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Larkin’s finale set for FNC

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma to debut troubled late animator’s swan song about life on the streets of Montreal

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Film schools complain to Verner

Federal cuts ‘completely inexplicable and mistaken’ say CFC, NSI and INIS

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Three wins for Pilon in Montreal

Quebec director’s The Necessities of Life takes three prizes, including most popular film at close of World Film Festival

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Colleagues remember Claude Forget

MONTREAL — Friends and family are mourning the loss of Claude Forget, renowned supporter of Quebec independent film and former director of distribution company Cinema Libre. Forget died Aug. 17 in Sainte-Julienne, QC, the village of his birth, succumbing to cancer-related complications. He was 57.

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Raves for Falardeau’s edgy boyhood film

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: C’EST PAS MOI, JE LE JURE!

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A tale about girls forced into prostitution

VANGUARD: DERRIÈRE MOI

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Baby Formula a hit at WFF

Strong buzz at the Montreal fest surrounds Alison Reid’s low-budget mockumentary feature about a female couple who look to make a baby without a man

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Quebec culture figures protest Tory cuts

Montreal gathering condemns fed’s recent program slashing. ‘He’s cut at the heart of a nation’s existence,’ producer Denise Robert says of Prime Minister Harper

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Pilon feature offers unusual theme

Ce qu’il faut pour vivre, the feature drama debut for Quebec docmaker Benoît Pilon, opens Friday with a twist on the old story of cultural alienation

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Piché made film fast and on the cheap

DOP and editor worked for free on helmer Jean-Marc Piché’s WFF selection Nothing Really Matters

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Larouche going to Seville

First the Canadian distributor acquired key titles from the bankrupt Christal Films — now it’s also taking its main man

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Colleagues remember Claude Forget

Former Cinema Libre director recalled as a ‘man of heart who took on the cause of independent cinema’