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As a countrywide showcase, the International Film Festival of India 2004 is focusing on Canadian films. This year six outstanding Canadian films are scheduled to be screened at Goa during the festival.
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) is directed by Deny’s Arcand. The film has one Oscar Award for the best foreign language film Canada and was also nominated for BAFTA Film Award. It has won Golden Kinnaree Award in Bangkok film festival, and has won two awards in Cannes film festival, as also Cesar award in France. The film is all about having a difficult time accepting the reality of death and feeling regretful of his past, a man dying of cancer tries to find peace in his last moments.
Ararat (2002) is a film within a film, that is contemporary story of making of a historical epic about the Armenian holocaust between the story follows how making the film transforms the life of an 18 year old man hired as a driver on the production. The film has one Genie award for best achievement in costing design, best achievement in music, best motion picture and best performance by an actor in a supporting role. The film is directed by Atom Egoyan.
Grande seduction, La (2003) is directed by Jean-Francois Pouliot and has won Grand Prix award in Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival. St. Marie-La-Mauderene is a tiny fishing village. For eight years the locals stood in line for weekly welfare checks, wearing patched sweaters and glum expressions, remembering the good old age. Then one day a chance at salvation, a small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. But how to convince handsome, young, urbane Dr. Lewis to stay in this dreary little spot on the map.
Touch of Pink (2004) is directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid. Alim is an Ismaili Canadian who lives in London, thousands of miles away from his family, for one very good reason he has a boyfriend. His ideal gay life beings to unravel when his mother shows up to find him a proper Muslim girlfriend and convince him to return to Canada for his cousin’s extravagant wedding.
Spider (2002) was nominated to Golden Palm award in Cannes Film Festival, Catalonian Film Festival, European Film awards. Dennis, nicknamed ‘Spider’ by his mother h as been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality. The film is directed by David Cronenberg.
Daniel and Superdogs (2004), directed by Andre Melancon, is a heartwarming story which centers around an 11-year old boy Daniel who struggles with issues of abandonment.
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