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  • Pascal Plante – Les faux tatouages AKA Fake Tattoos (2017)

    Pascal Plante2011-2020CanadaDramaRomance
    Les faux tatouages (2017)
    Les faux tatouages (2017)

    Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a teenage girl who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story starts between them, but Theo has to leave the city at the end of summer.Read More »

  • Pascal Plante – Les chambres rouges AKA Red Rooms (2023)

    Pascal Plante2021-2030CanadaDrama
    Les chambres rouges (2023)
    Les chambres rouges (2023)

    The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
    An element of the film I found most intriguing were the various people who were defending Chevalier. Whether it’s the very misguided Clementine, or even his defense lawyer, its uncomfortable to hear people supporting someone who so obviously did the crime. Yet there are people out there like this, so I think its nice to spotlight them. There were a ton of parallels between Clem in particular, as the Manson followers who stood outside his trial. So there’s a bit of catharsis that reveals itself as both Clem and Kelly-Anne are forced to reckon with their feelings as more evidence is unveiled.Read More »

  • Sébastien Pilote – Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

    Sébastien Pilote2021-2030CanadaDrama
    Maria Chapdelaine (2021)
    Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

    Quote:
    Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman of 16, lives with her family on land they are clearing near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, a quiet and determined young farmer has staked a claim on the land next to the Chapdelaine’s. Thrust into the adult world, and juggling with thoughts of land, family and love, Maria will suddenly be forced to choose her future as a woman.Read More »

  • Chloé Robichaud – Les Jours Heureux AKA Days Of Happiness (2023)

    2021-2030CanadaChloé RobichaudDrama
    Les Jours Heureux (2023)
    Les Jours Heureux (2023)

    In order to unlock the future she has dreamed of, a young up-and-coming orchestra conductor must learn to harness her past and long-repressed emotions.

    Emma, a talented rising star on the Montreal stage, has a complicated relationship with her father, and agent, Patrick. Aware she is not reaching her full potential, she must decide if she is willing to do what it takes to succeed by facing her past and tapping into her emotions. If saving her career wasn’t enough pressure, she must also save a budding romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a young boy.Read More »

  • Monia Chokri – Babysitter (2022)

    2021-2030CanadaComedyDramaMonia Chokri
    Babysitter (2022)
    Babysitter (2022)

    After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.Read More »

  • Michael Snow – ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

    Michael Snow1971-1980ArthouseCanadaExperimental
    'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) (1974)
    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) (1974)

    Synopsis
    Consisting of 25 sections, each segment is a meditation–often comic–about the nature of recorded sound, both abstract and representational, about the many possible kinds of audiovisual relationships, and about their philosophical implications.Read More »

  • David Steinberg – The Wrong Guy (1997)

    1991-2000CanadaComedyDavid Steinberg
    The Wrong Guy (1997)
    The Wrong Guy (1997)

    Plot Synopsis from IMDB:
    In Cleveland, the histrionic and clumsy executive Nelson Hibbert expects to be promoted to president of the Nigel Industries since he is engaged to the owner’s daughter. However, his future father-in-law Mr. Nagel chooses the executive Ken Daly for the position, and Nelson threatens him in front of the board of directors. Later he decides to pay a visit to Mr. Nagel but finds him dead with a knife in his neck. Nelson removes the knife and is covered of blood, becoming hysterical and leaving the office assuming that he is the prime suspect. However, the surveillance cameras disclose the identity of the killer, and while Nelson escapes to Metcaf believing that he is chased by the police, the killer is pursued by the police and tries to eliminate Nelson believing that he is a “super-cop” on his trail.Read More »

  • Connor Jessup – Lira’s Forest (2017)

    2011-2020CanadaConnor JessupFantasyShort Film
    Lira's Forest (2017)
    Lira’s Forest (2017)

    As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.Read More »

  • Frédéric Back – L’homme qui plantait des arbres aka The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)

    1981-1990AnimationCanadaDramaFrédéric Back
    L'homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)
    L’homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)

    The story of one shepherd’s single-handed effort to reforest a desolate valley.Read More »

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