Genres: narrative

  • Porcaria

    The year is 1968 and Joaquim and Amalia Quinteiro are just your average young new immigrant couple, drawing blood over money matters and overdosing on culture shock. Into their nest of perfect domestic bliss flies the ever popular, handsome young university student border, Joao. Amalia gets a job and Joaquim’s already flagging machismo shoots off the exit ramp. Perhaps only Joao’s devilish derriere can buttress this poor male ego. A love triangle of unusual proportions, “Porcaria” demonstrates a total lack of resistence to new world charms that has the fish jumping off the walls.

  • Portfolio

    Peter R. Herring, an aspiring young photographer, decides going to school is probably the best thing for him to do with his life. At first Peter’s focus is simple, but he soon discovers a world having certain bureaucratic pitfalls which are inescapable. Opening a “Bad News” bill one morning, Peter discovers that the Bureau of Time-Management has declared him deliquent in his obligatory “Time-payments” and it has no choice but to “deduct time from his life.” Having time zapped away from him makes Peter late for everything. Being late causes disaster to stike, as he loses both his girlfriend and…

  • Print No Charge

    When a son and his estranged father embark on a fishing trip together, something goes wrong. “Print No Charge” is the story of a distant and strained relationship with a thought-provoking ending. As a teaching device, the film’s form articulates its content. The film stimulates creative response.

  • Proud Drivers of Canada

    Fear of driving. Using every excuse not get a driver’s license doesn’t work anymore and with the assistance of a “gay friendly” driving school, the protagonist moves slowly toward his goal.

  • Punch Me in the Stomach

    “Life imitating art” is how comic Deb Filler describes the connection between her real life family and the characters she depicts in her offbeat 36-character solo show “Punch,” which balances humour, love, passion and pathos. Recreating the diverse eclectic experiences of her far-flung family by magically transforming herself into character after character, this is the story of a Holocaust survivor wih a difference. These stories mould themselves into a comic repertoire which is daring and delicate. Her comic talent is best described as Jackie Mason meets Tracey Ullman, with the British comedienne’s flair for mimicry and the Lower East Side…

  • Bangs

    A comedy about a young Chinese-Canadian girl obsessed with her large egg-like forehead. “A deftly funny work.” – Peter Goddard,The Toronto Star

  • Reel

    “Reel” is a meticulously crafted experimental narrative from a young Norwegian filmmaker – a film poem. An old woman is sitting by the reel and working with her yarn, her mind flows between different stages in a woman’s life.

  • Revolutions, d’ Ebats Amoreux, Eperdus, Douloureux

    “Three women live communally together, fixing up their new apartment, watching TV, preparing food. One is a television personality, another a young girl (a daughter?), and the third – a lover? As we watch these women go through their daily lives, hear the voices and almost – the intimacy of the film is so intense – breathe their air, we form impressions of them and their relationships. “The viewing of the film compares to coming upon a photo-album left behind in an empty house. Without ever having known the subjects of the photos, you would nonetheless form an idea of…

  • Rhythms of the Heart

    “Cinema weaned from the monogamy of sound and image in a film equal to one’s capacity for wonder… In ‘Rhythms of the Heart,’ Steve Sanguedolce’s affinity for expressionistic documentaries turns to the depiction of a ruined relationship. “Sanguedolce belongs to the Escarpment School- a loosely knit group of filmmakers born and raised along the craggy slopes of the Canadian shield. Their work typically joins memory and landscape in a documentary based production. Inheritors of the 19th century Lake poet romantics, ‘nature’ is typically figured as a metaphor for consciousness. ‘Rhythms of the Heart’ typifies many of these Escarpment School concerns…

  • Aerial View

    A young Halifax architect withdraws from a promising partnership after experiencing events that lead him to question the ethics of his profession. This radical shift in Geoff’s career becomes increasingly isolating. His wife leaves him, while his best friend compromises their earlier ideals. Geoff must now rely on his own personal strength as he begins to construct a small home for himself in the country. “It is a film of simplicity and sincerity. It is also a perfect example of a young ‘Maritime’ cinema which has more to say, and says it better, than the big Toronto-Montreal ‘money movies.’” –…