Maïna ist die stolze Tochter von Häuptling Mishtenapuu vom Stamm der Innu. Als eine Fehde mit den Inuit aus dem gefrorenen Land eskaliert, ihr Vater kurz darauf das Zeitliche segnet und ein elfjähriger Junge ihres Stammes entführt wird, muss die junge Kriegerin all ihren Mut zusammen nehmen. Fest entschlossen, den kleinen Nipki zu befreien, begibt sie sich auf die Suche nach den "Männern des Landes ohne Bäume". Als sie das eisige Ödland auf eigene Faust durchquert, wird Maïna jedoch von dem Inuit-Krieger Natak gefasst und gerät selbst in Gefangenschaft. Fortan muss sie sich nicht nur in einer neuen Gesellschaft beweisen, sondern sieht sich auch mit unbekannten Bräuchen und Sitten einer ihr fremdartigen Kultur konfrontiert.
A doctor broken by 8 years of war in North Africa tries to come back home. On his way, he is faced with a bigger challenge: save a city from the plague... and from madness. (IMDB)
Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with (and sometimes manipulating) the many offbeat charact... read more ers that surround her- including her broken-hearted father, an aging anarchist beekeeper, a beloved and asthmatic quasi-mother-in-law, a priest in the midst of a crisis of faith, and a biker with a wandering heart, for whom she has unconditional love. And then, of course, there's the village in which she lives, where everyone knows your business and makes it their own. No wonder Simone feels that she lives her life like a reel of film jumping in the sprockets of a projector. Life is strange and complicated enough, and then an aviator falls from the sky, threatening everything Simone loves the most.
Ein Schweizer Polizist infiltriert einen internationalen Geldwäschering. Der Film basiert auf einer wahren Begebenheit.
Michel Beaulieu can't catch a break. He just lost his job as car courier after an encounter with a difficult client, his wife Lucy decided to take break from him and she threatened to take his visitation rights to their daughter away. In desperation, Michael agrees to fulfill the mission of a shady loan shark by kidnapping a gambler who owes him a large sum. Turns the man is the arrogant businessman because of whom he lost his job.
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are facing a new challenge: the iron mines are about to be reopened. Land, identity and legitimacy are central to the dialogue between peoples locked in parallel struggles, the Québécois and the First Nations.