We now know what film Canada is submitting to the Academy Awards this year. It's called The Things You Kill and is described (by Telefilm) as "a tense psychological thriller with the shadowy ambiance of a classic noir." It won an award at Sundance for its director Alireza Khatami who is from Iran and now lives in Canada. It's about a university professor who presses his gardener to commit a cold-blooded act of revenge for him. The film, Khatami's third, explores identity, generational memory and corruption.

It hits theaters Sept 19 (Dec 5 according to a seperate schedule I've seen) but also plays at The Vancouver International Film Festival in early October. That was revealled this week too as TIFF announced its schedule which inlcludes at least one coup, the Julia Roberts film

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