Amélie is haunted by the memories of the last Black Friday as she returns to the scene.
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Amélie is haunted by the memories of the last Black Friday as she returns to the scene.
After hiding a hunting accident. Will (Cameron Hartl), suffers morbid hallucinations and mounting paranoia. Trapped inside the woods with his wife and daughter, he must confront his lie in the face of his family, deal with his conscience, but also face up the real problem latent in him all along his shadow.
Gabino, Luisa and Paco share a small apartment in Mexico City. With no money and nothing to do, they decide to leave the city.
Carolin is experiencing survivor's guilt after the recent passing of her father. After losing the gift of a locket that he had given her, the guilt increases as she feels lost within herself.
A paranoid man named Gary is forced into committing burglaries by two white trash brothers Chris and Scott, as the line between manipulation and conspiracy begins to blur.
Two young married adults with differing eating disorders share their experiences, insights, and stories of struggles, social expectations, misconceptions, and recovery.
Every individual confronts fundamental questions about the nature of reality, self-identity, and elusive happiness, yet few make these their life goal. An international group of students have traveled to a monastery in a remote area of southern India with the single purpose of discovering these answers. GURUKULAM is a journey into their lives, a wisdom tradition, and the contemplative space in which it is carried.
Cassandra Jones is a young woman from Toronto with a very active imagination and unique view of the world. Feeling trapped by life in her low-income community, and unable to relate to her brother Patrick, a petty criminal, or her overly pious mother, Mary, Cassandra decides to leave Toronto. She applies and is accepted into an exchange program between Quebec and West Africa. When she reaches her Quebec destination, a pig farm, she encounters, Sylvie Leblanc, a woman in need of change, her husband, Luc Leblanc, a man afraid of change and Abdoulaye Diallo, her African exchange counter-part, a man who regrets his decision to seek change. Because none of her expectations are met, Cassandra quickly becomes unhappy on the farm. Her presence creates plenty of tension, much of it humorous. A surprising conclusion comes about after a roller-coaster series of events.
A portrait of male mid-life crisis as told through the story of a frustrated poetry teacher--and sometime madcap radio deejay--who's fond memories of watching Roy Rogers on TV is activated when an old childhood buddy drops in for a visit.
A final visit to their isolated cabin in northern Canada reveals the inter-generational rift between Josh and his traditional Cree father.
A young woman volunteering in a malaria plagued region of Kenya believes she is being terrorized by the witches known in local folklore as Nightrunners.
"Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement" questions commonly held beliefs about disability and normalcy by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and mind forever. Told primarily through the perspectives of five people with disabilities, a scientist, journalist, community organizer, bionics engineer and exoskeleton test pilot, FIXED takes a close look at the implications of emerging human enhancement technologies for the future of humanity.
An aging actor is grateful to be cast in a theatrical production, but he feels lost and unwanted among his college-aged castmates.
Out of boredom, two siblings decide to steal a fish from a zoo’s artificial lake. Wandering about, they gradually realize that their surroundings are a mysterious echo of another place.
A coming-of-age story about a girl, Winona (14), on the last day of summer before entering high school.
A man suffering with ADHD struggles to get through his daily routine.
Claude, a shy young filmmaker wants to make a biopic about a former television host from the 60's-70's Serge Laprade. He agrees to cooperate but when he views footage of himself from his early shows, he becomes bitter. He drops out of the project and disappears.
Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.
One man deals with his loneliness.
Life under an oppressive dictatorship. Where citizens surrender themselves to the regime, become the part of the system and let go their freedom and any rights.
A detective bored with the monotony of his everyday life finally gets an exciting case to solve. In the process of solving the case he discovers that people aren’t always what they seem.
La Cage seems to be divided into two parts: a homosexual writer visualises his fantasies and a collective joins what seems to be the story of an encounter between two men.
"It was a night of passion, a passion so intense it makes you miserable..."
Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.
An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during World War II. He called the FBI and the FBI charged J.P. Getty with Espionage, FBI File 100.1202, June 26, 1940. 43,000 people were killed in the UK while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin still shipping oil to Hitler five months before Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941. The mother of J.P. Getty was German. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that in Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants
A collection of visual poems, each tracing a soul’s struggle with love, fear, and abandonment while navigating the fragile beauty of the human spirit.
A 90 second short film drawing on the theme of 'escape' - 18 year old Louisa has known nothing but the same streets her whole life. As she finally hits her breaking point of suffocation living in this town, she takes it upon herself to pack up and go, leaving nothing behind but a letter to her mom.
As he prepared himself to leave his hometown for good, Tommy reconnects with a friend of his, Arnaud, who is back from a 2-year trip in Western Canada.
During the height of Soviet fear in the United States, JFK calls a secret meeting with famous icons believing that one of them is a spy.
A soul divided in two. Asher, a visual artist meets Matt. Asher and Matt are attracted to each other, even though they just met. Asher soon begins to feel that there is more between him and Matt, as if their paths and energies are intertwined.
“Beelzebub” metaphorically reflects through historical and visual contrast what could be spirituality in opposition to shame, violence and fear. A child wakes up from a violent dream to an unusual day in her life, forcing her to prove to herself if she could face the lonely journey of an apostate looking for a spiritual path.
After meeting what seems to be the man of her dreams on a website, Alice gets involved into a deep scheme which she can't seem to escape from.
Childhood friends, Vince and Paris, share one final night in each other's company before their lives diverge.
A man must play a chess match against his father to earn his inheritance, but it's also their final chance to mend their relationship.
One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator describes a post-art life that leads, inexorably, to the nature of nature.
When a young girl goes missing, her family wrestles with grief. Fearing for the worst, her sister takes the law and justice into her own hands.
Andres and his friends get together for a soccer game. The afternoon, that was supposed to go as usual, is troubled by the return of Kevin, whom had disappeared for days. The game will be interrupted by the sudden arrival of young men with apparent malicious intentions.
A woman’s sexual disappointment is set to a background of jazz.
George Édouard is a janitor at the Montréal Polytechnique. The only other person he meets at night is a PhD student in physics, Audrey. They often meet to talk about music and science. One day George Édouard sees the return of his long-lost brother, René. The latter attended an exorcism. A ghost of the earthquake in Haiti has haunted him since.
A look into a vintage beauty pageant taken by storm of the appearance of their first ever drag queen (Oxymoron). The host (Mr. Hollywood) is confused yet intrigued while the other contestants roll their eyes and hope her makeup runs and trips on her gown. Regardless, heads were turned and the world was shown the true power of beauty.
If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war in an abandoned school, protected from the horrifying whistling of the wind. When one of them disappears, they decide to break the silence and reunite to commemorate the loss.
A biopic about Canadian scientist, media star, and internationally decorated environmental activist David Suzuki. It will depict his childhood and portray key personal and public events that shaped his path as an environmental activist.
The truth about High School friends spills over into their adult lives and comes back to reveal itself. and although they know the truth, they still try to keep the lies hidden. The truth starts to unravel when the wife's best friend kidnaps her husband.
“As Benjamin had predicted, nothing brings the promise of happiness encoded at the birth of a technological form to light as effectively as the fall into obsolescence of its final stages of development.” – Rosalind Krauss
Anna, a heartbroken Quebecer, arrives in Normandy to visit her friend Sofie. To change her mind, the latter invites Anna to a girls' evening which will be very werido.
On a class trip into the woods, Charlotte is confronted with her inner demons. Venturing alone into the icy forest, away from the pressure of the group and the obligation to eat, Charlotte will have to face her biggest battle yet, the one against her eating disorder.
In 2015, Jaene turned 40. This lead them to become introspective about their unusual life history. From a childhood of severe abuse, neglect, psychiatric institutionalization and being in care, they grew to become a street involved sex worker by 20. They met Elder Isaac Day from Serpent River First Nations in the early 2000's. Through his teachings and ceremonies at Thunder Mountain, Jaene was able to turn their life around. This film is a narrative driven experimental self portrait of that journey.
In this sneak peak of the upcoming sequel to the acclaimed "The 8:37 News," a former Hell's Angels Gang member is interviewed by a less-than-competent weatherman.
Violette (60 years old) has a hoarding disorder. Barbara is a social worker. She visits Violette to help her. But what if the one who needs help isn’t the one we think of?
The sensations, moods and passages of grief are explored in "The Wake", which uses emotionally evocative landscapes and poetic text to extract a poignant beauty from the depths of human trauma.
When his children left home years ago, renowned storyteller Calum MacLeòid lost not only his family but his most treasured audience. One stormy night, Calum confronts the Baron of the Wind, a mystical being from his stories, and demands his children be returned. The old man promptly falls dead. From distant points the MacLeòids assemble to attend their father’s wake. But the deceased Calum has a surprise ending in store for them yet. “The Wake of Calum MacLeod (Faire Chaluim Mhic Leòid) is the first Gaelic-language short dramatic film made in the New World. Filmed in the Highlands of Cape Breton in May 2006, the film was a galvanizing community effort and a historical milestone.
When Sasha's mother doesn't show up to her fiancé's funeral, she invites her over for dinner to settle the matter. The evening becomes increasingly sinister when her mother lets Sasha in on a little secret about her fiancé's death.
One sleepless night as Sadie is surfing the web her suspicions that she and her bestie since the 7th grade are growing apart are confirmed, when she discovers that he has unfollowed her on Instagram. On her 17th birthday, her mother gifts her a 3 zone one-year transit pass telling her to “go out and explore, discover new things and have adventures close to home.” Downtown Sadie is randomly befriended by Miami, a self-identified teeny-bopper who is the first out trans girl to attend North Shore Private Girls College. Miami introduces Sadie to her token straight, musical theatre-loving BFF Cynthia, her angsty emo boyfriend Zeke, and the rest of her clique: Ellen, an astrology-loving lesbian and Jersey, a twinky bisexual high school dropout. Sadie quickly starts to hang out with them all on the regular, but has she really found a place where she belongs? Or will old insecurities, crushes and drama get in the way?
The day before their wedding, she told him she didn’t want children and may never will. The Rhino follows their marriage 11 years later, exploring how this conflict shapes their relationship. Through reenacted memories and lived moments, the film observes how love, grief, and tenderness coexist alongside an irreconcilable difference.