directed by Caroline Mailloux/ When an eight-year-old boy in a small Quebec town goes missing without a trace, a local woman begins to wonder if her young son might hold the key to the mystery. A tightly wound drama about social expectations and how kids and adults can be, on the inside, a million miles […]
Archives for September 2014
Intruders
directed by Santiago Menghini/ In the dark just before the dawn, a woman has died in her small suburban home, her death caused by some mysterious, intangible entity looming over the town — a presence that has only just begun to make itself felt. A chilling, brilliantly controlled evocation of the inexplicable forces that have […]
An Apartment
directed by Sarah Galea-Davis/ Middle-aged and unemployed, Paul is looking to restart his life — but as he is forced to move in with his brother and take a menial job, it becomes increasingly apparent that what he’s lost can’t be regained. A sensitive and honest depiction of fading middle-class dreams. Issue 16: Toronto International […]
Sleeping Giant
directed by Andrew Cividino/ While spending a boring summer on Lake Superior, Adam falls in with two local boys and begins to fill his days attempting ever more hazardous stunts — but the arrival of pretty young Taylor could lead to the trio’s riskiest dare yet. Andrew Cividino captures boyhood growing pains with bracing authenticity. […]
Me and My Moulton
directed by Torill Kove/ A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of […]
Will There Be Blood?
directed by Alexander Eden/ An elderly gent enjoys his morning stroll unaware that two separate serial killers have each taken a rather dangerous interest in him… Who will prevail, or will there even be blood? A silent, black & white comedy set in the enchanting city of Paris. “They always say if you turn down […]
One Step Forward
directed by Joel Marsh and Ben Crowell/ Love in reverse. “A lot of our work is balancing what’s planned and what’s improvised because you can’t be too rigid with what you want on set. If you find something that looks good, or find something that works better than what you planned, you have to be […]
Noise
directed by Olga and Tatiana Poliektova/ Film about a man, whose noisy thoughts prevented him from finding happiness. “Inspiration can come from anywhere. Sometimes we can walk on the street and see a person and we just know that this could be a great character, we take a picture, come home and sketch.” – Olga […]
Urka Burka
directed by Angelo D’Agostino/ A politically uncorrect arty thirty year old finds himself haunted by a ghost-like figure hidden under a bourqa who chases him through the narrow streets of his town. What truth lies beneath the unknown? “The film shows how afraid we are of what we don’t know. Any society is generally afraid […]
Indigo
directed by Amanda Strong/ Hand-crafted, stop-motion figures come to life in this dreamlike tale inspired by Native mythology, in which a confined woman is liberated by a grandmother spider while opaque memories are projected in an effort to restore her spirit as life nears its end. “Most of us put our inner child away somewhere […]
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