canadian
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Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things
What starts out as such a disturbing eyeopener with some of more shocking aspects of the history of the Inuit people in Nunavut, the Northern Territory of Quebec in Canada, does thankfully end on a positive and upbeat note for the people who identify as LGBT in that community. This new wonderful documentary from filmmakers Mark Kenneth…
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A Paradise Too Far
When Samuel (Maxime Dumontier) and Emile’s (Marine Johnson) mother is killed in a road accident in a remote rural area in Northern Quebec, the young adult siblings both with development disabilities cannot start to grasp the reality that she will never be back. Samuel works shredding paper at a print shop and lives in a Care…
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Fall
This is the story of Father Sam an aging Catholic Priest (brilliantly played by veteran actor Michael Murphy) who lives a quiet and somewhat boring life in a small Canadian town close to Niagara Falls. He seems to just go through the motions of attending to his parishioners, and his lonely and solitary existence is…
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Closet Monster
Canadian filmmaker Stephen Dunn’s tale of a young gay man’s coming of age story is one of the most imaginative and insightful movies in that genre we have seen in quite a while. Set in his native Newfoundland it’s the story of Oscar (Jack Fulton) who at the start is a relatively happy 8 year old whose seemingly…
