drama
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Love After Love
If there was a subtitle to Russell Harbaugh’s thought-provoking debut drama it could easily be ‘men behaving badly’. This is an unsentimental tale about how a family copes after the death of one of its members as they all react differently with dealing with their grief, and the men especially being unable to reconcile themselves…
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Screwed
17-year-old Miku (Mikko Kauppila ) has been hanging on to his virginity so Sebi (Juho Keskitalo) his big brother arranges a party with the sole purpose of getting him laid the moment their parents leave town for the summer. That, and having the biggest rave that this sleepy Finnish town has ever seen. A very…
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This very dark melodrama is the feature film writing/directing debut of French Canadian actor Yan England and is a chilling tale of the possible consequences of unchecked schoolyard homophobia. Sixteen-year-old Tim (Antoine Olivier Pilon) used to be a star athlete on his school track team, but after his mother died he lost all interest in…
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Heaven Without People
The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch. The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…
