Andrew Charles Mynarski, VC was a Canadian airman and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Mynarski was 27 years old and flew with No. 419 "Moose" Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War when he died attempting to help rescue a trapped crew member. His Victoria Cross, which was awarded in 1946, was the last Victoria Cross received by any Canadian serviceman in the Second World War.
The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival, the 39th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held in Canada from 4–14 September 2014. David Dobkin's film The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall was the opening night film. A Little Chaos, a British period drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet closed the festival. More films for each section were announced on 12 August, with the line-up completed on 19 August. A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres. The first Friday was dubbed "Bill Murray Day", as festival organisers dedicated a day to the actor by screening a select number of his films for free.
Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Matthew Rankin is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. He is most noted for his feature-length debut, The Twentieth Century, which premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three.
Jutra is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre and released in 2014. Blending live action with animation, the film is a portrait of influential Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra, structured as an interview in which Jutra is both the questioner and the interview guest.
Red is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Maxime Giroux and released in 2005. The film stars Martin Dubreuil as Christian, a man struggling with alcoholism who opens up about his feelings to his mother during a shopping trip to Ikea.
Star is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Émilie Mannering and released in 2015. The film stars Kevin Geronimo Tejeda and Justin Joselin Geronimo Morris as Tito and Jay, two young Black Canadian brothers living in the Montreal neighbourhood of Parc-Extension.
François Jaros is a Canadian film and television director from Montreal, Quebec.
Bydlo is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Patrick Bouchard and released in 2012. Inspired by the fourth movement of Modest Mussorgsky's classical composition Pictures at an Exhibition, the stop-motion animated film depicts a group of men who are plowing a field with an ox, but overwork both themselves and the animal virtually to the point of death.
Time Flies is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Stéphane Moukarzel and released in 2013. Depicting a Pakistani Canadian immigrant family in Montreal, the film centres on teenage son Akram's decision to run off to live his own life independently of his family's strict rules.
Ivan Grbovic is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter, most noted for his film Drunken Birds . The film was the top winner at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, including winning Best Film and garnering awards for Grbovic for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Halima Ouardiri is a Swiss-Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Mokhtar is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Halima Ouardiri and released in 2010. Shot in Morocco, the film centres on a young boy from a family of goatherds, who brings home an injured owl but must confront his superstitious father's belief that the bird is an omen of bad luck. The film was based on a true story, told to Ouardiri by the handyman who worked for a family she was staying with on a trip to Morocco, about his own childhood experience.
Sophie Goyette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2012 short film The Near Future , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards.
FM213 is an Avro Lancaster, one of only two airworthy examples in the world. It was built in Malton, Ontario at Victory Aircraft as construction number 3414 and rolled out in July 1945. Built as a Mark X bomber, it was no longer needed in Europe and transferred directly to storage at CFB Trenton. It was later modified for maritime reconnaissance but damaged during delivery and underwent repairs in 1953. FM213 spent the next ten years as a search and rescue aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean.
Carmine Pierre-Dufour is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted as co-director with Émilie Mannering of the short film Mahalia Melts in the Rain, which was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
Like the Ones I Used to Know is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Annie St-Pierre and released in 2021. The film stars Steve Laplante as Denis, a recently divorced father who is struggling with his emotions as he prepares to pick up his kids, including daughter Julie, at the home of his former in-laws on Christmas Eve.
Annie St-Pierre is a Canadian film director and producer from Saint-Pascal-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. She is most noted for her documentary film All That We Make (Fermières), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, and her narrative short film Like the Ones I Used to Know , which was named to the initial shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 94th Academy Awards.
Émilie Mannering is a Canadian film director. She is most noted for her short films Star, which was a Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards, and Mahalia Melts in the Rain, which was shortlisted for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.
Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette is a Canadian film producer, currently associated with Voyelles Films. She is most noted as producer, alongside Ménaïc Raoul, of the films The Twentieth Century, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Motion Picture at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, and Without Havana , which was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Film at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022.
