Here’s your guide to every movie and TV show leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in December 2023.
Some great movies are leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024, including James Cameron’s award-winning juggernaut Titanic, beloved coming-of-age comedy 13 Going on 30, powerful WW2 drama The Pianist, and slasher switch-up Freaky.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in January 2024. More departures will be announced throughout December 2023 and January 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on January 1st, 2024 13 Going on 30 (2004) A Dog’s Purpose (2017) The Bride of Habaek (1 Season) Bridesmaids (2011) Burlesque (2010) The Change-Up (2011) Christmas Under Wraps (2014) Christmas With a View (2018) Countdown (2019) Cutthroat Island (1995) The Danish Girl (2015) Dreamgirls (2006) DreamWorks Shrek the Halls (1 Season) Falls Around Her (2018) Football-Inspired Workouts for All (2023) N Freaky (2020) Full Out 2: You Got This! (2020) The Girl on the Train...
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in December 2023.
Some great movies are leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024, including James Cameron’s award-winning juggernaut Titanic, beloved coming-of-age comedy 13 Going on 30, powerful WW2 drama The Pianist, and slasher switch-up Freaky.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in January 2024. More departures will be announced throughout December 2023 and January 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on January 1st, 2024 13 Going on 30 (2004) A Dog’s Purpose (2017) The Bride of Habaek (1 Season) Bridesmaids (2011) Burlesque (2010) The Change-Up (2011) Christmas Under Wraps (2014) Christmas With a View (2018) Countdown (2019) Cutthroat Island (1995) The Danish Girl (2015) Dreamgirls (2006) DreamWorks Shrek the Halls (1 Season) Falls Around Her (2018) Football-Inspired Workouts for All (2023) N Freaky (2020) Full Out 2: You Got This! (2020) The Girl on the Train...
- 12/21/2023
- by Jacob Robinson
- Whats-on-Netflix
In February 2023, Netflix will remove a bunch of movie and TV series from its library,
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
In February 2023, Netflix will remove a bunch of movie and TV series from its library,
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
In February 2023, Netflix will remove a bunch of movie and TV series from its library,
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Find a full list of every movie and TV series being added to Netflix this month here.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon...
- 2/1/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
In February 2023, Netflix will remove a bunch of movie and TV series from its library,
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Guest House
Holmes & Watson
Hostel
The King’s Speech
Letters to Juliet
Love Happens...
Netflix UK and Netflix US takes down numerous titles each month without fanfare, meaning that many things on your watchlist could suddenly disappear.
These removals are due to licencing deals coming to an end. Often, the titles make their way back to Netflix in the following year, but sometimes they leave to go to other platforms.
This month sees a selection of Netflix Originals being taken down, also.
To minimise surprise, we have put together a comprehensive list of everything being removed in both Netflix UK and US.
Nb: The Independent compiled this list with help from What’s on Netflix.
UK
Movies
1 February
Amélie
Biking Borders
Christmas Under Wraps
The Cider House Rules
Collateral (2004)
Equilibrium
Event Horizon
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Guest House
Holmes & Watson
Hostel
The King’s Speech
Letters to Juliet
Love Happens...
- 1/31/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Tagline: "Violence is Contagious." Trench 11 has been a passion project, for director Leo Scherman, since 2011. Since then, the film has begun shooting in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The film centrally stars: Rossif Sutherland (Hyena Road, 2015), Karine Vanasse (The Forbidden Room, 2015), Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson and Ted Atherton. In the film, a Ww 1 Allied tunneler must reach a German base, a 100 feet below frontline trenches. A contagious biological weapon is being used, by the Germans, to counter the Allied operation. And now, an official movie poster is available, for Trench 11. The official synopsis also talks of the "infected." A rapidly spreading disease is effecting German soldiers and a squad of Stormtroopers are sent to stop the spread of infection. So, Trench 11 may be a much-loved zombie film. More story details will arrive soon. As well, Raven Banner Entertainment is the sales agent for Trench 11. Raven Banner will also release the film in Canada,...
- 5/27/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Last year the The Globe & Mail released an article entitled "What is Wrong with the Canadian Film Industry?" that outlined the problems facing our country’s cinema: low box-office numbers, a crisis of English-Canadian identity, an inability to compete with Hollywood entertainments etc., etc. Focused entirely on the industry, the piece fails to mention the resurgence that had been taking root for quite some time. 2015 was an important year for Canadian cinema, but while Room, Hyena Road and Wet Bum ate up the article’s word count, three of the year’s great Canadian films by emerging directors went unnoticed: Isiah Medina’s 88:88, Kurt Walker’s Hit 2 Pass, and Kazik Radwanski’s How Heavy This Hammer. Equating cinema with ‘content,’ a product to be bought and sold, the article is as much a reflection of the problems with Canadian cinema as an exposition of it. But this insidious...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
A kidnapper gets more than he bargained for in Pet. Starring Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo, and Jennette McCurdy, the psychological horror film has been acquired by Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films, with Us theatrical, VOD, and DVD release dates slated for December.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (October 4, 2016) – Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that they have acquired the psychological thriller Pet, directed by Carles Torrens and written by Jeremy Slater. The film stars Dominic Monaghan (Lost, The Lord Of The Rings Series), Ksenia Solo (Black Swan, Lost Girl), and Jennette McCurdy (iCarly, Sam & Cat). Pet had its World Premiere at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film in U.S. theaters and on demand on December 2, 2016, and it will be available on DVD on December 27.
In the vein of Hard Candy and Gone Girl, Pet...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (October 4, 2016) – Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that they have acquired the psychological thriller Pet, directed by Carles Torrens and written by Jeremy Slater. The film stars Dominic Monaghan (Lost, The Lord Of The Rings Series), Ksenia Solo (Black Swan, Lost Girl), and Jennette McCurdy (iCarly, Sam & Cat). Pet had its World Premiere at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the film in U.S. theaters and on demand on December 2, 2016, and it will be available on DVD on December 27.
In the vein of Hard Candy and Gone Girl, Pet...
- 10/4/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Trench horror stars Hyena Road’s Rossif Sutherland.
Raven Banner arrives in Cannes with First World War horror Trench 11 with Rossif Sutherland [pictured] from Hyena Road attached to star.
The Toronto-based sales team will begin pre-sales in Cannes on the project from director Leo Scherman about an Allied plan to send a shell-shocked tunneller into a bunker where the Germans have lost control of a biological weapon.
Tyler Levine produces and Martin Katz and Walter Gasparovic serve as executive producers alongside Phyllis Laing through her Buffalo Gal Pictures genre label Insidious Pictures.
Trench 11 is the first film under the first-look deal with Insidious Pictures announced in Berlin.
“We’re thrilled that Trench 11 is the first film in this exciting pact and feel it’s exemplary of the type of genre film-making we are excited about for the Insidious brand,” said Buffalo Gal Pictures vice-president of sales and marketing Isaac Clements.
Raven Banner arrives in Cannes with First World War horror Trench 11 with Rossif Sutherland [pictured] from Hyena Road attached to star.
The Toronto-based sales team will begin pre-sales in Cannes on the project from director Leo Scherman about an Allied plan to send a shell-shocked tunneller into a bunker where the Germans have lost control of a biological weapon.
Tyler Levine produces and Martin Katz and Walter Gasparovic serve as executive producers alongside Phyllis Laing through her Buffalo Gal Pictures genre label Insidious Pictures.
Trench 11 is the first film under the first-look deal with Insidious Pictures announced in Berlin.
“We’re thrilled that Trench 11 is the first film in this exciting pact and feel it’s exemplary of the type of genre film-making we are excited about for the Insidious brand,” said Buffalo Gal Pictures vice-president of sales and marketing Isaac Clements.
- 5/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Irish-Canadian co-production took home nine prizes at Canada’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Irish-Canadian co-production Room dominated the Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday night, winning nine prizes including best film for producers David Gross and Ed Guiney.
Lead actress Brie Larson repeated her triumph at this year’s Oscars and BAFTAs by winning best actress, while breakout star Jacob Tremblay took best actor.
Accepting the award from veteran Christopher Plummer, 77 years his senior, the young actor said: “This is amazing. I can’t believe a kid like me won against a bunch of amazing talent. Christopher Plummer, you’re a legend.”
The film also took awards for director Lenny Abrahamson, Emma Donoghue’s adapted screenplay, and Joan Allen’s supporting performance, as well as prizes for editing, make-up and production design.
Elsewhere, Irish romantic drama Brooklyn took two awards, for Michael Brook’s original score and Yves Bélanger’s cinematography.
Paul Gross’ war drama...
Irish-Canadian co-production Room dominated the Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday night, winning nine prizes including best film for producers David Gross and Ed Guiney.
Lead actress Brie Larson repeated her triumph at this year’s Oscars and BAFTAs by winning best actress, while breakout star Jacob Tremblay took best actor.
Accepting the award from veteran Christopher Plummer, 77 years his senior, the young actor said: “This is amazing. I can’t believe a kid like me won against a bunch of amazing talent. Christopher Plummer, you’re a legend.”
The film also took awards for director Lenny Abrahamson, Emma Donoghue’s adapted screenplay, and Joan Allen’s supporting performance, as well as prizes for editing, make-up and production design.
Elsewhere, Irish romantic drama Brooklyn took two awards, for Michael Brook’s original score and Yves Bélanger’s cinematography.
Paul Gross’ war drama...
- 3/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Canada-Ireland drama dominated the awards show on Sunday night, picking up nine honours including best film.
Room earned best director for Lenny Abrahamson, best actress for Oscar winner Brie Larson, best actor for youngster Jacob Tremblay, and best supporting actress for Joan Allen.
The drama also won best adapted screenplay for Emma Donoghue, best editing for Nathan Nugent, best art direction and production design for Ethan Tobman and Mary Kirkland, and best make-up for Sid Armour and Jennifer Gould.
Best original screenplay went to Benjamin August for Remember, while Hyena Road picked up three for overall sound, sound editing, and visual effects.
Yves Bélanger earned the best cinematography prize for Brooklyn.
Room earned best director for Lenny Abrahamson, best actress for Oscar winner Brie Larson, best actor for youngster Jacob Tremblay, and best supporting actress for Joan Allen.
The drama also won best adapted screenplay for Emma Donoghue, best editing for Nathan Nugent, best art direction and production design for Ethan Tobman and Mary Kirkland, and best make-up for Sid Armour and Jennifer Gould.
Best original screenplay went to Benjamin August for Remember, while Hyena Road picked up three for overall sound, sound editing, and visual effects.
Yves Bélanger earned the best cinematography prize for Brooklyn.
- 3/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to Hyena Road, where three different men, three different worlds, and three different conflicts converge. A sniper who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human becomes implicated in the life of one. An intelligence officer who has never contemplated killing becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior who had put war behind him is now the center of the... Read More...
- 3/11/2016
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
Hyena Road is a bit of a difficult film to quantify. On the one hand, it follows perhaps a bit too closely to some cliched images and story formats of soldiers at war. On the other, it has an earnestness and frequently a humility that perhaps could only come from a Canadian perspective of a war that has seemingly little purpose. Paul Gross' third feature film, and his second about Canadian soldiers (his second film, Passchendaele, focused on Wwi), attempts and mostly succeeds at a balanced perspective, neither completely exonerating nor villifying either side in the war. Set in Kandahar province in Afghanistan, Ryan Sanders (Rossif Sutherland), an expert sharpshooter, and his team, manage to escape being killed by a group of Taliban fighters due...
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- 3/11/2016
- Screen Anarchy
10 Cloverfield Lane is the latest mystery box thriller from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and it's looking to top a list of four new wide releases this weekend. Additional new releases include Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy The Brothers Grimsby, the new faith-based feature The Young Messiah and the romantic-comedy The Perfect Match. All four will be competing with some strong holdovers, most notably Disney's Zootopia, which will be holding on to the top spot for a second week in a row, and Deadpool, which could top $10 million in its fifth weekend in release. Zootopia enters its second weekend in release after breaking the The Lorax's March opening weekend record for an animated film. As such, it seems appropriate to use The Lorax's 44.7% second weekend drop as a basis for comparison this weekend. On a daily basis Zootopia has performed well when compared to The Lorax, suggesting the smart money...
- 3/10/2016
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Jamie M. Dagg's debut feature film, River, is an intense, thought-provoking, moral fable about an American doctor working in Laos, who after a night of drinking, intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. In an act of impulse, anger, and violence, John Lake (Rossif Sutherland) has his life turned upside down and is now on the run from the authorities within a country that holds no mercy.
Sometimes even our best intentions can lead us down the wrong path. River is a thrilling film about a man on the run, but it grapples with very deep issues, and definitely challenges the binaries of right and wrong. It's a stunning debut feature with a powerhouse performance from Sutherland, who last starred in Paul Gross' Hyena Road.
We had the opportunity to talk to director Jamie M. Dagg and star Rossif Sutherland about River, which has just won...
Sometimes even our best intentions can lead us down the wrong path. River is a thrilling film about a man on the run, but it grapples with very deep issues, and definitely challenges the binaries of right and wrong. It's a stunning debut feature with a powerhouse performance from Sutherland, who last starred in Paul Gross' Hyena Road.
We had the opportunity to talk to director Jamie M. Dagg and star Rossif Sutherland about River, which has just won...
- 3/10/2016
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
As unusual as it may seem, filmmaker Guy Maddin made a documentary about the making of a mid-budget Canadian war film called Hyena Road with his creative partners Evan and Galen Johnson. Titled Bring Me The Head of Tim Horton, Maddin and company take a tongue-in-cheek look behind the scenes, offering some truly twisted and intentionally warped imagery in the style of their recent gem, The Forbidden Room. It’s a hilariously strange short film, and a perfect Hyena Road companion piece, one which Maddin playfully compared to Hearts of Darkness, the essential documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now. Tim Horton‘s parent film, Hyena Road, is less essential, but nonetheless a well-crafted piece of technical filmmaking.
Set in and around Kandahar, Afghanistan, the film follows ground-level soldiers overseeing the construction of a road built for military use — one called (you guessed it!) Hyena Road. Unlike Michael Bay’s...
Set in and around Kandahar, Afghanistan, the film follows ground-level soldiers overseeing the construction of a road built for military use — one called (you guessed it!) Hyena Road. Unlike Michael Bay’s...
- 3/9/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Canadian filmmaker and actor Paul Gross is no stranger to tacking tales of war. In 2008 he released "Passchendaele," his epic take on the titular battle, and now, eight years later, he's back with "Hyena Road," a new feature that takes on the contemporary, complicated war in Afghanistan. Read More: 'Demolition,' 'Spotlight,' And 'Hyena War' In The Mix To Open Tiff Starring Rossif Sutherland, Christine Horne, Nabil Elouahabi, Niamatullah Arghandabi, Allan Hawco, Clarke Johnson, and Gross himself, the drama follows Canadian troops in Afghanistan who weather Taliban attacks while struggling to complete construction on a crucial highway link. Here's the official synopsis: Three men, three different paths, caught in conflict but brought together to save lives: a highly skilled sniper who can’t think of his targets as human; an intelligence officer who has never killed while on duty; and a legendary Afghan warrior who left war behind but gets.
- 3/4/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
With the 2015 awards season finally wrapped up, we can now genuinely look towards the year ahead. This month brings a handful of long-awaited festival hold-overs from last year, as well as a few promising studio titles. It should also be noted that essential restorations of Late Spring (3/4), River of Grass (3/11), A Brighter Summer Day (3/11), and Fireworks Wednesday (3/16) will be coming to select cities (and some beyond). If you’re in New York City, we’ll also be getting the grand opening of a new arthouse cinema — the Lower East Side’s Metrograph, which is dedicated to a mix of repertory and new releases.
Matinees to See: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (3/2), The Wave (3/4), Boy and the Beast (3/4), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (3/4), Creative Control (3/11), Eye in the Sky (3/11), Hello, My Name is Doris (3/11), Lolo (3/11), Marguerite (3/11), Remember (3/11), Hyena Road (3/11), The Little Prince (3/18), Too Late (3/18), The Program (3/18), and Born to be Blue (3/25).
10. Take Me to the River...
Matinees to See: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (3/2), The Wave (3/4), Boy and the Beast (3/4), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (3/4), Creative Control (3/11), Eye in the Sky (3/11), Hello, My Name is Doris (3/11), Lolo (3/11), Marguerite (3/11), Remember (3/11), Hyena Road (3/11), The Little Prince (3/18), Too Late (3/18), The Program (3/18), and Born to be Blue (3/25).
10. Take Me to the River...
- 3/2/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Melanie Miller has joined Samuel Goldwyn Films as Exec VP responsible for their distribution, marketing and PR strategy for all films currently on their slate, which includes such titles as Hyena Road, Identicals, Hostile Border, Havana Motor Club and No Men Beyond This Point. She will also work closely with President Peter Goldwyn on ways to expand the Goldwyn footprint, in both episodic and feature-length content with existing and new partners. They plan to release…...
- 2/25/2016
- Deadline
Canadian film shines at the Canadian Screen Awards, the prestigious awards ceremony that honours Canadian produced feature film and television. This morning the nominees were announced for the CSAs, by Canadian television actors Lyriq Bent ("Book of Negroes") and Aislinn Paul ("Degrassi").
Academy Award contenders Room and Brooklyn were recognized amongst films from Quebecois filmmakers and other prominent Canadian directors. Namely, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, Paul Gross’ Hyena Road, and Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room have all been nominated in various categories.
Many titles that were included at the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival, an honour awarded by a panel of judges who select the top 10 films produced in Canada, made by a Canadian director, and that were released either commercially or at a major film festival in Canada. Les Demons, Sleeping Giant, The Forbidden Room, Our Loved Ones, and My Internship in Canada all were honoured by the Tiff this year,...
Academy Award contenders Room and Brooklyn were recognized amongst films from Quebecois filmmakers and other prominent Canadian directors. Namely, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, Paul Gross’ Hyena Road, and Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room have all been nominated in various categories.
Many titles that were included at the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival, an honour awarded by a panel of judges who select the top 10 films produced in Canada, made by a Canadian director, and that were released either commercially or at a major film festival in Canada. Les Demons, Sleeping Giant, The Forbidden Room, Our Loved Ones, and My Internship in Canada all were honoured by the Tiff this year,...
- 1/19/2016
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
Read More: Exclusive 'Hyena Road' Poster Shows Epic Snapshots of Middle East War Drama Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Paul Gross' war drama "Hyena Road," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year as a Gala Presentation. Gross wrote, directed and stars in the film about three men caught up in the conflict in Taliban territory in Afghanistan. Gross stars as an intelligence officer tasked with overseeing and defending the constructing of a road into Taliban territory, known as the Hyena Road. Rossif Sutherland also stars as the leader of a sniper team whose job is to protect the construction crew. Samuel Goldwyn Films is planning a 2016 release. Read More: Watch: The Consequences of Drone Warfare are Deadly in Exclusive 'Full Contact' Trailer...
- 11/2/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director-star Paul Gross' war thriller Hyena Road, which was a gala presentation at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. A 2016 release is planned. The pic revolves around three men caught at the intersection of modern warfare — an intelligence officer Pete Mitchell (Gross), whose mission is to ensure the construction of a supply road deep into the heart of Taliban territory in Afghanistan, colloquially known as Hyena…...
- 11/2/2015
- Deadline
Looking at Paul Gross’s two most recent films as writer-director, 2008’s World War I drama Passchendaele and this month’s Afghanistan pic Hyena Road, you might think he has a master plan; some reason he’s made two military movies in a row. That’s not the case.
“After doing Passchendaele I had no interest in ever doing another war film because they’re just so phenomenally difficult to execute,” he says over the phone from his Toronto home.
Gross, whose big break as an actor came playing Constable Benton Fraser on TV’s "Due South" in the 1990s, was asked to go to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops in 2010. Once there, he realized there was a story he wanted to tell.
“It was just mesmerizing to me, I’ve been in a lot of weird places, but never in an active war zone. It was so complicated and so strange,...
“After doing Passchendaele I had no interest in ever doing another war film because they’re just so phenomenally difficult to execute,” he says over the phone from his Toronto home.
Gross, whose big break as an actor came playing Constable Benton Fraser on TV’s "Due South" in the 1990s, was asked to go to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops in 2010. Once there, he realized there was a story he wanted to tell.
“It was just mesmerizing to me, I’ve been in a lot of weird places, but never in an active war zone. It was so complicated and so strange,...
- 10/9/2015
- by Marni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
“War Is Hell” was a phrase coined by Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War. 150 years later that saying still deeply and hauntingly resonates in Paul Gross’s latest war film, Hyena Road.
Gross who is no stranger to war films, effectively swore off the genre after the tribulations of his 2008 film Passchendaele. But after a "meet-the-troops" visit to Afghanistan in 2010, Gross became absorbed in a story often untold – the every day lives of soldiers that aren’t embellished for dramatic effect; the “born to kill” idiom of many of his contemporaries.
After spending time hearing these soldier's tales, Gross felt a calling to present a very real slice of the Canadian military’s efforts in Afghanistan. This wasn't just to use film as a means of educating those who don’t really understand Canada’s role in the war. It was also to give a voice,...
Gross who is no stranger to war films, effectively swore off the genre after the tribulations of his 2008 film Passchendaele. But after a "meet-the-troops" visit to Afghanistan in 2010, Gross became absorbed in a story often untold – the every day lives of soldiers that aren’t embellished for dramatic effect; the “born to kill” idiom of many of his contemporaries.
After spending time hearing these soldier's tales, Gross felt a calling to present a very real slice of the Canadian military’s efforts in Afghanistan. This wasn't just to use film as a means of educating those who don’t really understand Canada’s role in the war. It was also to give a voice,...
- 10/7/2015
- by Rob Lazar
- Cineplex
Hyena Road, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, follows the Canadian armed forces in Afghanistan, as they partake in an initiative to increase safe transport across Afghanistan.
In an exclusive sneak peek at the film, director Paul Gross gives us an inside look at how the set for Hyena Road was constructed. Though the film takes place in Afghanistan, Hyena Road was shot on location in Jordan, where an extremely impressive set emulates what the war would have looked like.
Paul Gross' previous film, Passchendaele, also took on the topic as it looked at the famous battle in Canadian Wwi history. But with Hyena Road, the director sheds light on Canada’s more recent participation in war with our troops represented on-screen. This has always been overlooked cinematically, but Paul Gross, with Hyena Road, is ensuring that our story is told.
In an exclusive sneak peek at the film, director Paul Gross gives us an inside look at how the set for Hyena Road was constructed. Though the film takes place in Afghanistan, Hyena Road was shot on location in Jordan, where an extremely impressive set emulates what the war would have looked like.
Paul Gross' previous film, Passchendaele, also took on the topic as it looked at the famous battle in Canadian Wwi history. But with Hyena Road, the director sheds light on Canada’s more recent participation in war with our troops represented on-screen. This has always been overlooked cinematically, but Paul Gross, with Hyena Road, is ensuring that our story is told.
- 9/30/2015
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
Dear Fernando,Did you catch Tsai Ming-liang’s masterpiece Journey to the West at the festival last year? Those hoping that Tsai’s follow-up after that exhilaratingly pure film and the majestically decayed Stray Dogs would have a similarly expansive vision will be disappointed by Afternoon, a two-odd-hour, four-take long video conversation between the director and his inseparable actor-muse-alter-ego-best-friend, Lee Kang-sheng, made as a gallery installation to accompany Stray Dogs but shown in a cinema at Tiff. Yet by its very nature Tsai’s sorrowful minimalism has never been more emotional. The director is a veritable blabbermouth, and whether spurned on either by the mysterious motivation for the project, his interlocuting actor’s dry silence, or nervousness in the presence of the quite noticable camera crew (awkwardly tipping their heads in the frame, taking photographs, and later even asking questions as the conversation dwindles), Tsai Ming-liang nervously but avidly, movingly...
- 9/20/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Dear Danny,Generally (and melancholically) speaking, I’m in the process of wrapping up my Tiff experience. Literally speaking, however, I’m sitting before a flatscreen in the Bell Lightbox Theatre’s lobby, seeing Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton for the second time in a row. Brother Sicinski in his essential Wavelengths report has astutely written on this singular 30-minute whatsit by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, though I couldn’t resist adding my own appreciative two cents. You’ve heard the story: Paul Gross aims to promote Canadian patriotism with his Afghanistan War would-be blockbuster Hyena Road, a project dismantled by Maddin in a remarkable, psychedelic behind-the-scenes documentary/demolition job. Presenting himself as broke, livid and roasting under the sweltering Jordanian sun, Maddin posits his role as “a Trojan horse inside a Trojan horse,” his hallucinatory camera turning the arid landscapes and squid-equipped actors of...
- 9/20/2015
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
Guy Maddin's Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, co-directed by Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, "is ostensibly a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Paul Gross’s Hyena Road, a Canadian Afghanistan War movie in competition at the festival, but of course, because Maddin’s at the helm, it’s much weirder than that," explains Whitney Mallett in a dispatch from Toronto to Filmmaker. We've got reviews of both films and the trailer for Gross's war movie, which some have suggested ought to be called "Canadian Sniper." » - David Hudson...
- 9/20/2015
- Keyframe
Guy Maddin's Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, co-directed by Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, "is ostensibly a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Paul Gross’s Hyena Road, a Canadian Afghanistan War movie in competition at the festival, but of course, because Maddin’s at the helm, it’s much weirder than that," explains Whitney Mallett in a dispatch from Toronto to Filmmaker. We've got reviews of both films and the trailer for Gross's war movie, which some have suggested ought to be called "Canadian Sniper." » - David Hudson...
- 9/20/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
This was not the 40th edition of the “Festival of Festivals” that Toronto was hoping for. The 2015 Toronto International Festival began with legal issues forcing the Aretha Franklin concert documentary “Amazing Grace” to cancel its opening night slot and has pretty much ended with the withdraw of the Amber Heard drama “London Fields” after director Matthew Cullen took the film’s producers to court claiming (among other things) that they re-edited the film without his input. Considering how weak the world premieres were overall this year it was par the course for a festival’s whose opening weekend was colder and rainier than in recent memory. Granted, There were certainly a lot of good movies that screened at the fest this year, but almost every single one of them debuted somewhere else. That’s not good for an event that considers itself one of the premier film festivals in the world.
- 9/18/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Going UNDERGROUNDEverybody and their dog, it seems, feels this off imperative to try to identify common themes in the handful of festival films they (we) (I) see in a given year. It's the Ghost of Hegel, I suppose, demanding that we make sense of our times by referring to some Zeitgeist. (Zeitgeist? Isn't this just as likely to Strand the FilmsWeLike in some oh-so-precious Music Box, to be unearthed years later by members of some as-yet-unassembled Cinema Guild? But I digress.) There may or may not be tendencies running through this year's feature selections, and if there are, that could have as much to do with the people who selected them than with any global mood. But there does seem to be a generalized turning-inward, with filmmakers making works about themselves and their immediate lives, the cinematic process, and the very complexities of communicating with other human beings. There are...
- 9/17/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross is back with another riveting war film. The director, known for 2008’s Passchendale, brings his latest film Hyena Road to the Toronto International Film Festival, and it hits theatres on October 9th. We talk to the cast about making the film in Afghanistan, and their opportunity to tell a story about the Canadian military that many are unaware of.
The film stars Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland), Clark Johnson, Jennifer Pudavick, and director Paul Gross himself. After debuting with the 2002 film Men with Brooms, Paul Gross has diverged away from the offbeat comedy and has now delivered two important Canadian war films. These are stories that are often overlooked, as Canada’s participation in the war is not something that is often depicted on film. The cast discuss their respect for Gross, who is telling important historical stories that our nation deserves to have heard.
The film stars Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland), Clark Johnson, Jennifer Pudavick, and director Paul Gross himself. After debuting with the 2002 film Men with Brooms, Paul Gross has diverged away from the offbeat comedy and has now delivered two important Canadian war films. These are stories that are often overlooked, as Canada’s participation in the war is not something that is often depicted on film. The cast discuss their respect for Gross, who is telling important historical stories that our nation deserves to have heard.
- 9/15/2015
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
The London-based distributor will commence international sales in Toronto on Jamie M Dagg’s imminent world premiere.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
- 9/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The London-based distributor will commence international sales in Toronto on Jamie M Dagg’s imminent world premiere.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
- 9/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Vancouver International Film Festival has announced its most anticipated films in the Gala and Special Presentation categories. The films selected represent a true showcase of international cinema, while highlighting homegrown talent in the world's largest showcase of Canadian films during the 34th annual festival running from September 24th to October 9th.
John Crowley's "Brooklyn" starts the festival off in the Opening Night Gala spot. Marc Abraham's "I Saw the Light" holds the Closing Night Gala position with a feature on the life of country star Hank Williams. The film was produced by Vancouver's Bron Studios. Canadian productions remain a crucial part of the festival, Philippe Falardeau's "My Internship in Canada" will open the Canadian Images program, while Patricia Rozema's "Into the Forest" will occupy the BC Spotlight Awards Gala spot.
In 2015, Vancouver audiences will be exposed to 355 films from 70 countries. With 32 World Premieres, 33 North American Premieres and 53 Canadian Premieres, this year's festival promises to be a feast for Canadian film lovers.
The full line-up and ticket are available at viff.org. Here are some highlights:
Opening Gala "Brooklyn" (John Crowley, U.K/Ireland/Canada)
Lured from Ireland by the American Dream, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) instead lands in a hardscrabble reality of cramped boarding houses and grungy dancehalls. As homesickness grips her, she's also torn between two admirers (Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen). With Nick Hornby scripting, John Crowley crafts a stirring 50s-era immigration tale that also serves as an exhilarating profile of female empowerment.
Closing Gala "I Saw the Light" (Marc Abraham,USA) Having played gods and monsters with aplomb, Tom Hiddleston takes centre stage as country music legend/renegade Hank Williams. In turns as rambunctious as a barn dance and as reflective as a ballad, Marc Abraham's film chronicles Williams' rapid ascent to stardom and the tragedy of a career cut short by substance abuse. Laid to rest at only 29, Williams left behind a truly remarkable body of work. Handling the singing chores himself, Hiddleston does the man—and his music—proud.
Canadian Images Opening Film My Internship in Canada (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Philippe Falardeau ("Monsieur Lazhar") returns with an energetic, laugh-out-loud political comedy that couldn't be more timely. Steve Guibord (Patrick Huard, brilliant) is an independent Quebec MP traveling to his northern riding with a new Haitian intern. Soon after finding themselves caught in the crossfire of activists, miners, truckers, politicians and aboriginal groups, it turns out that Guibord somehow holds the decisive vote in a national debate that will decide whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East! The fabulous Suzanne Clément co-stars.
BC Spotlight Awards Gala "Into the Forest" (Patricia Rozema, Canada)
The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie and Michael Eklund star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel.
Spotlight Gala "Beeba Boys" (Deepa Mehta, Canada/India)
Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing Ak-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.
Special Presentations "Arabian Nights" ("Miguel Gomes," Portugal)
Miguel Gomes' ("Tabu," "Our Beloved Month of August") astonishing three-volume, six-hour epic draws inspiration from the tales of Scheherazade (here played by Crista Alfaiate) and once again uses a fascinating combination of reality and fiction to comment on Portugal's past, present and future.
"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard, France)
Jacques Audiard's ("A Prophet," "Rust and Bone") latest dramatic inquiry into life on society's margins is an alternately gripping and tender love story about the eponymous former Tamil fighter (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) and his improvised family, who exchange war in Sri Lanka for violence of another kind in Paris.
"High-Rise" (Ben Wheatley, U.K)
Ben Wheatley's bold adaptation of Jg Ballard's novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than "Snowpiercer". Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of Abba's 1975 hit "Sos," an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.
"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" (Stig Björkman, Sweden ), Canadian Premiere
Casablanca , Notorious, Voyage to Italy... That Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner, is one of filmdom's all-time greats is inarguable. Narrated by Swedish (and now Hollywood) star Alicia Vikander, Stig Björkman's intimate exploration of Bergman's personal and professional life benefits immensely from the cooperation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini, who allowed him access to never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews. The result is a rich and multicolored portrait of this extraordinary human being—in her own words.
"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier, U.S.A/France)
When a war photographer (Isabelle Huppert) dies on assignment, her husband (Gabriel Byrne) struggles to mount a retrospective while dealing with his grieving sons (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) and her combative colleague (David Strathairn). Joachim Trier ("Oslo, 31st August") poses tough questions about family, marital responsibility and balancing one's calling and kin.
"Room" (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland, Canada, U.K)
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, this is the story of five-year old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room with his mother. Since it's all he's ever known, Jack believes that only "Room" and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are real. Then reality intrudes and Jack's life is turned on its head... A remarkable and disturbing work.
"A Tale of Three Cities" (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong/China)
A rousingly entertaining movie romance, this historical drama tells the deeply moving story of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's parents. Both grew up in China's tumultuous 20th century, swept by war, revolution and resistance. When charismatic customs officer Fang (Lau Ching-wan) meets impoverished young widow Chen (Tang Wei), an unbreakable bond is forged. Together, their love endures through extraordinary adventures, as they head towards a future in Hong Kong.
"This Changes Everything" (Avi Lewis, Canada)
Naomi Klein ("Shock Doctrine") has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals. Her cogent call to direct action has inspired youth, helped chart roadmaps for social progressives and environmentalists, and yet worried those who believe that her critique of capitalism plays into the hands of right wingers who think climate change is a socialist plot. Join us, Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis for this special presentation of "This Changes Everything."
"Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Switzerland/U.K)
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz anchor Paolo Sorrentino's gorgeous follow-up to The Great Beauty. Fred (Caine), a retired composer, and friend Mick (Keitel), a film director, are sojourning in a stunning Swiss alpine spa. Surrounded by bodies old and young, supple and sagging, they reconsider their pasts–while Sorrentino choreographs the action with exquisite control.
Canadian Images Special Presentations "Hyena Road" (Paul Gross, Canada)
In Paul Gross' film, ripped from the headlines, a sniper, who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human, becomes implicated in the life of one of them. An intelligence officer, who has never contemplated killing, becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior, who had put war behind him, is now deeply involved. Three different men, three different worlds, three different conflicts, yet all stand at the intersection of modern warfare.
"Remember" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Atom Egoyan returns with a completely original take on the darkest chapter of horror in the last century. Christopher Plummer plays a man who's looking for the person who might be responsible for wiping out his family, as he strains to seize the evanescent memories of long-ago brutality. The all-star cast includes Henry Czerny, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz. Benjamin August's screenplay will keep you guessing until the very end.
John Crowley's "Brooklyn" starts the festival off in the Opening Night Gala spot. Marc Abraham's "I Saw the Light" holds the Closing Night Gala position with a feature on the life of country star Hank Williams. The film was produced by Vancouver's Bron Studios. Canadian productions remain a crucial part of the festival, Philippe Falardeau's "My Internship in Canada" will open the Canadian Images program, while Patricia Rozema's "Into the Forest" will occupy the BC Spotlight Awards Gala spot.
In 2015, Vancouver audiences will be exposed to 355 films from 70 countries. With 32 World Premieres, 33 North American Premieres and 53 Canadian Premieres, this year's festival promises to be a feast for Canadian film lovers.
The full line-up and ticket are available at viff.org. Here are some highlights:
Opening Gala "Brooklyn" (John Crowley, U.K/Ireland/Canada)
Lured from Ireland by the American Dream, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) instead lands in a hardscrabble reality of cramped boarding houses and grungy dancehalls. As homesickness grips her, she's also torn between two admirers (Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen). With Nick Hornby scripting, John Crowley crafts a stirring 50s-era immigration tale that also serves as an exhilarating profile of female empowerment.
Closing Gala "I Saw the Light" (Marc Abraham,USA) Having played gods and monsters with aplomb, Tom Hiddleston takes centre stage as country music legend/renegade Hank Williams. In turns as rambunctious as a barn dance and as reflective as a ballad, Marc Abraham's film chronicles Williams' rapid ascent to stardom and the tragedy of a career cut short by substance abuse. Laid to rest at only 29, Williams left behind a truly remarkable body of work. Handling the singing chores himself, Hiddleston does the man—and his music—proud.
Canadian Images Opening Film My Internship in Canada (Philippe Falardeau, Canada)
Philippe Falardeau ("Monsieur Lazhar") returns with an energetic, laugh-out-loud political comedy that couldn't be more timely. Steve Guibord (Patrick Huard, brilliant) is an independent Quebec MP traveling to his northern riding with a new Haitian intern. Soon after finding themselves caught in the crossfire of activists, miners, truckers, politicians and aboriginal groups, it turns out that Guibord somehow holds the decisive vote in a national debate that will decide whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East! The fabulous Suzanne Clément co-stars.
BC Spotlight Awards Gala "Into the Forest" (Patricia Rozema, Canada)
The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie and Michael Eklund star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel.
Spotlight Gala "Beeba Boys" (Deepa Mehta, Canada/India)
Mix propulsive bhangra beats, blazing Ak-47s, bespoke suits, solicitous mothers and copious cocaine, and you have the heady, volatile cocktail that is Deepa Mehta's latest film, an explosive clash of culture and crime. Jeet Johar (Indian star Randeep Hooda) and his young, charismatic Sikh crew vie to take over the Vancouver drug and arms trade in this all-out action/drama. Blood is spilled, heads are cracked, hearts are broken and family bonds are pushed to the brink.
Special Presentations "Arabian Nights" ("Miguel Gomes," Portugal)
Miguel Gomes' ("Tabu," "Our Beloved Month of August") astonishing three-volume, six-hour epic draws inspiration from the tales of Scheherazade (here played by Crista Alfaiate) and once again uses a fascinating combination of reality and fiction to comment on Portugal's past, present and future.
"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard, France)
Jacques Audiard's ("A Prophet," "Rust and Bone") latest dramatic inquiry into life on society's margins is an alternately gripping and tender love story about the eponymous former Tamil fighter (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) and his improvised family, who exchange war in Sri Lanka for violence of another kind in Paris.
"High-Rise" (Ben Wheatley, U.K)
Ben Wheatley's bold adaptation of Jg Ballard's novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than "Snowpiercer". Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of Abba's 1975 hit "Sos," an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.
"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words" (Stig Björkman, Sweden ), Canadian Premiere
Casablanca , Notorious, Voyage to Italy... That Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner, is one of filmdom's all-time greats is inarguable. Narrated by Swedish (and now Hollywood) star Alicia Vikander, Stig Björkman's intimate exploration of Bergman's personal and professional life benefits immensely from the cooperation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini, who allowed him access to never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews. The result is a rich and multicolored portrait of this extraordinary human being—in her own words.
"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier, U.S.A/France)
When a war photographer (Isabelle Huppert) dies on assignment, her husband (Gabriel Byrne) struggles to mount a retrospective while dealing with his grieving sons (Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid) and her combative colleague (David Strathairn). Joachim Trier ("Oslo, 31st August") poses tough questions about family, marital responsibility and balancing one's calling and kin.
"Room" (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland, Canada, U.K)
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-nominated novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, this is the story of five-year old Jack, who lives in an 11-by-11-foot room with his mother. Since it's all he's ever known, Jack believes that only "Room" and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are real. Then reality intrudes and Jack's life is turned on its head... A remarkable and disturbing work.
"A Tale of Three Cities" (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong/China)
A rousingly entertaining movie romance, this historical drama tells the deeply moving story of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's parents. Both grew up in China's tumultuous 20th century, swept by war, revolution and resistance. When charismatic customs officer Fang (Lau Ching-wan) meets impoverished young widow Chen (Tang Wei), an unbreakable bond is forged. Together, their love endures through extraordinary adventures, as they head towards a future in Hong Kong.
"This Changes Everything" (Avi Lewis, Canada)
Naomi Klein ("Shock Doctrine") has risen to prominence around the world as one of Canada's most forceful and relevant public intellectuals. Her cogent call to direct action has inspired youth, helped chart roadmaps for social progressives and environmentalists, and yet worried those who believe that her critique of capitalism plays into the hands of right wingers who think climate change is a socialist plot. Join us, Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis for this special presentation of "This Changes Everything."
"Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/Switzerland/U.K)
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz anchor Paolo Sorrentino's gorgeous follow-up to The Great Beauty. Fred (Caine), a retired composer, and friend Mick (Keitel), a film director, are sojourning in a stunning Swiss alpine spa. Surrounded by bodies old and young, supple and sagging, they reconsider their pasts–while Sorrentino choreographs the action with exquisite control.
Canadian Images Special Presentations "Hyena Road" (Paul Gross, Canada)
In Paul Gross' film, ripped from the headlines, a sniper, who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as human, becomes implicated in the life of one of them. An intelligence officer, who has never contemplated killing, becomes the engine of a plot to kill. A legendary Mujahideen warrior, who had put war behind him, is now deeply involved. Three different men, three different worlds, three different conflicts, yet all stand at the intersection of modern warfare.
"Remember" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
Atom Egoyan returns with a completely original take on the darkest chapter of horror in the last century. Christopher Plummer plays a man who's looking for the person who might be responsible for wiping out his family, as he strains to seize the evanescent memories of long-ago brutality. The all-star cast includes Henry Czerny, Martin Landau and Bruno Ganz. Benjamin August's screenplay will keep you guessing until the very end.
- 9/6/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Move over Reitmans. The father and son team who are usual home-country heroes at the Toronto Film Festival may have competition this year from fellow famous Canadians, the Sutherlands. Donald and Kiefer’s father-and-son Western “Forsaken” gets a top shelf timeslot, but it may be younger brother Rossif Sutherland who emerges as the festival darling. Rossif, a 36-year-old Princeton grad who does not do Cuervo commercials like his “24” actor sibling, stars in two exotic foreign locale thrillers, “Hyena Road” and “River.” Also Read: Toronto Film Festival Adds Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp Films In addition to the Sutherlands,...
- 9/2/2015
- by Mikey Glazer
- The Wrap
The Vancouver-based producer-financier has reorganised his companies Bron Studios, genre label The Realm, Bron Releasing, Bron Animation and affiliate entities under the umbrella group.
Finance veteran Daniel D McClure (pictured) has been hired as president and COO, having most recently served as CEO of Toronto-based alternative investment entity Cqi Capital Management.
As part of Bron Media’s expansion, McClure will be based in the company’s new Toronto offices.
This is a busy time for Bron Studios, which has I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen, Into The Forest with Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood and Hyena Road all screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
GIlbert said McClure’s hire came at “a critical point in the growth of our various production entities”. For his part, McClure said “current opportunities and the momentum the company has reached in such a short period” made this the ideal time for expansion.
Bron has also...
Finance veteran Daniel D McClure (pictured) has been hired as president and COO, having most recently served as CEO of Toronto-based alternative investment entity Cqi Capital Management.
As part of Bron Media’s expansion, McClure will be based in the company’s new Toronto offices.
This is a busy time for Bron Studios, which has I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen, Into The Forest with Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood and Hyena Road all screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
GIlbert said McClure’s hire came at “a critical point in the growth of our various production entities”. For his part, McClure said “current opportunities and the momentum the company has reached in such a short period” made this the ideal time for expansion.
Bron has also...
- 9/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Watch: The Consequences of Drone Warfare are Deadly in Exclusive 'Full Contact' Trailer Paul Gross writes, directs and co-stars in "Hyena Road," his war drama about Canadian troops in Afghanistan struggling to build a highway link while taking on constant attacks from the Taliban. The war drama is sure to stir up questions about the moral uncertainties of war as it captures the experience of the many in focusing on the plight of the few. The drama's official Tiff synopsis reads: "Depicting an embattled Canadian-American initiative to increase safe transport across Afghanistan, 'Hyena Road' is a group portrait of men and women at work in a dangerous and often confounding conflict zone. We meet a sniper (Rossif Sutherland) who becomes precariously implicated in the life of one of his targets — as well as the life of an alluring colleague (Christine Horne). There's an intelligence officer (Gross...
- 9/1/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
Paul Gross’ war film Hyena Road will open the 35th annual edition in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from September 17-24.
The Festival’s Closing Gala presentation on Thursday, Sept. 24 will be Deepa Mehta’s gangster film Beeba Boys on September 24, while Patricia Rozema’s Into The Forest has secured the new Spotlight Gala slot on September 19.
The Cinéma En Français S.V.P. initiative features Philippe Falardeau’s Guibord S’en Va-t-en Guerre (My Internship In Canada) and Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’or winner Dheepan. The initiative will highlight feature four additional French-Canadian and four French films.
2015 Rogers Special Presentations encompass Born To Be Blue starring Ethan Hawke as jazz musician Chet Baker, Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Atom Egoyan’s Remember.
“Our audience will find that in this year’s programme in particular the diversity of culture and community is on display like never before”, said executive director Wayne Carter. “As new technology...
The Festival’s Closing Gala presentation on Thursday, Sept. 24 will be Deepa Mehta’s gangster film Beeba Boys on September 24, while Patricia Rozema’s Into The Forest has secured the new Spotlight Gala slot on September 19.
The Cinéma En Français S.V.P. initiative features Philippe Falardeau’s Guibord S’en Va-t-en Guerre (My Internship In Canada) and Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’or winner Dheepan. The initiative will highlight feature four additional French-Canadian and four French films.
2015 Rogers Special Presentations encompass Born To Be Blue starring Ethan Hawke as jazz musician Chet Baker, Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan and Atom Egoyan’s Remember.
“Our audience will find that in this year’s programme in particular the diversity of culture and community is on display like never before”, said executive director Wayne Carter. “As new technology...
- 8/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 5 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to its huge and highly anticipated international lineup including the Closing Night Film, Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right.
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A selection of films from the 2015 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have been unveiled, with films by Terrence Davies, Pablo Larraín, Deepa Mehta, Charlie Kaufman, and many more!GalasBeeba Boys (Deepa Mehta, Canada)Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée, USA)The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia)Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, United Kingdom)Forsaken (Jon Cassar, Canada)Freeheld (Peter Sollett, USA)Hyena Road (Paul Gross, Canada)Legend (Brian Helgeland, United Kingdom)Lolo (Julie Delpy, France)The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matthew Brown, United Kingdom)The Martian (Ridley Scott, USA)The Program (Stephen Frears, United Kingdom)Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada)Septembers of Shiraz (Wayne Blair, USA)Stonewall (Roland Emmerich, USA)Special PresentationsAnomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, USA)Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, USA/Ghana)Black Mass (Scott Cooper, USA)Born to be Blue (Robert Budreau, USA)Brooklyn (John Crowley, United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)The Club (Pablo Larraín,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
This morning the first lineup of films were announced for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival (see the lineup below and the write up here) and Kevin Jagernauth from The Playlist joins me here to take a look at the film's announced in the Gala and Special Presentation selection. We start from the top and run down the list from top to bottom, pointing out highlights and surprises and end with a discussion about the films we're surprised that weren't announced. You can listen to the full episode in the player below, it runs just under 40 minutes long and you can find the complete lineup right here. You can subscribe to the RopeofSilicon Podcast on iTunes right here, find us on SoundCloud here as well as on Twitter and Facebook. Galas Beeba Boys (dir. Deepa Mehta) Demolitian (dir. Jean-Marc Vallee) *Opening Night Film* The Dressmaker (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse) Eye in the Sky (dir.
- 7/28/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Tiff 40 to open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal.Scroll down for Galas, Special Presentation line-ups
The 40th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) will feature first looks for Jay Roach’s blacklisted screenwriter biopic Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston as well as Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong drama with Ben Foster.
Joining The Program on the roster of world premiere Gala screenings are Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure The Martian, Deepa Mehta’s gangster tale Beeba Boys and Kate Winslet Australian drama The Dressmaker.
Click here for Tiff film trailers
Following much speculation, the festival will open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Hyena Road, the anticipated Afghan War film, will also receive a world premiere. Director Paul Gross’ Passchendaele opened Toronto in 2008.
Among others there are first public screenings for Julie Delpy’s Lolo as well as two gay rights dramas in the form of Peter Sollett’s [link...
The 40th anniversary edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) will feature first looks for Jay Roach’s blacklisted screenwriter biopic Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston as well as Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong drama with Ben Foster.
Joining The Program on the roster of world premiere Gala screenings are Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure The Martian, Deepa Mehta’s gangster tale Beeba Boys and Kate Winslet Australian drama The Dressmaker.
Click here for Tiff film trailers
Following much speculation, the festival will open with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Hyena Road, the anticipated Afghan War film, will also receive a world premiere. Director Paul Gross’ Passchendaele opened Toronto in 2008.
Among others there are first public screenings for Julie Delpy’s Lolo as well as two gay rights dramas in the form of Peter Sollett’s [link...
- 7/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The 40th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival now has something of a slate. Festival toppers Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling presided over a press conference Tuesday morning where more than 34 films were announced including the world premieres of "The Martian," "The Family Fang" and "Demolition." It's an intriguing initial lineup for the venerable Canadian institution and something of a steadying the ship after losing some major debuts to Venice, Telluride and the New York Film Festival over the past few years. Well, maybe. The most impressive world premieres include the aforementioned "Demolition" with Jake Gyllenhaal (officially the best opening night film in recent memory), "The Family Fang" with Nicole Kidman, "Legend" with Tom Hardy, "Trumbo" with Bryan Cranston, "The Martian" with Matt Damon and Lance Armstrong doc "The Program" with Ben Foster and Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Where to Invade Next." Notable films that will have premiered...
- 7/28/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The initial lineup for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, taking place from September 10 to 20 this fall, has been revealed, with Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallee’s dramatic romance Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, having been selected to open the prestigious fest.
The first selections lineup reads like a who’s who list of Oscar contenders. Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic The Program all have world premieres, and other huge titles screening include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of Nation, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, Brian Helgeland’s Legend and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth.
Check out the full lineup below, and let us know what you’re most excited for in the comments section.
Opening Night Film.
Demolition Jean-Marc Vallée, USA World Premiere
In Demolition,...
The first selections lineup reads like a who’s who list of Oscar contenders. Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic The Program all have world premieres, and other huge titles screening include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of Nation, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, Peter Sollett’s Freeheld, Brian Helgeland’s Legend and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth.
Check out the full lineup below, and let us know what you’re most excited for in the comments section.
Opening Night Film.
Demolition Jean-Marc Vallée, USA World Premiere
In Demolition,...
- 7/28/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Hot on the heels off Nyff announcing Steve Jobs as their centerpiece film yesterday comes the Gala and Special Presentations lineup from Tiff. There are the expected Cannes holdovers, and a handful of world premieres from Julie Delpy, Ridley Scott, Michael Moore, Terence Davies, Rebecca Miller and more. The full list is below. Opening Night Film “Demolition” Jean-Marc Vallee, USA (World Premiere) Galas “Beeba Boys” Deepa Mehta, Canada (World Premiere) “Eye in the Sky” Gavin Hood, United Kingdom (World Premiere) “Forsaken” Jon Cassar, Canada (World Premiere) “Freeheld” Peter Sollett, USA (World Premiere) “Hyena Road” (“Hyena Road: Le Chemin du Combat”) Paul Gross, Canada (World […]...
- 7/28/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Hot on the heels off Nyff announcing Steve Jobs as their centerpiece film yesterday comes the Gala and Special Presentations lineup from Tiff. There are the expected Cannes holdovers, and a handful of world premieres from Julie Delpy, Ridley Scott, Michael Moore, Terence Davies, Rebecca Miller and more. The full list is below. Opening Night Film “Demolition” Jean-Marc Vallee, USA (World Premiere) Galas “Beeba Boys” Deepa Mehta, Canada (World Premiere) “Eye in the Sky” Gavin Hood, United Kingdom (World Premiere) “Forsaken” Jon Cassar, Canada (World Premiere) “Freeheld” Peter Sollett, USA (World Premiere) “Hyena Road” (“Hyena Road: Le Chemin du Combat”) Paul Gross, Canada (World […]...
- 7/28/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
2015’s Toronto International Film Festival, now in its 40th year, will kick off the fall festival season with their opening night film, Demolition, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up to Dallas Buyers Club. Over 350 films are among this year’s festival.
Tiff 15’s list of Special Presentation is an incredible list of new films from Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), Charlie Kaufmann (Anomalisa), Scott Cooper (Black Mass), Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Cary Fukunaga (Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation), and Jacques Audiard (Dheepan). Several of the titles were among this year’s Cannes lineup, including The Lobster, Youth, and Louder than Bombs.
Deepa Meetha’s Beeba Boys, Stephen Frears’s Lance Armstrong movie The Program, Freeheld, starring last year’s Oscar winner Julianne Moore alongside Ellen Page, Steve Carell, and Michael Shannon, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, and Brian Helgeland’s Tom Hardy...
Tiff 15’s list of Special Presentation is an incredible list of new films from Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next), Charlie Kaufmann (Anomalisa), Scott Cooper (Black Mass), Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Cary Fukunaga (Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation), and Jacques Audiard (Dheepan). Several of the titles were among this year’s Cannes lineup, including The Lobster, Youth, and Louder than Bombs.
Deepa Meetha’s Beeba Boys, Stephen Frears’s Lance Armstrong movie The Program, Freeheld, starring last year’s Oscar winner Julianne Moore alongside Ellen Page, Steve Carell, and Michael Shannon, Atom Egoyan’s Remember, and Brian Helgeland’s Tom Hardy...
- 7/28/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
The first films selected for the 2015 Toronto Film Festival have been announced in the Gala and Special Presentation selections as well as the opening night film, which just so happens to be Jean-Marc Vallee's Demolitian starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, which Fox Searchlight recently dated for an April 8, 2016 release date. Have they reconsideredc Are they planning on gauging the reception at Toronto to see if it's worth opening this year in hopes of Oscarsc Might it have had something to do with the tepid response to the release of Southpawc As for the films announced today, and there are many more announcements to come, I'll begin with the Special Presentations, which include several highly anticipated titles as well as many that played to acclaim earlier this year, either in Sundance or at Cannes. New to the festival circuit include Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation starring Idris Elba,...
- 7/28/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Deepa Mehta, one of our country’s most celebrated and well-regarded filmmakers, steps into an entirely new genre in her latest cinematic venture, Beeba Boys. We never would’ve expected the director of Water and Midnight's Children to take up purchase in the crime genre, but we couldn’t be more excited to see Deepa directing well-dressed gunslingers making terrible life choices.
Beeba Boys follows Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda), a guarded, ruthless gangster within the very real criminal underground populated by second- and third-generation Indian immigants on Canada’s west coast. As Jeet competes with rival gangs for an increasingly shrinking turf, the single father and dutiful son is forced to violently demand respect, ensuring the Beeba Boys’ continued survival in Vancouver.
Deepa Mehta’s Beeba Boys, which hits theatres October 16, also stars Waris Ahluwalia (The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Paul Gross (this year’s Hyena Road), Sarah Allen,...
Beeba Boys follows Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda), a guarded, ruthless gangster within the very real criminal underground populated by second- and third-generation Indian immigants on Canada’s west coast. As Jeet competes with rival gangs for an increasingly shrinking turf, the single father and dutiful son is forced to violently demand respect, ensuring the Beeba Boys’ continued survival in Vancouver.
Deepa Mehta’s Beeba Boys, which hits theatres October 16, also stars Waris Ahluwalia (The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel), Paul Gross (this year’s Hyena Road), Sarah Allen,...
- 7/8/2015
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
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