Eve and the Fire Horse (Canada, 2005)

A feature debut for writer/director Julia Kwan, Eve and the Fire Horse is a direct route back to childhood in a working-class Chinese-Canadian household in 1970s suburban Vancouver. Life for precocious nine-year-old Eve and her prim eleven-year-old sister Karena is lonely and confusing, but mostly full of wonder. A humourous and emotional journey, this film sparkles with visual magic, reflecting Eve's views of both her real and imagined worlds. Winner of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in World Cinema. Some Cantonese with subtitles. 92 mins. Rated PG.

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured childhood." - Ken Eisner, Variety.com