2017 Kingston Canadian Film Festival
Movies screened at the 2017 KCFF
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- DirectorJohnny MaStarsGang ChenNai AnHongwei WangA psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.
- DirectorChloé RobichaudStarsEmily VanCampRémy GirardSerge HoudeEmily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
- DirectorAnn Marie FlemingStarsElliot PageShohreh AghdashlooSandra OhA young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsDylan AuthorsJulia Sarah StoneMolly ParkerJust after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.
- DirectorSophie GoyetteStarsÉliane PréfontaineGerardo TrejolunaIn Quebec, Mexico and Asia, three sensitive souls heed the call of the images and melodies that haunt their days and nights. Moved at once by loss, yearning and longing, Eliane (Eliane Préfontaine), Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and his father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) decide to take action before it is too late. Whatever the risks, they must let their dreams take flight. Implicitly trusting that inner voice dwelling inside us all, Sophie Goyette beckons us on a sensory journey where travel, art, dream, and memory serve as mileposts. Her first feature film blurs the boundary that separates night from day; poetry blooms where these two worlds intersect. As she attentively follows the three characters' quests, the filmmaker directs our gaze to the magic that seeps from the cracks in daily life. In doing so, she raises universal questions about being human, about what binds us to each other and to reality. "Mes nuits feront écho" is a bottle that Eliane, Romes or Pablo might have cast adrift: within it, a loving tribute to cinema and its ability to bring back to us what has ceased to be.
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsMax IronsSamantha BarksTerence StampSet in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
- DirectorZacharias KunukNatar UngalaaqStarsBenjamin KunukKaren IvaluJonah QunaqInspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
- DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsMatt JohnsonOwen WilliamsAndrew AppelleIn 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
- DirectorMichael McNamaraStarsJay BaruchelGerry McLaughlinEoin O'CallaghanIt's a story that spans 200 years of colorful history and that will take the duo eastward from Montreal to Westport, Ireland and finally Glasgow, where Jay will fulfill a lifelong dream.
- CreatorMatt JohnsonJay McCarrolStarsMatt JohnsonJay McCarrolJared RaabThrough a series of misadventures, Matt and Jay try to inch ever closer to fulfilling their lifelong dream of playing a show at Toronto's Rivoli, a small concert space in Toronto's West End.
- DirectorGord DownieFollows the escape of Chanie Wenjack from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School and the brutal winter conditions he faces on the outside.
- DirectorLev LewisStarsMelanie J. ScheinerClaudia DeyJennifer Hardy CKA young woman attempts to better her life by appropriating a rich man's home.
- DirectorAshley McKenzieStarsAndrew GillisBhreagh MacNeilMark WoodlandBlaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in their small town. Each day they push a rusty lawnmower door-to-door begging to cut grass. Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to collapse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMylène MackayMilya Corbeil GauvreauMickaël GouinInspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.
- DirectorVincent BironStarsAlexandre AugerEric K. BoulianneNormand DaoustStefie, a lonely young boy, is approached by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily pranks with his cellphone. The four prankmeisters decide to set up an antic that goes beyond anything they've done so far... But who will be the victim? PRANK is a funny and cruel coming-of-age story about friendship, peer pressure and the loss of innocence.
- 20161h 31mNot Rated7.3 (571)63MetascoreDirectorFred PeabodyStarsI.F. StoneChris HedgesLeslie MoonvesA look at the life and work of American journalist, I.F. Stone, who leads a one-man crusade against government deception.
- DirectorAlethea Arnaquq-BarilStarsAlethea Arnaquq-BarilAaju PeterAn Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit, the importance of the revenue they earn from sales of seal skins, and the negative impact that international campaigns against the seal hunt have had on their lives.
- DirectorMathieu DenisSimon LavoieStarsCharlotte AubinLaurent BélangerEmmanuelle Lussier MartinezA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.
- DirectorBrigitte BermanStarsNorman JewisonBarry KennedyRichard OuzounianA look at the life and legacy of Canadian actor, Gordon Pinsent.
- DirectorAlanis ObomsawinStarsAlanis ObomsawinActivists file a human-rights complaint against the Canadian government's inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children claiming it's discriminatory.
- DirectorHugh GibsonAn in-depth look into the lives of habitual drug users in Toronto's Regent Park.
- DirectorRandall OkitaStarsStorie SerresLinnea Currie-RobertsEvan GerolimonA teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
- DirectorStella MeghieStarsTaylour PaigeGloria ReubenMamoudou AthieChaos ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tried to win over acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a boil at the funeral.