June 6, 2011
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011) *
A coming-of-age drama about a young girl finding that she was adopted and imagining that her birth mother is none other than Dolly Parton.
May 5, 2011
The High Cost Of Living (2011) **
Well-acted and well-directed drama about a pregnant woman hit by car.
Starbuck (2011) **
A sperm-bank donor finds that he has fathered 533 children. And they want to meet him.
Snow And Ashes (2011) **
A journalist and a photographer are covering an armed conflict in Eastern Europe. The journalist returns home to Canada. The photographer doesn't.
April 4, 2011
Margaret And The Dollhouse (2011) ***
Very amusing and innovative Canadian short comedy about a young girl forced to eat carrots by her parents, but determined to get her hands on sweeter things.
The Shore (2011) ***
Set in Northern Ireland, a sweet little short film about love, immigration, nostalgia and forgiveness.
Ryan & Ally (2011) **
Ryan and Ally are just fuck friends, but he would like it to be more than that.
Les Bons termes selon Dewey (2011) **
Short comedy about a guy trying to break with his girlfriend in a library (so that she will not be able to yell too loudly).
Les Interdits (2011) **
Short film set in a post-apocalyptic future, when people are forbidden from going outside.
Tuba Atlantic (2011) **
An old man has only 6 days left to live and uses that time to shoot seabirds. Uneven short from Norway.
La Statege (2011) **
A documentary about Olga Hrycak, a short 63-year-old woman coaching a male basketball team. Quite a character.
Noeud papillon (2011) **
Amusing Canadian short about a little boy forced to wear a fancy suit to school.
La Piece (2011) **
This short film is set on September 11, 2001, but the story concerns an old man suffering from Alzheimer.
Suburban Swingers (2011) **
Either a real documentary or a mockumentary about a swingers' club in suburban Ontario.
Dulce (2011) *
Tragic film about love. Unbearably old-fashioned and emotionally manipulative. What pornography is to erotica, this film is to romanticism.
Close To Her (2011) *
A young man wants to leave a desolate Canadian Prairie town to go to an arts school and asks his girlfriend to come with him.
It's Nobody's Fault (2011) *
Short Spanish film about a husband who tries to break up with his wife.
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