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This year’s selection of eight films includes two musicals from Ontario: Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical (2010), an exuberant musical about a teenage hockey player who becomes a national sensation, and Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs (2010), a film noir investigating the murder of a woman in a small town.

Two nonfiction films tell of exceptional personalities whose fame is due not only to their talent but also to their exposure in the media. Japanese-Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist David Suzuki gives an engrossing illustrated lecture in Sturla Gunnarsson’s documentary Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (2010). Early cable access daredevil Cap’n Video is profiled as an instigator of pre-“Jackass” shenanigans in Jay Cheel’s rambunctious documentary Beauty Day (2010).

Her first feature film, Naghmeh Shirkhan’s The Neighbor (2010) follows a community of Iranian refugees living abroad in Vancouver.

Three films from Quebec complement the exhibition—Patrick Demers’ psychological thriller Jaloux (2010), returning Canadian Front filmmaker Sophie Deraspe’s Les Signes vitaux (Vital Signs) (2009), and Jeanne Crépeau’s La Fille de Montréal (A Montréal Girl) (2010), a melancholy comedy about a girl’s love for her city.

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