11 Feb 2003
Distant Lights
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
The Noise of Engines
Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.
Top Billed Cast
Robert Naylor Alexandre
Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir Aðalbjörg
Naïla Rabel Laura
Marie-Thérèse Fortin Johanne
Alexandrine Agostini Directrice
Marc Beaupré Letellier
Maxime Genois Rémillard
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