Artificial Cherry by Billeh Nickerson has been shortlisted for the 2014 City of Vancouver Book Award.

A London council worker (John May), who leads a careful and quiet life, has the unusual job of locating the next of kin for the unclaimed dead, and for those with no kin, he creates ceremonies and narratives based on items from their homes.

In economics, monopsony is the condition where there is one buyer for many sellers so that the purchaser can dictate terms to its suppliers. This is the big word used and the big situation described in Food Chains (directed by Sanjay Rawal).

The World Afloat by M.A.C. Farrant has been shortlisted for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.

A thorough and stylish biographical documentary about the influential American writer.

A very loose adaptation of Shakespeare sees a web of tangled romances in this Argentine film.

In Looking for the Light: Jane Bown (about British photographer Jane Bown), we get to see her portraits of some of the world’s most famous faces like Samuel Beckett, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, the Queen and more.

An unhappy Taiwanese woman living in a worn and grimy apartment with her daughter, who rarely comes home, and her unresponsive husband, who works in another city, finds comfort in a strange relationship.

Fantastic documentary about an honest forger and the curator obsessed with him.

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America (directed by Rodrigo H. Vila) chronicles the life and achievements of Mercedes Sosa, an Argentinian singer whose funeral in 2009 provoked a mass outpouring of grief that included the declaration of three day

A rich but decadent family spirals downward toward bankruptcy while the teenage son (Jean) breaks out of the overprotected family cocoon and steps into the world of social, racial and economic diversity in chaotic Rio de Janeiro.

Terri Upton of Frog Eyes spotted reading Geist 93 before a show in Toronto.

In Heaven Knows What (directed by Joshua & Benny Safdie), the characters are young street people who spend their time saying fuck, stealing, trying to score drugs or alcohol, figuring out where they're going to sleep, and engaging in melodrama.

Deadpan Kristen Wiig is hilarious as a woman who creates a wild and out of control TV show after winning millions.

Hope and Wire (directed by Gaylene Preston) is a compelling docu-drama about the 2010/2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquakes.

A wholly captivating and unusual film about acting, aging and the relationships between women from director Olivier Assayas.

Jason Schwartzman is Philip, a successful writer and a pain in the ass.

Miriam Towes, Geist contributor, has been longlisted for the 2014 Giller Prize for her novel All My Puny Sorrows.

Time loops, misunderstandings and eluding your other selves all figure in this Australian comedy about a scientist trying to win back his girlfriend.

A Spanish man spends decades building monumental structures in the forest in order to escape civilization.

A feature about a lazy summer, shot in lovely black and white by Stephane Lafleur.

Sadiqa de Meijer, Arleen Paré and Lesley Choyce, whose work has appeared in Geist, have been shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Awards.

Arleen Paré, Geist contributor, has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry.

Anna Leventhal and Sina Queyras have been nominated for literary awards from the Quebec Writers' Federation!

Anna Leventhal and Sina Queyras, Geist contributors, have won awards from the Quebec Writers Federation!

A magic trick so dangerous even Houdini advised against it.

Miriam Towes, Geist contributor, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Giller Prize for her novel All My Puny Sorrows!