When Morning Comes, Fyffe-Marshall’s feature debut, stars Djamari Roberts as a young, precocious boy in Jamaica processing his widowed mother’s decision to move to Canada. She’s following that up with an immigration story. NOW’s rising screen stars subject Kelly Fyffe-Marshall nabbed cross-border attention for her stirring, award-winning short Black Bodies. Their queer love story becomes the site where questions about identity, colonial histories and shared traumas emerge. Priya Guns plays a Tamil-Canadian coming to terms with her refugee father’s misfortunes. This PlaceĬo-writer and star Devery Jacobs plays a Mohawk woman searching for her Iranian father. This Place felt like a homecoming for Malvern-raised actor Priya Guns. Their connection doesn’t just set off sparks but something more cosmic, spiritual and hopeful. Naponse’s environmental love story stars Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Night Raiders) and Braeden Clarke (Run Woman Run) as people who meet near the end of the world.
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Hoping for more of the same in De Filippis’s feature debut, which is about a family road trip full of tension and crossed boundaries.
The film’s spare narrative quietly and confidently builds its way towards a profoundly tender moment of shared vulnerability. In De Filippis’s award-winning 2017 short For Nonna Ana, a trans girl takes on rudimentary house duties while caring for her fragile grandmother. McKenzie’s follow-up starring Sarah Walker and Ziyin Zheng as a young woman surviving a suicide attempt and the hospital volunteer assigned to be her companion is being described as a sensorial “queer friendship romance.” Courtesy of Elevation Pictures Something You Said Last Night A few years later, the buzz around fellow Maritimer Heather Young’s Murmur inspired talk of a Nova Scotian new wave. Steve Wadden Queens Of The Qing DynastyĬape Breton filmmaker McKenzie’s debut feature about addiction, Werewolf, won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Best Canadian Film prize. She plays the flower child matriarch in a dysfunctional hippie family going off grid to live in the Canadian wilderness. Stone follows up her Frances Ha-like comedy The New Romantic with an adaptation of Cea Sunrise Person’s coming-of-age memoir starring Toronto’s own Sarah Gadon (who’s currently off shooting Michael Mann’s Ferrari opposite Christian Bale and Adam Driver). Courtesy of Elevation Pictures North Of Normal Levack’s hilarious, empathetic and moving period comedy is about an obnoxious teenage film bro in 2002/2003 who is saved from becoming an incel by the people he works with at a video rental store. Think Clerks but from a female perspective.
It stars Hussam Douhna and Amani Ibrahim as a Syrian doctor and his wife who immigrate to Canada and struggle to find their bearings but help people in the community, even as their own fragile marriage needs tending to. Fail To Appear director Bourges collaborated with co-writer Teyama Alkamli to create a portrait of Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park area, an immigrant hub overlooking the DVP, in yet another film that blends fact and fiction.
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