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Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the gills with obscure titles and names that even a hardcore connoisseur of world cinema such as myself is unfamiliar with. - I've just completed an exhaustive 35 film slate at Tiff and I've got very little time to recharge the batteries for The Festival du nouveau cinéma. Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]

An unlikely romance blooms between Rennie (Ryan Arnold), a young artist who's scraping by and has hopes of one day making a living off his paintings, and Paige (Jayme Keith), a party girl with big debts and dirty secrets.  Actually, Paige's big secret - she sells her panties, pee, and other delicacies to a broker (Roger Bainbridge) who supplies perverts with their monthly fix - is revealed to us all too early, and isn't nearly as salacious as the filmmakers might have hoped.  There's a lot of content that seems intended to shock but isn't nearly as racy as it might have looked on paper, and the punch is further diminished by an absolute lack context for these actions in our mystery girl's life.

The best thing Skidlove really has going for it is a consistent sensibility - a low-fi aesthetic that suggests the limitations and obtuse reasoning of the...

Toronto ­-- Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani¹s horror homage "Amer," a Belgium-France film that depicts three parts in a woman's life, took home the top audience award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema.

Meanwhile, the Greek satirical film "Canine" from Yorgos Lanthimos took home the juried Louve d'Or trophy as Montreal's top auteur film festival wrapped Saturday night.

"Canine" won out over 16 other competition titles that included U.S. director Sean Baker's "Prince of Broadway"; "Les Signes Vitaux," by Canadian director Sophie Deraspe; Ryan Arnold's "Skidlove," also from Canada; and Johan Grimonprez's "Double Take," a Benelux co-production.

The Louve d'Or jury gave special mention to the China/Germany co-production "The Red Race" by Chao Gan.

Montreal's best acting award went to Magaly Solier, star of Claudia Llosa's Peruvian film "Fausta: La Teta Asustada."

The festival¹s 38th edition also saw the Turkish film "Should I Really Do It?...