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EMERGENCE
THE NEW CANADIAN INDEPENDENTS
JULIA KWAN
Trained at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto and now based in Vancouver, Julia Kwan, while having made several short works in the late 1990s, gained international recognition in 2001 with THREE SISTERS OF THE MOON, made while she was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre. Her debut feature, EVE & THE FIRE HORSE, was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2005. Exploring themes of ethnicity and identity in 21st Century Canada in her work, Kwan has emerged as one of the most sensitive and articulate voices on this complex subject in contemporary Canadian cinema. The CFI is proud to showcase her work in our “Emergence” series. Her portraits of 21st Century Canada also place her work in our other ongoing Canadian cinema series, “Terra Nostra.”

Fri./ven. March 14 mars, 19:00
EVE & THE FIRE HORSE
Canada 2005, 92 minutes • Director: Julia Kwan

Being raised by not particularly devout Buddhist parents, the impressionable Eve and her elder sister Karena take a surprisingly serious interest in Catholicism. Karena takes to things Catholic with great fervour, while Eve, born under the sign of the fire horse, treats religion as a world of wonder and imagination. A fascinating character study rooted in a Canada that is both changing and is being changed by its new multicultural realities. Preceded by Kwan’s most recent short, SMILE (2007, 18 minutes), about the at once strange and familiar cultural practice of the family portrait, and THREE SISTERS OF THE MOON (2001, 18 minutes), her award-winning coming-of-age short from the Canadian Film Centre. Films in English and in Cantonese with English sub-titles.