(The Nature of Love) tells the story of Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, who is in a stable if somewhat socially-conforming relationship with Xavier. When Sophia meets Sylvain, a craftsman, her world is turned upside down. Produced by Sylvain Corbeil and Nancy Grant, the film was coproduced with France. Following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, Monia Chokri brought home the César Award for Best Foreign Film.

Kanaval, a Canadian coproduction with Luxembourg, directed and written by Henri Pardo, from producers Éric Idriss-Kanago, Daniela Mujica and Adolf El Assa, won the Festival CINEMANIA 2023 Prix du public and an Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Feature Film Award from TIFF. The jury was very moved by this work: “There has never been a Canadian film that captures both magical realism and post-colonial trauma, through the singular lens of a young child, in such a beautiful, poetic, and convincing way. The jury is pleased to award an Honorable Mention to Henri Pardo’s Kanaval.”

From director Louise Archambault, Irena’s Vow tells the remarkable true story of a young Polish woman, Irena Gut, who took in 12 Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland, while conscripted to work as the maid to a Nazi Major. The coproduction with Poland, written by Dan Gordon, stars Sophie Nélisse and is from producers Nicholas Tabarrok and Tim Ringuette. Its premiere at TIFF sparked international deals.

Who Do I Belong To, from writer and director Meryam Joobeur, premiered in competition at Berlin. The Arabic-language drama, coproduced with France, builds on Joobeur’s Oscar®-nominated 2018 short film Brotherhood. Produced by Maria Gracia Turgeon, Annick Blanc, Nadim Cheikhrouha and Sarra Ben Hasse

Butterfly Tale is the heartwarming story of a loveable yet inept, one-winged teen monarch butterfly, Patrick, who stows away on the migration in Jennifer’s milkweed trailer with his goofy caterpillar friend Marty! The coproduction with Germany was brought to life by producer Marie-Claude Beauchamp, director Sophie Roy and screenwriter Lienne Sawatsky. The film received the Animated Feature Film 1st Prize from The Children’s Jury Awards, at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and screened at the Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience in Chemnitz, Germany.

Charlotte Lebon’s first feature, Falcon Lake, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This French-Canadian coproduction was cowritten by Charlotte Lebon, François Choquet and Bastien Vives, and produced by Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Jalil Lespert, Jean-Luc Ormiéres, Julien Deris and David Gauquié. Falcon Lake garnered the Best Film award at the 11th Los Cabos International Film Festival and was nominated for a César award.

Directed and written by Brandon Cronenberg and produced by Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Christina Piovesan, Noah Segal and Rob Cotterill, Infinity Pool was coproduced by Hungary and Canada and was part of the 2023 selection at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was also financed by Eurimages.

Directed by Sophie Jarvis and cowritten by Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers, Until Branches Bend was part of the SXSW 2023 selection. The director’s debut feature, coproduced by Canada and Switzerland, took home Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

This science-fiction film was written and directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Robert Lantos, Steve Solomos and Panos Papahadziset. Coproduced by Canada and Greece, Crimes of the Future premiered in Official Competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

The Docs-in-Progress Award of the International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) was given to Twice Colonized, co-produced by the Inuit team composed of Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald. This Canada-Denmark coproduction was directed by Lin Alluna and produced by Emile Hartling Péronard, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Bob Moore. The film tells the story of renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter