Nouvelles

11 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Labyrinth of cinema, Canadian Premiere

    “Live freely. That is the proof of peace”. That’s what my father would tell me. When I found myself arriving aimlessly in Tokyo, I used the 8-mm camera he’d given me as a keepsake to shoot a film that was shown in one corner of an art gallery in Ginza. That showing was recognized around the world as “the birth of a new film artist” and for the 60 years since then I’ve continued to make independent films, funded by the money I...

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11 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020: Legally declared dead, North American premiere

    A suspicious suicide plunges a righteous insurance broker into an investigation where his own life is at stake. The coroner ruled it a suicide, but Mr. Yip is convinced that Mr. Chu was killed by his son in order to claim his life insurance money - and his visually impaired wife could be next on the list! During Yip's search, a flurry of threats greets him, but the real mastermind behind the operation may have orchestrated something even more malicious, and everyone...

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10 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Come True , discover the teaser

    The new dark sci-fi thriller from the director of Our House with executive producer Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice, In the tall Grass), starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee, The Killing) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare.) Come Tue is the newest feature from acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns (Our House, Holiday’s Father’s Day segment) and executive produced by cult...

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10 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Kakegurui will have its Canadian Premiere

    Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler is a 2019 Japanese film adaptation of a manga series of the same name by Homura Kawamoto. It is directed by Hayato Kawai, distributed by GAGA Pictures, and stars Minami Hamabe and Mahiro Takasugi as Yumeko Jabami and Ry?ta Suzui respectively. It was released in Japan on May 3, 2019. Bienvenue à l’académie privée Hyakkaoh où les jeunes privilégiés poursuivent leurs...

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10 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Jumbo

    Performed by Noémie Merlant (Portrait of the Girl on Fire), Jeanne is shy and socially unfit. She works at night in an amusement park. It is at night that Jeanne is truly happy, since her life at home is difficult: her mother (Emmanuelle Bercot, Mon Roi), a great extrovert and probably a little too attentive, never stops observing and analyzing her daughter's behaviour. Jeanne would like to find a boyfriend, just to put an end to the endless questions. One...

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