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Roads in February
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Wikipedia article
'Roads in February' is a 2018 Canadian drama film directed by Katherine Jerkovic. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.[https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/toronto-film-festival-2018-audience-award-winners-1202943205/ "Green Book Takes Toronto Film Festivals 2018 Peoples Choice Award"]. 'Variety', 16 September 2018.
The film centres on Sara (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart), a young Hispanic Canadian woman visiting her grandmother in Uruguay.[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/roads-february-les-routes-en-fevrier-review-1143297 "'Roads in February' ('Les routes en fevrier'): Film Review | TIFF 2018"]. 'The Hollywood Reporter', 13 September 2018.
Cast
* Arlen Aguayo-Stewart as Sara
* Gloria Demassi as Magda
* Mathias Perdign as Tincho
Critical response
In December 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival named the film to its annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list.[https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/tiff-canadas-top-ten-2018/ "TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year"]. 'Now', 5 December 2018. The Vancouver Film Critics Circle awarded Aguayo-Stewart as Best Actress in a Canadian Film and Jerkovic received the One to Watch Award.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2019/01/08/haida-language-mystery-thriller-edge-of-the-knife-named-top-canadian-feature-film.html "Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film"]. 'Toronto Star', 8 January 2019.
Critical response to the film was positive. 'The Hollywood Reporter's Boyd Van Hoeij called it "a promising debut feature". And Norman Wilner from Now Toronto called Jerkovic "a gifted, intuitive storyteller who doesn't need to oversell her story's emotional undercurrents; she trusts her audience to understand what's going on simply by paying attention to her actors' faces". It scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
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