Monia Chokri
Also Known As: Мония Шокри
Biography: Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982; Québec) is a Canadian actress and film director. Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is of Scottish origin through Scandinavian ancestors, while her father is descended from Tunisian Berber roots. In addition to having played in several theatre productions in Montreal, she has received notable roles in films presented at the Cannes Film Festival directed by Québécois filmmakers who are better known outside of Canada, namely Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan. In Heartbeats, she played Marie, a young woman who falls in love with the same man as her gay male best friend Francis, played by Dolan, who also directed. The quality of her acting has been noted by critics, notably in Les Inrockuptibles and Le Monde. At the end of 2010, the readers of Les Inrockuptibles named her #4 on their list of the top actresses of the year for her performance in Heartbeats. Her debut as a director, the short film An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire), was released in 2013 and won the Prix Jutra for Best Short Film at the 16th Jutra Awards. Her feature debut, A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère), premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Babysitter, in which she was both the director and an actor, was released in 2022. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada
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The Nature of Love
Overview: Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Heartbeats
Overview: Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-29
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Yesterday, Today, Yesterday
Overview: Shot overs 3 years, with a small crew of 5 people, "Hier, Aujourd'hui, Hier" ("Yesterday, Today, Yesterday") is the first feature film from Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau and is a completely independent effort that explores, with sincerity, the ups and downs of love stories. The ones that leave scars. The ones that force you to rethink your life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-03
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La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia)
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-03
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Entre chien et loup
Overview: Sophie and Dave, old college friends, run into each other downtown. Over a drunken night at Sophie's apartment, these two old friends get to know each other again. But can Dave be trusted? Is he a dog, or a wolf?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-04
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N.T.N.E
Overview: A game of Scrabble between two men quickly gets out of hand.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-01
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Falcon Lake
Overview: A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Laurence Anyways
Overview: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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Clemenceau
Overview: 1917, German troups are moving forward to Paris, the French government calls a providential man : Clémenceau.
Genres: History TV Movie War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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Gare du Nord
Overview: Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-04
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Room 999
Overview: In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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All Yours
Overview: A penniless Argentine male escort meets a solitary, lonely Belgian baker who wants to help him leave the world of prostitution, explores intimate gay relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Frédérique au centre
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Nothing Else
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Overview: Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-20
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Résonance
Overview: An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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Love Letters
Overview: Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-05-17
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Endorphine
Overview: Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Heal the Living
Overview: The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-01
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Mercato
Overview: Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into billions. Driss, a player agent, has seven days to save his skin before the end of the mercato...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-19
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Ravenous
Overview: In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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A Taste of Ink
Overview: Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting his frustrations and desires. Ever since his mother died, he shares his time between Porte de Clignancourt and Bastille, between a piercer job he is unhappy with and his fishmonger father, Hervé, who is trying to start a new life with a younger woman named Julia. Vincent is initially appalled by the woman, with whom his father has ‘betrayed’ his mother, but the more they get to know each other, the more he becomes intrigued by the beautiful and empathetic woman. Unlike his father, she shows interest in him, even attending one of his gigs. What starts out as a potential way of reconciling with his father soon implodes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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My Intelligent Comedy
Overview: Damien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor Denis Lavant. Indebted, he’s working at a post-production company, far from his artistic ideals. On the eve of his 33rd birthday, he is self-centered, unsatisfied, and lost in his own life. With no drama of his own, he is confronted with that of others who he meets over the course of his life. He will discover that reality is way more interesting than fiction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Slurpee
Overview: A boy struggling with a newly discovered fetish meets a hooker reminiscing her past as an aspiring judoka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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L'appartement
Overview: Between tension and tenderness, a mother welcomes her two children in her new and modest apartment for a weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-17
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Poor Georges
Overview: Georges (Grégory Gadebois), teaches school in Montreal – he and wife Emma, (Monia Chokri) have just moved to the countryside. One day, he surprises a young intruder Zack, (Noah Parker), rummaging through his things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-03
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Emma Peeters
Overview: After 10 years of struggle in Paris, Emma Peeters has to face the facts: she will never be an actress. She decides to commit suicide on her 35th birthday. That is when she meets Alex, a funeral home employee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Before We Explode
Overview: The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States is bringing the world's population back into a Cold War-like climate. In the small town of Baie-St-Paul (Québec, Canada), Pier-Luc is afraid: afraid of dying, of course, but, above all, afraid of dying before he could make love for the first time. With his buddies, Hubert and Samuel, he goes through "the summer of last chances" and takes drastic measures in order to lose his virginity... Before we explode.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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We Are Gold
Overview: Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by her childhood friends, Kristoff and Kevin, who is the only survivor of the mining collapse. For GOLD's short-lived trio, commemorative week will slowly drag them into shocking and confusing areas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-29
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Sing Me Back Home
Overview: After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont, USA, arrives overnight to see her. But how to welcome her when Jewell tells her so long about her life, her work and her loves? From one letter to another, she has invented a career that works, a life with Paul, and even a girl, Ruby. But as an Italian proverb says, lies have short legs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-06
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Jarvik
Overview: A teenager who longs to just be a teenager must instead spend the last days of summer helping her family cope with a recent loss as well as her younger brother’s health crisis.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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The Saver
Overview: When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-20
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Le Pédophile
Overview: Nina has lived a traumatizing past since she's a little girl. She attempts to break this vicious circle and take reality back into her own hands. Tells the hard hitting story of a woman coping with a history of being sexually abused.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Babysitter
Overview: After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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Où vont les âmes?
Overview: Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted of rape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Love Me Tender
Overview: At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-05-20
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Les enfants vont bien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-12-03
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Si tu penses bien
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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