Canada

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Steph is expecting a baby. Steph wants all of her closest friends to share in her home-birth, whether they want to or not, and has invited them all to her 24-hour labor party. As the labor stalls, tension mounts, and this "touchy-feely " experience soon turns into the delivery from hell. Anita is a doctor, in addition to being Steph's domineering, self-absorbed older sister. Julia is Steph's midwife, a "New Age" type, who tries to maintain a sense of calm in a sea of turbulence. However, once Julia gets called away on a personal emergency, chaos rules supreme.

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A joint product of Canada and Yugoslavia, with a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Svetislav Basara, Dragan Marinkovic's Boomerang manages to combine fast-paced action with literate dialogue, dark comedy with political allegory, and chaos with peace. For a group of likeable lowlifes in post-war Serbia, Boomerang isn't just the name of their favorite caf?; it's a way of life. A teenage girl falls in love with a mobster in a movie theatre. He wants to marry her, unaware that his partners are chasing her and their stolen drugs.

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Using astounding Sony digital technologies, director Dwayne Beaver's The Rhino Brothers is an absorbing drama about the sport of ice hockey and the powerful effects it has on the souls of the Kanachowski family. Brothers Sasha and Victor play with The Rhinos, each filling his respective role as the failed pro-leaguer and coach. Their younger brother, Stefan, returns home ready to let the family know that he is planning the ultimate sin-give up hockey. Unable to say he has quit, he tells his family that he has been cut. Their overbearing and fanatical hockey-mom forces him to join The Rhinos.

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Would you risk taking over someone else's life and past, knowing that you would not be discovered? What if you found the opportunity to start completely over? Lola leads an unfulfilled life in a verbally abusive relationship with her husband, Mike. Things are soon to change, however, as by chance, Lola saves a stranger named Sandra from walking into the path of an oncoming car. Sandra is everything Lola aspires to be - stylish, confident, adventurous, and most especially, mysterious. Lola becomes enamored with Sandra, and, feeling indebted to Lola, Sandra takes Lola under her wing.

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It's no wonder why INerTia walked away with the Best First Feature Award from the Toronto Film Festival. Filled with sly humor and keen observation on the toils of modern romance, Sean Garrity's debut feature is a captivating and assured comedy about restlessness, infidelity, desire, and regret. A four-sided love triangle forms as a group of 20-somethings open doors that are best left closed. Joseph cannot let go of Laura; Laura is interested in the very married Bruce; Bruce is after Joseph's cousin, Alex; and AlexÉwell, like all 19-years-olds, she has other plans.

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There's a little criminal inside us all. Meet an oddball cast of characters, led by Vallis and Nancy, two petty thieves whose main source of income is borrowed money and whose main occupation is armed robbery. Vallis lives the real rock 'n' roll lifestyle and makes his '76 Chrysler his home. His need for quick cash has him scheduling break-in after break-in to support his habits of driving Nancy around the city and stalking his high school crush.

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Director John L'Ecuyer (Curtis's Charm) composes an intricate, tender portrait of intelligence and triumphant spirit in his latest film, Saint Jude, the tale of a teenager out on the mean streets of Montreal. Jude's raging father has kicked her out of the house, and now all she can rely on is her own smarts. Along her journey, an eclectic mix of eccentric characters, from whom Jude receives her energy, enters the scene--Clarence, her pedophile confidant who's afraid of his own reflection; Georgie, the hustler who can't seem to outgrow his tuxedo; and Jude's various doped-up friends.

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When it comes to urban films, celebrated director Clement Virgo's Love Come Down is a profound detour from the usual I-can't-get-out-of-the-hood, low-budget fodder force-fed to audiences from both independent and studio directors. Virgo's independent endeavor is hip, raw, sexy and deceptively spiritual. Two brothers, Neville and Matt--one black, one white--are nearly polar opposites in appearance and personality but share one vital common thread--the same mother, who is White.

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Tony has been serving up his famous cholesterol-loaded all-day breakfasts since the late 60s without taking a single vacation. A workaholic to the end, Tony has some of the most loyal customers--each more than likely a true candidate for bypass surgery--who affectionately refer to him as "the God of Potatoes." Director Ezra Soiferman chronicles Tony's return to his birthplace on the mythical island of Crete, for the first time in 30 years.

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A delightful, coming-of-age story where a young girl's body betrays her by dragging her across the threshold into womanhood.