Movies by Émile Schneider

Kiss Me With All Your Love

Kiss Me With All Your Love

Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crippled from birth. This proximity awakens the sensuality of Berthe who tries to seduce her brother. Pierre rejects her advances, but when he falls in love with Marguerite, his best friend's girlfriend, he is haunted by the fantasy of his sister.

Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine

In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River, north of Lake Saint-Jean. The Chapdelaines work tirelessly to push the limits of the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot dampen the warmth of family life, Maria, strong and full of hope, finds herself faced with major dilemmas. Thrust into the world of adults, Maria will suddenly be forced to decide on her future as a woman.

Hurricane Boy F.Y.T!

Hurricane Boy F.Y.T!

Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district, 1991. Eleven-year-old Delphis is a hoodlum in the making. Raised in an unstable, cash-strapped home environment, he runs away from school, engages in petty theft and sleeps under the stars. He chooses his emblem, the lightning bolt, and his nom de guerre: L’Ouragan (the Hurricane)! Just as he’s about to be nabbed by the cops, he’s rescued by a gang of punks who live in a commune. Ten years after the release of his cult short, Ara Ball brings Delphis and his misfit rebels back to the big screen. This...

Mercenaire

Mercenaire

Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.

We Have Forever

We Have Forever

A young man approaching his 20s can either work for his mother in her restaurant or carve his own path and join his friends in Montreal. Before making this decision, he encounters Sara and Léa, two enticing young women who may derail his plans of becoming the greatest chef in the world.

A Pact Among Angels

A Pact Among Angels

One evening, at the bend of an alley, an ordinary man surprises two young people who have just committed a crime. In panic, the teenagers take this witness hostage and drag him into their escape. Then begins for two generations that everything separates, an inner journey which will mark the three souls forever.

I'll End Up in Jail

I'll End Up in Jail

A bored stay-at-home mom gets into trouble after speeding away from her small-town life.

Rebel

Rebel

Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is oblivious to the thousands of refugees entering Canada illegally to avoid deportation. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.

The Lion's Path

The Lion's Path

After meeting about a month ago, Alex and Jade fall for each other hard. When she invites him to join her in the country with some friends, including her cousin Oliver, he leaps at the chance. But what Jade has failed to make clear is that they will be sharing with other young guests who are all members of a commune led by Gabriel, a former college professor obsessed with Nietzsche. Alex, who has been soul-searching since he quit studying economics, soon realizes that Gabriel is a bona fide guru who has turned his magnificent house into what...