Canada

Opening Night Film • Actor Noah Reid Present

A warm, irreverent and irresistibly goofy love letter to Canada's national pastime, "Score: A Hockey Musical" pretty much says it all, serving up singing-and-dancing hockey players, gentle satire and even musical icon Olivia Newton-John, in one unapologetically pleasant package. -Hollywood Reporter

This film is a rousing celebration of the Great White North’s favorite pastime: hockey.  A story of young love, overnight success and on-ice drama, with cameos from Nelly Furtado and Olivia Newton-John, this Canadian musical is sure to have audiences dancing in their seats.

Director Denis Côté Present

Côté's bewitching fifth feature is not what you might call a sports film. Even the second and far more frequent game—that of bowling—only marginally figures into the dramatic pulp and enigmatic nuances of the film, despite the fact that a bowling alley serves as one of the film's more prominent settings. - Slant Magazine

Expertly crafted, evocative images pull us into rural Quebec's beguiling winter stillness.  Curling tells the story of one father's (Jean-François Sauvageau) attempts to keep his daughter in complete isolation, hoping to spare her the scars he knows too well.