SHORTLISTED: 97th Academy Awards, Best Int. Feature
WINNER: CANNES FILM FEST, Directors Fortnight Award WINNER: MIFF, Bright Horizons Award
WINNER: TIFF, Best Canadian Discovery Award
WINNER: THESSALONIKI INT. FILM FEST, Best Feature 2024
WINNER: STOCKHOLM INT. FILM FEST, Best Director 2024
WINNER: GENEVA INT. FILM FEST, Reflet d’Or 2024
WINNER: NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, Top 5 Int. Films
WINNER: Toronto Film Critic Association, Roger Best Canadian Film Award WINNER: National Board of Review: Top 5 Int'Films
Universal Language
Dir. Matthew Rankin | Comedy | Canada | 89 mins
WINNER: Lost Weekend Film Club, Avant Robot Award
WINNER: CIFF Calgary, RBC Emerging Canadian Artist
WINNER: MonteCarlo Comedy Fest, Best Director 2024
WINNER: Bangkok World Film Festival, Best Director 2024
WINNER: Viennale, FIPRESCI Prize – Best Film 2024
WINNER: VIFF, Summit Award – Best Canadian Film
WINNER: Montclair Film Festival: Junior Jury – Prize (Cinematography) Isabelle Stachtchenko 2024
WINNER: Piccolo Grande Cinema: Best Film – International Competition - Matthew Rankin 2024 WINNER: Filmfest Hamburg: Arthouse Cinema Award
WINNER: Loft Film Fest: Arthouse Cinema Award
WINNER: Directors Guild of Canada Awards: Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award
WINNER: Pingyao International Film Festival: Best Film + People's Choice Award
WINNER: Palm Springs International Film Festival: Best International Feature Film
WINNER: The CAFTCAD Awards: Best Costume Design in Film – Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Negar Nemati 2025
WINNER: Piccolo Grande Cinema: Best Film – International Competition - Matthew Rankin
In a mysterious & surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran & Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising & mysterious ways.
Gradeschoolers Negin & Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice & try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments & historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother.
UNLOCK YOUR CINEMATIC JOURNEY
BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER celebrates life through the lens of death, by renowned auteur Costa-Gavras.
By renowned Multi-Academy Award winning Director Costa-Gavras.
A stunning philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death... A number of vignettes in which the palliative doctor guides his patients and family through fear, anxieties & decisions around the end of their lives… A poetic ballet, where each patient is a tome of emotions, laughter and tears… A journey to the throbbing heart of our loves and lives.
This Life Of Mine
Dir. Sophie Fillières | Comedy | France | 99 Mins
Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival SACD Best Screenplay award and opening night film of the Cannes Director’s Fortnight section, Sophie Fillières' THIS LIFE OF MINE is a sharply funny and deeply resonant take on midlife crises. With her signature wit and humour, Fillières delivers a tender portrait of a woman navigating the chaos of family, work, and the absurdities of aging.
Barberie "Barbie" Bichette (Agnès Jaoui, Place Publique, AF FFF19) is a woman under siege: her kids cringe at her quirks, her soul-crushing copywriting job barely inspires her, and her body feels like it’s rebelling. Caught between hot flushes and existential dread, Barbie stumbles through the comedy of life at 55.
On the brink of her birthday, Barbie faces a choice: conform to society’s dismissive view of aging women or break free. What follows is a journey of rediscovery as she escapes to the Scottish Highlands to reclaim her spirit and sense of self. Equal parts poignant and funny, THIS LIFE OF MINE reminds us that midlife isn’t the end of the story—it’s just the beginning of a new chapter.
(Ma Vie Ma Gueule)
NIKI
(Niki De Saint Phalle)
Dir. Céline Sallette | Drama | France | 98 Mins
Paris, 1952. Niki has recently moved from the US with her husband and daughter.
Despite this newfound distance from a family and country that were suffocating her, disturbing flashbacks of her childhood continue to invade her thoughts.
From the hell she is about to discover, Niki will find in her art a weapon to free herself.
Before What Comes After
(Le Dernier Souffle)
Dir. Costa-Gavras | Drama | France | 100 Mins
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