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Acquainted With the Night
Canada, 2010, 80 min.
20 million hungry bats, 700,000 watts of light beaming into space, 80,000 flaming rockets, 9,000 cemetery candles… In this enchanting documentary, filmmaker Michael MacNamara travels around the world exploring stories of nighttime phenomena, customs and rituals from sunset to sunrise.... more
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The Child Prodigy
Canada, 2010, 101 min.
This gorgeously made biographical drama recounts the story of an extraordinarily gifted Canadian musical prodigy whose meteoric rise to fame in the 1930s was paralleled by a long, slow slide into depression and dissolution.... more
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Daydream Nation
Canada, 2010, 98 min.
Instantly bored with the kids at her new small town high school, city girl Caroline becomes entangled in a secret love triangle with her teacher and a stoner classmate. Inspiring comparison to Juno and Donnie Darko, Daydream Nation launches the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in writer-... more
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Heartbeats
Canada, 2010, 102 min.
A blackly comic romance from the director of I Killed My Mother in which twenty-something hipsters Francis and Marie complete for the affections of new kid in town Nicolas, who plays them off against each other until a weekend in the country resolves things once and for all.... more
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Route 132
Canada, 2010, 113 min.
This poignant tale of a father devastated by his young son's death, never hits a wrong note, thanks to standout performances and characters of such dimensionality that each surprise twist lends increased psychological rightness. Like a French Canadian Five Easy Pieces, it blends comic road-movie enc... more
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Small Town Murder Songs
Canada, 2010, 75 min.
Named by Variety as one of 10 Directors to Watch, Ed Gass-Donnelly delivers an eerily quiet and controlled tale of crime and redemption. His modern gothic follows an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly re... more
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The Whistleblower
Canada, 2010, 112 min.
Based on a true story, this tough-minded and unsparing conspiracy thriller follows an American cop (Weisz) to Bosnia, where her job as a peacekeeper leads her to uncover a ring of human traffickers that includes fellow U.N. workers.... more
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