Certified Copy is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman, in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany. The man is a British author who has just finished givinga lecture at a conference. The woman, from France, owns an art gallery. This is a common story that couldhappen to anyone, anywhere.

Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a young man from the country newly arrived in town.

As one rendezvous leads troublingly to another – whether real or imagined, the signs are all bad – each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around the same object of desire. And the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.

Xavier Dolan’s second film, Heartbeats, is a study of the fall into love. We follow each stage of the typical love story’s progress – it starts with a meeting and ends in tears. The film reveals a fundamentally simple intrigue that careers through a whole gamut of poetic craziness: passions unleashed, expectations, sorrow, humiliation and, finally, loneliness.

1562. In France, during the reign of Charles IX, the wars of religion are raging…
Marie de Mézières, heiress to one of the kingdom’s greatest fortunes, loves the young Duc de Guise, known in the annals of history as Le Balafré, “Scarface”. She believes he loves her back.
To increase his family’s prestige, her father, the Marquis de Mézières forces Marie to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom she has never met.

The Prince is summoned by Charles IX to join the war against the Protestants. With the whole country turned into a bloody battlefield, he sends his young wife to Champigny, one of his most secluded castles, in the company of the Comte de Chabannes, his friend and former tutor. The Prince asks Chabannes to complete the Princess’s education so that she can take her place at court
one day. In unhappy isolation at Champigny, Marie tries to forget the passionate longing she still feels for Guise. Fate and the changing course of the war lead Guise and the Duc d’Anjou, the future Henri III , to stay at Champigny shortly after Montpensier has joined Marie there. In turn, Anjou falls in love with the Princess, to whose charms Chabannes has also succumbed.

A violent, passionate rivalry develops with Marie as the prize.

Lone parent Anna (Anne-Marie Duff) is involved with her next-door neighbor George (Rupert Graves), whose marriage has settled into a rut. Meanwhile care worker Stephen (Ralf Little) is having doubts about his own long-term relationship. When Anna and Stephen meet by chance, each glimpses the happiness that has hitherto been so elusive. Straight from the Edinburgh Film Festival, IFC Festival Direct presents this sophisticated debut effort from writer/director Roger Goldby, a bracingly illuminating portrayal of when relationships stall and that second change that may renew our faith in love.

2:37 is a confronting, thought-provoking, ’slice-of-life’, contemporary drama which takes place over one day at a suburban high school.  We start the day at 2:37pm.  School is almost out, and one of the six students we are about to meet has had enough and will change the lives of family, friends, fellow students and teachers forever.  We then go back to the beginning of that day and are introduced to six students, all of whom are dealing with issues all too common in adolescent life.  If only someone had listened.  From sexuality and infidelity, drugs and eating disorders, the beautiful elite versus the outcasts, to parental neglect and academic pressures - “2:37″ takes us on a journey of ethereal beauty juxtaposed with the dark issues we face in our day to day life.  2:37 is a thought-provoking, ensemble drama that will live in your mind: passionate, bold, controversial and above all, humane.