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Tag: Canadian

Goddess of the Fireflies (La Déesse des Mouches)

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
2020

Lucas Pistilli - 30-03-2020

A girl descends into a hell of angst and addiction, in this powerful French-Canadian tale of misguided youth that premiered at the Berlinale [Read More...]

The Twentieth Century

Matthew Rankin
2020

Lucas Pistilli - 18-02-2020

Wacky Canadian comedy-drama portrays the rise to power of a very queer and unorthodox Prime Minister - from the Berlinale [Read More...]

Our dirty questions to Thirza Cuthand

 

Victor Fraga - 24-09-2019

As the transgressive Indigiqueer filmmaker arrives in London from Canada for the Native Spirit Festival, we took the opportunity to talk about indigenous traditions, transposing, oral storytelling into cinema, humour as a political tool and more! [Read More...]

Thirza Cuthand Retrospective

Thirza Cuthand
2019

Eoghan Lyng - 20-09-2019

Indigiqueer Canadian filmmaker experiments with language, and radically questions the division between art and everyday life - from the Native Spirit Festival [Read More...]

Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues)

Denis Cote
2019

Victor Fraga - 19-09-2019

The dead have returned in order to haunt this sleepy Quebecois village, where the locals lead a stupefyingly mundane existence - on Mubi in April and May [Read More...]

Binders full of men???

 

Eoghan Lyng - 01-02-2019

Marianne Farley is the only female director to receive an Oscar nod this year, for her short film Marguerite (about an older woman coming to terms with her sexuality); she talks to us about generational themes, representation and more! [Read More...]

What Keeps You Alive

Colin Minihan
2018

Redmond Bacon - 20-08-2018

Canadian filmmaker (who also happens to be one half of The Vicious Brothers) twists traditional woods horror story to convincing results - in cinemas and also on VoD on Friday, August 24th (US viewers) and as part of FrightFest on August 25th (UK viewers) [Read More...]

Never Steady, Never Still

Kathleen Hepburn
2018

Victor Fraga - 18-04-2018

Rural Canada provides a serene backdrop to grief-ridden family drama about young widow with advanced Parkinson's disease and a introverted and confused son - in cinemas Friday, April 20th and then on VoD the following week [Read More...]

Pyewacket

Adam MacDonald
2019

Paul Risker - 15-04-2018

The cruellest demon is never to be seen... Canadian filmmaker understands the power of inference, using our imaginations as a tool to create anticipatory fear in this simple yet effective horror - on VoD and DVD [Read More...]

Sebastian

James Fanizza
2018

Victor Fraga - 07-02-2018

Young, gay and good-looking? Canadian LGBT romance is mostly predictable, but it also caters effectively for a very specialised audience - now on VoD [Read More...]

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Yan England
2017

Victor Fraga - 20-03-2017

What are the inevitable consequences of bullying? French Canadian LGBT drama exposes the disturbing face of high school life if you're gay, with a very surprising twist at the end - in the MyFrenchFilmFestival (online) [Read More...]