Québécois director Maxime Giroux tells us about The Great Darkened Days,his absurdist, poetic, and often brutal fable about the corruptive power of capitalism. …
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Canadian cinema
Ep. 13: Mouthpiece
On our recap of 2018 Canadian Cinema (episodes 8 & 9), Alex, Orla, and Brett all selected Patrica Rozema's Mouthpiece as their favourite Canadian film of …
‘We want to show the joy and humour and love in our communities’: An interview with the filmmakers of The Grizzlies
Director Miranda de Pencier and Inuk producer Alethea Araquq-Baril discuss the making of The Grizzlies, telling Indigenous stories, and why de Pencier wanted to …
Interview: The director and star of Firecrackers blaze onto our screens
Canadian rising stars Jasmin Mozaffari and star Michaela Kurimsky discuss Mozaffari's evocative, energetic debut, Firecrackers. …
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‘I wanted the film to be like a pop song’: Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones
Canadian writer-director Keith Behrman on Giant Little Ones, a teen film about the ambiguity of sexual identity and the way internalized homophobia is poison to …
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‘Creating characters that have inner lives’: Philippe Lesage on Genèse
Philippe Lesage discusses Genèse, a coming-of-age story about searching for love in a repressive, violent adult world, and bringing the spirit of a novel into …
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