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Great Canadian Films Screening Across the Country

Check out the list below for Canadian films now playing or coming soon to a theatre near you.  For theatre locations and screening times visit Tribute.ca

Last Train Home
March 5th Vancouver (The Ridge), Richmond (SilverCity Richmond Hill), The Varsity (Toronto)

Director: Lixin Fan

Once a year during China's spring-time, a chaotic wave of millions of migrant factory workers -a force-field of human persistence and dog-eat-dog survival- pushes through turnstiles and squeezes down narrow passage ways for what is the considered the largest human migration on the planet. It is the one weekend they have this chance to make it home for the Chinese New Year.  More info...

At Home By Myself ... With You
March 5th Toronto (The Royal)

Director: Kris Booth

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Girl can’t leave her apartment. Romy Scott (Kristin Booth)is afraid of lobsters, closed boxes, kissing, and storms. But her biggest fear is of going outside because every time she does, something bad happens. Choosing not to go outside ever again, Romy constructs a new life inside her apartment and figures out how to negotiate her debilitating fears by using the help of her close acquaintances. But when her most important helper – an old lady who lives across the hall (Rosemary Dunsmore) – kicks the bucket, Romy is suddenly standing at the doorstep to face her fears. More info...

Crackie
March 5th Halifax (Empire Theatres Park Lane)

Director: Sherry White

Mitsy, seventeen, lives in a ramshackle house in a small town, with her grandmother, BRIDE, who has raised her since she was four. Bride spends her days scrounging in the local dump and her nights entertaining men in her bedroom. Mitsy is accepted as a student at the local college, studying hair design. Her harsh-tongued grandmother is secretly proud of her. She wants Mitsy to elevate her life. She has no idea that Mitsy secretly plans to move to Alberta to live with her real mother, Gwennie, after graduating. More info...

Cooking with Stella
Opens March 19th Toronto, Vancouver 

Director: Dilip Mehta

A warmhearted social satire about a Canadian diplomat (Lisa Ray) and her chef husband Michael (Don McKellar) who are posted to New Delhi. Upon arrival they inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the charming, totally inspiring -- and wily -- cook Stella (Seema Biswas). When Stella agrees to become Michael`s cooking guru, to teach him traditional Indian dishes, little does he know that she`s cooking up a scheme of her own. More info...

Defendor
Now Playing: Opened February 19th - Vancouver (Cinemark Tinseltown), Toronto (AMC) & Calgary (Uptown)

Director: Peter Stebbings

ARTHUR POPPINGTON, is a regular man who adopts a superhero persona known as "DEFENDOR" and combs the city streets at night in search of his arch enemy CAPTAIN INDUSTRY.  In his attempts to combat crime and bring down this drug and weapons dealer, whom he mistakenly blames for the death of his mother, Defendor ends up befriending a young prostitute.  Armed with unconventional weapons like marbles and paper clips, and with his new friend by his side, Defendor  proves that every one is capable of making a difference as he puts his life on the line and foils the entire crime operation. More info...

 

Reel Injun
Now Playing: Opened February 19th - Toronto (AMC)

Director: Neil Diamond

Reel Injun is about the Native American experience in film from its beginning to the cinema of today. More info...

The Trotsky
(Alliance Films)

Director & Writer: Jacob Tierney
Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father (Saul Rubinek) sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at the Bronstein family's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term "student union," determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.

Suck
(Alliance Films)

Director & Writer: Rob Stefaniuk
Joey (Rob Stefaniuk) is the leader of the Winners, a bar band going exactly nowhere. They're broke and feuding with one another, and the crappy gigs they've managed to call a tour are being cancelled. But their luck is about to change when one of the band's members shows up the next morning looking, well, paler than usual and with a sudden thirst for...blood. As the band's popularity grows, their tolerance for sunlight drops and the bodies pile up. Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper pop in too.

A Gun to the Head

Director & Writer: Blaine Thurier
Reformed criminal turned bored husband, Trevor, leaves his wife's awkward dinner party to get some wine. He reunites with his coke-dealing cousin, Darren, who entices him into making the rounds. Trevor finds himself descending into his dark past of drugs and street fights. When he learns Darren's life has been threatened by a local gangster, Trevor tries to broker a deal only to be abandoned by his cousin. The gangster's thugs hold his wife's dinner party hostage until Trevor can produce Darren. Trevor's desperate efforts to fix his mess only make things worse.

At Home by Myself ... With You

Director: Kris Booth
Writers: Ramona Barckert & Kris Booth
Romy Scott is afraid of lobsters, closed boxes, kissing, and storms. But her biggest fear is of going outside because every time she does, something bad happens. Choosing not to go outside ever again, Romy constructs a new life inside her apartment and figures out how to negotiate her debilitating fears by using the help of her close acquaintances...

Cole

Director: Carl Bessai
Welcome to Lytton - Population 350. Home of the World Famous Gold Rush Days... and not much else. Cole Chambers is a young man who has spent his entire life picking up the pieces of his shattered family, trapped by his rigid life, unable to fulfill his writing dreams. When opportunity knocks, though, he jumps at the chance to escape his broken home life. Feeling guilty for his abandonment, he returns home, followed by a girl from school, which has an unexpected impact on the small town.

Crackie

Director & Writer: Sherry White
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade. She is left to be brought up by her mercurial grandmother Bride, who is well-meaning but oppressively suffocating. Mitsy's dreams for the future hinge on her desire to be a hairdresser, but her current emotional well-being revolves around a wee dog named Sparky, an unwanted canine misfit to whom she becomes hopelessly attached. But Mitsy's life is shaken once more when her mother returns to Newfoundland... Three highly dysfunctional generations clash.

 

Facing Ali
(Maple Pictures)

Director: Pete McCormack
A thrilling documentary that takes on the untold stories of warriors who dared to face one of the greatest warriors of all time: Muhammad Ali - A boxing legend. Ten men pay tribute to a man they got to know in the ring: George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Ron Lyle, Ken Norton, Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks and Ernie Terrell.

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Director: Brigitte Berman
A documentary that takes on one of the most colourful and influential media figures of the 20th century, Mr. Hugh Hefner. Although he is known more by most for his multiple girlfriends, pajama-based wardrobe, mythical Playboy mansion, and sexual escapades, Hefner's contributions to the African American civil rights movement, the sexual liberation movement, and even feminist causes, are significant and fascinating. Commentators include Gene Simmons, Jenny McCarthy, Jesse Jackson, and of course, Mr. Hefner himself.

Passenger Side
(Kinosmith)

Director & Writer: Matt Bissonnette
Michael Brown (Adam Scott)'s birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug-addicted brother Tobey (Joel Bissonette). Tobey is totally unaware that it is his older brother's birthday, but he is very aware that his car is broken, and he begs Michael to drive him on various apparently legitimate, vital errands. And so, Michael puts off his seemingly romantic birthday plans, and with his brother embarks on a sketchy, meandering day-long odyssey though the mysteries of Los Angeles County...

 

Zooey and Adam
(Kinosmith)

Director & Writer: Sean Garrity
Zooey and Adam have been unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant for seven months, then end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the patronage of their child, they decide to have him anyway. Zooey is fine with it, and uses it to heal from her trauma. Adam, however, who is sure that the boy was spawned by the rapist, is haunted by their son, and is eventually driven to extremes by him.

Leslie, My Name Is Evil
(E1 Films)

Director & Writer: Reginald Harkema
Perry (Gregory Smith), a sheltered chemist, falls in love with Leslie (Kristen Hager), a former homecoming princess, when he is selected to be a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial. When Perry and Leslie lock eyes in court, Perry is forced to confront the darkest deepest parts of himself and our society...

Excited

Director & Writer: Bruce Sweeney
Writer-director Bruce Sweeney returns with a romantic comedy about a man who may have just met the woman of his dreams, but their romance is complicated by his meddling, officious mother and his inability to confront or discuss his sexual hang-ups.

Detour

Director: Sylvain Guy
Leo Huff's life is straightforward and straight-laced: he's a reserved and timid secretary. When the opportunity arises to represent his company at a controversial public hearing in a small town, Leo goes, and havoc ensues. Director Sylvain Guy delivers a gripping film of lust, suspense and humour.

 

h2Oil
(Kinosmith)

Director: Shannon Walsh
Ever wonder where American gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or Iraq, you are wrong. America's biggest oil supplier has quickly become Canada's oil sands. Located under Alberta's pristine boreal forests, the process of oil sands extraction uses up to four barrels of fresh water to produce only one barrel of crude oil. h2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Ultimately we ask what is more important, oil or water? And what will be our response?

A Shine of Rainbows
(Seville Pictures)

Director: Vic Sarin
Writers: Dennis Foon, Vic Sarin & Catherine Spear
Tomás (John Bell), a frail, shy sight-year-old, has been living a solitary life in a drab orphanage—sad, friendless and alone. Then a joyous burst of colour comes into his world: Maire O'Donnell (Connie Nielsen), whose smile and spirit light up the darkest room—and Tomás's heart. Before he knows it, Tomas is on a boat, sailing to wind-swept Corrie Island off the coast of Ireland, where he meets Alec, her reticent husband who cannot hide his disappointment with the boy.




Please note that we do not yet know the release dates for all the films listed here, but keep an eye out by visiting our website for release dates (as they become available) and special event announcements.