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Roma
Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico, USA) #FNC2018

ROMA follows Cleo, a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.
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Les faux tatouages
Pascal Plante (Québec)
#FNC2017

Théo celebrates his 18th birthday by getting drunk on beer and angry rock. He meets Mag, a charismatic young rebel. It might be love, but Théo has to leave Montreal soon for a new life far away. For this second feature, Pascal Plante captures adolescent turmoil on the margins. A sensitive slice of life with plenty of character.
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Dogman
Matteo Garrone (Italy) 
#FNC2018

A dog-groomer living in a ratty Neapolitan suburb who sells a little coke on the side to make ends meet sees his world turn upside-down when a childhood friend is released from prison. With a masterful performance by Marcello Fonte, Garrone’s drama eloquently reflects on the savagery beneath the surface of so-called human nature. A film with bite, terrifying and captivating.
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Capharnaüm
Nadine Labaki (France, Lebanon)
#FNC2018

The director chronicles  the loveless existence of slum child Zain, age 12 and bent on suing his parent for giving him life. Much of her saga’s power comes from the stellar performances of its young non-professional cast, headed by an astonishing Zain Al Rafeea. 
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Thunder Road
Jim Cummings (USA)
#FNC2018

Jimmy, a bumbling father and police officer who follows protocol to the letter, is trying his best to raise his daughter against all odds. When his mother dies, his world collapses.
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System Crasher
Nora Fingscheidt(Germany)
#FNC2019

Blond, angelic-looking Benni with her piercing blue eyes is just nine but has already exhausted every social service and children’s aid resource. One minute she’s sulking, the next she explodes into a terrifying rage. Yet all Benni really wants is love from a mother who keeps abandoning her.
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Marriage story
Noah Baumbach (USA)
#FNC2019

How did Nicole and Charlie end up at the point of no return? It depends on which one you ask. She’s a former film actress who gave up her career to live in New York. He’s a theatre director happy in his role as a father.
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HAPPY FACE
ALEXANDRE Franchi (Québec)
#FNC2018

Stanislas, 19, is left on his own when his mother is hospitalized. Terrorized by her illness, he wraps his face in bandages and infiltrates a therapy workshop for disfigured patients, whom he urges to rebel against society’s obsession with beauty by brandishing their “ugliness” as a weapon.
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L'acrobate
Rodrigue Jean (Québec)
#FNC2019

Montreal is snowed under. While the downtown cranes dance their hypnotic ballet, two strangers meet randomly in an unfinished apartment. Their chance encounter leads to a violent attraction and a dependency beyond reason.  
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L'amour au temps de la guerre civile
Rodrigue Jean (Québec)
#FNC2014

Alex, a young addict who still nurtures a few dreams, sells his body in Montréal’s Centre-Sud district. He’s flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Éric and Velma, all of them caught in the same spiral of compulsion. Marginalized by society yet hostage to its market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time. 
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No crying at the dinner table
Carole Nguyen(Québec)
#FNC2019

A collection of family secrets, confessions and confrontations.
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Vaillancourt
John Blouin (Québec)
#FNC2019

His monumental sculptures, often constructed as public performance, paved the way for contemporary art in Quebec. Born in 1929, Armand Vaillancourt is a towering figure of rebellion. A revolutionary and a tireless militant for the dream of a Quebec nation, Vaillancourt is also one of our pioneering ecologists, whose works explore the visceral connection between nature and creation.
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Vaysha l'aveugle
Theodore Ushev(Québec)
#FNC2016

Vaysha is not like other young girls; she was born with one green eye and one brown. This metaphorical tale is a reminder of the importance of living in the moment. 
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Little joe
Jessica Hausner (Austria, United Kingdom, Germany)
#FNC2019

After plant geneticist Alice, mother to a teen, creates a new flower with euphoric properties for humans, she realizes her experiment is causing unexpected side effects. 
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La nuit tous les chats sont gris
Lasse Linder (Switzerland)
#FNC2019

Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. As the yearns to become a father, he decides to breed his beloved Marmelade with an exquisite tomcat from abroad.
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Beanpole
Kantemir Balagov (Russia)
#FNC2019

In 1945 Leningrad, reduced to rubble by the Second World War, a young woman, Iya, works in a hospital tending to soldiers wounded in battle. Tragedy strikes when her friend Masha returns from the front.
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Bad education
Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
#FNC2004

In the early 1960s, two young boys, Ignacio and Enrique, discovered love and passions in their religious school. Father Manolo, director of the institution and literature teach, is both witness and actor of these discoveries. The paths of these 3 characters will cross on 2 other occasions, in the late 1970s then around 1980.
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Les routes en février
Katherine Jerkovic  (Québec)
#FNC2018

Mourning her father, twentysomething Sarah returns to her home country of Uruguay, hoping to reconcile past and present. There she finds her paternal grandmother, the solitary Doña Magda, who had so hoped her prodigal son would return ... The clash of cultures, generations and aspirations shapes this intimate, bittersweet tale where each character must undergo transformation.  
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Japon
Carlos Reygadas (Mexico)
#FNC2002

A cynical and disillusioned city man goes to the depths of Mexico to prepare for death. He finds hospitality with an old mixed-race woman living alone in a desolate canyon. Immersed in the immensity of the vertiginous and wild nature, confronted with the infinite humanity of his lodger,  the man swings between cruelty and lyricism.
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dogtooth
Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
#FNC2009

A couple and their three children live in the outskirts of a city. Their house is surrounded by a high fence that the children never crossed. Their education, leisure, fun, boredom and physical training conform to the model imposed by their parents, they don't know anything about the outside world.
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Stories we tell
Sarah Polley(Canada)
#FNC2012

This feature documentary is an inspired, genre-twisting film directed by Oscar®-nominee Sarah Polley. Polley's playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a touching and intriguing portrait of a complex network of relatives, friends, and strangers.
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cuba merci gracias
Alex B. Martin (Québec)
#FNC2018

Two young women from Québec, Manu and Alexa-Jeanne, head to Cuba for a holiday. There, they soak up the rays, frolic in the surf, dine out and wander through Havana. The contours of their friendship take shape through chance meetings and informal discussions with the locals — exchanges that also nod to a certain vision of humanity and North/South relations. 
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The song of names
François Girard (Québec)
#FNC2019

This drama based on the eponymous novel by Norman Lebrecht unfolds like a detective story. Two boys, Martin and Dovidl, brought together on the eve of the Second World War, grow up in London. Then, right before his first public performance, violin prodigy Dovidl mysteriously vanishes. Decades later, Martin sets off to unravel the mystery of what happened.
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Meditation park
Mima Shum (Canada)
#FNC2017

A warm, compassionate story of female emancipation set in Vancouver’s Chinese community is well served by two talented actresses. Twenty-three years after Double Happiness, Mina Shum once again tackles the gulf between tradition and modernity. This time, her heroine is a reserved older woman who is forced to re-evaluate her role in society in the face of her husband’s cowardice.
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Solange et les vivants
Ina Mihalache (France)
#FNC2016

A story with a unique tone whose protagonist, Solange, emerged from a series of YouTube clips. Enjoying her solitude, alone in her Paris apartment, Solange is suddenly struck by a strange illness. Now, whenever she’s alone, the young beauty faints. She has no choice but to confront the outside world. 
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She hate me
Spike Lee (USA)
#FNC2004

A Harvard graduate, John Henry "Jack" Armstrong is a senior executive in a biotechnology company. But when he denounces the financial embezzlement of his bosses, he is fired.  Meanwhile his ex-partner Fatima, a brilliant business woman, now a lesbian, him to be the biological father of her child in exchange for money, Jack sees a way to make easy money.
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If beale street could talk
Barry Jenkins(USA)
#FNC2018

A poignant love story, in which a deep injustice separates passionate lovers, If Beale Street Could Talk is also the story of a delicate investigation aimed at proving the innocence of a young black sculptor. An unabashedly lyrical film, elegantly directed, that proves once again that love transcends despair, anger and hatred.
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Mad dog labine
Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr et Renaud Lessard (Québec)
#FNC2018

The heroes of this inventive film are kids and teenagers from Pontiac in the Outaouais, a land of lakes and rivers light years away from the big city. They are smart-alecky Lindsay, left on her own when her father goes off hunting, and her friend Justine, a child of hippies who, by some miracle, wins the lottery. 
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Monsieur Lazhar
Philippe Falardeau (Québec)
#FNC2011

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
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Blood quantum
Jeff Barnaby (Québec)
#FNC2019

Something strange is happening around the Red Crow Mi’gMaq reserve: dead fish start coming back to life, followed shortly by dead humans. All too soon, the Indigenous residents of Red Crow — remarkably immune to the hideous plague — find their community invaded by white refugees, whose survival they must ensure . . .
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Monos
Alejandro Landes (Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Netherlands)
#FNC2019

A group of inexperienced guerrillas train hard as part of an obscure paramilitary organization with an American hostage. When the commander leaves the camp, the situation degenerates alarmingly.
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Antigone
Sophie Deraspe (Québec)
#FNC2019

Teenaged Antigone, brilliant and singular, grew up in a tightly knit immigrant family united in love by their turbulent past. When her brother is jailed after an altercation that smells strongly of racial profiling, she decides to help him escape and take his place. Her resolution will serve as a beacon as the flaws in the justice of men are pitted against the righteousness of a pure heart.
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Soleil de plomb
Dalibor Matanic (Croatie)
#FNC2015

In this film spanning three decades, Dalibor Matanic overlays three love stories against the backdrop of the post-Yugoslav Balkan wars. Depicting violent fights, the scars of war, and potential rebirth in the wake of those terrible events, the Croatian filmmaker explores the devastating consequences of tragedy through the burning, agonizing, ill-fated passions of his different protagonists.
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Parasite
Bong Joon-Ho (Corée du sud)
#FNC2019

A black comedy with a deep vein of social commentary, the seventh feature by the South Korean director is all about appearances. As are his characters, the members of two families with nothing in common, starting with their social standing. Improbably, and astonishingly, they find themselves living in the same house.
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werewolf
Ashley McKenzie (Canada)
#FNC2016

Two twenty-something drug addicts attempt to eke out a semblance of dignity in the face of overwhelming indifference. Lining up for their daily dose of methadone, mowing lawns for meagre earnings, dishing up soft-serve at an ice cream parlour, Blaise and Nessa struggle to go straight. 
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maps to the stars
David Cronenberg (Canada)
#FNC2014

With this tale of a secret-filled Hollywood family on the verge of implosion, director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from our celebrity-obsessed culture.
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edge of the knife
Gwaai Edenshaw et Helen Haig-Brown (Canada)
#FNC2018

Haida Gwaii is an archipelago some 60 km off the coast of mainland British Columbia. The islands are home to the Haida, whose language is brought back from the brink of extinction and onto the big screen through this first-of-its-kind project: a feature adapted from an ancient legend and created as a community. On the shore, Adiits’ii accidentally causes the death of his friend Kwa’s son. When he flees to the forest, hunger and guilt gradually transform him into Gaagiixid, the man/monster...
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Genèse
Philippe lesage(Québec)
#FNC2018

Boarding-school student Guillaume finds himself painfully attracted to his best friend. Meanwhile, after her boyfriend casually mentions how unlikely it is they’ll stay together for the long haul, his half-sister Charlotte embarks on chance encounters that leave her both exultant and unhappy. At summer camp, young Felix meets the gaze of his first love...
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Rafiki
Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya, SOUTH AFRICA, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS)
#FNC2018

Eyes that light up, knowing smiles, lingering gazes: Kena and Ziki get butterflies whenever they’re together. Their fathers are facing off in an election they couldn’t care less about. They’re feeling the first glimmers of love and that’s all that matters. For her second feature, Wanuri Kahiu trains her lens on a relationship forbidden by Kenyan society, intolerant as it is of difference. 
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two lovers and a bear
kim nguyen (québec)
#FNC2016

Halfway between a realist love story and a fantasist tale, the story of Roman and Lucy and their run in the infinite white of the Arctic Circle offers striking images and an out of the ordinary journey.
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they call us warriors
Edwin Corona Ramos, Jennifer Socorro, David Alonso (Venezuela, MexiCO)
#FNC2018

Their names are Sandra, Deyna, Veronica, Yerliane and Daniuska. They’re all from underprivileged backgrounds. Through their innate talent for futbol, not to mention their persistence, they earned their spots on the national under-17 girls’ soccer team. 
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le daim
quentin dupieux (france)
#FNC2019

Quentin Dupieux’s latest is a serial-killer film about a jacket that wants to kill all other jackets and its unhinging effect on its owner. What starts out as a banal incident takes a sharp, chilling turn into Crazytown. 
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Félicité
Alain Gomis (France, Sénégal, Belgium)
#FNC2017

A cabaret singer moves heaven and earth to raise the funds necessary to save her teenage son from amputation. Soothed by Congolese music and songs, this frantic quest by a determined mother won the Silver Bear at the latest Berlin Festival.
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One Day in the life of Noah Piugattuk
Zacharias Kunuk (Canada)
#FNC2019

In April 1961, with John F. Kennedy in the White House and the Cold War ramping up, a Canadian government agent arrives in Kapuivik, north Baffin Island. His assignment: get a nomadic Inuit band led by elder Noah Piugattuk to leave their homeland and live with other Inuit in settlement housing. 
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Douleur et gloire
Pedro Almodovar (spain)
#FNC2019

For his 21st feature, the legendary Madrid filmmaker delivers his most personal, intimate work so far. Antonio Banderas (best actor award at Cannes) is quite simply stunning in his embodiment of an aging, world-renowned filmmaker who loves men and surrounds himself with strong women. Constructed like a melancholy puzzle, Pain and Glory is a kind of celebration of heartbreak and unfulfilled love.
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tideland
Terry gilliam (USA)
#FNC2004

When her mother dies of an overdose, little Jeliza-Rose leaves to settle in an old farm with her father, Noah, a man who's addicted to heroin. In order to flee the solitude of her new home, the little girl escapes into an imaginary world.
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Tom à la ferme
Xavier Dolan (Québec)
#FNC2013

A young advertiser travels to the countryside attend a funeral and finds that no one knows his name or the nature of his relationship with the deceased.  When his older brother imposes on him an unhealthy role play to protect his mother and the honour of their family, a toxique relationship soon begins and stops only when the truth finally comes out, whatever the consequences.
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le poirier sauvage
nuri bilge ceylan (tURKEY, france, GERMANY, bulgariA)
#FNC2018

Constructed as a series of tableaux, this is the story of Sinan, a young graduate who goes back to his hometown in Anatolia. He finds himself tormented by the desire to write a novel, and has a series of interesting encounters. Sinan’s reunions, confrontations and conversations allow the Turkish filmmaker to build the film around dialogue, including a particularly memorable joust between Sinan and an established author, in a local bookstore.
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guy
alex lutz (france)
#FNC2018

In his second feature, director Alex Lutz tells the story of a fictitious ageing crooner, Guy Jamet, an artist whose moment of fame from the 1960s to the 1990s has faded. Unbeknownst to him he has a son, Gauthier, a journalist, who upon discovering that the singer is really his father, decides to make a documentary on the old man’s life and comeback tour without revealing his identity. Guy is a hilarious and endearing portrait filled with nostalgia and tenderness.
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adults in the room
Costa Gavras (France, GrEEce)
#FNC2019

For his 19th feature film, the Franco-Greek director continues his critical work, filming in his native land for the very first time. In this modern Greek tragedy, Costa Gavras paints a feverish, unrelenting portrait of the economic and diplomatic crisis that gripped Greece in 2015. 
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les fleurs oubliées
André forcier (Québec)
#FNC2019

The enfant terrible of Quebec cinema is back with the story of Albert, a beekeeper and mead brewer working from Montreal’s rooftops. Enter Brother Marie-Victorin who, bored to tears up in heaven, comes along to help. 
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bacurau
Kleber Medonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles (BrAZIL, France)
#FNC2019

In the arid plains of northern Brazil, a village suddenly disappears from GPS maps, while down the road, a mysterious massacre occurs. Then the power cuts out and night falls. To top it all off, there may be aliens on the prowl. Pretty soon, it seems like a wise idea to take up arms. 
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sorry we missed you
Ken loach (england)
#FNC2019

Central to this family drama is Ricky, a father, husband and serial odd-jobber forced to reinvent himself as a delivery driver for a Web-based corporation. Impeccably filmed and marked by excellent performances, this is Loach at his unflinching, gut-wrenching best: giving a voice to those who end up getting screwed by the technological change that generates astronomical profits for just a few.
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I'm ok
Elizabeth hobbs (canada, United-Kingdom)
#FNC2018

It is 1915, expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka's tempestuous love affair with Alma Mahler ends dramatically and he volunteers to fight in the First World War.
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easy land
sanja zivkovic (Canada)
#FNC2019

Sanja Zivkovic’s first feature is built around a complex mother-daughter relationship, damaged by the broken dreams of forced exile. Former architect Jasna and teenage Nina have left Serbia for Canada, where they struggle to establish themselves in their new land. Far from her homeland and her friends, Nina tries to express herself through theatre while her mother, dulled by medication, gradually slips through the cracks.
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vitalina varela
Pedro Costa (Portugal)
#FNC2019

A plane takes Vitalina from Cape Verde to Portugal for the funeral of her husband, who abandoned her long ago. Through dark Cape Verdean immigrant ghettos, images of postcolonial abandonment and her late husband’s nearly ruined house, she finds herself grieving his promises of a lavish lifestyle. Pedro Costa returns to his shantytown characters with a humane and hopeful eye. 
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restless river
Marie-Hélène Cousineau et Madeline Ivalu  (Canada)
#FNC2019

At the end of the Second World War, Elsa, a young Inuk woman, must come to terms with motherhood after she is raped — and with the changing epoch ushered in by her blond, blue-eyed son. Co-directors Madeline Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau deliver a restrained yet romantic adaptation of the novel by Gabrielle Roy in their poignant portrayal of a young woman caught between two worlds.
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feral
andrew wonder (usa)
#FNC2019

Facing an imminent blizzard, Yazmine, a young homeless woman, has just one goal: survive without compromising her own rules. Prowling the dilapidated tunnels of an unrecognizable New York, she’s wild as a cornered animal, keeping everyone at bay — not just those whose paths she crosses, but also the viewer.
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zombi child
bertrand bonello (france)
#FNC2019

In a quieter register than his recent Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello’s eighth film is a bold re-examination of the zombie figure. The French filmmaker juxtaposes the tale of Clairvius Narcisse, a Haitian who came back from the dead in 1962, with the story of two young students who bond at a girls’ boarding school 55 years later. 
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jeanne
bruno dumont (france)
#FNC2019

It’s 1429. As she prepares to lead the battle of Paris, Joan of Arc has no inkling that she will mark history, be imprisoned by the Burgundians, stand trial in Rouen, be accused of witchcraft and burnt at the stake. After Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont continues his adaptation of Charles Péguy’s play with a second instalment that’s more stripped-down, contemplative and visceral.
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cranks
Ryan McKenna (Canada)
#FNC2019

Winnipeg remains an enigma — and the second feature from Ryan McKenna (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali) adds its own two cents to the conversation. His solitary protagonists, alternately in search of love or meaning, are linked by the surprising letters they sent to Peter Warren, the longstanding controversial host of the infamous Action Line radio show. Shot in beautiful black-and-white, its sets brimming with inventiveness, Cranks allies its quirkiness with bittersweet humour.
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a white, white day
HLYNUR PÁLMASON (Iceland, denmark, sweden)
#FNC2019

In a small town in the Icelandic hinterland, ex-police chief Ingimundur, struggling to recover from his wife’s death two years earlier, begins to suspect she was having an affair with another man. The glacial beauty of Iceland’s landscapes, heightened by a coldly meticulous lens, serves as the backdrop to a portrait of a man whose feverish quest turns to obsession. 
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l.a tea time
sophie bédard marcotte (québec)
#FNC2019

Taking her usual place off-camera and on, Sophie Bédard Marcotte goes on a joyride from Montreal to Los Angeles looking for inspiration… and Miranda July. In this genre-busting road movie, the people she meets are eccentric, the settings kitschy and sublime, the confessions intimate and the questions existential.
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la casa lobo
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (chile)
#FNC2018

Somewhere in southern Chile, Maria escapes from a cult and takes refuge in the woods. There, the dark fairytales of childhood play out, the ones where the wolf is always lurking nearby. La Casa Lobo, the first film by two artists, is by every definition a work of art, a hallucinatory animated film that brings back the magic of cinema.
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restless river
Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu  (québec and nunavut)
#FNC2019

At the end of the Second World War, Elsa, a young Inuk woman, must come to terms with motherhood after she is raped — and with the changing epoch ushered in by her blond, blue-eyed son. Co-directors Madeline Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau deliver a restrained yet romantic adaptation of the novel by Gabrielle Roy in their poignant portrayal of a young woman caught between two worlds.
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dérive
David Uloth et Chloé Cinq-Mara (Québec)
#FNC2018

Marine is 11; her sister Océane is 16. When his life is tragically cut short, their father leaves them with a grieving mother and a pile of debts. Each reacts differently: Océane goes wildly off on a tangent, taking an older first lover, while Marine takes refuge in a fantasy world, speaking to ghosts… 
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le jeune karl marx
raoul peck (germany, france, belgium)
#FNC2017

Highly political film about the meeting between a journalist exiled to France (Karl Marx) and the rebellious son of a wealthy German industrialist (Friedrich Engels). Sparks fly. The director of the hard-hitting documentary I’m Not Your Negro (2016) delves into the early years of the author of Das Kapital and his meeting with his alter ego, Friedrich Engels. 
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