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Coming on March 2, the second edition of the profoundly successful Hudson Festival of Canadian Film.

Again this year, the Festival pays homage to those Canadian films — features and documentaries — it considers among the best of the past twelve months.

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All are all sufficiently rich to tap the cinematic juices of even the most jaundiced filmgoer.

The River of My Dreams, a glorious glimpse into the life of Gordon Pinsent is on the list. So too is Mean Dreams, the Cannes Film Festival favourite crafted by a duo from the West Island, and the Inuit film Maliglutit, director Zacharias Kunik’s take on the John Ford classic, The Searchers.

Xavier Dolan’s highly praised if controversial It’s Only the End of the World is offered as a bonus film on Sunday Night.

The Festival opens with Ben’s Night: a tribute to Hudson’s Ben McKinnon and aspiring film makers.

But the hottest ticket might well be veteran director John Walker’s intensely personal Québec My Country Mon Pays, a challenging film that transcends that time and place many of us remember very well, a film described by one commentator as “brimming with love and longing”.