While there have been regular individual success stories from Canada over the last several decades (Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Lea Pool, David Cronenberg), one must go back to the fertile period of the 1960s to recall a historical moment when international attention was focused on Canada as a whole, particularly on the work of French Canadian directors. A current, dynamic generation of new Canadian filmmakers, dispersed across the continent, may well constitute a “new wave” in the history of Canadian cinema. Eschewing many of the familiar themes attributed to Canadian film (“Snow-shoes and Strange Sex,” as one recent history book characterizes it), this collection of six new films tends toward interiorized, often spiritual investigations of the self. Without exception, each film in the series—documentary and fiction alike—boasts striking visuals and an assortment of characters that, once encountered, are unlikely to be soon forgotten.