Films from Quebec Solo, Humanist vampire seeks consensual suicide And Canaval have earned a spot on the list of the top 10 Canadian features of 2023, developed by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) programming team.
Solo, a drama set in the world of drag queens by director Sophie Dupuis (Souterrain), receives a second award from TIFF organizers after being named best Canadian film at the closing ceremony of the event’s 48th edition last September became.
Kanaval, the first feature film from Quebec director Henri Pardo, was also honored at the Toronto Festival last September, where it won the Best Canadian Film award in the Centerpiece category.
Director Ariane Louis-Seize’s black comedy Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicide also had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last September, after premiering at the Venice Film Festival a few days earlier.
Other Canadian features in the TIFF Top 10 include the satirical comedy BlackBerry, starring Montrealer Jay Baruchel.
Six short films
According to TIFF, Quebec is even better represented in the top 10 best short films of the year.
No fewer than six Quebec productions are part of the list: Gaby les collines by Zoé Pelchat, Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal by Alisi Telengut, I Used To Live There by Ryan McKenna, Katshinau by Julien G. Marcotte and Jani Bellefleur -Kaltush, Madeleine, by Raquel Sancinetti, Making a Child, by Éric K. Boulianne, and Mothers and Monsters, by Edith Jorisch.
Note that the films selected in the two top 10 will be shown at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto from January 25th to 28th, 2024.