Screenplay
This sensitive and Bressonian sophomore feature from Antoine Bourges (Fail to Appear) is a complex portrait of care set in an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park.
Director
This sensitive and Bressonian sophomore feature from Antoine Bourges (Fail to Appear) is a complex portrait of care set in an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park.
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Anne está a punto de cumplir los 30 años y trabaja en una guardería en el centro de Toronto. Los niños la adoran, tiene su propio apartamento y se siente libre realizando paracaidismo. La gente que la rodea se da cuenta, pero nadie se atreve a diagnosticar cuál es su problema. La tensión aumenta a medida que su comportamiento se torna más errático. Son los nervios que produce una mujer bajo la influencia de algo. Pero, ¿de qué exactamente? La sensación es desagradable a la vez que extrañamente vivificante; algo similar al vacío que se forma en nuestro estómago cuando un avión se eleva y sabes que vas a tener que saltar por él desde las alturas.
Producer
Isolde is a support caseworker trainee working in Toronto. She’s still adjusting to the protocols and challenges of her job when she’s assigned to Eric, a man charged with theft and awaiting a court hearing.
Writer
Isolde is a support caseworker trainee working in Toronto. She’s still adjusting to the protocols and challenges of her job when she’s assigned to Eric, a man charged with theft and awaiting a court hearing.
Director
Isolde is a support caseworker trainee working in Toronto. She’s still adjusting to the protocols and challenges of her job when she’s assigned to Eric, a man charged with theft and awaiting a court hearing.
Writer
William in White Shirt portrays a young man contending with life in a difficult neighborhood of Vancouver. In observing his various daily encounters, the film explores his lighthearted approach towards the transitions he is living through.
Director
William in White Shirt portrays a young man contending with life in a difficult neighborhood of Vancouver. In observing his various daily encounters, the film explores his lighthearted approach towards the transitions he is living through.
Director
Bourges documents the daily routine of a typical pharmacy in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. The architecture of the space is as much a character as the population which passes through it, with borders of glass between the street and the pharmacy and then between the pharmacist and her clients. The tension of the situation and the struggles on both sides of the glass are punctuated with moments of good humour and camaraderie.
Writer
A middle-aged woman is faced with poverty. As she struggles to find help in the system, her only option is to wait.
Director
A middle-aged woman is faced with poverty. As she struggles to find help in the system, her only option is to wait.
