Aurore Cormier was a settler child who died from smallpox at the turn of the 20th century, near what is now known as Thunder Bay. 100 years later, her relatives search for her grave.
Louis (voice)
Matthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.
Mother
Toronto, Canadá, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) cree fervientemente que está destinado a convertirse en Primer Ministro, pero para conseguirlo deberá luchar primero contra sus obsesiones personales y vencer los muchos obstáculos que encontrará en su tortuoso camino hacia el poder.
Henry
Cranks is a city symphony focused on several different characters living in the sleepy isolated town of Winnipeg. Formally, the film emulates the aesthetic of a photo album - each new scene a black & white tableau vivant of a new character and setting. Connecting the various characters is the letters they all wrote - very odd ones - to Peter Warren, the radio host of the infamous Action Line program, which was broadcast throughout Canada from 1971-1998. Cranks explores how journalists like Peter Warren, who pioneered an accusatory and belligerent style of reporting, how this angry way of tackling issues has trickled down into our culture, and has impacted and emboldened real lives.
Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. Nor any truck.
Marv / Smithy / Mars / Organizer / Mr. Lanyon
La tripulación de un submarino, una partida de temibles bandidos del bosque, un cirujano famoso y un batallón de niños soldados. Todos reciben más de lo que esperaban, ya que se abren camino hacia las ideas progresistas sobre la vida y el amor.
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
Crossing Guard
Canadá /// Lake es un joven con alma de viejo que descubre un día su fijación por los hombres ancianos. Aun así, Lake tiene una novia de su edad, Desiree. A veces se pregunta si su fijación por esos hombres mayores es innatural e insana (además de si es sexual). Cuando su madre consigue un puesto de enfermera en un asilo, Lake no se lo piensa y se ofrece para trabajar durante el verano.
Calypso / Camille
Ghangster y el padre inútil, Ulysses Pick, se embarca en un viaje inusual a través de su casa.
Marv
Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film.
Conversationalist
Thriller psicológico que presenta una situación en la que un virus mortal infecta la pequeña ciudad de Ontario.
A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind.
Naked Ghost
A story about an aging crime family patriarch.
Mayor Cornish
Éste pseudo-documental surrealista es un homenaje de Guy Maddin a su ciudad natal: Winnipeg (Manitoba). (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
A Guy lo invita su madre a pintar el faro de la isla Black Notch, donde se encuentra el orfanato en que se crió hace treinta años. Es la primera vez que vuelve a este lugar tan lleno de recuerdos para él: su hermana adolescente, su mojigata madre, su padre científico y su propia juventud carente de estímulos; un caleidoscopio de imágenes memorables: un aquelarre en el pantano, la misteriosa marca de nacimiento de su madre, códigos y lugares de encuentro secretos. Además hay dos detectives que tratan de esclarecer la causa de las heridas sufridas en la cabeza por los antiguos cuidadores de los enigmáticos y malévolos padres de Guy.
Fusi
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.
The electric metre is broken, lets play with the fuses...
Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband and daughter.
Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.
Self (archive footage)
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Blind Seer
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Dr. Fusi
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Witness Moishe
Tan solo a unas semanas despues de que millones y millones de personas hayan desaparecido de la faz de la tierra, la humanidad recurre desesperadamente al presidente de la ONU, el cual esta complacido con la admiracion de las personas que se le acercan. El comando Tribulacion esta dispuesto a enfrentarse al reto y sumirse en la peligrosa mision de intentar abrirle los ojos al mundo.
Bartender
"El Ojo" es un agente especial del Servicio Británico, cuya misión es seguir a Joanna Eris, una mujer sospechosa de chantajear a un miembro del gobierno. Pero "el Ojo" pronto se da cuenta de que Eris, además de una chantajista, es también una hábil seductora, una tenebrosa maestra de los disfraces, cuya furia sólo es comparable a su belleza. Así es como, siguiéndola, se queda prendado de ella de manera obsesiva.
Truman Capote
Nueva York, 1979. Shane O'Shea, un chico de 19 años, guapo y que lleva una vida monótona y anodina, sueña con poder entrar una noche en la discoteca Studio 54 de Manhattan. Se trata de un local muy exclusivo, donde sólo admiten a famosos. Una noche, el propietario del negocio, ve a Shane en la cola y ordena al portero que lo deje entrar. Le gusta y le ofrece un trabajo en el local. Allí, se iniciará Shane en el mundo de las drogas, el sexo y la música disco. Como otros muchos jóvenes aspira a codearse con la gente del mundo del espectáculo, con la esperanza de poder hacer realidad sus sueños.
Ginger
A photographer who lives in an apartment building takes sneak photos of women in their apartments. One day he accidentally photographs a murder, and the killer goes after him.
Jake Farley
La policía se enfrenta a un caso de asesinato. El principal sospechoso es Joe Paris, un agente que está suspendido de empleo y sueldo. El violento historial de Joe y sus pésimas relaciones con la víctima refuerzan los argumentos de la acusación. A Paris lo defiende Jenny Hudson, una abogada inexperta que pondrá todo su empeño en demostrar su inocencia.
Jacob "Jake" Farley
La policía se enfrenta a un caso de asesinato. El principal sospechoso es Joe Paris, un agente que está suspendido de empleo y sueldo. El violento historial de Joe y sus pésimas relaciones con la víctima refuerzan los argumentos de la acusación. A Paris lo defiende Jenny Hudson, una abogada inexperta que pondrá todo su empeño en demostrar su inocencia.
Bamji
In the same vein as Cain and Abel, here we have two brothers, one a renegade cop and the other a murderer with a taste for little boys. The brothers come to blows, from which only one can walk away.
Otto Schmidt
A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.
Eugene Leach
Ted is an entrepreneur whose hopes of selling 10,000 automatized ashtrays are scattered away after his buyer died. The story revolves around dozen of people whose lives are intertwined around Ted's Sisyphean attempts to return the money of a loan shark whose services he had to seek for.
Pierre
Raul Julia plays Aram Fingal, a very intelligent computer programmer and a very bored man in the employ of Novicorp, a mega-corporation that exists somewhere in the future. When caught watching "Casablanca" at his desk, Fingal is required to undergo rehabilitation therapy called "doppling." However, Fingal's body is misplaced and he is transferred into a computer while the body is located
Maitre D'
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
Older Man
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
13 de Julio de 1977, Nueva York. Sin saber cómo ni por qué, se corta el suministro eléctrico de la ciudad y se produce un apagón durante la noche. Aprovechando el caos, se suceden las violaciones, los ataques y los robos. La policía trata de controlar la situación con gran coraje.
This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any means necessary.
Hugo Cretin
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.
Couturier
Un profesor de secundaria, recientemente divorciado y separado de su hijo, planea su venganza contra su ex-mujer.
Emilio Ferruchi
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.....
Producer Peter
Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.
Ernie Turner es liberado de un hospital psiquiátrico y trasladado a su apartamento. Alienado e indiferente a la vida, conoce a Donna mientras deambula por la calle. Donna se apiada de él a pesar de su estado terminal de confusión.