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10 Canadian Films to Add to Your Must-Watch List

Fine, rest of the world, we’ll share our secret—Canada’s harbouring wicked filmmakers. Directors such as Denis Villeneuve, Jean-Marc Vallée and Sarah Polley have garnered international acclaim, but have you seen what they’ve been doing at home? Let us know how many of these 10 must-watch homegrown films from the 1980s onward you've seen on Twitter @FLAREFashion.

By Ryan Porter September 30, 2013

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The Sweet Hereafter, 1997

This slow-burn drama about the in-fighting among a small B.C. community in the wake of a school bus accident that killed many of the town’s children cemented Atom Egoyan’s status among Canada’s directorial elite and showed Sarah Polley, then 18, had an artistic road ahead of her that certainly didn’t end in Avonlea.

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