Canada
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What?s most important in your life?
Recipient of the Audience Award, Special Grand Prize of the Jury and Public Prize for the Best Canadian Film at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival, The Necessities of Life tells the moving story of Tivii, an Inuit hunter diagnosed with a lung condition, uprooted from the warmth and familiarity of his family and confined to a sanitarium in a strange, foreign civilization. Stripped of his ability to communicate and disoriented by isolation, his will to live is slowly weakened.
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Summer of 1966 - a teenage girl?s time of innocence is about to change.
Elise is having a wonderful summer, lazily lounging around in her idyllic surroundings, carefree to the world. When her mother decides it is time for a change, Elise is forced to confront not only her own dreams and sorrows, but also those of the people she loves.
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Scathingly honest and hilarious?four couples, and one threesome, ?do the nasty? with highly unexpected results.
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Graceful and incisive, Amal cuts a unique path between sentiment and suspense.
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Joseph could see what no one else could.
If Woody Allen, David Lynch and M. Night Shyamalan ever had a forbidden love child, it may look something like The End?a wolf in sheep?s clothing that looks and feels like a modern noir, but unleashes surprises which burns in flames any conventional relationship an audience has with fictional cinema.
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Warren Sonoda's Ham & Cheese enters the world of unknown actors looking to make it big, following the ups, downs and real, real lows of two struggling actors, Richard and Barry, as they try to make it in the cruel world of showbiz. Without an ounce of talent between the two of them and their only strength being persistence, they'll do almost anything to attain their dream, except let it go.
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Combining the powers of observance and understatement, director Matt Bissonnette renders a thoughtful and evocative portrayal of three friends who struggle to find meaning in their lives.
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Super-activism is alive and well on the streets of Mexico City, where masked men with a cause hit the sidewalks to raise awareness, using their offbeat disguises to solicit public interest.
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A pitch-black comedy and a condemning view of how documentary filmmaking can easily turn into ghoulish exploitation; Chris Power and Nathan Hynes?s Long Pigs is a cheerfully grotesque provocation that might challenge your stomach as well as your mind.