A character’s introspection portrayed through the colour red. Écarlate is part of a diptych that includes the short film Viride.
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A character’s introspection portrayed through the colour red. Écarlate is part of a diptych that includes the short film Viride.
A family have become disillusioned with one another. The father has an affair and is caught by his daughter, who has already hooked up with the free-love hippies who live next door. When her mother realizes, she too travels next door.
Colerain County was the site of a comet crash that released mysterious forces and caused strange phenomena. Puzzling disappearances and bloody deaths abound. A group of young people called the Lost Children fought the forces of evil and succeeded in containing them. A few years later, after the death of his parents, young Sam moves to the small town of Castle Peaks to live with his aunt and cousin, who are fascinated by the Ouija board. Sam joins a group of youngsters called the Little Monsters, who enjoy telling each other scary stories inspired by the mythical Lost Children, who have become urban legends in the area. But now the evil spirit of Colerain's comet has been awakened again, supernatural events are occuring at a frightening rate and many youngsters are starting to act strangely.
Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The film is set in Montreal.
A real estate agent encounters a slump late in his career. Exhibiting questionable behaviour, he struggles to find balance between his professional obligations and personal relationships.
The Oxbow Cure is a winter tale of Lena, a middle-aged woman who has recently been diagnosed with a life-altering disease. In an attempt to come to terms with her transforming body, she leaves her home in the city for a new life in remote northern Ontario. While exploring the natural world outside her cottage, she begins to create an interior routine. A frozen lake, mere steps from her front door, is a source of both fear and fascination.
A horror drama about parental pressure
Psychedelic Sci-Fi about mind travel.
A group of guys get trapped in a house together due to a winter storm after the fall of civilization.
Two friends who've had feelings for one another for years decide to set aside their current relationships for a weekend to meet and explore what could've been.
A metaphorical story about the constant struggle of the artist to reach those five minutes of limelight. A tale about an upswing and downfall, with the climax appearing concurrently and unexpectedly. The hermetical life of artists, who are enclosed into their own world of ideas, striving to create the epochal masterpiece. Even if they succeed, the image they create is the reflection of themselves. And with the same fervor, they repeat the process in endless cycles.
Two former friends become enemies when one is secretly turning in criminals and the other is the head of a youth gang.
100 M Criminal Conviction is a crime thriller set against the backdrop of the fashion industry. As they maneuver through the maze, the characters weave an enthralling tale of tactics and trickery.
Radha and Anna cover up their relationship when Radha's aunt Durga comes for a visit from India.
Arthur wakes to a shocking discovery—a horn growing from his forehead. Confronted by his parents, Arthur will have to make difficult choices that flip his life upside-down.
A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness.
As played superbly by Lío Mehiel in Bec Pecaut’s deeply affecting drama, Mad wrestles with turbulent emotions while recovering from top surgery at home with their partner and mother.
Two young brothers attempt the perilous crossing of a strange desert, but just when they think they won't make it out alive, a phone booth appears.
A building lost in the middle of urban smog, a squatter girl, a curious eye on its floor... This is the beginning of an unusual encounter between Arianne and her mysterious neighbour in this dystopic world hanging by a string.
A heartbroken, talented young illustrator must confront his emotions and rediscover his artistic voice.
Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life in the mountains, away from people and cities.
A documentary show host finds himself being forced to tackle an old controversial viral video by the network he works for. If he doesn't comply he will lose his job, the jobs of his team and his show. The host and his team are placed in a high stress position that leaves the host diving into the video in hopes of exposing its falsehood and humiliating the network.
A paraplegic is determined to rebuild her life on her own.
Alice discovers a lump in her breast. Martin, her husband, is trying to conceal the results from a study on the pill and breast cancer, which writes off years of dedicated research that he's done on synthetic hormones. Paul, their oldest son, wants to start his own online business, StripBoxing.com. Jerrett, their younger son, helps Paul with the programming of the site. Sarah, their teenage daughter, tries to be accepted by her peers, which brings a fight with her mother that makes Sarah run away from home. Enter Faith, detached, luminous, irresistible. She changes their lives forever.
Anne, who’s 54, takes part in simulated consultations used to evaluate medical students. Gradually, though, the script she’s been given starts to ring true, forcing her to confront her own condition.
Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly personality on full display as he interacts with his loving family. By showing Vito’s dignity and inherent value, Vito-Man tackles the difficult conversation that is the eradication of people with Down syndrome, proving that an extra chromosome should not be a death sentence.
When night falls, three characters from different generations reveal their innermost secrets. Three people from different cultures and, more importantly, different generations – Eliane, Romes and Pablo – decide to take action in their lives before it’s too late. Recognized for her short films (Le futur proche, La ronde), Sophie Goyette scrupulously chronicles the quest of three protagonists who have reached a turning point in their personal journey. For her first feature, she delivers a meditative work steeped in the universal questions of human nature.
A troubled young actor in an East London Theatre Company for the homeless romances a wealthy out-of-towner in the bustling streets of contemporary London.
We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
One of three films in the “Hall Trilogy” with lots of local talent. Two women with roots in Newfoundland find themselves trapped together on a stalled subway train.
Cassy, 9, is obsessed, silent, angry. Recently, she lost her mother to a mysterious accident. Her turmoil clashes with that of her father, a violent man who treats women like objects. While the little girl rediscovers a kind of happiness thanks to a kind vocal instructor, the father’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic. Childhood and grieving confront some hot-button issues when sexual harassment, violence and homophobia enter the scene. Natacha Mitrani, the director’s daughter, is heartbreaking in the challenging role of Cassy.
Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project. Then she meets the old lady again, and with mounting incredulity Paule discovers that the actual events in the woman's life mirror the fictional events in the director's film.
A survivor of the Asian tsunami finds an anchor to her disintegrating new Canadian life when she hits the road with a homeless musician.
An exhausted 20 year old acts as a parent and translator for her mother during a visit to a doctor's office.
Medusa Raw, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan’s first video, is a re-telling of the classical Medusa myth from the Medusa’s perspective.
The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.
A young man tries to court his fellow co-worker with his charm.
Teenager Mary has strong physical yearnings for her boyfriend, so she asks her mother for advice on what she should do about said carnal cravings.
Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
Separated from his wife and unborn child by the outbreak, Matt struggles to escape the military and evade growing throngs of the undead. When he finally manages to escape, he flees to a remote family cottage - one where his wife told him she would be - only to find the cabin deserted.
Small Pleasures is a feature film in 35 mm colour about two young women who have recently come to Toronto from China in the fateful spring of 1989. SALLY and ZHAO have different approaches to life in the West. Sally has always dreamt of coming to the west …
Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, the award-winning Betroffenheit is a boundary-stretching hybrid between theatre and dance that explores the psychological states of trauma, grief and addiction.
Following the death of a guest at a rural hotel, an immigrant employee struggles to navigate his way through a world where indifference is abundant and human connection is scarce.
An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own. Her teenaged granddaughter seizes the opportunity to go too.
Terrorists recruit a young teen to bomb an embassy but the man he is boarded with attempts to talk him out of going through with the plan.
Bruno bumps into his friend Sébas by chance, two weeks after abandoning him in the middle of a home theft contract. Back with his ex-girlfriend, new responsibilities weigh on Bruno. Everything suggests that he will have to stop his work as a thug to restructure his life, but nothing has been done yet.
As the deadline for student short film submissions arrives, two film students, in over their heads, must make the best of an unraveling situation as they attempt to finish their final day of shooting.
Facing the pressures to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards, a young Black ballerina finds a powerful source of pride and confidence, in Alicia K. Harris' inspiring and visually stunning short.
A marauding gang of five causes mayhem in a peaceful Ukrainian village.
Sébastien owns a book shop and has literary ambitions of his own. He befriends Joseph, an established novelist whose work he admires. But when Joseph is killed on his doorstep, Sébastien discovers a mysterious manuscript left behind. Sasha, Sébastien’s only child, witnesses Joseph’s death, and the effects run deep. She finds herself drawn to the author’s son Sidney, and starts a relationship with him. As the two grow closer, she discovers that her father is hiding something. Sidney, feeling betrayed by Sasha, threatens to expose Sébastien to get justice for his father’s memory. But his relentless pursuit for the truth leads him to uncover a tragic family secret from which he was protected… until now.