Aonan Yang

A Chinese shopkeeper, seller of VHS, DVDs and movie posters, now only sells the films of one filmmaker - Jean-Marc Vallée. For this great connoisseur of the 7th art, unconditional supporter of auteur cinema, Jean-Marc Vallée is the filmmaker to discover. An affectionate portrait, tinged with humor, by Annie St-Pierre.

Afin de revoir sa mère malade, Matthew l’introverti quitte Montréal où il travaille pour retourner à Winnipeg où il est né. Entre Téhéran et Winnipeg, l’espace-temps paraît alors bouleversé et, bizarrement, tout le monde parle désormais persan dans la métropole canadienne. Tandis que deux enfants, mettant notamment Matthew à contribution, se lancent dans une quête à la Kiarostami.

A trailer for a fan-made live-action Akira.

On May 12, 2008 , the biggest earthquake in Chinese history occurred in the film maker's hometown of Wenchuan. According to official polls, 69,159 were killed, 374,141 were seriously injured and 17,469 are still considered to be missing. The film maker's parents, central character in the film, are survivors. In a surreal hybrid of documentary footage, experimental abstraction and fictional elements, "On the Way to the Sea" studies the human fragility and spiritual homelessness generated by such disasters.

Tao and Dong promised each other they’d return to the village where the latter grew up, in Inner Mongolia, before following his family, who left to find better fortune in a large city in Southern China. This voyage is a mere pretext meant to reconnect the two childhood friends, who were separated for ten years. With a rare sensitivity, Tao Gu films this companion, who was lost not only “from view”, approaching him stealthily to capture all of his tragic intensity, his disillusioned generosity. Dong has remained a dreamer besotted with rock, an incensed body struggling to find money (he comes up with a jade business which does not work out), love, sex and, above all, to live following his own conceptions of liberty, under the ambiguous gaze of his parents and his “successful” brother.

Tao and Dong promised each other they’d return to the village where the latter grew up, in Inner Mongolia, before following his family, who left to find better fortune in a large city in Southern China. This voyage is a mere pretext meant to reconnect the two childhood friends, who were separated for ten years. With a rare sensitivity, Tao Gu films this companion, who was lost not only “from view”, approaching him stealthily to capture all of his tragic intensity, his disillusioned generosity. Dong has remained a dreamer besotted with rock, an incensed body struggling to find money (he comes up with a jade business which does not work out), love, sex and, above all, to live following his own conceptions of liberty, under the ambiguous gaze of his parents and his “successful” brother.

Follows a young woman named Audrey Benac on a research odyssey of ghostly possession in which she endeavours to restore the legacy of the forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.