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REFERENCE GUIDE THIS LIST IS FOR YOUR REFERENCE ONLY. WE CANNOT PROVIDE DVDs OF THESE FILMS, AS THEY ARE NOT PART OF OUR OFFICIAL PROGRAMME. HOWEVER, WE HOPE YOU’LL EXPLORE THESE PAGES AND CHECK THEM OUT ON YOUR OWN. DRAMA ACT OF THE HEART BEFORE TOMORROW 1970 / Director-Writer: Paul Almond / 103 min / 2009 / Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline English / PG Ivalu (Inuk) / Writers: Susan Avingaq (Inuk), Marie-Hélène A deeply religious woman’s piety is tested when a Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu / 93 min / Inuktitut / PG charismatic monk becomes the guest conductor in her In remote northern Quebec, this survival story pits a woman church choir. Starring Geneviève Bujold and Donald Sutherland. and her grandson against the arctic elements — and their first contact with European settlers. Nominated for nine ADORATION Genie Awards. ADORATION 2008 / Director-Writer: Atom Egoyan / 100 min / English / 14A For his French assignment, a high school student weaves BLACK CONFLUX his family history into a news story involving terrorism and 2019 / Director-Writer: Nicole Dorsey / 100 min / English / PG invites an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy. In 1980s Newfoundland, two lonely misfits’ lives run parallel With Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian and Rachel Blanchard. to each other until a chance meeting changes both of their lives forever.. AN AUDIENCE OF CHAIRS 2019 / Directors: Deanne Foley / Writer: Joan Clark / 93 min / BLACKBIRD English / PG 2012 / Director-Writer: Jason Buxton / 103 min / ANNE AT 13,000 FT A concert pianist suffering from bipolar disorder has to English / 14A restart her life after she loses custody of her two daughters. Sean (Connor Jessup), a socially isolated and bullied teenage goth, is falsely accused of plotting a school shooting and ANGELIQUE’S ISLE struggles against a justice system that is stacked against him. 2018 / Directors: Michelle Derosier (Anishinaabe), Marie-Hélène Cousineau / Writer: James R. Stevens / 90 min / English / 14A BLACK COP In the mid-19th century, a newlywed Anishinaabe woman 2017 / Director-Writer: Cory Bowles / 91 min / English / 14A (Julia Mott) and her husband join a copper expedition but A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking his are stranded on an island by their crewmates where they frustrations out on the privileged community he’s sworn to must survive a brutal winter. protect. The film won 10 awards at film festivals around the BEEBA BOYS world, and the John Dunning Discovery Award at the CSAs. ANNE AT 13,000 FT. 2019 / Director-Writer: Kazik Radwanski / 75 min / English / PG THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE An introverted daycare worker (Deragh Campbell) with an OPEN anxiety disorder finds her relationships in free fall as she 2019 / Directors-Writers: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá succumbs to her neuroses. Tailfeathers (Kainai) / 105 min / English / PG A pregnant woman in an abusive relationship is given AVOIR 16 ANS / TO BE SIXTEEN unexpected assistance from a stranger (Tailfeathers) over the 1979 / Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre / Writers: Claude course of an afternoon. BLACKBIRD Paquette, Jean Pierre Lefebvre / 125 min / French / NR An austere and moving study of youthful dissent and CAST NO SHADOW institutional repression told from the point of view of a 2014 / Director: Christian Sparkes / Writer: Joel Thomas rebellious 16-year-old (Yves Benoît). Hynes / 85 min / English / PG In rural Newfoundland, 13-year-old Jude Traynor (Percy BACKROADS (BEARWALKER) Hynes White) relies on his vivid imagination to navigate the 2000 / Director-Writer: Shirley Cheechoo (Cree) / 83 min / challenges of a delinquent childhood, a tumultuous family English / NR life and an evil cave-dwelling troll across the harbour. On a fictional Canadian reserve, a mysterious evil known as “the Bearwalker” begins stalking the community. Meanwhile, CASTLE IN THE GROUND BLACK COP police prejudice and racial injustice strike fear in the hearts of 2019 / Director: Joey Klein / 105 min / English / 14A four sisters. While grieving the loss of his mother, a young man finds himself drawn into a dangerous group of opioid addicts. BEEBA BOYS Starring Alex Woolf, Neve Campbell and Imogen Poots. 2015 / Director-Writer: Deepa Mehta / 103 min / English / 14A Gang violence and a maelstrom of crime rock Vancouver in this flashy, dangerous thriller about the Indo-Canadian underworld. Starring Randeep Hooda and Ali Momen. CAST NO SHADOW REEL CANADA REFERENCE GUIDE 73 DRAMA continued LA CHUTE DE L’EMPIRE AMÉRICAIN / THE FALL OF DIM THE FLUORESCENTS THE AMERICAN EMPIRE 2017 / Director: Daniel Warth / Writers: Miles Barstead, 2018 / Director: Denys Arcand / 127 min / French / 14A Daniel Warth / 128 min / English / 14A A delivery truck driver on the scene of a bank robbery takes A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their two bags of money amidst the commotion, sending him creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role- down a rabbit hole of crime and bad decisions. playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival. CLOSET MONSTER CLOSET MONSTER 2015 / Director-Writer: Stephen Dunn / 90 min / English / 14A LA DISPARITION DES LUCIOLES / THE FIREFLIES ARE Troubled by memories of a hate crime he witnessed as a GONE child, Oscar becomes afraid to reveal his own homosexuality. 2018 / Director-Writer: Sébastien Pilote / 96 min / But with the help of friends — and his own unbridled French-English / PG creativity — he learns to embrace his true self. Winner of Tired of her family nagging her about her future, 18 year the Best Canadian Feature Award at TIFF 2015; starring old Léo (Karelle Tremblay) rebels by striking up an unusual Connor Jessup and Aliocha Schneider. friendship with Steve (Pierre-Luc Brilliant), her much older guitar teacher who still lives in his mother’s basement. This UNE COLONIE / A COLONY quiet and poignant exploration of small-town life was awarded UNE COLONIE 2018 / Director-Writer: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles / the prize for Best Canadian Film at TIFF 2018. 102 min / French / NR Twelve-year-old Mylia (Emilie Bierre) is the new kid DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN at school. She tries to fit in with a popular clique, but 2011 / Director-Writer: Don Shebib / 84 min / English / PG unexpectedly forms a special bond with an Abenaki Forty years after the events of Goin’ Down the Road (p.83), classmate, and through him begins to see how her teachers this sequel to the Canadian classic picks up the action when have normalized the racism of her peers. Winner of the CSA Pete learns of Joey’s death and embarks on a cross-country for Best Picture. road trip to return his ashes to Cape Breton. LA DISPARITION DES LE CONFESSIONNAL / THE CONFESSIONAL EMPORTE-MOI / SET ME FREE LUCIOLES 1995 / Director-Writer: Robert Lepage / 100 min / 1999 / Director: Léa Pool / Writers: Nancy Huston, Léa Pool, French / 14A Isabelle Raynault / 95 min / French / AA Inspired by Hitchcock, Lepage’s feature debut tells the story A tomboyish 13-year-old girl (Karine Vanasse) in 1960s of an adopted man on a search for his true identity, as Montreal finds escape at the movies and navigates the tricky recounted by his mother to a priest in a confessional. terrain of adolescence. CORBO LES ÊTRES CHERS / THE LOVED ONES 2014 / Director-Writer: Mathieu Denis / 119 min / French / PG 2016 / Director-Writer: Anne Émond / 102 min / In this gripping feature debut based on a true story, an French / 14A EMPORTE-MOI idealistic teenager (Anthony Therrien) in 1966 is attracted to When a beloved patriarch commits suicide, the family he the separatist politics of the Front de libération du Québec leaves behind is tasked with picking up the pieces. Decades (FLQ) and is drawn in as their tactics become increasingly later, his final act still echoes through lessons in love, grief violent and dangerous. and how to move forward. Nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. COSMOS 1996 / Directors: various / Writers: Marie-Julie Dallaire, EVE AND THE FIREHORSE Sebastien Joannette, Denis Villeneuve / 99 min / French / AA 2005 / Director-Writer: Julia Kwan / 92 min / English / PG Through Cosmos, an immigrant cab driver, worlds collide A precocious 9-year-old with a wild imagination grows up LES ÊTRES CHERS with six seemingly disparate yet interconnected characters amid her traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver. and stories. FALLS AROUND HER DANCE ME OUTSIDE 2018 / Director-Writer: Darlene Naponse (Anishinaabe) / 101 1994 / Director: Bruce McDonald / Writers: John Frizzell, min / English, Objiwa / 18A Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar / 84 min / English / AA An internationally famous musician returns to her After the murder of a young girl from the fictional hometown looking for peace and quiet, but her past comes Kidabanesee First Nation, her distraught community back to haunt her in dangerous ways. Featuring a powerful demands answers — and the aimless Silas Crow takes up the performance from Tantoo Cardinal (Cree/Métis) in the cause. Starring Jennifer Podemski, Adam Beach and Ryan leading role. EVE AND THE FIREHORSE Rajendra Black. Winner of two Genie Awards. FAMILY VIEWING LE DÉMANTÈLEMENT / THE DISMANTLING 1987 / Director-Writer: Atom Egoyan / 86 min / English / AA 2013 / Director-Writer: Sébastien Pilote / 111 min / French / G Van (Aidan Tierney) plots to get his grandmother out of When his daughter asks him for financial help to avoid losing a nursing home, while his estranged father destroys the