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“Riverdale” star Lili Reinhart has boarded Vincent René-Lortie’s short film “Invincible” as an executive producer.

She will exec produce via her production banner Small Victory Productions, which she founded with her producing partner Catherine Hagedorn, who serves as the company’s SVP of production.

“Invincible” deals with themes of mental health and self-destruction.

“Inspired by a true story, ‘Invincible’ recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom,” reads the synopsis.

It stars Léokim Beaumier-Lépine, Élia-St Pierre, Isabelle Blais, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Ralph Prosper, Florence Blain Mbaye, Naoufel Chkirate and Miguel Tionjock.

René-Lortie wrote and directed the short, with Alexandre Nour Desjardins as director of photography. Samuel Caron and Élise Lardinois at Telescope films produced the project.

“Invincible” has been shortlisted for the live action short category at the Oscars.

“Through Vincent’s storytelling, I was immediately pulled into our young Marc’s world,...

Miryam Charles’s beautiful and unsettling experimental film explores the unsolved killing of her cousin

Writer-director Miryam Charles’s fragile experimental film hovers on the cusp of making coherent sense throughout – and then skittishly retreats from the brink every time, like a ghost with commitment issues. It’s maddening and mesmerising in near equal measure.

There’s a profound sense of loss at the core of Cette Maison, as it weaves a dreamscape around a little nugget of biographical pain: in 2008, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Charles’s cousin Tessa was found hanged in her room, but the autopsy discovered that she’d been raped and murdered before the hanging. The crime was never solved. The film becomes an attempt to resurrect Tessa through drama: the remarkable Schelby Jean-Baptiste plays the dead girl who offers monologues to camera about her life in Haiti before the murder, and then acts out little scenes...

The Animated World is a regular feature spotlighting animation from around the globe.Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipel (Archipelago) is a complex and radiant meditation on the intimate and social territories we all inhabit. Premiering at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, it is a rich film that rewards multiple viewings. A poetic essay loosely structured around the metaphor of the archipelago, it combines documentation with imagination as it sifts through Québécois history and images, pondering the ways in which real events are shaped by individual perspectives, desires, and expectations. Focusing in large part on the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the film mulls over the secularization, modernization and separatist activism of the period through the use of dialogue, archival footage, and a dynamic range of animated styles that both visualize and deconstruct these ideas. The film progresses as a meandering journey through the Hochelaga Archipelago in the St.

With the dust fully settled on the Academy Awards, we point our attention northward with tonight’s 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. Many of the television winners have already been announced in glitzy fashion during this Canadian Screen Week, but with baited breath, we’re more keen on seeing how the film award honors will pan out. Last year’s Tiff saw Denis Villeneuve bring not one (Prisoners), but a pair of feature films and it is the offbeat, doppelgänger delight Enemy that should reap in the top awards of the evening. Here are my predictions of who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated in each of the most anticipated film categories.

Best Motion Picture:

The nominees are: Enemy, The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word, Gabrielle, The Grand Seduction, Maina, Tom at the Farm

Screenie voters tend to favor Canada’s yearly submission for the...