ANA PAULA is the heartbreaking story of a young Mexican woman determined to escape her past and adopt her niece from a government orphanage in Durango. When a judge explains her case cannot proceed without a suitable home, Ana employs desperate measures to find the necessary cash.
When Fernando sees her desperation and offers to help, a tender romance blossoms. But when Ana is forced back into a toxic life of vice, she and Fernando must face the ruthless criminals who seek to exploit her.
Nominee
Your Cinema Needs You
Your Cinema Needs You traces the origins of the Monarch Theatre and its unexpected, but eventful evolution in becoming the oldest, surviving, purpose-built cinema remaining in Canada today. Through closures, advances in technology, and a cast of characters who have kept it alive through decades of challenges, Your Cinema Needs You tells the story of "the coolest little single-screen movie house you've never heard of" since it first opened its doors on December 21, 1911.
I Plowed the Sacred Soil
I Plowed the Sacred Soil is a feature-length documentary about the File Hills Farm Colony Experiment on the Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Descendants of this Saskatchewan Treaty Four reserve talk about their families’ struggle to maintain a farming community under the original treaty agreement of 1874. The story focuses on William Morris Graham, a government-appointed Indian Agent and his 1898 “failed” attempt to solve the “Indian problem.”
HANNYA
The man seduces Roy by teasing other dancers, and Roy struggles with desire in the voyeurism. When tearing the "hymen" of the bridge hole, Roy is still in the ballroom and continues to be isolated and lost waiting for an unpredictable result……
istén:’a
A recounting of a visit from my mother in spirit, this film looks to dreamspace as a meeting place, where we can connect with our loved ones, who we are always tethered to.
Maroon
"Kimiya" once again depicts the process of their music band, "Maroon"’s dissolution, with her handycam.