Five Canadian films invited to Sundance Film Festival

Montreal, December 4, 2012 – Telefilm Canada is proud to announce that Canadian cinema will be well represented at the Sundance Film Festival, taking place January 17-27, in Park City, Utah. Three features and one short will be shown in four different sections.

NEW FRONTIER
The Meteor (Le météore) (World Premiere)
Directed by François Delisle

Forty-something Pierre is serving a 14-year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching 80, visits him every week. Suzanne, Pierre’s current wife, has moved on since he was sent away. Each character gives us a frank account of a period in their lives that seems suspended in time by the fragile connection between life “on the inside” and the world outside. Their destinies are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness, and like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above water and breathe the air of life.

SPOTLIGHT
Stories We Tell
Directed by Sarah Polley

Stories We Tell is an inspired, genre-twisting film by Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley. Her playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a profound portrait of a complicated and deeply loving family.

INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
The Near Future (Le futur proche)(International Premiere)
Directed and produced by Sophie Goyette

While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, The Near Future takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.

PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT
S-VHS 2 (United States, Canada)
Directed by Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans and Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun).

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance.

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES
When I Walk (United States, Canada)
Directed by Jason DaSilva

At 25, filmmaker and artist Jason DaSilva finds out he has a severe form of multiple sclerosis. This film shares his personal and grueling journey over the next seven years. Along the way, an unlikely miracle changes everything.