How many great films begin with the simple question, “What lengths will a mother go for her child?” It’s a classic story told in film for decades. And later this fall, one of the best recent examples of this type of story hits theaters, in the surprising, moving film “Mobile Homes.”

“Mobile Homes” premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival (read our review) and stars Imogen Poots as a mother that goes to great lengths to ensure her child has shelter for the night.

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Every year journalists cry foul at the Cannes Film Festival, demanding an expiation why their nation’s cinema is underrepresented (or plain absent) from the various selections: China, India, Spain, et cetera. Of course, Canadians are too polite to interject in a press conference, but the only nominally Canuck film to be found on the Croisette this year, “Mobile Homes,” was in the Directors’ Fortnight program. Paris-born, U.S.

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