February 22nd, 2012 04:04 p.m.
Canada's Top Ten 2011
Metro Cinema in partnership
with The Film Circuit and The
Toronto International Film Festival
invite you to come out and support
Canadian talent and celebrate the
country’s cinematic successes.
Canada’s Top Ten has become
a highly anticipated initiative,
bringing Canada’s most acclaimed
filmmakers and eager audiences
together for an exciting cinematic
experience. The creativity, diversity
and innovation of these films and
filmmakers is being showcased in
Edmonton. Canada’s Top Ten lists
are chosen from features, shorts,
documentaries, animation and
experimental films.
Director: Various
Canada
2011,
131 min,
Various formats
- Feb 17 @ 9pm
- Feb 20 @ 7pm
ORA: 15 MIN , DIGITAL , DIR : PHILIPPE BAYLAU CQ
HOPE: 11 MIN , 35MM, DIR : PEDRO PIRES
WE ATE THE CHILDREN LAST: 13 MIN , DIGITAL , DIR : ANDRE W CIVIDINO
CHOKE: 6 MIN , DIGITAL , DIR: MICHELLE...
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Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Canada
2011,
120 min,
Digital
- Feb 18 @ 4pm
- Feb 22 @ 9pm
Powerful, propulsive, music-filled, this film is the latest from award - winning director Jean-Marc Vallée (_C.R.A.Z.Y._). It’s a love storybetween a man and a woman, and between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love and...
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Director: Sebastien Pilote
Canada
2011,
107 min,
Digital
- Feb 18 @ 4pm
- Feb 19 @ 7pm
Please note: Due to a shipping issue, we will not be screening Le Vendeur (The Salesman) this weekend. We will replace it with a screening of [Cafe de Flore][1] at 4:00pm on Saturday, and of [Marecages (Wetlands)][2] at 7:00pm on...
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Director: Sarah Polley
Canada
2011,
116 min,
35mm
- Feb 18 @ 7pm
- Feb 19 @ 4pm
From Award-winning actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley, comes a funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching story about a woman struggling to choose between two different types of love. Polley’s much-anticipated followup to _Away From Her_ features an impressive cast including Michelle Williams...
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Director: Guy Edoin
Canada
2011,
111 min,
35mm
- Feb 18 @ 9:15pm
- Feb 19 @ 7pm
- Feb 20 @ 1:30pm
On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to...
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Director: Jason Eisener
Canada
2011,
86 min,
35mm
Featuring the talented, versatile Rutger Hauer as a homeless vigilante blowing away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun comes the most unexpected feature on this year’s list. The unbelievable story of how this debut...
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Director: Ken Scott
Canada
2011,
109 min,
Digital
Just when David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) decides to finally take control of his life, this eternal 42 year old teenager discovers that he’s the biological father of 533 children. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic...
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Director: David Cronenberg
Canada
2011,
99 min,
35mm
- Feb 22, 24 & 27 @ 7pm
- Feb 25 @ 1pm
- Feb 25, 26 & 29 @ 9pm
- Feb 26 @ 4pm
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) gives birth to psychoanalysis. From one of Canada’s most talented and respected filmmakers - David Cronenberg - known for his sense of dry...
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