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Out of Sync
QUEBEC PREMIERE Official selection – TIFF – 2021Official selection – Venice Film Festival – 2021Best Feature Length European Film – Sitges – 2021 C. is a talented sound designer, passionate about her work. After delivering a few sound mixes with clear defects of synchronization, her employers believe that she is going through a phase of psychological instability, and that they cannot trust her with new projects. She will then realize that, just like a film with a faulty soundtrack, her brain is processing sound later than images. As the time lapse extends, day after day, she will face hardships, be forced to give up her job and reconsider her whole life.
Mères parallèles
Nominee – Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Oscar – 2022 Best Foreign Language Film – Chicago Indie Critics Awards – 2022 Nominee – Best Foreign Film – César – 2022 With Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Josep
Best Animated Film – César Awards – France – 2021Official Selection – Festival de Cannes – France – 2020Best European Animated Feature Film Award – European Film Award – Germany – 2020 February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartolí, an illustrator who fights against Franco’s regime.
Finlandia
CANADIAN PREMIERE Winner – Best Feature Film – OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival – 2022Winner – Prix du Jury – Des Images Aux Mots – 2022Winner – Prix du Public – Des Images Aux Mots – 2022 A devastating earthquake hits Oaxaca and causes hundreds to fall victims to its effects. The drastic physical effects are felt in Mexico while across the globe its emotional effects are felt in Finland. This seismic movement has caused an emotional tremor in the lives of people with secrets, frustrations, and hidden relationships that will materialise amongst the debris, screams, and dust. After this earthquake, nothing will be the same for the lives of the Muxes. The first body found after the earthquake belongs to Delirio, an elderly Muxe. She is not a man or a woman. She is a pioneer that has fought for decades so that people like her could find their place in a pa-triarchal and sexist society. Delirio is a spiritual leader, and mentor for the young Muxes. She also has a special gift, she has premonitions of death, even of people she doesn’t know.
Yuli
QUÉBEC PREMIERE Best Screenplay Award – San Sebastian International Film FestivalBest New Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay – Spanish Goya Awards The film follows Carlos Acosta – nicknamed Yuli by his father – from growing up on the streets of his native Cuba, through his time at the country’s National Dance School, to performing at London’s prestigious Royal Ballet. Based on his 2007 bestseller autobiography No Way Home. Written by Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake). Passport not eligible for this film
Le mariage de Rosa
Best Supporting Actress – Goya Awards – 2021Best Original Song – Goya Awards – 2021Official Selection – Festival de San Sebastián – 2020 When Rosa decides to take charge of her own life, she will realize that her plans collide with the interests of her entire family. Getting married, even with herself, is going to be the hardest thing she’s ever done.
Vivre est facile avec les yeux fermés
Winner of 6 Goyas, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor Dramatic Comedy Spain, 1966: Antonio (Javier Cámara, from “I’m So Excited!”) is a teacher and a Beatles fan – facets he combines by getting his pupils to recite the lyrics from “Help” in English class. When he learns that his idol John Lennon is making a film in Almería (Richard Lester’s “How I Won the War”) he resolves to meet him. On the journey he picks up two young runaways: Bethlehem, a pregnant girl fleeing a convent, and Juanjo, a boy escaping a dictatorial father. Discover the films distributed by AZ Films at azfilms.ca
L’ultime voyage
Recipient of 4 International Audience Awards Abraham Bursztein, an 88-year old Jewish tailor, leaves Buenos Aires for Poland, where he will try to find the man who saved him from a certain death after surviving Auschwitz. Escaping from his family who wanted to put him in a nursing home, against all odds, after more than seven decades with no news from him, Abraham will attempt to find his old friend and fulfil his promise of returning one day to tell him all about the life he had thanks to his courage. Discover the films distributed by AZ Films at azfilms.ca