9 QUEBEC FEATURES AT TIFF

Quebec has nine features among the 27 films in TIFF’s Canadian lineup. Here they are.

HOCHELAGA, TERRE DES ÂMES

François Girard (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin) explores the history and prehistory of Montreal over the past 750 years, beginning with a football game at Percival-Molson Stadium and going back to an Iroquois massacre in 1267.

EYE ON JULIET

Kim Nguyen (Rebelle, Two Lovers and a Bear) continues his existential exploration of other cultures with this story of an American hexapod operator who becomes intrigued by a woman he sees through the eyes of the surveillance contraption he uses to monitor a pipeline in North Africa.

OUR PEOPLE WILL BE HEALED

In her 50th film, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin finds a positive Indigenous story at a special school in the Manitoba First Nations community of Norway House.

TA PEAU SI LISSE

Quebec auteur Denis Côté is known for both his offbeat fiction films (Vic et Flo ont vu un ours, Curling) and his surreal documentaries (Bestiaire, Carcasses). His latest is an immersive trip into the world of bodybuilding.

A WORTHY COMPANION

Photographer brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez make their feature debut with this story of a 30-yearold woman (Evan Rachel Wood) who becomes obsessed with a teenage runaway (Julia Sarah Stone).

ALL YOU CAN EAT BUDDHA

Ian Lagarde’s first feature injects dramatic quirk to the tale of an oddly charismatic man at an all-inclusive resort who begins performing minor miracles.

AVA

Montrealer Sadaf Foroughi’s debut feature is the semi-autobiographical tale of a teenage Iranian girl who begins to question her family’s values when her mother brings her to a doctor to test her virginity.

LES AFFAMÉS

Robin Aubert crafts an unusual zombie flick with this story of a town in rural Quebec adjusting to the postapocalypse.

LA PETITE FILLE QUI AIMAIT TROP LES ALLUMETTES

Co-director of last year’s TIFF best Canadian feature winner, Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n’ont fait que se creuser un tombeau, Simon Lavoie returns solo with this blackand-white adaptation of Gaétan Soucy’s 1998 novel about a pair of children left to their own devices following the death of their overbearing, religious father.