In October of 1991, an unspeakable event rocks a small town in Quebec, haunting a family who tries to hide their dark secret. Thirty years later these secrets resurface, sending the family on an unstoppable pursuit of reconciliation.Read More »
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Xavier Dolan – La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé AKA The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)
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Guy Maddin – Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988)
1981-1990CanadaExperimentalFantasyGuy MaddinSet during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL (1988) is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room “in a Gimli we no longer know.” Zeitgeist Films and Films We Like in Canada present a brand new 4K remastering of TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL REDUX by Guy Maddin, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library and includes the replacement of a long-lost scene. Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature, released in 1988, is now regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit.Read More »
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Barbara Sternberg – Tending Towards the Horizontal (1989)
1981-1990Barbara SternbergCanadaExperimentalQuote:
The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits on a hay bale, watching the city below; and a woman in a library who reads only what others have left behind. The filmed images are predominantly houses: houses seen in passing, along the horizontal; houses reflecting sky and trees in their windows; houses partially hidden by trees or the shadows they cast; houses and office towers simultaneously pictured in stages of demolition and construction.Read More » -
Brandon Cronenberg – Infinity Pool (2023) (HD)
2021-2030Brandon CronenbergCanadaCrimeHorrorJames and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.Read More »
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Jeff Barnaby – Blood Quantum (2019)
2011-2020CanadaHorrorJeff BarnabyQuote:
The term “blood quantum” refers to a colonial blood measurement system that is used to determine an individual’s Indigenous status, and is criticized as a tool of control and erasure of Indigenous peoples. The words take on even more provocative implications as the title of Jeff Barnaby’s sophomore feature, which grimly depicts an apocalyptic scenario where in an isolated “Mi’gmaq” community discover they are the only humans immune to a zombie plague. As the citizens of surrounding cities flee to the “Mi’gmaq” reserve in search of refuge from the outbreak, the community must reckon with whether to let the outsiders in – and thus risk not just the extinction of their tribe but of humanity, period. The severe and scathing portrait of post-colonial Indigenous life and culture that Barnaby previously captured in the acclaimed Rhymes for Young Ghouls here deftly collides with the iconography and violent hyperbole typical of the zombie genre.Read More » -
Clement Virgo – Brother (2022)
2021-2030CanadaClement VirgoDramaSons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto’s early hip-hop scene.Read More »
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Fyodor Otsep – Whispering City (1947)
1941-1950CanadaDramaFilm NoirFyodor OtsepA reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.Read More »
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Mathieu Denis & Simon Lavoie – Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n’ont fait que se creuser un tombeau AKA Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (2016)
2011-2020ArthouseCanadaMathieu DenisPoliticsSimon LavoieA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.Read More »
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Derek Lamb & Janet Perlman – Why Me? (1978)
1971-1980AnimationCanadaDerek LambJanet PerlmanShort FilmUnfortunately, Nesbitt Spoon has just received the grievous news from his doctor that he is about to die–not in a year or even a month; but in the next five short minutes. Now, what would you do if you had less than five minutes to live?Read More »