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Two indigenous women collide in an urgent, intimate drama about race, motherhood and domestic abuse.
There’s a crucial scene near the midpoint of the Canadian drama, “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” and it brilliantly illuminates the experiential chasm between its two leads.

Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan has been named an officer in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. The French ambassador to Canada gave Dolan the prestigious cultural honour at a ceremony in Ottawa on Sunday. The appointment recognizes the Montreal actor and director’s contributions to French-language cinema and culture.

Gravitas Ventures has acquired US rights to recent Toronto festival premiere The Rest Of Us from sales agent Voltage Pictures. The drama-comedy about the complicated relationships between two women and their daughters stars Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky. Aisling Chin-Yee directed from a script by Alanna Francis.

The Canadian neo-noir premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where it went by the title “Clifton Hill.” It follows Abby (Tuppence Middleton), a young woman who returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls after her mother dies, only become obsessed with a fragmented memory of an abduction she believes she was witness to as a child.

The story follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor, Plaza, trying to save her father’s boutique publishing house. Caine’s miserable and sharp-witted author just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar and his orange Tabby cat, but Plaza’s hopeful editor pulls him out of his reclusion.

Eurimages celebrated its 30th anniversary and announced the projects selected for funding this year at its 156th Board of Management meeting, which took place in Strasbourg, France from October 13 to 18, 2019. Canada loves coproduction, which is just one of the reasons we’re so excited to be a member of Eurimages, the cultural support…