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- For 11 years, the FantAsia Film Festival in Montreal has been the premiere showcase in North America of fantasy, horror and action films from around the world. Every July, sold out crowds of 900 line up around the block before each screening; the festival itself lasts approximately 3 weeks. Shot during the 2 year of the festival in 1997, In the Belly of the Beast chronicles the intense struggles that five filmmakers in attendance went through to complete their films. Crew rebellions, corporate embezzlers and bankrupt studios are just a few of the memories conjured up during candid interviews, while the camera captures the latest challenge: the public acceptance - or rejection - of their films.
- An artistic immigrant boy and his best friend his grandmother, immigrate to Canada from a seaside Caribbean fishing village to live with the boy's parents in North America. After the death of his grandmother, a lonely and confused Delroy wonders if the traditional mass holiday migration of his white Canadian friends are going away to where his grandmother went. Delroy Kincaid must understand his new home, while holding on to his love of his old. One winter Delroy's artistic imagination comes alive and takes him on a journey of self-discovery in a new foreign land.
- Using the reflections and analysis of many renowned intellectuals, this documentary draws a portrait of neoliberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.
- A young man returns to a traditional life in rural Newfoundland after tragedy strikes.
- On the eve of a storm in rural Newfoundland, feuding fishermen are forced to set their conflicts aside when an emergency arises.
- A killer waylays and torments a young Montreal man who has hit emotional rock bottom.
- The story of 8 year old Zoe, who must swim - or sink- facing her fears on testing day at the swimming pool.
- Everyone owns a "Finky." A small, rounded creature that was returned to Earth years ago aboard the first manned mission to Mars expedition. Several different species of Finky make up their race, each possessing its own distinctive characteristics by which they are named after: Resonators react to sound; Scenters spin wildly when exposed to odor; Tactiles are stimulated by touch; Reactors respond to visual movement and Pulsators do nothing but...pulsate. All is fun and games until one day the Finky's reveal a darker and more sinister side. The docile critters start to metamorphose into grotesque, slimy blobs and begin escaping...but to where? Resident scientist Dr. Harlock draws a fatal conclusion as to why this is happening. Before it's too late, Dr. Harlock, together with ten year old Willy Popcorn race against time to prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
- In 1970s South Africa, 10-year-old Lucy's black nanny is killed during a peaceful protest march. The insidious nature of racism is put on full display as the child attempts to convince the nanny's spirit that apartheid is good for her people.
- "A quiet look at the life of Kurt Cobain switches keys when the filmmaker finds himself delving into his own psyche." - Lia Rinaldo, past Director of the Atlantic Film Festival
- -A young American worker, is moving to Montreal (Canada). Alone in a foreign, french-speaking city, he tells the story of his immigration process through humorous drawings in a diary.
- He's a magician. She's a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business.
- Kat lives for surfing, but when she and her boyfriend Jake move to the city, leaving beach life behind, she is forced to make a bittersweet choice.
- This short televised film integrates theater, dance, painting, and original music. It's all about Buster and Lola.
- The Whole Day Through takes place over one winter's day as a relationship, stable in appearance, is tested by the confession of a past indiscretion. As the landscape disappears with the setting sun, the couple moves inside a small cabin as they search for common ground.
- Transsexuals? Transvestites? Skinheads? Anarchy? Street life, hustling and drag are explored with sophistication, emotional resonance and that certain extra something that'll make you want to change the impossible to the incredible.
- Growing up in a small town, young Joanne must come to terms with the slow disintegration of her family...struggling to understand, she calls upon the spirit of her grandfather to guide her.
- Recalling her mother's painful secret of eating less and remembering her grandmother serving up an appalling swill called ""shipwreck,"" Helen (Kristen Thomson) tries to enjoy a creamy dish at a restaurant. When she finally decides to fight for food against her mother's loud protests, not only is she affirming her appetite, but also her independence as a woman and a lover.
- When the Brute comes to collect on her late husband's debt, Grace pulls a gun on him and sparks fly!
- Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
- A surreal, imaginative cinematic portrayal of Anna Edson Taylor's 1901 adventure: Going over Niagara Falls, in a barrel, and surviving. Using silent film genre, the audience experiences fantastic imagery with no dialogue; a world where anything and everything is possible.
- "The Promise (La Promesse)" is an urban romantic comedy that recounts 24 hours in the life of Victoria, an aspiring young singer who works as a bike courier in downtown Montreal. It is the eve of the new millennium, and Victoria celebrating her 25th birthday at the stroke of midnight. At the age of twelve, for her French class, Victoria had written a letter to the young woman of 25 that she would become on this first night of the year 2000. That letter recalls her two old promises: 1) to become a Star and 2) to meet Jimmy, her first adolescent boyfriend, on Mount-Royal the night of December 31st, 1999. Will they keep their promise?
- The film explores the world of an esoteric transcendental mystery-school.
- This personal documentary follows two Saskatchewan women through four seasons as they defend their choice to remain where others have left, facing isolation, the fury of the weather, and haunting remnants from the past.
- Two strangers meet. One moment, one sentence, one choice sets their lives on a dramatically different course. A poetically urban exploration of violence and grace.
- A GI awaiting the call to Iraq's nightmare.
- A story about angst, despair and a hot-pink sweater.
- One meditation on the relationship between the universe in motion and the collective human unconscious.