A human will stop at nothing to possess their muse, but destiny cannot be controlled.
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A human will stop at nothing to possess their muse, but destiny cannot be controlled.
June, a water spirit, utilizes ceremony to prepare herself for a return to the water that spawned her.
We follow the wedding preparations of two childhood friends; the groom is a mechanic and member of the local "roller derby" team who has recently lost his father. At the church hangs a banner that reads "The Kingdom Has Come".
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
Manu lives in a youth center. During his weekend away, his mother leaves him with his father and, as always, Manu witnesses the abuse his father inflicts on his younger brother. His desperation prompts him to ask his mother to get him out of this situation.
"A Life In The Days Of Mary" tells the life story of Young Mary, a Newfoundland outport girl, in seventeen-minutes. It starts with her childhood abuse at the hands of a powerful man in her community and follows her life's journey until her death as a very happy, very old woman.
A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another couple.
For aspiring comedian Natasha Marakova, grade school lunchroom politics is no laughing matter. Lunchbox Loser is a dark comedy about owning who you are and eating it with pride.
When Darren and Sasha learn they are about to become parents, they celebrate with a romantic weekend in the countryside. Their blissful getaway takes a dark turn when a seemingly well-intentioned landlord arrives to address an issue on the property. What begins as a quaint escape soon becomes a harrowing fight for survival.
Emily is on the hunt for the perfect spot to bury what she is carrying in her box.
Counsellors at Forgotten Lake Summer Camp are horrified to discover the legend of the Blueberry boy is more real than they could have imagined.
This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him.
A drug addict awakens to find the girl he is with dead, and must rush to escape the consequences.
A dark historical drama about two sisters, the man that comes between them, and the tragedy that results. Set in the 1870s.
Roommates Scott, a gay lab technician, and Gwen, a lesbian artist/waiter, are spending a typical Sunday evening at home, except it is October 31, and there’s a protest march that evening against gay bashing – and the boy from last night is calling for another date.
Mochi - a recently fired socially awkward 25 year old - deals with the isolation that comes with a mental health decline, supported exclusively and wholeheartedly by their loving dog Miso.
A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.
A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.
Based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name.
Aurélie returns from a long trip to find her friends and ex-boyfriend in a cabin full of memories. Her sudden departure has left its mark on their relationship, which was already suffering after their participation in protests and strikes. Following a non-linear structure in which the pieces of the puzzle are revealed through a subjective atmosphere, Burning Away is about young adults dealing with the consequences of their reckless actions, as well as the complexity of reuniting with loved ones.
A refugee from Somalia tries to rebuild her life in Canada. Then she is kicked out of her house together with her teenage daughters.
After losing their childhood best friend, Bet, a young queer person, is forced to go back to their hometown to attend the funeral services alone.
A passionate and unpredictable film about three characters in love, Les Sauf-conduits explores the tenuous balance between friendship and romantic love. When three friends set out to break the world’s egg-tossing record, their relationships become increasingly entangled and complicated. In her arresting first film, director Manon Briand crafts poetic images that are striking, fresh and occasionally quirky, and elicits uncannily natural performances from her actors. Les Sauf-conduits garnered several awards on the festival circuit, including the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 1992 Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival®) and Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Director and Best Film at the Yorkton Film Festival.
A young hippie woman goes to this Legion to find the pilot of the Mosquito fighter-bomber in which her father was the navigator during WWII. The woman's father, who recently died, has sent her to give this pilot a letter. The letter contains a surprising revelation.
A film that mixes fiction and reality to talk about anxiety, a crucial subject today. The premise of the film is that psychological distress among young people has tripled since the beginning of the pandemic.
Emanuelle is training on her stationary bike, but she can't get her mind off the image of Laura. The more she pedals, the more her memories turn to desire.
Housewife Megan's idyllic life is thrown into turmoil, when it emerges that her husband, Lloyd, faces a heavy prison sentence for tax evasion. Megan, caught completely unawares is sent into a tailspin as she, not only loses her husband, her home and her comfortable suburban life, but also finds herself implicated in the tax fraud and facing jail time. Down on her luck and with nothing to her name Megan has to rediscover who she really is. With the help of her son and her best friend, Lindiwe, she finds solace and hope in her life-long love and affinity for cooking. She learns that the path back home begins with realizing that she is enough and all she needs is her family, food and love. Life's 3 courses made easy.
18-year-old Jack get's kicked out of school after an extreme attempt at fitting in. But back at home he doesn't quite fit either. Against the backdrop of his father's death, Jack must navigate the expectations of his family and his friends to discover, on his own terms, what it really means to be a man.
As two con men scam a church, they attempt to capitalize on the pastor’s death by faking his resurrection, only for their scheme to spiral into chaos.
A young soccer player who aspires to turn his career professional must come to terms with an unfortunate reality.
A lonely nurse develops an unexpected passion for her unconscious patient in a 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium.
When Alice sets out to post one synonym for love every week for a year, she inadvertently sends a gentle ripple through her social network and discovers more about relationships than she imagined. Combining doc interviews with narrative drama, 52 Words for Love offers a humorous meditation on what it means to grapple with the vagaries of intimacy.
French trench line, 1918. After being shot in the head and surviving, soldier André Musil deserts to search for his beloved twin sister Fernande, who has suddenly stopped writing. She’s a dancer at Les Ballets Russes who is rehearsing “L’après-midi d’un faune”, directed by Nijinski. But when André arrives in Paris, he finds out she’s vanished after crossing paths with a man named Lucien Guillet, aka Landru.
Claude, police sergeant detective, is called to a small village to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a man in his forties. One evening, after a few days in the village, a clue leads her to meet Nina, a young singer whose charm will upset the course of her investigation.
A sensuous, celebrating smell, touch, color, skin, poetry, painting, sex, and home decorating; to the point of decadence. A man, tired of the debauched and decadent world in which he has lived becomes a recluse, and aims to create his own universe within his home. What starts as a celebration of 'nature', however, becomes a personal disaster as he turns far away from the world.
Two men who are trying to sell a life in uniform to young people fall victim to their own wrath in this allegorical drama.
In a winter of darkness, between brothers, no one gets out alive.
An engineer who planned three railways plays a pivotal role in the creation of Standard Time (1885).
On a night like any other, Joelle is closing up her hair salon when a mysterious visitor appears asking too many questions about her citizenship.
Mathilde returns home after eight years to say goodbye to her terminally ill mother.
An intimate meditation on the relationship between a recently widowed husband and his young daughter.
Nick, a high school basketball player who is fired from his after-school job at a video store when his boss is informed of his HIV status. As the information spreads, some of Nick's friends immediately reject him because they incorrectly assume that he is gay; however, some of his other friends rally around him and start to work on an educational video about HIV and homophobia, inserting the film's educational component as they interview real people living with HIV about the disease.
Rebellious Walter drags his reluctant brother to rob the homes of the dead while their wake takes place at their parent’s funeral home.
It’s a date! But in the age of online dating, is it still as cute and exciting? From all the available milk substitutes for your latte, to the endless movie options on Netflix, abundance of choice has become a necessity in our modern lives. But what happens when this variety spills into our love lives? This film is about Aubrey, who for better or for worse, is on the dating apps and has a date coming up. This is not her first rodeo, and it probably won’t be her last, but we’ve scored front row seats to this particular chapter of her romantic adventures. Will this date go on Cupid's resume, or will it just be another cautionary tale?
Delphine is an ode to childhood, but also an examination of the wounds it can cause.
Down and out Derek decides to rob a house one night, which he thinks is deserted, only to be out witted by Martha, an elderly widow living in loneliness. Martha see's this moment as an opportunity to accomplish something she has been wishing for for a long time now, She offers Derek money and jewels in exchange for assisting in her death
A tension lingers as a father attempts to connect with his Internet-obsessed son. Everything left unsaid catches up to them.
Koroviev, a police officer who teaches poetry in a brigade of police poets, is in search of a precious Bible annotated by Pierre Maheu, the captain of the St. Elias, a legendary ship. His quest leads him to befriend a young thief who introduces him to a mysterious woman named Coriandre.
J-P, the neighborhood dealer and Karim like spending their time doing nothing. Jose would like to join them in order to find his place within society as well. A greedy old Haitian across the parc who also happens to be one of J-P's customers, embellishes the neighborhood his musical selection. An older homeless looking African keeps on smiling while biking around.
Three friends embark on a journey back to their hometown while Sasha, recovering from his gender-affirming surgery, dreams of swimming shirtless at his childhood beach.
While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
A naive girl with dreams of stardom, marries a powerful man, who abuses her while running a foundation that protects abused women.
After having a small car accident, a young event planner finds herself lost in the Rocky Mountains only to be rescued by a handsome mountain guide on horseback. At first the two are like oil and water but over time an attraction grows, and they learn to appreciate their difference.
A woman documents her experience as she stops sleeping in order to gain total control of her life.
Sofia dreams of a dreadful future with her partner and becomes possessed by the memory of it. While he's out all day, she shares a fleeting connection with a mysterious man working at the train tracks, in whom she finds solace in.
Between nights of partying, two young men try to talk about their lives, their futures, and their fears.
Montreal 1992 —Estranged from his cancer-stricken mother, Stan, a quixotic 19-year-old, dons a disguise and joins a therapy workshop for disfigured patients in a misguided attempt to reconnect with her.
A once gifted writer buries her former life beneath superficiality and greed; however, she is forced to confront her true self when her life is thrown into chaos by the work of his deceased daughter.