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Drunken Birds, the migrant drama from Serbian Canadian director Ivan Grbovic that had its world premiere in the Platform section at last month’s Toronto Film Festival, has been selected by Canada as the country’s entry into the 2022 International Feature Oscar race.

Written by Grbovic and Sara Mishara, the film (Les oiseaux ivres in French) centers on a quest for lost love that sends a man from Mexico to Canada, where he is hired as a seasonal worker. Fates intertwine, tensions grow, and moments of magical realism arise during the long workdays. Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Marine Johnson, Maxime Dumontier, Amaryllis Tremblay, Karl Walcott, Yoshira Escárrega, Gilberto Barraza and Normand D’Amour star.

The film is produced by micro_scope and distributed by Les Films Opale. Wazabi Films is repping international sales. Drunken Birds was one of 10 films submitted to the pan-Canadian Oscar selection committee, Telefilm Canada said Monday.

Québécois filmmaker Philippe Lesage quietly made one of the decade’s great narrative debuts with 2015’s “The Demons,” and distributors largely slept on it: A poised, perceptive study of childhood terrors both real and imagined, it made some waves on the festival circuit, but its discomfiting subject matter and stark structural breaks most likely held it back from the exposure it deserved. Undaunted, Lesage has doubled down on that film’s most challenging virtues to extraordinary effect in “Genesis,” a more diffuse but intricately emotive follow-up that extends the autobiographical focus of his debut into a yearning, bruising vision of unpracticed adolescent desire.

Though it’s partially an oblique sequel to “The Demons,” resuming its portrait of Lesage’s young alter ego Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier) in the latter stretch of its luxuriant running time, the bulk of “Genesis” — a freestanding work, albeit enhanced by knowledge of its predecessor — is concerned with the respectively thorny,...

If you plan to attend to the 15th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, have in mind that eight Canadian films will be part of its line-up. The festival will be held from October 7 to 15, 2010.

All the eight Canadian films will be part of the festival's official selection.

World Cinema Program: 2 fois une femme

Director: François Deslile

Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Étienne Laforge, David Boutin, Michelle Rossignol, Marie Brassard, Alexandre Goyette, Catherine de Léan and Brigitte Pogonat

After having her life threatened by her violent husband one night, Catherine heads for northern Quebec with her son under another identity. Slowly, she rebuilds her confidence and rediscovers who she is while trying to win over her son’s affection. Les amours imaginaires

Director: Xavier Dolan

Starring: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri and Niels Schneider

The film is about two friends (Xavier Dolan and Monia Chokri) who meet a guy (Niels Schneider) during a party.

Yesterday, Les Films Séville, a film distributor, revealed on its Twitter page ([1] and [2]) that Tromper le silence, the third film directed by Julie Hivon (Crème glacée, chocolat et autres consolations), will be in Quebec's theatres on September 3, 2010.

At the same time, the people at Les Films Séville were also nice enough to give the URL of the film's official web site.

The story of the film follows Viviane (Suzanne Clément), a photograph. Ever since Frédéric (Sébastien Huberdeau), her brother who accepted to pose as a model for her, no longer wants to see her, Viviane has had the feeling that her career is in a dead end. Indeed, her conflict with her brother has made it hard for Viviane to move on.

However, after her encounter with Guillaume (Maxime Dumontier), a young mechanic, Viviane believes that her creative mind is back. Besides, Viviane has the feeling an energy comparable to...

MONTREAL -- Gaz Bar Blues director Louis Belanger was joined by members of the movie's cast Wednesday night as the 27th Montreal World Film Festival kicked off with the film's world premiere. Belanger was met on the red carpet by Serge Theriault and Maxime Dumontier in front of a battery of paparazzi and onlookers. "The last time I was at this festival, I was a little hidden," Belanger said. "No one asked for me, and I ended up winning the best director's prize." The Quebec director's debut feature, Post Mortem, won the director prize and a special mention by the festival jury when it bowed at the 1999 Montreal fest. Gaz Bar centers on a gas station that is repeatedly held up and frequented by locals trading stories and laughs. Earlier Wednesday, Belanger reflected on being the festival's opening act. "I know an opening film should set the stage for what's coming up at the festival," he said, "and I'm comfortable with the movie I've written and directed."...