A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman.
Social & External
The people behind it
Marianne Coquelicot Mercier
Camille
Denis Mercier
Marie-Pierre
Tobie Pelletier
Lucky
Sylvie Drapeau
Michele
Luc Picard
J. Boulet
Gilles Renaud
Jacob
Jean-René Ouellet
Le dragueur
Danielle Proulx
La chanteuse
Abeille Gélinas
Copine de Lucky
Frédéric Pierre
Bouctouche
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Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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