Canadian film discovery
Goin' Down the Road: follow the gap between expectation and opportunity
Don Shebib's Goin' Down the Road follows Pete and Joey travelling from the Maritimes to Toronto in search of a different life.
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Last Night: follow different choices under one fictional deadline
Don McKellar's Last Night gives its characters a shared condition: the world will end in six hours.
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The Sweet Hereafter: make room for a difficult community story
Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter adapts Russell Banks's novel about a community after a fatal school-bus accident.
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Incendies: follow a family search while preserving its discoveries
Denis Villeneuve's Incendies, adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, begins with twins Jeanne and Simon receiving unexpected instructions connected to their mother Nawal's will.
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The Red Violin: follow one object through several lives
François Girard's The Red Violin follows an instrument across places and periods.
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Slash/Back, Night Raiders or Blood Quantum: choose the genre experience deliberately
Slash/Back, Night Raiders and Blood Quantum offer different genre starting points from Indigenous filmmakers.
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