Canada

Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the relationship between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during Rasmussen’s “Great Sled Journey” of 1922. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.Read More »

With echoes of everything from Kelly Reichardt’s work to Todd Haynes’ “Safe”, this is a film that’s at its best when it’s playing more with mood than traditional narrative…Read More »

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A suicidal teen develops a rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in the hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages, and possessions expands the boundaries of the relationship and alters inner chemistry.Read More »

The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.Read More »

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A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.Read More »

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between.Read More »

Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.Read More »

City Dreamers is a film about our changing urban environment and four women architects, inspiring trailblazers with over 60 years of experience each, who are working, observing and thinking about the transformations that are shaping the city of today and tomorrow.Read More »

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September 1961. It’s the start of a new academic year at the Université de Montréal. Nicole meets Pierre, a sophomore who shows her how to succeed in her courses without attending them. Marie-Josée tells her about her unhappy love affair and warns her to beware of men. Carl, a conceited young man, offers her a tour of the city. The film follows Nicole in a lecture on sexuality, and a show of the Cyniques (a famous 60s group of humorists). With Pierre, she takes part in a boozy initiation, and the romance culminates in an endless series of kisses that goes on until the first snow.Read More »