George Toles

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. (IFC Films)

A political prisoner is returning to his Mandragoran home when he embarks on a passionate affair with a young woman.

In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them (imdb)

A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One. (imdb)

Equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror film, teen detectived serial, and Grand Guignol reverie, Brand upon the Brain! is a new cinematic spectacle from the unique mind of Canada's own Guy Maddin. (thefilmcompany.org)

A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. (imdb)

A jovial shirtless man attempts to rouse a contingent of lethargic dancers to life in NUDE CABOOSE. His highjinks really get the deadbeats bustin' out until something unusual catches his eye. Dance floor seduction distilled into a fateful moment! (imdb)

somewhat mad inventor, Edison, creates a great deal of trouble for his family when he allows his lust for scientific knowledge to overtake common decency or morality (imdb)

Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home. (imdb)

Guy Maddin directed this short biopic on the castrato known as the Manitoba Meadowlark, Dov Houle, who performed on tour with the film "Brand Upon the Brain!" (mubi.com)

An old criminal is haunted by dreams of death, crime, gangs of unruly criminals invading his home which may erupt in a shoot-out and death. The dream sparkles in firefight and bullet fireworks, morphing into some nonsense about firework shoes and a crackling basement stove before diving into what the guns and six-shooters really represent: A glory-hole orgy of oral sex. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)