The Furies

Plot

Waterloo will now have its own semi-pro men's hockey team, thus expelling the amateur women's leagues from the arena. To avenge their lost ice time, an impulsive hockey player and a ruthless octogenarian—a former derby champion—have a plan: recruit the city's disenfranchised and form an underground roller derby team. With the help of the Women's Club, they will prove that women's sports can also inspire crowds and that sisterhood is the ultimate act of resistance.

About The Furies

The Furies (French: Les Furies) is a Canadian sports comedy film, directed by Mélanie Charbonneau and released in 2025. The first comedy film ever made in Quebec to focus on women's sports instead of men's, the film stars Gabrielle Côté as Mélissa, a young woman from Waterloo, Quebec, who enlists the help of retired roller derby star Yvette (France Castel) to set up a roller derby team after the women's sports programs are evicted from the local arena due to the imminent arrival of a new semi-professional men's ice hockey team. The cast also includes Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Juliette Gosselin, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Debbie Lynch-White, Nathalie Doummar, Sandrine Bisson, Antoine Bertrand, Antoine Pilon, Maxime de Cotret and Lyraël Dauphin in supporting roles. Côté was the writer of the film's screenplay. The film was shot in spring 2025 in Montreal and Waterloo. The film premiered theatrically on November 19, 2025, at Montreal's Place des Arts, in advance of its commercial release on November 28. France Castel received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026.

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