The following films have been curated by Telefilm Canada. Entrance to these films must be free, in return, the cost of minimum guarantees will be covered. Screeners are available on request.
All bookings will be handled by denyseostiguy@gmail.com (from July 4th onwards). You will be sent a booking form, outlining the information required to book.
Beans
2020 Canadian drama film directed by Mohawk-Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer. It explores the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake, which Deer lived through as a child, through the eyes of Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed “Beans”), a young Mohawk girl whose perspective on life is radically changed by these events.
Length: 92 min
Language: English
Accessibility: English Subtitles & close caption
Format: ProRes or H264 preferably and DCP.
Drunken Birds / Les Oiseaux ivres
2021 French-Canadian drama film directed by Ivan Grbovic. The Canadian entry for Best International Feature @ Oscars 2022. The film stars Willy, a Mexican drug runner in a crime cartel who travels to Canada in search of his girlfriend Marlena after she disappears, and takes a job as a migrant worker on a farm in the Montérégie region. Destinies intersect, moments of magic realism arise, worlds collide, and tensions swell amidst the long days of physical labour.
Length:104 min
Language: French and Spanish
Accessibility: English & French subtitles
Format: ProRes or H264 preferably and DCP.
Goddess of the Fireflies / La déesse des mouches à feu
2020 French Canadian drama film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette.The film centres on the coming of age of Catherine, a teenage girl living in a small town in Quebec in the early 1990s. On her 16th birthday, Catherine faces the separation of her parents and enters adolescence with loss and turmoil. It’s the year of the first times and in the grunge atmosphere of the 90’s, the young girl pushes her own limits every day. Rebellious, freed and radiant, she never takes off her favorite cowboy boots… but will that be enough to protect her?
Length: 106 min
Language: French
Accessibility: English sub-titles
Format: ProRes or H264 preferably, and DCP.
Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa / Félix et le trésor de Morgäa
2021 French-Canadian computer-animated adventure family film, directed by Nicola Lemay. The film centres on Felix, a 12-year-old boy who has been living with his mother on the Magdalen Islands since his father’s failure to return from a voyage to find treasure on the Island of Eternal Night; when his mother goes off on vacation and leaves him and his infant sister, Mia, in the care of their aunt, he enlists the help of lighthouse keeper Tom to travel to the island in search of his father.
Length: 90 min
Language: English and French
Accessibility: TBC
Format: DCP, Pro Res & MP4
Night Raiders
2021 Canadian-New Zealand science fiction dystopian film written and directed by Cree-Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet. Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044, the film centres on Niska, a Cree woman who joins a resistance movement to the military government in order to save her daughter.
Length: 101 min
Language: English
Accessibility: TBC
Format: DCP, Pro Res & MP4
Peace by Chocolate
2021 Canadian drama film, directed by Jonathan Keijser. The film is based on the true story of the Hadhads, a family from Syria who moved to Canada as refugees from the Syrian civil war, settling in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and establishing the Peace by Chocolate artisanal chocolate shop. The film encompasses the themes of immigration, refugees from a war-torn country, the power of food to bring people together, the “Canadian Dream” of growing a small business and prospering, and choosing between your passion and your family.
Length: 96 min
Language: English & Arabic
Accessibility: TBC
Format: Encrypted DCP (theatre SHA256 certificate required to generate a KDM key.)
Underground / Souterrain
Souterrain (Underground) is a 2020 French Canadian drama film written and directed by Sophie Dupuis. Maxime, a young miner from Val-d’Or, faces events that challenge his definition of masculinity. Thanks to the brotherhood he can count on in his working environment, Maxime sets out on his long journey on the road to redemption. But when an explosion erupts underground, the young man, newly graduated in mine rescue, plunges into the mine lair with the firm intention of bringing each of his colleagues back alive.
Length: 97 min
Language: French
Accessibility: English subtitles, no closed-captions.
Format: DCP
Affairs of the Art
2021 2D hand drawn on paper animated short film directed by the British Animation Director Joanna Quinn and written by Les Mills. It was the NFB’s 76th Oscar®-nomination for Animated Short Film).
The short film follows the character of Beryl, the working-class heroine who not only reveals her own obsession with drawing but exposes the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads and pet taxidermy and her determination to become an artiste of note.
Length: 16 min
Language: English
Accessibility: TBC
Format: DCP, MP4 H.264
The Magnitude of All Things
2020 NFB Canadian documentary film, directed by Jennifer Abbott. The film draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything. For the people featured, climate change is not happening in the distant future: it is kicking down the front door. Battles waged, lamentations of loss, and raw testimony coalesce into an extraordinary tapestry, woven together with raw emotion and staggering beauty that transform darkness into light, grief into action.
Length: 86 min
Language: English
Accessibility: TBC
Format: DCP, MP4 H.264
