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Three hypersexual women spend 26 days in a quiet house by the lake. They are Léonie (serious), Eugénie (impulsive), and Gaëlle, a.k.a. Geisha (flirtatious). They are all there voluntarily, and the motto of the undertaking is that “hypersexuality is not a disease.” The aim of this experiment is not to heal but rather to enable a frank exploration of different experiences, forms, and extremes of desire. If you are familiar with Côté’s work, you may have learned not to expect ready-made answers or to be hit over the head with a message. Côté assembles a remarkable ensemble of performers in a film that asks more questions than it answers. That Kind of Summer had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Competition section.Read More »

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Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman named Estelle. This is briefly forgotten until later when she meets the same lady again and with mounting incredulity Andrea discovers that the actual events in the woman’s life mirror the fictional events in her film.Read More »

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A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.Read More »

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For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.Read More »

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‘Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfel enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women? Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea and Anne Heywood portray the three sides of an incendiary triangle in this breakthrough film that sparked controversy in its day and remains fascinating in ours. Based on a D.H. Lawrence novella and directed by Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond), The Fox probes the mysteries of human relationships with maturity, subtlety and candor.’Read More »

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After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.Read More »

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Bruce LaBruce produced, co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in this satiric black sex comedy about gay hustlers and their customers in Santa Monica, California. Monti Ward (Tony Ward), a male prostitute, is dead, floating face down in a Jacuzzi as the story begins, and in voice over, Monti describes the circumstances that led him to this cruel fate. Jurgen Anger (Bruce LaBruce), a writer from Europe, is in California researching a book on prostitution, and when he sees Monti, he decides that this is the man he wants to be his tour guide. Jurgen offers Monti $1,000 to tell him stories about “work” (which is more profitable and less taxing than what most of his clients put him through), and Monti agrees. Read More »

An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.Read More »

When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.Read More »