Montreal: More than 140 films and videos produced in Quebec in 1996 including 20 premieres are on the program for the 15th Rendez-vous du cinema Quebecois, the annual production retrospective running from Feb. 27 to March 8.

The showcase opens with director Anne Claire Poirier’s 10th movie, Tu as crie Let Me Go, a National Film Board documentary on drug abuse and the shocking murder of the director’s daughter, and Sylvain Guy’s short film satire Zie 37 Stagen.

Five films from a qualifying list of 29 have been nominated for this year’s Prix aqcc-sodec, awarded to the best Quebec feature-length production. They are: Cosmos, from directors Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Andre Turpin, Arto Paragamian and Denis Villeneuve; Lilies from director John Greyson; La Plante humaine from director Pierre Hebert; Le Polygraphe from director Robert Lepage; and Le Sort de l’Amerique from director Jacques Godbout.

Subjects of this year’s Rendez-vous tributes are actor Robert Gravel (March 2) and poet Gaston Miron (March 4), both men having pasted away last year, and 1996 Prix Albert-Tessier winner Jacques Giraldeau (March 4).