Pierre-Alexandre Despatis

Here are the winners as announced by the festival. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Blessed By Fire (Iluminados por el...

The mix of archival footage with the narration and industrial/house music makes up for a very fascinating film to watch – and watch again. The theater was full (400 seats) on a Friday night for the fifth screening of the film, let alone the film is an experimental film(!)

Based in Northern Ontario, the film relates the unlikely relationship between an autistic mother whose daughter was recently killed in a car accident and the man - a complete stranger - who was driving her. For the first few minutes, the film starts off as a very conventional Canadian road movie until the narrative takes a turn for the dramatic straying away from the shaky camera aesthetics that characterized the first half.

The Architect Premiere Written by Matthew Tauber, The Architect this is about a conflict between an architect and an activist, who has to live...

Five Fingers Premiere Written and directed by Laurence Malkin, Five Fingers centers on an idealistic Dutchman (Phillippe) who travels to Morocco to start a...