
Trevor Anderson, Maurice Krank
Canada
2022
English
Coarse language
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What kind of alchemy occurs to transform hardship into fortune? Here, the extraordinary burn brightly.
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No Other Land
Deemed by many critics one of the essential films of 2024, a multiple festival award winner and Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, No Other Land is a reminder that mass expulsion is by no means a new reality for Palestinians.
The Way, My Way
All manner of pilgrims flock to France and Spain to walk the 800 km Camino de Santiago. One such is Bill, a stroppy sexagenarian Australian filmmaker who's determined to do the Camino with minimal prep, a dickey leg, and no firm idea why.
Resident Orca
Captured in Puget Sound in 1970, killer whale Lolita spent the next half century in a cramped tank in Seaquarium, Miami. The film follows a coalition of Lummi elders, animal lovers and philanthropists on a rescue mission to return her to the ocean.
Misericordia
Edgy, eccentric, and unapologetically queer, this film goes from drama to comedy without putting a foot wrong. Sex and murder are the subjects, and writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) mines them for suspense and outrageous laughs.
The Stand
This rousing doc explores a 1985 dispute over logging in the Haida Gwaii. Taking us from canny retrospective commentary to the thick of the action, director Chris Auchter employs animation and a wealth of archival footage to riveting effect.
Credits
Producer
Matthew Rankin, Sacha Ratcliffe
Screenwriter
Matthew Rankin
Cinematography
Matthew Rankin
Editor
Matthew Rankin
Director

Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and educated at McGill University and Université Laval. He is the director of some 30 short films and one feature, which have been presented at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Berlinale, Cannes Critics’ Week, and on the Criterion Channel. His debut feature, The Twentieth Century (2019) was awarded the Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale.