''Boundaries'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Chloé Robichaud and premiering at the
2016 Toronto International Film Festival
The 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 8 to 18 September 2016. The first announcement of films to be screened at the festival took place on 26 July. Almost 400 films were shown.
Awards
The festival's final awards were ...
.
The film's central characters are Emily Price (
Emily VanCamp
Emily Irene VanCamp (; born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She gained acclaim and international recognition for portraying the lead role of Emily Thorne on the ABC series ''Revenge'' (2011–2015). She also starred on the Fox medical dra ...
), Danielle Richard (
Macha Grenon
Macha Grenon (born June 7, 1968) is a Canadian film and television actress.Nathalie Doummar). Félixe is a newly elected Canadian Member of Parliament who is part of a delegation to the small island nation of Besco to negotiate Canadian investment in the struggling nation's
mining industry
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...
. Danielle is the country's president and Emily is a mediator involved in the investment talks.
The cast also includes
Serge Houde
Serge Houde (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian film and television character actor.
He is best known for his role in Jon Cassar's Emmy-nominated miniseries ''The Kennedys (TV miniseries), The Kennedys'' playing the notorious Chicago mafia b ...
,
Rémy Girard
Rémy Girard (born August 10, 1950) is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec.Gaetan Charlebois"Girard, Rémy" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', December 5, 2023.
Early life
Born in Jonquière, he is the son of politician Fern ...
,
Micheline Lanctôt
Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Biography
Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her post-secondary education was in music, fine arts, and theatre at ''Collège Jés ...
Newfoundland and Labrador
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La Presse
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' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edi ...
'', November 17, 2015.
Plot
Félixe Nasser-Villeray ( Nathalie Doummar) is a young, newly elected Member of Parliament. She has been assigned to be part of a delegation from Canada sent to the (fictional) independent nation of Besco to try and negotiate on behalf of the Canadian government for mining rights. Danielle Richard (
Macha Grenon
Macha Grenon (born June 7, 1968) is a Canadian film and television actress.Emily VanCamp
Emily Irene VanCamp (; born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She gained acclaim and international recognition for portraying the lead role of Emily Thorne on the ABC series ''Revenge'' (2011–2015). She also starred on the Fox medical dra ...
) assigned to stay neutral.
Initially progress seems to be being made; the Canadian delegation offers to help subsidize some of the costs of mining and environmental protection and offer to help put pressure on the Canadian mining company, Sherman, to help the Besco government. However they abruptly pull out of negotiations and Torpe, the lead Canadian delegate tells president Richard that she must grant Sherman the rights to the mine or Canada will never agree to looser restrictions that will let Besco expand their fishing industry.