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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 1:54 AVOIR 16 ANS / TO BE SIXTEEN 2016 / Director-Writer: Yan England / 106 min / 1979 / Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre / Writers: Claude French / 14A Paquette, Jean Pierre Lefebvre / 125 min / French / NR Tim (Antoine Olivier Pilon) is a smart and athletic 16-year- An austere and moving study of youthful dissent and old dealing with personal tragedy and a school bully in this institutional repression told from the point of view of a honest coming-of-age sports movie from actor-turned- rebellious 16-year-old (Yves Benoît). filmmaker England. Also starring Sophie Nélisse. BACKROADS (BEARWALKER) 1:54 ACROSS THE LINE 2000 / Director-Writer: Shirley Cheechoo / 83 min / 2016 / Director: Director X / Writer: Floyd Kane / 87 min / English / NR English / 14A On a fictional Canadian reserve, a mysterious evil known as A hockey player in Atlantic Canada considers going pro, but “the Bearwalker” begins stalking the community. Meanwhile, the colour of his skin and the racial strife in his community police prejudice and racial injustice strike fear in the hearts become a sticking point for his hopes and dreams. Starring of four sisters. Stephan James, Sarah Jeffery and Shamier Anderson. BEEBA BOYS ACT OF THE HEART 2015 / Director-Writer: Deepa Mehta / 103 min / 1970 / Director-Writer: Paul Almond / 103 min / English / 14A English / PG Gang violence and a maelstrom of crime rock Vancouver ADORATION A deeply religious woman’s piety is tested when a in this flashy, dangerous thriller about the Indo-Canadian charismatic Augustinian monk becomes the guest underworld. Starring Randeep Hooda and Ali Momen. conductor in her church choir. Starring Geneviève Bujold and Donald Sutherland. BEFORE TOMORROW 2009 / Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Ivalu / ADORATION Writers: Susan Avingaq, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline 2008 / Director-Writer: Atom Egoyan / 100 min / Ivalu / 93 min / Inuktitut / PG English / 14A In remote northern Quebec, this survival story pits a For his French assignment, a high school student weaves woman and her grandson against the arctic elements — his family history into a news story involving terrorism and and their first contact with European settlers. Nominated invites an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy. for nine Genies. BEEBA BOYS With Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian and Rachel Blanchard. BLACKBIRD 2012 / Director-Writer: Jason Buxton / 103 min / AMAL English / 14A 2007 / Director: Richie Mehta / Writers: Richie Mehta, Sean (Connor Jessup), a socially isolated and bullied Shaun Mehta / 101 min / English and Hindi / 18A teenage goth, is falsely accused of plotting a school A wealthy but disillusioned man leaves his fortune to shooting and struggles against a justice system that is Amal (Rupinder Nagra), a kind auto-rickshaw driver he met stacked against him. only once. However, Amal must be found before time runs out … and before the billionaire’s scheming children get BLACK COP their hands on the inheritance. 2017 / Director-Writer: Cory Bowles / 91 min / English / 14A BLACKBIRD A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking his AVA frustrations out on the privileged community he’s sworn to 2017 / Director-Writer: Sadaf Foroughi / 102 min / Farsi / PG protect. The film won 10 awards at film festivals around the Ava (Mahour Jabbari) is a teen growing up in Iran, where world, and the John Dunning Discovery Award at the CSAs. her life is controlled by strict routines and rules. As she faces mounting pressure to conform to the expectations CAIRO TIME of her parents, Ava begins to push back against the very 2009 / Director-Writer: Ruba Nadda / 90 min / English / PG foundations of her society. The film won the FIPRESCI While in Cairo waiting for her husband, Juliette (Patricia award at TIFF 2017 and was nominated for six CSAs. Clarkson) finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig). BLACK COP REEL CANADA REFERENCE GUIDE 75 DRAMA continued CALENDAR DIM THE FLUORESCENTS 1993 / Director-Writer: Atom Egoyan / 75 min / English and 2017 / Director: Daniel Warth / Writers: Miles Barstead, Armenian / NR Daniel Warth / 128 min / English / 14A Original and haunting, this film depicts an Armenian- A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their Canadian photographer (Atom Egoyan) and his wife creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role- (Arsinée Khanjian), whose relationship gradually playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. The deteriorates as they tour their homeland taking pictures for film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival. CAST NO SHADOW a calendar. DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN CAST NO SHADOW 2011 / Director-Writer: Don Shebib / 84 min / English / PG 2014 / Director: Christian Sparkes / Writer: Joel Thomas Goin’ Down the Road (p.86) is a Canadian classic about Hynes / 85 min / English / PG Cape Bretoners Pete and Joey, who head to Toronto to find In rural Newfoundland, 13-year-old Jude Traynor (Percy a better life. Picking up the action 40 years later, Pete learns Hynes White) relies on his vivid imagination to navigate the of Joey’s death and embarks on a cross-country road trip to challenges of a delinquent childhood, a tumultuous family return his ashes to Cape Breton. life and an evil cave-dwelling troll across the harbour. EMPORTE-MOI / SET ME FREE CLOSET MONSTER CLOSET MONSTER 1999 / Director: Léa Pool / Writers: Nancy Huston, Léa Pool, 2015 / Director-Writer: Stephen Dunn / 90 min / English / 14A Isabelle Raynault / 95 min / French / AA Troubled by memories of a hate crime he witnessed A tomboyish 13-year-old girl (Karine Vanasse) in 1960s as a child, Oscar becomes afraid to reveal his own Montreal finds escape at the movies and navigates the homosexuality. But with the help of friends — and his tricky terrain of adolescence. own unbridled creativity — he expels the nightmares that haunt him and embraces his true self. Winner of the Best LES ÊTRES CHERS / THE LOVED ONES Canadian Feature Award at TIFF 2015; starring Connor 2016 / Director-Writer: Anne Émond / 102 min / Jessup and Aliocha Schneider. French / 14A CORBO When a beloved patriarch commits suicide, the family he LE CONFESSIONNAL / THE CONFESSIONAL leaves behind is tasked with picking up the pieces. Decades 1995 / Director-Writer: Robert Lepage / 100 min / later, his final act still echoes through lessons in love, grief French / 14A and how to move forward. Nominated for seven Canadian Inspired by Hitchcock, Lepage’s feature debut tells the story Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. of an adopted man on a search for his true identity, as recounted by his mother to a priest in a confessional. EVE AND THE FIREHORSE 2005 / Director-Writer: Julia Kwan / 92 min / English / PG CORBO A precocious 9-year-old with a wild imagination grows up 2014 / Director-Writer: Mathieu Denis / 119 min / French / PG amid her traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver. EMPORTE-MOI In this gripping feature debut based on a true story, an idealistic teenager (Anthony Therrien) in 1966 is attracted FAMILY VIEWING to the separatist politics of the Front de libération du 1987 / Director-Writer: Atom Egoyan / 86 min / English / AA Québec (FLQ) and is drawn in as their tactics become Van (Aidan Tierney) plots to get his grandmother out increasingly violent and dangerous. of a nursing home, while his estranged father destroys the record of his childhood by using old home movie COSMOS videotapes to re-record scenes of perversion with his new 1996 / Directors: various / Writers: Marie-Julie Dallaire, wife. Starring Arsinée Khanjian. Sebastien Joannette, Denis Villeneuve / 99 min / French / AA FÉLIX & MEIRA LES ÊTRES CHERS Through Cosmos, an immigrant cab driver, worlds collide with six seemingly disparate yet interconnected characters 2014 / Director: Maxime Giroux / Writers: Maxime Giroux, and stories. Alexandre Laferrière / 105 min / French / R A chance encounter turns into an unexpected romance for DANCE ME OUTSIDE a young married woman from Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish 1994 / Director: Bruce McDonald / Writers: John Frizzell, community and a man mourning the death of his estranged Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar / 84 min / English / AA father. The couple escapes from the strictures of their lives, After the murder of a young girl from the Kidabanesee First in one another. Nation, her distraught community demands answers — and the aimless Silas Crow takes up the cause. Starring Jennifer LA FEMME QUI BOIT / THE WOMAN WHO DRINKS EVE AND THE FIREHORSE Podemski, Adam Beach and Ryan Rajendra Black. Winner of 2001 / Director-Writer: Bernard Émond / 91 min / French / 13+ two Genie Awards. Paulette (Élise Guilbault) reflects on three key scenes in the evolution of her alcoholism. This character study also LE DÉMANTÈLEMENT / THE DISMANTLING features Luc Picard and Michel Forget. 2013 / Director-Writer: Sébastien Pilote / 111 min / French / G When his daughter asks him for financial help to avoid losing FIRE SONG her home, dedicated father Gaby (Gabriel Arcand) decides to 2015 / Director-Writer: Adam Garnet Jones / 96 min / dismantle the family farm. An elegiac film about the decline English / 14A of rural Quebec, and a moving study of human dignity. A young two-spirited Anishinaabe man tries to reconcile his own Arcand won the Canadian Screen Award for his role as Gaby. identity with that of his community. Starring Ma-Nee Chacaby, FÉLIX & MEIRA Morteesha Chickekoo-Bannon and Brendt Thomas Diabo. 76 REEL CANADA REFERENCE GUIDE DRAMA continued THE FIVE SENSES IN HER PLACE 1999 / Director-Writer: Jeremy Podeswa / 105 min / English / AA 2014 / Director: Albert Shin / Writers: Pearl Ball-Harding, The stories of a massage therapist, an eye doctor who’s Albert Shin / 115 min / Korean / 14A losing his hearing, a house cleaner with a keen sense of Haunting and masterful, this film revolves around the visit of smell and a high-strung baker become intertwined in the a wealthy woman to a desolate farm in South Korea, where search for a lost child.