Spotlight on our cinema
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Norway, Canada | 105 minutes | 2019
Rosie is barefoot in the rain in the streets of Vancouver. She is very young, pregnant, on the run and in danger. Older and better-off Áila takes her under her wing. The two Indigenous women from different backgrounds exchange thoughts on motherhood, sharing and privilege, body image, culture and violence, alternately lying, pushing away and trying to understand one another. The subtle, incisive camera stays on them at all times. This naturalistic first film is a technical tour de force, a real-time encounter between two very different yet complementary women whose worlds collide.Q&A with Kathleen Hepburn on October 12thIn collaboration with Cinema Politica, Dames des Vues and ARRQ."The film resists pat solutions on abuse, and instead, it depicts the complexities of domestic abuse, privilege and charity, and freedom." Independent"This courageous entry in Indigenous cinema refuses to wrap up life neatly with a bow; we are shown, rather than told, just how things are in 2019." HCN
Grand prix focus Quebec/Canada - Festival du nouveau cinéma
Best Canadian Feature Film, Honourable Mention - Toronto Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
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In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to...
Feature film, Fiction
QUéBEC, CANADA | 112 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
Jackie, a teen in late-80s Newfoundland, is dealing with the trials of adolescence – friendship, dating, wanting to belong vs. having to conform – as...
QUéBEC, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, CANADA | 101 minutes | 2019
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