Canada

Animation short depicting the industrialization in the city of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.Read More »

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A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.Read More »

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Bourges’s sophomore feature is a richly detailed, austerely composed study of an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park neighborhood, focused on a Syrian couple with a young son, former physician Rashid and his ex-actress wife (Hussam Douhna and Amani Ibrahim), facing marital discord, the disorientation of displacement, and the limbo-like status of the refugee.Read More »

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In a working-class neighbourhood, a group of teenagers are plotting a murder while Polo the local loan shark is preparing to celebrate his 43th birthday. L’eau chaude l’eau frette is a poetics of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy in which friend and foe, young and old, come together to party, wash their dirty linen in public, and settle accounts.Read More »

Synopsis: Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.Read More »

Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers’ phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.Read More »

It is both a spoof and a loving recreation of Soviet silent film. It is also an inventive movie in its own right. It is so full of images, one rapidly following the other in montage style, that it feels like it has the imagery and storytelling of a much longer movie.Read More »

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A family chronicle of the lives of five persons of different generations during one week of summer holidays. Through a mosaic of sweet or humorous moments, the movie shrewdly analyzes the similarities and the differences between these three generations of characters.Read More »

In a 19th-century summer, two large families gather for their annual fishing retreat on the far-removed island of Haida Gwaii. Adiits’ii, a charming nobleman, accidentally causes the death of his best friend Kwa’s son and hastens into the wilderness. Adiits’ii is tormented by what he has done and spirals into insanity, becoming Gaagiixid, a supernatural being crazed by hunger. He unexpectedly survives the winter, and at next year’s gathering, the families try to convert Gaagiixid back to Adiitst’ii.Read More »