Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2016
Films screened at the 2016 Kingston Canadian Film Festival, February 25 to 28, 2016.
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- DirectorElisa PaloschiFormer child bride Selvi escapes her child marriage to become South India's first female taxi driver.
- DirectorVictoria LeanIn the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers donations to families who live in uninsulated sheds, overgrown with toxic mold. She is determined to raise awareness, believing that if only Canadians knew, her hometown's dire situation would improve. Over five years, filmmaker Victoria Lean follows Attawapiskat's journey from obscurity and into the international spotlight twice - first when the Red Cross intervenes and again during the protest movement, Idle No More. Weaving together great distances, intimate scenes and archive images, the documentary chronicles the First Nation's fight for justice in the face of hardened indifference.
- DirectorBrian D. JohnsonStarsMargaret AtwoodJean BairdGeorge BoweringThe story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
- DirectorSean GarrityStarsJonas ChernickJoey KingEmily HampshireAfter accruing a substantial debt, a gambler takes his visually impaired daughter on a road trip to see the northern lights before she becomes blind.
- DirectorRobert BudreauStarsEthan HawkeCarmen EjogoCallum Keith RennieA re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
- DirectorFrançois PéloquinStarsAntoine L'ÉcuyerRoy DupuisRémi Goulet17 year-old Jérémie (Antoine L'Écuyer) dreams of a better life, away from the family sawmill and his native village in Gaspésie, Québec. Instead of the forestry work, Jérémie prefers hip hop music, pimping his car and slacking off with his friends. The situation despairs his father Régis (Roy Dupuis), who blames this disinterest on a local drug dealer. When the elder brother leaves town, the lives of Jérémie and Régis drastically change. Filmed in around thirty scenes, The Sound of Trees is a film that chronicles moments in the summer of a teenager caught between the river and the forest.
- DirectorStephen DunnStarsAaron AbramsJack FultonJoanne KellyA creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
- DirectorRyan McKennaRyan McKennaStarsMarie BrassardFrancis La HayeYoussef CamaraSabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.
- DirectorPhilippe LesageStarsÉdouard Tremblay-GrenierPier-Luc FunkVassili SchneiderA young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.
- DirectorSonia Bonspille BoileauStarsEve RinguetteCharles Buckell-RobertsonMarco CollinLe dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman, who routinely works at her father's convenience store in a small First-Nations community in Québec. One night, as she prepares to close up, she is held-up at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more perplex as she recognizes her assailant. Inadvertently, Lydia will be forced to make a decision that will forever change her life.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMaxim GaudetteKarelle TremblayValerie CadieuxAfter the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.
- DirectorGuy MaddinEvan JohnsonStarsRoy DupuisClara FureyLouis NeginIn this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.
- DirectorJon CassarStarsEsther Purves-SmithKiefer SutherlandDonald SutherlandIn 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
- DirectorPatrick ReedMichelle ShephardStarsOmar KhadrDennis EdneyPatricia EdneyOmar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Khadr is suddenly released. Finally, his story, in his own words.
- DirectorDale MorriseyStarsDoug GilmourSam WesleyEd GrendaGeorge Patterson scored the first goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs - launching a hockey empire.
- DirectorAlan ZweigStarsSteve FonyoHurt (2015) is a documentary portrait of Steve Fonyo, a one-legged cancer survivor who successfully completed a cross-Canada run in the '80s, only to spend three decades mired in crime and addiction.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsElliot PageEvan Rachel WoodMax MinghellaAfter a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.
- DirectorSu RynardStarsErin ByneDominik EulbergBill EvansThe Messenger is an artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the people working to turn the tide. This visually thrilling film reveals how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet.
- DirectorGyal SontharStarsYangchan LhamoRegzin DrolmaGuru TsedanYangchan, a young Tibetan girl from a sheep herding family, is trying to make sense of her changing world.
- DirectorAndrew CividinoStarsJackson MartinNick SerinoReece MoffettWhile spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
- DirectorRoss TurnbullTerminal Device is an autobiographical essay about a lie; the stereotyped image of the one-armed, hook-wearing man starts with Captain Hook, but is that all there is to it?