exhausting road that led to the recognition of literature by women. For many centuries, their writing was considered to belong to the domestic sphere, to concerns involving the home or family correspondence. It was long held that women could only write letters or their private diaries. "For me, reaching out to literature was like emerging from the wilderness," says Jeanne Hyvrard. Co-founder and first director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (Montreal 1978), Maïr Verthuy introduced the first course in women's literature at Canadian universities and opened the way for women's writing to be published, read, taught, and translated. Interviews with the following: feminists, feminine poets, Québec and French women writers: Madeleine Gagnon, Jeanne Hyvrard, Hélène Monette, Martine Delvaux, Gloria Escomel, Liliane Kandel, Wassyla Tamzali, Benoîte Groult. DOCUMENTAIRE de 91 min.
- Gilles Raymond, a Canadian, has been living in the Indonesian island of Flores, since the year 2000. And many, both Catholics and Muslims, are those who love him there. Because thanks to him and through his Otonomi project, a lot of them are getting out of poverty and transforming their environment for the best.