A young man in Portugal impregnates a vacationing Canadian and must face the inhospitable prairie landscape and its hopeless denizens when he emigrates to join her.
The screening of The First Winter will be preceded by the short film Controversies (2014, 17″), by the same director.
This film was chosen by Emily Gan et Daniel Schachter, directors of PINK LAKE, as part of our Cinéastes cœur à cœur series. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the three filmmakers.
A girl and boy from working-class families in Stockholm run away from home to spend a secluded, romantic summer at the beach. Inevitably, it is not long before the pair are forced to return to reality. A sensual and ravaging tale of young love.
Willy (Jorge Antonio Guerrero), a Mexican drug-cartel worker, has made a fatal mistake: he has fallen in love with his boss’s wife, Marlena (Yoshira Escárrega). Both go into hiding separately.
Former thug, Gary (Gal) Dove lives a peaceful retirement on the Spanish Costa Del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee. But his future is once again challenged by the arrival of one of his former comrades-in-arms, Don Logan, ready to do anything to force him to participate in a last job in London…
