Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, winning for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2009, Incendies in 2010 and Enemy in 2013. The first three of these films also won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture, while the latter was awarded the prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Flower & Garnet is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Keith Behrman and released in 2002.
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre is a Montreal-based filmmaker most notable for her animated documentary films.
Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress of Moroccan–Spanish descent.
Anne Émond is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
Keith Behrman is a Canadian film and television director and writer, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2003 for his debut film Flower & Garnet.
Heather Young is a Canadian filmmaker based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Curling is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Côté and released in 2010. The film stars Emmanuel Bilodeau and Philomène Bilodeau as Jean-François and Julyvonne Sauvageau, a father and daughter who are living in virtual isolation in rural Quebec.
Mourning for Anna is a Canadian drama film, directed by Catherine Martin and released in 2010. The film stars Guylaine Tremblay as Françoise, a woman struggling to recover emotionally after the murder of her daughter Anna.
Marius Borodine is a Canadian comedy-drama short film, directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and released in 2010. Using a mockumentary format, the film features various people discussing the life and legacy of Marius Borodine, a misunderstood scientific genius who invented a machine that could turn any waste product into potable water, but was eventually killed by falling into the machine himself.
Vapor is a Canadian comedy-drama short film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian and released in 2010. The film depicts the emotional journey of Enrique Salgado, a middle-aged gay Mexican man, through shame, fear and internalized homophobia toward self-acceptance, after being invited to pose in the nude for a photographer (Evergon).
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian musician and film director, known as a trumpeter and keyboardist with the Juno Award winning orchestral post-rock band Bell Orchestre.
Hope is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Pedro Pires and released in 2011. Inspired by Marie Brassard's theatrical play Jimmy, créature de rêve, the film depicts a military general reflecting on his life as he lays dying on a battlefield.
Vital Signs is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Deraspe and released in 2009. The film stars Marie-Hélène Bellavance as Simone, a young woman who responds to the death of her grandmother by abandoning her university studies to volunteer as a caregiver for the dying in a palliative care centre, while simultaneously juggling her casual relationship with musician Boris.
Halima Ouardiri is a Swiss-Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Mutts is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Halima Ouardiri and released in 2019. The film is a portrait of a sanctuary for stray dogs in Morocco.
Aspiration is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Constant Mentzas and released in 2002. The film is a silent depiction of a man 's isolation and anguish.
The Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver International Film Festival to honour the film selected by a jury as the best Canadian film screened at VIFF that year.
