Fernando Echevarría

When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of school, and his mother Ana isn't sure how to convince the boy that he's making a crucial mistake. Ana's client Carlos is a Cuban exile who makes his living selling cigars and artwork on the black market. When Carlos learns of Ana's dilemma, he calls on recently released convict Mikel to teach the boy how to play chess. Perhaps is young Gonzalo can master the game, he can learn to start living again. As the lessons get underway, each of these characters learns that in order to truly move on with their lives they much first break free of the bonds that prevent them from being who they really are.

Du cirque au théâtre, de l’anonymat à la gloire, l’incroyable destin du clown Chocolat, premier artiste noir de la scène française. Le duo inédit qu’il forme avec Footit, va rencontrer un immense succès populaire dans le Paris de la Belle époque avant que la célébrité, l’argent facile, le jeu et les discriminations n’usent leur amitié et la carrière de Chocolat.

Le film raconte la vie d'une chanteuse des années 1940-50 : Alys Robi. Pascale Bussières y incarne le rôle principal, entourée de Serge Postigo (Olivier Guimond, le premier amour de la chanteuse), de Denis Bernard (Lucio Agostini, le deuxième amour d'Alys) et de Michel Barrette (le père d'Alys). Nous voyons la comédienne en spectacle interpréter les plus grands succès de la légende québécoise ainsi que la star lors de son internement à l'asile Saint-Michel-Archange de Québec, aujourd'hui l'Institut psychiatrique Robert-Giffard. Elle y subira une lobotomie à l'âge de 28 ans.