World Cinema

In the midst of civil war in war-weary Chad, elderly Adam (Youssouf Djaoro) battles for his job tending a swimming pool in a luxury hotel.  Ex-swimming champion, he is demoted from his position and replaced by his son. Overwhelmed with feelings of resentment, he makes a fateful decision that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. 

Two young First Nations men growing up together on the reservation have decidedly different views on the current struggle their community finds itself locked in.  Adam, a serious college kid who likes to cite Nietzsche or Rousseau, looks for strength in his intellectual pursuits, while his cousin Nathan, from “the school of hard knocks”, is a rebellious high school dropout who looks toward protest for answers.  Their differences lead to a confrontation in an empty community center, the night before a major

Winner of Best Film at the Salerno International Film Festival, and Winner of Best Actress, Actor, and Screenplay at the Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars). 

This ghastly scenario of poor preying on poor is, like the film’s gray-green palette, profoundly depressing and entirely pitiless. At the same time, the family — frequently viewed through filmy glass or blood-spattered plastic — is sui generis, its dietary preferences repeatedly referred to as a ritual whose origins remain unexplained. - NyTimes

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Renowned actor Paddy Considine’s first feature behind the camera is a tour de force propelled by the sheer intensity of its performances and storytelling.

Closing night film selection for the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival, and Julie Bertuccelli’s second feature. Her first, Since Otar Left, won the Grand Jury Prize during Cannes Critic’s Week in 2003. 

Georgia’s official submission to the 2010 Academy Awards. 

A watchman and his wife living at an abandoned mine find themselves trapped in the brutal schemes of their tyrannical landlord in this suspenseful, visually striking drama set on the urban outskirts of Delhi. When the landlord offers his daughter to a wealthy potential buyer of the mine, she and her lower-caste lover run away. The watchman reluctantly helps them, but a sinister masked killer dispatched to hunt down the runaways endangers them all. A searing take on the politics of caste and money in a rapidly developing economy, Sidharth Srinivasan’s eccentric thriller delves into the dark interstices between Indian modernity and tradition.

Award winning Canadian filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly returns with a striking contemporary gothic tale of murder, redemption, and long-held secrets.

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.