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ICELAND, France, Switzerland | 79 minutes | 2019
A young girl meets her half-sister around a piano. An abandoned farm burns in the countryside. A group of seniors take an aquafitness class. Through a window, a mother and her baby watch the snowflakes fall. The holiday season is fast approaching. Rúnar Rúnarsson’s nuanced portrait of Iceland and its people, captured as the year draws to a close, is a kaleidoscope: 56 little slivers of life that, together, have universal resonance. Presented in competition at Locarno, Echo reflects upon our age, mingling life and death, sorrow and joy.CANADIAN PREMIEREQ&A with Rúnar Rúnarsson on October 12th and 13th"... what makes Echo so enjoyable is its sheer element of surprise and contrariness: we just don’t know what’s coming next – yet each scene is beautifully shot and composed whatever the subject matter." Filmuforia"A work of remarkable melancholy and beauty" The Upcoming
International Competition - Locarno Film Festival
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Teenaged Mickey is the minder of her PTSD-afflicted father, a Iraq war veteran addicted to psychotropic meds. Their relationship turns increasingly toxic,...
Feature film
UNITED STATES | 89 minutes | 2019
For her first feature, the Moroccan filmmaker delves into the daily reality of Abla, a widow with an eight-year-old daughter, who runs a pastry shop in...
Feature film, Fiction
MOROCCO, FRANCE | 98 minutes | 2019
In a sci-fi Brazil that is still officially secular, nearly every level of society has been evangelized. Joana is a deeply religious civil servant, devout...
BRAZIL, URUGUAY, CHILE, DENMARK | 100 minutes | 2018
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