CSE 2022

The Family of the Forest

Gerard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their native Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. 15 years later, as their three sons grow into young adults, what will become of this remarkable life they have given everything for?
CSE 2022

Perdre Mario

By committing one of the 1,200 suicides that took place in Quebec that year, Mario plunged his friends and loved ones into a whirlwind of questions and deep sadness, the same one that assails anyone brutally left in mourning by a voluntary and irrevocable departure.
CSE 2022

The Southern Wind

In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving and the future is uncertain. But these Franco-Ontarian villagers are surprised by a wind of renewal. A wind that will give them hope.
CSE 2022

The Positive Energy of Gods

The singers of the group Astéréotypie, who come from a medical-educational institute for young autistic people, unveil their explosive universe on stage, encouraged by an educator who is more passionate about raw art than about educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
CSE 2022

Je me soulève

Twenty young actors are brought together in a laboratory by directors Véronique and Gabrielle Côté to create a collective work. Over the course of a full year, they delve into contemporary Quebec poetry with the goal of extracting the "spirit of times" from it.
CSE 2022

Seuls

Every year, more than 400 children arrive alone at the Canadian border to claim refugee status. Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their country, without their parents, when they were just children, with the hope of a better life in Canada.