Spotlight on our cinema
NOVA SCOTIA, Canada | 85 minutes | 2019
Middle-aged Donna is working off her hours of community service — the result of a DUI conviction — in an animal shelter. Deeply affected by the plight of an old dog soon to be euthanized, she brings him home against everyone’s advice. It’s the start of a disturbing spiral of animal adoptions undertaken as a bulwark against loneliness. After a number of award-winning shorts, director Heather Young builds on her unique approach in this documentary/narrative hybrid that mixes naturalistic observation with the raw lyricism of the day-to-day. Donna’s absurd quest, fragmented into short vignettes, makes for an endearing tale whose pathos is amplified by Young’s strikingly inventive camera work.Q&A with Heather Young on October 11th and 12th
FIPRESCI Prize, Discovery Program - Toronto Film Festival
No biography
HOWARD AND JEAN, 2014, 6 minsFISH, 2016, 11 minsMILK, 2017, 14 mins
Brought to the stage by Sophocles, Cocteau, Anouilh and Brecht and to the silver screen by Liliana Cavani, the myth of Antigone reaches across the...
Feature film, Fiction
QUéBEC, CANADA | 110 minutes | 2018
Montreal is snowed under. While the downtown cranes dance their hypnotic ballet, two strangers meet randomly in an unfinished apartment. Their chance...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 132 minutes | 2019
Something strange is happening around the Red Crow Mi’gMaq reserve: dead fish start coming back to life, followed shortly by dead humans. All too soon,...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 96 minutes | 2019
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