Five Canadian titles were added to the Contemporary World Cinema programme. These included the English-Canadian Premiere’s of Lea Pool’s family drama Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur and Francis Leclerc’s nostalgic Montreal baseball picture Un Ete Sans Point Ni Coup Sur. The other movies appearing under the Contemporary World Cinema label are Jean Rodrigue’s intimate chamber drama Lost Song, Carl Bessai’s comedic examination of the relationship between Mothers And Daughters, and an anthology of Toronto Stories directed by local filmmakers Sook-Yin Lee, Sudz Sutherland, David Weaver, and Aaron Woodley. You’d think Canadian films would be the only movies that didn’t qualify to be in a world cinema programme in a Canadian festival, but here we are.

Three Canadian Documentaries were the next movies to be added to the fest in the Real to Reel programme. Atra Taylor’s The Examined Life offers a series of interviews with some of the greatest philosophical minds. It will be just like Waking Life only without the animation or narrative…ok, it will be like parts of Waking Life. Luc Bourdon’s La Memoire Des Anges offers a study of the National Film Board and its role in the development of a national cinematic language. The final documentary announced was Michael Rogg’s Under Rich Earth which is about a remote community of farmers in Ecuador who are forced off their land to make way for an incoming mining project.