Françoise Berd Movies

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to...

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit...

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is...

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte...

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.

Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space,...

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they...

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.

The 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...

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose...

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to...