Canada

Synopsis from Letterboxd
This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with a liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally, there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink’s office that she has no time to listen to the doctor’s advice.Read More »

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada’s First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these ‘residential schools’ across the country. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land. These children endured brutality, physical hardship, mental degradation, and the complete erasure of their culture. The schools were part of a wider program of assimilation designed to integrate the native population into ‘Canadian society.’ These schools were established with the express purpose ‘To kill the Indian in the child.’ Told through their own voices, ‘We Were Children’ is the shocking true story of two such children: Glen Anaquod and Lyna Hart.Read More »

SYNOPSIS
Lunar Almanac traces the observational points of the lunar cycle in a series of visual notations. Using single-frame and long-exposure photography, the unaltered, in-camera editing accumulates over 4000 layered field views of half-moons, new moons, and full moons. These lunar inscriptions flit across the screen with a frenetic energy, illuminating nocturnal reveries that pull at the tides as much as our dreams.Read More »

Charles Dexter Ward’s wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.Read More »

Light breaks the darkness in playful rapture.Read More »

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“This movie is good. The beatnik scene, with its pseudo-intellectualism, is played to the hilt. The atmosphere brought to life via a knowledgeable use of black and white, with good sets and staging, helps a lot. Peter Falk ( and I’d never seen him play a role quit like THIS one before ) comes across as wonderful talent. Frankly, his portrayal of Nico has Oscar nominee written all over it. I’ve said it before and I say it here again … Low budget doesn’t mean no quality. This movie is good quality. Its a credit to the crime drama genre. And there is a sound psychology to both the plot line and the character development that I liked very much. Think: Peer pressure. The part I thought both funny and prophetic … Heres the future Colombo with a detective on his tail. The name of the detective? McLeod.”Read More »

“Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya” forms part of a film constellation that stretches across the Pacific, from Chile to Australia. Malena Szlam trains her camera on far-flung volcanic landscapes, by turns barren and verdant. The dazzling in-camera multiple exposures of the film evoke the layered histories of Mount Beerwah to the titular Bunya Mountains, tracing a path along the central eastern ranges of Australia, which were illuminated in the afterglow of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai eruption. The film’s environmental evocations are further deepened by field recordings and sonified atmospheres from artist Lawrence English. —Malena SzlamRead More »

Synopsis
Before WAR GAMES there was Canada’s HIDE & SEEK. Watch this and you will see how close the movies are. High school computer wiz kid’s program accidently hooks into the main frame computer of a nuclear power plant and nearly causes a melt down!Read More »

When an introverted cartoonist’s girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. An adaptation of the Graphic Novel by Chester Brown.Read More »