Canada’s Top Ten Features and Short Films
Get ready for the cream of the crop of Canadian features and shorts of 2009, presented by the TIFF group and run from January 14th – 21st, 2010. Tickets go for $8, with the special price for two short film screenings for $14. You can catch 10 feature films plus panel discussions all for $65.
Established in 2001 by TIFF, Canada’s Top Ten is an annual event celebrating and raising awareness of Canadian cinema. The Top Ten features and shorts are selected from among narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films. Each film must have either premiered at a major Canadian film festival or obtained a commercial theatrical release in Canada in the relevant calendar year.
Feature Films being screened:
- Cairo Time – Ruba Nadda
- Carcasses – Denis Côté
- Crackie – Sherry White
- Defendor – Peter Stebbings
- La Donation – Bernard Émond
- J’ai tué ma mère – Xavier Dolan
- Passenger Side – Matthew Bissonnette
- Polytechnique – Denis Villeneuve
- The Trotsky – Jacob Tierney
- The Wild Hunt – Alexandre Franchi
Short Films being screened:
- The Armoire – Jamie Travis
- The Cave – Helen Haig-Brown
- Danse Macabre – Pedro Pires
- Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica – Cam Christiansen
- Naissances – Anne Émond
- Out in that Deep Blue Sea – Kazik Radwanski
- Runaway – Cordell Barker
- The Spine – Chris Landreth
- La Vie commence – Émile Proulx-Cloutier
For official details, you can head over to the Canada’s Top Ten independent features and short films website.
Screenings will take place at the TIFF Cinematheque in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall.
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