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Familia
Canada, 2005, 103 min.
Familial bonds, particularly those between mothers and daughters, form the core of this impressive and emotionally satisfying first feature. When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreakin... more
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Five Days in September
Canada, 2005, 73 min.
Winner - Audience Awards, Best Documentary
An intimate and exciting look at the inner workings of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as it launches a new season with charismatic maestro Peter Oundjiian. Director Barbara Willis Sweete captures soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Emanuel Ax, and t... more
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Kamataki
Canada, 2005, 111 min.
Claude Gagnon's deceptively simple story about a young, depressed Canadian who is sent to visit his uncle in Japan, is sublimely riveting, complex and erotic. The uncle is a master potter, and the depiction of the Kamataki process of marathon firing is exhilarating! Best Director, Montreal Film Fest... more
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Life With My Father
Canada, 2005, 111 min.
The first Canadian film to ever win the audience award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Sébastien Rose's precision-tooled, Montreal-set tragicomedy gives us two feuding brothers forced to live under the same roof when their ailing bon-vivant father returns to the family home. ... more
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The Novena
Canada, 2005, 98 min.
Winner of the Ecumenical Prize at the 2005 Locarno Film Festival, this absorbing drama features a towering performance by Élise Guilbert as a suicidal doctor. Her chance encounter with a young grocery clerk on a pilgrimage to pray for his dying grandmother forces her to re-think her life. Intelligen... more
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Whole New Thing
Canada, 2005, 93 min.
An intellectually and sexually precocious 13-year-old lad, raised and home-schooled by hippie parents in rural Nova Scotia, goes to public school for the first time and, not knowing anything about "inappropriate" behavior, develops and displays a serious crush on his male English teacher. A very wel... more
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