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Canada is part of five films selected for the 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival, which takes place from March 18 to April 1, 2019. And from March 18 to 21, we’ll be waiting for you at our Canada Pavilion at Hong Kong FILMART market! Click here for all the info on our market presence…

SXSW kicks off March 8th with an impressive Canadian lineup! For the very first time, the spheres of film, television, music and interactive all convene under one roof: Canada House. Whether you’re into industry panels, musical showcases, networking events, or late night DJ sets, here’s a sneak peak of some of the best that Canada…

As part of a panel on queer fandoms, Shaftesbury will unveil a new feature-length documentary, Queering the Script, directed by Gabrielle Zilkha.

Canada is excited to strut its stuff at FILMART this year! In collaboration with Creative BC with the support of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in Canada, the Government of Alberta in Hong Kong and the Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong, we are pleased to welcome nearly 30 Canadian companies to the…

At this year’s edition of SXSW (which kicks off March 8, 2019, in Austin, Texas), the spheres of music, film, and interactive shall convene at Canada House! For the very first time at SXSW, Canada House will encompass a multitude of Canadian initiatives from the music, interactive, film & TV industries, and is sure to be both…

Canada made big waves at this year’s Berlinale (February 7 to 17, 2019), with awards, screenings, premieres, and more. Here’s your recap of the festival’s highlights, complete with video reports featuring the filmmakers themselves. And the award goes to… Canadians are flying home with awards tucked in their suitcases this year, with two Crystal Bears…

Sean Bean, best known for “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones,” Jennifer Jason Leigh and Stacy Martin have joined Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott in Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller “Possessor.” The movie received support from Telefilm Canada and Ontario Creates.

Director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles drew on her own experiences as an awkward teen in small-town Canada for her feature debut.

Screen previews the Competition and Out of Competition titles from this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Michael Melski’s Canadian horror film — starring Canadian actor Suzanne Clement and set in a haunted maternity home — has won 16 best feature prizes on the festival circuit and found a home in North America with Uncork’d Entertainment.

The film, which is in post-production, was developed by Sienna Films, and is produced by Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny of Sienna Films, together with Alan Moloney and Susan Mullen of Parallel Films. It is produced with the support of Telefilm Canada, Screen Ireland, the Ontario Media Development Corp. and Eurimages, and Entertainment One will distribute the film in Canada.

What do you get when you mix a dumpling, animals in therapy, boys in the Quebec wilderness, a friendship between a nurse and an older woman, and a child’s memories of parental separation? You get three Canadian shorts, plus two more with Canadian creators, that are all nominated for top short film honours at the…

Thanks to lucrative production incentives, co-production treaties and a thriving locations sector, Canada is looking like a safer bet for risk-averse global producers.

Christa Dickenson discusses facilitating international co-productions, investing in local talent and the significance of backing ‘The Kindness of Strangers’: “It’s great for our culture and for the growth and the sustainability of the cinematic industry.”

Netflix has picked up rights to “Delhi Crime,” a seven part India-set series, directed by Canada’s Richie Mehta. The fact-based police procedural was launched at the Sundance festival this week in the Indie Episodic section.

It’s an exciting day for two local Vancouver animators who landed an 2019 Academy Award nomination on Tuesday morning. Alison Snowden and David Fine are in the running for an Oscar with Animal Behaviour, a comedic short animation about five animals who meet to discuss their life problems in group therapy sessions.

Montrealers and Sundance regulars Felix and Paul première two creations, including a nighttime virtual-reality ride through Detroit with Eminem.

Portraying the lives of everyday Gazan citizens, the Canada/Ireland coproduction Gaza emphasizes how families choose to live meaningfully beyond the rubble caused by constant bombardments.

Canada’s short and sweet sides are on display at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (which kicks off February 1, 2019 in the French city of the same name, and wraps up February 9), As the Invited Country: O Canada, Quebec and First Nations! Canada’s got a bounty of fantastic shorts! From five films…

Big news! Opening the Berlin International Film Festival will be: Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness of Strangers: a Canadian coproduction with Denmark-Sweden, Germany, and France. On February 7, 2019, the ensemble drama will make its world premiere by opening the 69th annual Berlinale, which takes place from February 7 to 17, 2019. Directed by renowned Danish…

Did you know a Canadian film took home the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the prestigious Palm Springs International Film Festival, which took place from January 3 to 14, 2019? Set in the Inuit community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, a remote town that had high suicide rates, Miranda de Pencier’s The Grizzlies tells the…

Telefilm Canada has released its 2017-2018 annual report, and what a stellar year for Canada’s audiovisual industry. Canada had prestigious festival acclaim; completed its first year as a member country of Eurimages; implemented a five-point action plan to achieve gender parity, increased support to Indigenous creators; renewed its focus on emerging talent; was active in…

The 30th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival announced the winners of its juried prizes Saturday, with critical darling “Shoplifters” taking the award for best foreign language film of the year. The audience awards went to “The Grizzlies,” directed by Miranda de Pencier, for narrative feature.

Charlotte Rampling, the French actress who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the 2015 British pic 45 Years, has joined the cast of Dune, Legendary’s adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel being directed by Denis Villeneuve.