GINA

What do you do when your documentary exposing horrific labor exploitation in the largest industry in Quebec gets banned by the National Film Board of Canada? Wrap it into the subplot of a badass crime flick and release it five years later under the title GINA!

After being sent to rural Quebec to perform at a seedy motel, exotic dancer Gina (Céline Lomez) establishes a friendship with a group of visiting documentary filmmakers making a film about unionizing textile workers. After starting at a new club, Gina becomes aware of a lecherous Ski-Doo gang hiding out on an abandoned, run aground ship. Keenly aware of one another’s presence, Gina and the gang develop an antagonistic relationship that eventually leads to a horrific assault. But what these ski-masked snow deviants don’t realize is that Gina works for some of Montreal’s most dangerous criminals, and they’re on their way to enact an ugly revenge. Improbably fusing labor politics with an explosive exploitation narrative, GINA has a conviction and assurance that resists easy categorization. Part frigid hangout movie, part vicious revenge saga, this is a one-of-a-kind powerhouse that builds to a gruesome climax and the greatest snowmobile chase in movie history.