Cementing the idea that Canadian cinema is in a really good place these days, TIFF announced the features and shorts that made the organization's annual list of Canada’s Top Ten films… and it’s a really solid selection.
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Rounding out the list [is] … Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis’s White Lie, a psychological thriller starring Kacey Rohl as a Hamilton college student who convinces her classmates and her girlfriend that she has cancer.
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Canada's Top Ten Features
And The Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault, Quebec
Anne At 13,000 Ft by Kazik Radwanski, Ontario
Antigone by Sophie Deraspe, Quebec
Black Conflux by Nicole Dorsey, Newfoundland/Quebec
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, British Columbia
Matthias & Maxime by Xavier Dolan, Quebec
Murmur by Heather Young, Nova Scotia
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk by Zacharias Kunuk, Nunavut
The Twentieth Century by Matthew Rankin, Quebec
White Lie by Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Ontario
Canada's Top Ten Shorts
Acadiana by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin, Quebec
Cityscape by Michael Snow, Ontario
Delphine by Chloé Robichaud, Quebec
Docking by Trevor Anderson, Alberta
I Am In The World As Free And Slender As A Deer On A Plain by Sofia Banzhaf, Ontario
Jarvik by Emilie Mannering, Quebec
No Crying At The Dinner Table by Carol Nguyen, Ontario
The Physics Of Sorrow by Theodore Ushev, Quebec
Please Speak Continuously And Describe Your Experiences As They Come To You by Brandon Cronenberg, Ontario
Throat Singing In Kangirsuk (Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi) by Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland, Quebec