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Your search by 'Canada' identified 15 films
Canada, 2006, 11 min.
An 11-year old boy engineers a complicated escape from his troubled life at home and school. …
Canada, 2006, 105 min.
After learning of his adoption, a Belgian inventor heads off to Quebec to find his biological family. Along the way, he gets involved in an accident that has implications for the future of the automobile. A sly, tangled comedy of hidden bloodlines and lost birthrights, with an eye for the cosmic jok …
Canada, 2006, 95 min.
Maurice Devereaux’s newest thriller offers a new twist on a classic horror tale as a group of subway riders find themselves trapped in the underground by knife-wielding religious fanatics intent on bringing on Armageddon. …
Canada, 2007, 15 min.
Edward is regressed into the traumatic memory of the evening that his wife, Sarah was brutally murdered. As his story unveils, however, it becomes apparent that what is seen through Edward's eyes is different from what his doctor believes is happening. …
Canada, 2006, 91 min.
Timmy’s dreams of a pet seem answered by the arrival of Fido, a six-foot tall, moderately housebroken zombie. But when a bit of flesh-eating breaks out among the neighbors, his parents hit the roof. Shrewd laughs and social commentary combine as Timmy strives to keep Fido part of the family. …
Canada, 8 min.
Sometimes the ordinary moments make for the most spectacular; such is the case in this dance of memory and loss. …
Canada, 2006, 112 min.
While dealing with his increasingly deranged daughter, an Inuit shaman must also confront a mounting series of communal dangers: food is growing more scarcr as the climate changes, and local customs are under threat from encroaching Westerners. This stirring drama powerfully depicts the devastation …
Canada, 2007, 105 min.
This dark comedy from Quebec introduces us to Bernard, an accountant at a jewelry store who suffers from constant abuse by his boss. Bernard’s encounter with a former employee inspires him to start a fanciful book of revenge, but things get out of control when the plan goes awry. …
Canada, 2006, 90 min.
On a tour of Asia, still photographer Edward Burtynsky takes large-format photographs of industrial landscapes: factory workers lined up to infinity, massive recycling dumps, expansive strip mines. A portrait of a luscious world of destruction that neither celebrates nor condemns but simply explores …
Canada, 2006, 75 min.
Two dissipated former radicals living under the radar in Toronto find their off-the-grid lifestyle disrupted by their new drug dealer, a young woman looking for some instant revolution of her own. This sharp, politically-minded comedy is a fond evocation of both ’60s counter-culture and how even the …
Canada, 2006, 97 min.
40 teenagers in Point St. Charles, a multiethnic, inner-city Montreal neighborhood, were invited to collaborate on a film based on their lives. The result is a gritty, uniquely real drama about how the lives of a group of teens intersect over one fateful weekend. …
Canada, 2006, 14 min.
Friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs have conspired to make this little Timothy Higgin’s worst year ever, and he prepares for a show-stopping suicide. …
Canada, 2006, 89 min.
This remarkable documentary captures the beauty of sharks with stunning underwater photography, and chronicles the harrowing above-water adventures of the renegade activists who are attempting to slow their extinction. Sharkwater celebrates these magnificent and misunderstood creatures, and …
Canada, 2006, 10 min.
While exploring a beach, a young boy discovers evidence of a miniature shipwreck and a dozen tiny footprints leading away. …
Canada, 2006, 118 min.
The tragedy of Rwanda’s recent history, and the west’s shameful abdication of responsibility, are examined in this thoughtful drama. A documentarian making a film about AIDS in Africa is regrettably slow to realize that an even more horrifying story is starting to boil over; can he make a …
