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 Bon Cop Bad Cop
When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn't be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles.
Genre:
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller more
Rating: 18+
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 Congorama
Michel, son of a paralyzed writer, husband to a Congolese refugee and father of a future tennis champion, is an erratic Belgian inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns he's been adopted and was in fact birthed secretly in a Quebec barn, in Sainte-Cecile. In the summer of the year two thousand, Michel goes to Sainte-Cecile, a sleepy village that soon makes him want to run bock home. There, he meets a man who drives an anachronistic hybrid car. On their way back to Montreal, an accident will change their lives forever as well as the very future of the automotive industry.
Genre:
Comedy / Drama
Rating: 16+
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 Eve and the Fire Horse
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder.
Genre:
Drama
Rating: AA+
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 The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
The last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak lives on the verge of change in 1922. As the father is trying to resist the changes encroaching upon his family and culture, a group of Danish scientists arrive to study and record his way of life.
Genre:
Drama
Rating: 14+
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 Human Trafficking
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) struggles to expose the worldwide network that has enslaved them. ICE agent Kate Morozov knows the horror of sexual exploitation first-hand and is dedicated to dismantling the network and bringing the ring's kingpin to justice. From a torture chamber in Queens to the flesh-peddlers of Russia, the hunt is on as the fates of relentless ICE agents, the ruthless traffickers and their defenseless victims collide in a powder keg conspiracy of global proportions.
Genre:
Crime/ Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Rating: 14+
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 Clandestins
A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada from a port in France. Their ordeal begins when the ship breaks down in Liverpool. The layover is hard on the hidden party's food supply. Another breakdown at sea is disastrous, for everyone inside runs out of food and water. Their hunger, thirst and fear causes chaos amongst them, and violence erupts at different points. Finally they become so desperate that they decide they must escape the container or die.
Genre:
Drama
Rating:14+
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Away from Her
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.
Genre:
Drama / Romance
Rating: AA+ |
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CHILDREN’S AND OTHER FILMS
WHAT ARE YOU ANYWAYS?
Follow the adventures of the Super Nip as filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns explores his cultural backgrounds growing up a mix of Japanese and Caucasian in a small white-bred Canadian city. This is a humorous yet serious story of struggle and love and finding one's identity through the trials and tribulations of growing up.
Length: 11 minutes
Rating: AA+
THE FOUR WOMEN OF EGYPT
How do we get along with each other when our views collide? A timely question, and a universal one. Four Women of Egypt takes on this challenge, and their confrontation redefines tolerance.
Length: 89 minutes
Rating: AA+
MR. MERGLER’S GIFT
Mr Mergler's Gift is their remarkable story - a moving account of a student and her /*-mentor, and a lyrical homage to the transcendent power of music.
Length: 22 minutes
THE TALESPINNERS COLLECTION
The Talespinners Collection is an exceptional and vibrant series of short animated films for children aged 5 - 9. The stories explore a range of multicultural themes - identity, diversity, belonging, traditions and ceremonies, learning to fit in, the value of principles and convictions.
Length: 60 minutes
Rating: AA+
FOR ANGELA
A dramatic story of racism and empowerment, inspired by the experience of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter, Angela. A great discussion starter on racism and its impact.
Length: 22 minutes
Rating: AA+
THE JOURNEY OF LESRA MARTIN
Lesra became a hero when he helped to bring justice to wrongfully imprisoned American boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter. Finding the courage to change his own life, today Lesra is a lawyer and motivational speaker on the world stage.
Length: 45 minutes
Rating: AA+
SEVEN TO SEE
Discover some of the mysteries of animated film through seven shorts that make use of seven different techniques. Each film is a reflection of its creator’s skill and invites viewers into a unique aesthetic world.
Length: 72 minutes
Rating: AA+ |
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