| Director | Denis Villeneuve |
|---|---|
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $1.4 million |
On December 6, 1989, a young man prepares his Ruger Mini-14 and leaves a message for his mother. He then goes to Polytechnique Montreal, an engineering school, and enters a classroom during class with the Ruger Mini-14. He orders the men to leave and the women to stay. They comply after he shoots into the ceiling to show that he is serious. He tells the women that he hates feminists. Although the women deny being feminists, he shoots at them, killing some and wounding others. He then moves through corridors and the cafeteria, specifically targeting women.
One of the male students is Jean-François, who was ordered to leave the classroom. Instead of fleeing the scene, he returns to try to stop the killer and/or help the victims. Valérie and Stéphanie, two surviving women, play dead thinking the killer has returned, although Stéphanie later dies of her injuries.
Finally, the killer reaches another classroom where he kills a female lecturer. He then commits suicide, and his blood mixes with the blood of his victim.
Some time after the massacre, Jean-François, feeling guilty for complying with the order to leave the classroom and abandoning the women, commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Valérie, wearing the Iron Ring, the professional ring of Canadian engineers, learns she is pregnant. She makes plans to tell a potential son to be loving or a potential daughter that the world belongs to her.