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Below Her Mouth Below Her Mouth
Below Her Mouth and Angry Inuk
Angry Inuk (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril; Writer: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit.
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Below Her Mouth (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: April Mullen; Writer: Stephanie Fabrizi; Stars: Daniela Barbosa, Elise Bauman, Sophie Blumenthal)
Two women embark on a passionate affair that derails their lives.
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Boundaries (Pays) (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Chloé Robichaud; Writer: Chloé Robichaud; Stars: Emily VanCamp, Serge Houde, Macha Grenon, Rémy Girard, Max Laferriere, Alexandre Landry, Carlo Mestroni, Yves Jacques, Micheline Lanctôt, Michael Rudder, Nathalie Doummar, Sophie Faucher, Karl Werleman, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Jules Philip)
The lives of three women intersect on a small island.
Celtic Soul (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Michael McNamara; Writer: Michael McNamara; Stars: Jay Baruchel, Eoin O'Callaghan)
A Cool Sound From Hell (Country: Canada; Year: 1959; Director: Sidney J Furie; Writer: Sidney J Furie; Stars: Mel Benstock, George Carron, Alan Crofoot)
A straight edge boy gets mixed up with Beatniks and drugs when he falls for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
Werewolf Werewolf
Werewolf and Old Stone
Crime Wave (Country: Canada; Year: 1985; Director: John Paizs; Writer: John Paizs; Stars: Eva Kovacs, John Paizs, Darrell Baran)
A young film director working on a script acquires a mysterious co-conspirator.
Demons (Les démons) (Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Philippe Lesage; Writer: Philippe Lesage; Stars: Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières, Bénédicte Décary, Pier-Luc Funk, Victoria Diamond, Théodore Pellerin, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Vassili Schneider, Sarah Mottet, Jean-Luc Terriault, Jenny Yiggit, Yannick Gobeil-Dugas, Raphaëlle Caron, Mathis Thomas)
While a series of kidnappings of young boys is raging in Montreal, Félix, 10, finished school in Old Longueuil, an ordinary suburb of peaceful appearance. Imaginative and sensitive, Félix, like many children, is afraid of everything. Little by little, the childhood imaginary demons mix with demons of a disturbing reality.
Hello Destroyer (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Kevan Funk; Writer: Kevan Funk; Stars: Jared Abrahamson, Ben Cotton, Paul McGillion, Sara Canning)
A young hockey player deals with the consequences of hockey violence after he critically injures another player during a game.
Little Annie Rooney (Country: US; Year: 1925; Director: William Beaudine; Writer: Mary Pickford, Hope Loring; Stars: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James)
The tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood may be threatened by a street gang
Old Stone (lao shi) (Country: Canada, China; Year: 2016; Director: Johnny Ma; Writer: Johnny Ma; Stars: Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang, Zebin Zhang, Xue'er Luo)
A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
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Weirdos (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Bruce McDonald; Writer: Daniel MacIvor, Daniel MacIvor; Stars: Dylan Authors, Rhys Bevan-John, Francine Deschepper, Mateo Giovannetti, Allan Hawco, Max Humphreys, Gary Levert, Matthew Lumley, Molly Parker, Julia Sarah Stone)
Just after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.
Werewolf (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Ashley McKenzie; Writer: Ashley McKenzie; Stars: Andrew Gillis, Kyle M. Hamilton, Bhreagh MacNeil)
Two methadone users struggle to escape from their desperate day-to-day situation.
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Window Horses (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Ann Marie Fleming; Writer: Ann Marie Fleming, Maryam Najafi; Stars: Ellen Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh)
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
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