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- DirectorMichel BraultStarsHélène LoiselleJean LapointeGuy ProvostA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsBarbara UlrichClaude GodboutManon BlainA young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsJacques GagnonLyne ChampagneJean DuceppeSet in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsCharlotte LaurierMarie TifoGermain HoudeA woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJean LajeunesseLuce GuilbeaultJ. Léo GagnonThe unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMarthe NadeauJ. Léo GagnonMarcel SabourinAfter another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long to live. But after more than 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere else. His wife, Rose, has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeJean Pierre BergeronSophie ClémentIn a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsMarie-Ginette GuayGilbert SicotteFanny MalletteThe lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsLouise CuerrierGilles ProulxPaule BaillargeonA lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their personal problems, she has to come to terms with her own.
- DirectorOlivier AsselinStarsLucille FluetRonald HouleSerge ChristiaenssensAn old Egyptian silent movie restored with great care and dubbed by a couple of lip-reading deaf mutes relates the story of a young girl wandering in the desert hoping upon an heroic life until she resurrects a dead man with a sneeze. This miracle attracts the attention of a lot of people, especially, from a greedy businessman and from a scientist, both trying to get as much as possible from her.
- DirectorRodrigue JeanStarsSuzie LeBlancPatrick GoyetteGinette MorinA young husband does not recognize his wife's postpartum depression until it's too late.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMarthe NadeauMichèle MagnyPierre CurziThree generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDenys ArcandJean-Paul BeaudryCarmen BertrandDirector Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsJulie VincentGermain HoudePaul SavoieA director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
- DirectorPierre PerraultStarsAlexis TremblayMarie TremblayLéopold TremblayFour years after Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), the director 'Pierre Perrault' ask Alexis Tremblay if he agreed to travel with his wife Marie in the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsClaude JutraJohanne HarelleVictor DésyA man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.
- DirectorGilles GroulxStarsGilles GroulxJean-Marc PiotteClaude BeauchampPamphlet cinématographique réalisé par Gilles Groulx à un moment de fièvre populaire exceptionnelle au Québec, quelques mois après le front commun des trois syndicats québécois les plus importants (CSN, FTQ, CEQ) face au gouvernement québécois. OEuvre personnelle et militante d'un cinéaste québécois engagé, sa philosophie s'oppose à la « société de consommation » perçue comme la suprême incarnation du mal.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMichèle MagnyMarcel SabourinA film poem in which a married couple engage in conversation about love, death, and life while the scenery changes around them.
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsMarcel SabourinMonique MercureMarthe ThierryThe wife of photographer J. A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsGeneviève BujoldRichard JordanMarcel CuvelierQuebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine's violent death.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsEmmanuel BilodeauPhilomène BilodeauRoc LafortuneOn the fringe of society in a remote part of the French-Canadian countryside, the fragile relationship and unusual private life of a father and daughter is jeopardized by dreary, unforeseen circumstances.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsMicheline LanctôtDonald PilonReynald BouchardA woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks and the government, in which she will be somehow involved. Meanwhile, practising her theories, she makes some old men very happy and, by chance even passes as a saint!
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsMarcel SabourinRené CaronSuzanne ValéryA robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
- DirectorBenoit PilonStarsNatar UngalaaqÉveline GélinasPaul-André BrasseurIn 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGabriel ArcandRémi LaurentPierre CurziThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.