Nihilproductions

A popular sensation in medieval Europe, bestiaries were catalogs of beasts featuring exotic animal illustrations, zoological wisdom, and ancient legends. The documentary unfolds like a filmic picture book where both humans and animals are on display. As we observe them, they also observe us and one another, invoking the Hindu idea of “darshan”: a mutual beholding that initiates a shift in consciousness.

In a hotel meant for sex meetings, a woman cleans the rooms, making them ready for the new clients, as we hear her voice in the sound track, in a marked contrast between the imagined and the real sexuality.

Caught in the tensions of the returning Pierrot, an ex-con, and the neighboring outlaws, Coralie attempts to distance herself from an ambiguous if not tormented past. Set against a busy highway, the butting houses dominated by a boss loosing sight of his operation are suspended as an anarchic surge approaches.

Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne, never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.

Christian has commited a crime, a crime of compassion. A troubled soul, he must now flee not only the law, but the deep ethical consequences of his act. The path he sets upon leads him to where all roads end : a small community by the name of Radisson, 1500km north of Montreal. Slowly, he starts his life anew among his new neighbours, a new job, a new interest in life. His story drifts along, somewhere between fiction and reality…

A couple's impasse is refracted through the world’s great tragedies, and the news of "what is happening in Kosovo”. A tender, indifferent, cynical and bittersweet slice of melodrama.

Much is said about farmers, but what about them, truly?

Without dialogues, Maϊté shows us an adolescent who goes to a big city to a black metal concert.

All the sugar daddies have died ; a city is born. Fictional exercise carried out in situ, in which hope and distress rub shoulders in a chaotic, scrap metal city under constant construction.

An introverted man runs a "car cemetery" where people come to find parts for old vehicles.

Éric St-Amand and Mika Dionne are 9 and 10 years old, going nowhere fast in the heat of a New Brunswick summer. The luminous, idyllic flipside to the Old Fashion Waltz.

A man and his toys make for an uneasy ballad.

Two red-clad women are pursued by an insistent, yet weary stranger. An existential stroll on the nocturnal pavement of a gloomy Montreal, carried by the sounds of punk rock music.

An old fashioned waltz. Flirting with horror cinema, here is the portrait of an aging New Brunswick population, unfolding like a found footage object equally elegiac as it is nightmarish.