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In an age of information overload, it can sometimes be difficult to discern what is and isn’t true, or what one should trust. Angie (Sophie Desmarais) trusts Benju (Jean-Sébastien Courchesne) enough to let him into her apartment in the middle of the night – after all, they used to be in a relationship, and it’s plain that there is still a deep affection between them – but try as she might, she’s not sure she can believe him when he tells her, quite cheerfully, that he has just been kidnapped and held at knifepoint, especially as he doesn’t have a mark on him. “It sounds like bullshit but it’s not bullshit,” he protests feebly. “Of course it’s not believable.” But he persists. it all began, he explains, when he met a man called Ernest in a public toilet and Ernest convinced him to break into somebody’s house.

International premiere of Greek tragedy retelling set for Busan next month.

Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone will represent Canada in the best international feature film Oscar race this season, Acpav, Maison 4:3 and WaZabi Films announced on Friday (20).

The refugee drama received its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month where it won the Canada Goose Award for best Canadian feature film and Anick Poirier and her team at WaZabi Films launched sales.

Nahéma Ricci stars in the retelling of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy as a brilliant student with a promising future who moves with her siblings and grandmother...

Antigone, the drama from Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe that just won the Best Canadian Feature Film prize for its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has been selected to represent Canada in the 2020 Oscar International Feature Film race.

The pic is hoping to become the ninth Canadian film to be nominated for an Oscar in the category formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film. The country’s latest nominee was Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle in 2013; the only Canadian film to win the Oscar in the category is Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares in 2004.

This year’s shortlist in the category is due out in mid-December, with nominations for the 92nd Oscars being announced January 13.

Deraspe’s fifth feature film. which she wrote, directed and served as cinematographer, is a timely retelling of the Greek tragedy. It centers on Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), who in helping her brother escape...

International premiere of Greek tragedy retelling set for Busan next month.

Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone will represent Canada in the best international feature film Oscar race this season, Acpav, Maison 4:3 and WaZabi Films announced on Friday (20).

The film received its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month where it won the Canada Goose Award for best Canadian feature film and Anick Poirier and her team at WaZabi Films launched sales.

Nahéma Ricci stars in the retelling of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy as a brilliant student with a promising future who moves with her siblings and grandmother into...

Sarah préfère la course (English title: Sarah Would Rather Run)

Written by Chloé Robichaud

Directed by Chloé Robichaud

Canada, 2013

Some people are driven to accomplish a perfectly singular goal, even at a young age. Be it a professional career, an artistic endeavour, a pilgrimage to a specific place, the objective means everything to them. Most of the other tasks, obligations and activities they perform are in one way or another a stepping stone on the journey to achieving that goal. In some cases their dream is but a part of their personality, something that helps make them whole. For others, the dream practically consumes them, replacing all else in terms of importance, as is the case for the central character in Chloé Robichaud’s film Sarah préfère la course, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Sarah Gagnon (Sophie Desmarais) is entering adulthood. The viewer meets her for the very...

Year: 2010

Director: Maxime Giroux

Writers: Maxime Giroux, Alexandre Laferrière

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Marina Antunes

Rating: 8 out of 10

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, likely for a long time to come: Quebec is a breeding ground for great film talent and it’s sad, a national cultural tragedy, that English speaking Canada, never mind the rest of the world, doesn’t often get to take in all that the province has to offer. It was years before filmmakers like Denys Arcand and Denis Villeneuve made a mark outside of the province and I’m starting to wonder what other great talents lay hidden there, especially when I see a film as powerful as Maxime Giroux’s Jo for Jonathan (Jo pour Jonathan).

Jo is the younger of two brothers and he worships his brother Thomas. Jo perceives him as having everything he wants: a job,...

Yesterday, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (Fnc), which will take place from October 13 to 24, revealed its full line-up of films. Nineteen Canadian feature films and documentaries will be presented. However, don't expect to see all films that were screened at the latest Toronto or Vancouver International Film Festivals.

Opening film:

10 1/2

Director: Daniel Grou (Podz)

Starring: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor and Albert Kwan

International selection

Jo pour Jonathan

Director: Maxime Giroux

Starring: Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Raphaël Lacaille, Jean-Alexandre Létourneau and Vanessa Pilon

Focus Québec/Canada

A Night for Dying Tigers

Director: Terry Miles

Starring: Jennifer Beals, Gil Bellows, Lauren Lee Smith, Tygh Runyan, Kathleen Robertson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Leah Gibson, Sarah Lind and Jessica Heafey

Affinity Point

Director: Deeh

Starring: Danielle Hubbard, Jason D. Pitre, Sophie Ricard and Yann Faussurier

2 fois une femme

Director: François Delisle

Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland and Catherine de Léan

Falardeau (Documentary)

Director: German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia...