20 Quebec films to see in 2024

After having found its audience in 2023, Quebec cinema will try to continue its momentum this year by offering a varied 2024 vintage full of promise.

Here are 20 Quebec films expected on our screens in the coming months.

The successor (February 2)

Shot in Montreal and Paris, this new film by French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (To the hilt) stars Marc-André Grondin as the artistic director of a French haute couture house who must return to Quebec to settle the estate of his father, who has just died of a heart attack. Yves Jacques, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Vincent Leclerc are also part of the cast of this disturbing thriller which flirts with horror cinema.

Lucy Grizzly Sophie (February 23)

Catherine-Anne Toupin, Guillaume Cyr and Lise Roy reprise the roles they already played on stage in this film adaptation of the play The pack directed by Anne Émond (Nelly, Young Juliet). Described as a psychological thriller, Lucy Grizzly Sophie tells the story of a stalked and traumatized young woman who, seeking to escape her reality, finds herself in a tourist bed and breakfast hundreds of kilometers from home, where she is welcomed by a man and his aunt. Catherine-Anne Toupin wrote the screenplay for the film, based on her own play.

At the in-laws (February 23)

Quebecers Evelyne Brochu and Antoine Olivier Pilon star alongside Americans Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens in this romantic comedy directed by James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright, two Montreal screenwriters who have worked in Hollywood for several years (they notably wrote the screenplay for the continuation ofIndependance Day). Filmed in English in Montreal, At the in-laws (French girl in original version) relates the romance between a Quebecer and an English teacher from Brooklyn.

Sweet Sixteen (FEBRUARY)

Adapted from a play of the same title written by the late Suzie Bastien, this first feature film by actress and director Alexa-Jeanne Dubé features eight 16-year-old girls who reveal themselves through monologues addressing the themes of self-image, eating disorders, friendship, first kiss, sex and rape.

Echo in Delta (1^er March)

Former member of the Phylactère Cola collective, filmmaker Patrick Boivin made himself known by directing the ingenious short films Dragon Baby And Iron Baby, went viral on YouTube a dozen years ago. Here he is back with Echo to Delta, a family drama tinged with science fiction recounting the adventures of a ten-year-old boy who tries to prove, with his group of friends, that his seven-year-old brother was abducted by aliens.

Leave the night (8 March)

Quebec-Belgian director Delphine Girard won the Audience Award in the parallel “Giornate degli Autori” section of the Venice Film Festival with this first feature film which notably stars Quebec actress Anne Dorval. Leave the night recounts the journey of a young woman attacked by a man during a party that goes wrong.

You’ll never know (March 15)

Six years after the release of his zombie comedy The hungry, director Robin Aubert focuses his camera on the Quebec health system in this new film that he co-wrote with Julie Roy. Described as “a strong and committed work” but also “imprinted with poetry”, You’ll never know features an old man at the end of his life locked in his CHSLD room who does everything possible to see the woman he loves one last time.

Irena’s Promise (March 15)

Less than a year after the release of his hit comedy The time of a summer, filmmaker Louise Archambault changes direction with this period drama shot in English which tells the true story of a Polish nurse who risked her life by saving a dozen Jewish people during the Second World War. Quebec actress Sophie Nélisse plays the lead role in this adaptation of a play by Dan Gordon, which was presented on Broadway in 2009.

Hotel Silence (March 29)

Adapted from a novel by Icelandic author Audur Ava Olafsdottir, this new film by director Léa Pool (Augustine’s passion) stars actor Sébastien Ricard in the role of a man in deep depression who decides to leave for a journey of no return to a country devastated by war. Irène Jacob, Louise Turcot and Paul Ahmarani are also part of the cast of this drama described as “an ode to resilience and life”.

Hurricane FYT (april)

Presented as a world premiere at the last Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), this new film by Ara Ball is adapted from his own short film from 2013. A punchy film, Hurricane FYT transports us to a disadvantaged neighborhood of Montreal, in 1991, where an 11-year-old boy decides to take control of his life to become “The Hurricane”.

The chef and the customs officer (may)

Twelve years after the release of Liverpool, filmmaker Manon Briand (Fluid turbulence) makes his return to the cinema with this dramatic comedy carried by Julie Le Breton and French actor Édouard Baer. The latter plays a French chef in need of fame who will agree to come to the aid of a young girl registered in a culinary competition (Élodie Fontaine), at the request of her mother, an intransigent customs officer (Le Breton).

Adam is slowly changing (spring)

Launched as a world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival last year, this first feature film by Joël Vaudreuil features a 15-year-old teenager who has the particularity of having a body that changes according to the mockery and negative comments he receives from those around him. A multidisciplinary artist (he is also a member of the group Avec pas d’casque), Joël Vaudreuil has already directed animated short films which have stood out in festivals, including The weak current of the river.

Our sisters-in-law (11 July)

Director René Richard Cyr has assembled a five-star cast for his musical film inspired by Michel Tremblay’s famous play. It was Geneviève Schmidt who was chosen to play the legendary role of Germaine Lauzon, surrounded in particular by Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Debbie Lynch-White and Ariane Moffatt, who will thus make her debut on the big screen . René Richard Cyr promises a “very cinematic” work which will be very different from the original piece, but also from its musical version presented on stage a few years ago.

Tell me why these things are so beautiful (July 19)

Presented as a world premiere at the last International Cinema Festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, this film inspired by the epistolary relationship between brother Marie-Victorin and his young assistant Marcelle Gauvreau marks the return of director Lyne Charlebois to the cinema, 15 years after the release of Borderline. To write the screenplay, the filmmaker read several times each of the letters that Marie-Victorin and Marcelle Gauvreau wrote to each other between 1933 and 1944 and in which they explored human sexuality, desire and “biology without veil”. It is Alexandre Goyette who lends his features to Brother Marie-Victorin while Mylène Mackay slips into the skin of Marcelle Gauvreau.

1995 (July 31)

Five years after the release of 1991Ricardo Trogi will launch, next summer, the fourth part of his autobiographical saga begun 14 years ago by nineteen eighty one. Tour in Quebec, Morocco and Nepal, the comedy 1995 will relate the adventures of the filmmaker (played once again by the actor Jean-Carl Boucher) as he made his debut as a director by participating in the 1994-1995 edition of The world destination race. Sandrine Bisson, Claudio Colangelo, Shadi Janho, Rose Adam, Myriam Gaboury and Mickaël Gouin complete the film’s cast.

The hidden woman (August 9)

Eight years after the release of White Montreal, director Bachir Bensaddek is back with this second feature film starring French actress Nailia Harzoune and Antoine Bertrand. Written by Maria Camila Arias, The hidden woman recounts the journey of a woman who, after fleeing France, rebuilt her life in Quebec by lying about her past. But while she is pregnant with a second child, she will have to admit her lies to her Quebec partner.

Shepherd (autumn)

After signing two TV series (Black beast And Motel Paradise), filmmaker Sophie Deraspe (Antigone) returns to the cinema by bringing the book to the big screen Where are you from, shepherd?, by Quebec writer Mathyas Lefebure. Filmed in France last spring, Shepherd stars Félix-Antoine Duval as a young advertising executive who trades his life in Montreal for that of a shepherd in France.

M^she Ankle boot (November 29)

Antoine Bertrand and the young actress Marguerite Laurence share the spotlight in this rereading of the famous Tale for All Bach and Bottinereleased in 1986. Directed by Yan Lanouette Turgeon from a screenplay by Dominic James (Firm coconut), this new version of André Melançon’s classic follows the adventures of an opera composer lacking inspiration who is forced to take in his niece, a rebellious and eccentric orphan whose best friend is a skunk.

The little one and the old man (2024)

Adapted from the novel of the same title by author Marie-Renée Lavoie, this fourth feature film by director Patrice Sauvé (Life, life, It smells like a cup) relates the meeting between a kid with an overflowing imagination and her new neighbor, a “gruff old man who hides a tender heart”. Gildor Roy and young actress Juliette Bharucha play the main roles in this family film.

Vile and miserable (2024)

Fabien Cloutier slips into the skin of Lucien Vil, a misanthropic demon who became a used bookseller, in this fantastic comedy by director Jean-François Leblanc, adapted from the graphic novel of the same title by Samuel Cantin. Pier-Luc Funk plays him as Daniel, his young new assistant who turns his daily life upside down. Vile and miserable also stars Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Chantal Fontaine, Alexis Martin and Éric Robidoux.