Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2016
by AwaySick | created - 23 Mar 2016 | updated - 23 Mar 2016 | PublicFilms screened at the 2016 Kingston Canadian Film Festival, February 25 to 28, 2016.
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1. Driving with Selvi (2015)
74 min | Documentary
Former child bride Selvi escapes her child marriage to become South India's first female taxi driver.
Director: Elisa Paloschi
Votes: 48
2. After the Last River (2015)
86 min | Documentary, Drama
In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers ... See full summary »
Director: Victoria Lean
Votes: 45
3. Al Purdy Was Here (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
Director: Brian D. Johnson | Stars: Margaret Atwood, Jean Baird, George Bowering, Joseph Boyden
Votes: 41
4. Borealis (2015)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After accruing a substantial debt, a gambler takes his visually impaired daughter on a road trip to see the northern lights before she becomes blind.
Director: Sean Garrity | Stars: Jonas Chernick, Joey King, Emily Hampshire, Clé Bennett
Votes: 338
5. Born to Be Blue (2015)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
Director: Robert Budreau | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Tony Nappo
Votes: 9,277 | Gross: $0.83M
6. The Sound of Trees (2015)
79 min | Drama
17 year-old Jérémie (Antoine L'Écuyer) dreams of a better life, away from the family sawmill and his native village in Gaspésie, Québec. Instead of the forestry work, Jérémie prefers hip ... See full summary »
Director: François Péloquin | Stars: Antoine L'Écuyer, Roy Dupuis, Rémi Goulet, Charles-Émile Lafleur
Votes: 97
7. Closet Monster (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Director: Stephen Dunn | Stars: Aaron Abrams, Jack Fulton, Joanne Kelly, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 9,226 | Gross: $0.04M
8. Le coeur de madame Sabali (2015)
79 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Sabali is a dramatic film with touches of surrealist comedy and science fiction.
Directors: Ryan McKenna, Ryan McKenna | Stars: Marie Brassard, Francis La Haye, Youssef Camara, Michel Forget
Votes: 89
9. The Demons (2015)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.
Director: Philippe Lesage | Stars: Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Vassili Schneider, Sarah Mottet
Votes: 1,278
10. Le dep (2015)
77 min | Drama
Le dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman, who routinely works at her father's convenience store in a small First-Nations community in Québec. One night, as she ... See full summary »
Director: Sonia Bonspille Boileau | Stars: Eve Ringuette, Charles Buckell-Robertson, Marco Collin, Yan England
Votes: 99
11. Our Loved Ones (2015)
102 min | Drama
After the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.
Director: Anne Émond | Stars: Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay, Valerie Cadieux, Mickaël Gouin
Votes: 370
12. The Forbidden Room (2015)
Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Mystery
In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.
Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier
Votes: 3,421 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Forsaken (I) (2015)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Western
In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Esther Purves-Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Lex Cassar
Votes: 13,810
14. Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr (2015)
80 min | Documentary
Omar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Khadr is suddenly released. Finally, his story, in his own words.
Directors: Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard | Stars: Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, Patricia Edney, Stephen Harper
Votes: 67
15. Hockey's Lost Boy: The Rise and Fall of George Patterson (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
George Patterson scored the first goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs - launching a hockey empire.
Director: Dale Morrisey | Stars: Doug Gilmour, Steven M. Cohen, Bill Fitsell, Andrew Binks
Votes: 7
16. Hurt (I) (2015)
84 min | Documentary
Hurt (2015) is a documentary portrait of Steve Fonyo, a one-legged cancer survivor who successfully completed a cross-Canada run in the '80s, only to spend three decades mired in crime and addiction.
Director: Alan Zweig | Star: Steve Fonyo
Votes: 31
17. Into the Forest (2015)
R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
After a massive power outage, two sisters learn to survive on their own in their isolated woodland home.
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Elliot Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie
Votes: 22,109 | Gross: $0.01M
18. The Messenger (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Family
The Messenger is an artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the people working to turn the tide. This visually thrilling film reveals how the issues facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet.
Director: Su Rynard | Stars: Erin Byne, Dominik Eulberg, Bill Evans, Andrew Farnsworth
Votes: 124
19. River (2015)
94 min | Drama
Yangchan, a young Tibetan girl from a sheep herding family, is trying to make sense of her changing world.
Director: Gyal Sonthar | Stars: Yangchan Lhamo, Regzin Drolma, Guru Tsedan, Kheydrup
Votes: 45
20. Sleeping Giant (2015)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
Director: Andrew Cividino | Stars: Jackson Martin, Nick Serino, Reece Moffett, Katelyn McKerracher
Votes: 1,869
21. Terminal Device (2017)
68 min | Documentary
Terminal Device is an autobiographical essay about a lie; the stereotyped image of the one-armed, hook-wearing man starts with Captain Hook, but is that all there is to it?
Director: Ross Turnbull
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