Canada is often seen as that huge, unproblematic territory to the north of the United States, where life is peaceful, people have no major worries, it's very cold and where American guilt and contradictions have no impact. But it is also often seen as a nation without an identity; something like a successful appendage of the United States, but devoid of its own values and, in the end, with nothing interesting to say or show to the rest of the world. A rich and empty region, not very significant. This is the stereotype, and Canadian cinema suffers from it. It has always been seen as an...