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CANADA’S TOP TEN
Presented in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival Group. Canada’s Top Ten consists of the best feature films, fiction and documentary, produced in 2007, as selected by a panel of Canadian critics, filmmakers, and distributors. We are proud to present eight of the ten films. Watch for the other two, Jeremy Podeswa’s FUGITIVE PIECES and Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG, which are due for commercial release sometime this Spring.

Sat./sam. Feb. 16 fev., 19:00 and 21:00
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS

Director: Bruce McDonald • Canada 2007, 77min
Shot almost entirely in split screen, this audacious, unforgettable film follows social outcast Tracey as she leaves her small town for the bright lights of Winnipeg after the disappearance of her younger brother Sonny. McDonald captures Tracey’s fractured, traumatized mindset perfectly while Oscar-nominated Ellen Page delivers an extraordinary performance.

Sun./dim. Feb. 24 fev., 21:00
L’AGE DES TENEBRES
Director/ Réalisateur: Denys Arcand • Canada 2007, 104min
Le héros évident de la satire remarquable de Denys Arcand sur la vie québécoise contemporaine est un bureaucrate à la Walter Mitty qui passe son temps à rêvasser, jusqu’à ce que sa vie confortable, mais un peu humiliante s’effondre autour de lui. Peu de cinéastes québécois ont eu le courage de coucher sur pellicule un portrait aussi rancunier de leur terre natale. Sous-titres en anglais.
The anti-hero in Denys Arcand’s remarkable satire about contemporary Quebecois life is a Walter Mitty-ish bureaucrat who spends his time daydreaming until his comfortable but somehow galling existence collapses around him. The third instalment in Arcand’s satirical trilogy, following THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE and THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS. English sub-titles.

Sun./dim. March 2 mars, 21:00
EASTERN PROMISES

Director: David Cronenberg • United Kingdom/Canada 2007, 96min
In this searing and explosive crime thriller, a young nurse finds herself caught in the dark and dangerous underworld of the Russian mafia. Viggo Mortensen delivers an amazing, Oscar-nominated performance, playing off of the calm fury of Armin Muehller-Stahl and the alluring innocence of Naomi Watts.

Sun./dim. March 15 mars, 21:00
CONTINENTAL, UN FILM SANS FUSIL

Director/ Réalisateur: Stephane Lafleur • Canada 2007, 103minutes
Le premier film de Lafleur est une comédie étonnamment assurée et chagrine à propos de quatre personnages qui combattent l’aliénation dans une banlieue de Montréal. Il se distingue par un style pince-sans-rire, un look caractéristique et une sympathie profonde à l’égard de ses sujets irrémédiablement perdus. A remporté le prix CityTV du meilleur premier long métrage canadien au Festival international du film de Toronto en 2007. Sous-titres en anglais.
Lafleur’s debut film is an astonishingly assured, rueful comedy about four characters battling alienation in a Montreal suburb. It is remarkable for its deadpan comic style, distinctive visual look and profound sympathy for its hopelessly lost subjects. Winner of the CityTV Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. English sub-titles.

Fri./ven. March 14 mars, 21:30
AMAL

Director: Richie Mehta • Canada 2007, 101min
When the heirs of a New Delhi millionaire discover that he has given his wealth to Amal, a second generation rickshaw driver struggling to make ends meet, plots and counter-plots are hatched. English sub-titles. AMAL will be playing at the ByTowne Cinema from April 18-27.

Sun./dim. March 16 mars, 19:00
A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN

Director: Peter Raymont • Canada 2007, 92min
This personal and political documentary follows celebrated writer Ariel Dorfman (DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, et al) on his emotionally charged return visit to Chile, having left after dictator Augusto Pinochet came to power. The film boasts startling archival footage and heartbreaking contemporary sequences which explore the impact of Pinochet’s rule and death on Dorfman and others. English sub-titles. Filmmaker Peter Raymont will attend the screening to introduce and discuss his film.

Sun./dim. March 16 mars, 21:00
UP THE YANGTZE

Director: Yung Chang • Canada 2007, 93min
Simultaneously heartbreaking and affirming, Yung Chang’s luminous documentary focuses on the people who live alongside China’s Yangtze River, many of whom are being uprooted as a result of the Three Gorges Dam project. A revelation. English sub-titles.