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At a Montreal railway station, passengers are stranded because of a snowstorm. One of the stranded, Pierre-Paul, discovers a young schoolgirl on the brink of suicide. While he searches for someone to intervene, Chili, the young girl, disappears, only to reappear of her own accord after Pierre-Paul's fruitless search. This brief encounter leads to flashback revelations and interaction among the supporting characters also stranded in the storm.
In wintry Winnipeg a man struggling to keep the poor lodging he can find meets a homeless man lugging around an unopened electric heater. They cook up plots to get some money for the heater and survive the cold.
A middle-aged man on the brink of divorce gets stalked by a blue chair that refuses to go away.
Two outcasts develop a strange relationship with each other when they find themselves unable to receive pleasure from the world.
Expecting another uneventful Jummah, Safa finds herself trapped with her overbearing family and an angry ex.
Set in a decayed urban core, Robota, a homeless robot, wins enough money at the robot cockfighting arena to afford a trip downtown to fulfill her dream.
Carl's Motel is set over the course of 15 minutes in a motel room where Jack grapples with the choices he has made and is forced to come to terms with his own personal turmoil. This film is inspired by Sam Shepard's Coalinga 1/2 way.
"A truly remarkable performance!" - Charlie Chaplin In this rare and virtually unseen film we follow the exploits of Leroy Mahoney (Alexis Kanner) as he settles in the country leaving behind a wayward life to work his land. With plot only provided as subtext, the simple story is a dramatization of a man and his resolve to live a quite honest life farming. Mahoney’s Last Stand has only appeared on Canadian TV and in particular remains neglected, forgotten even, with no release even on VHS.
Famous 30s gangster John Dillinger will be dead in 5 minutes. Where does America's Most Wanted decide to go the night he dies? To see Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama. An unusual move for the savvy bank robber... unless, of course, that's how he wanted it to go.
The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.
A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves.
A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone auntie and her two best friends in 80's Montreal.
Monique and Lussier, two good friends from the street, let themselves go to the rhythm of their little, somewhat gray world. Like a dream that grows in the “slush”, they manage to sail above our heads.
An idyllic picnic turns dangerous, forcing a kidnapped woman to struggle with her delusional ex-lover in a surreal exploration of love, obsession, and letting go.
A woman is interrogated by an invasive figure during the sudden disappearance of her husband. As she fends for her dignity, her mind begins to unravel as an important memory weaves in and out, challenging her truth.
A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.
When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.
Newly widowed Ruby feels elated by her husband's recent passing and is quick to move on with her life. Her grandson Tim, who she has tumultuous relationship with, attempts to get her to hold onto the good memories of his grandfather.
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.
A troubled teenager is sent to a summer cabin to help a woman, who turns out being her actual birth mother.
When Matthew lies about being able to cook for his girlfriend, he is pressured to deliver on the lie, and some unexpected events make for an unforgettable dinner.
Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.
Destiny is a fickle bastard who drives a cheap car.
Spend a year through the ups and downs of the life of an American teenager, told entirely from the perspective of his iPhone.
A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in search of his wife's past and met a beautiful young doctor who introduced him to a patient with amnesia.
After finding her husband's infidelity, a Vancouver trophy wife reignites her love of dance while he's away. As she explores new romance and self-discovery, his return forces her to face hard choices.
After 10 years apart, two ex-lovers confront the traumatic incidents that led to their breakup and the complex feelings that have kept them apart.
8-year-old Eva and her father go on a Montreal-Mexico road trip aboard an 18-wheeler.
When a high school basketball star is wrongfully convicted of a crime in a suburban neighborhood, his family’s pursuit of a better life is shattered. Ibtisam Farah, a high achieving Somali youth worker is forced to take on the case, which catapults her into a world of crime and forces her to connect with a community she is estranged from. Based on the short film of the same name.
Louise Denoncourt, a parole officer, skillfully operates an experimental rehabilitation wing for criminals who have committed homicides. When she finds herself in front of Marc St-Germain, a new inmate whom her father suspects of being her mother's murderer, she embarks on a mission that quickly overwhelms her. She then puts everything at stake, even her life, in order to prevent any desire to reoffend. But will she be overtaken by the desire to avenge her family history?
After receiving fertile eggs from a donor, Rebecca and Caleb are finally able to have a child and start a family. Several years later, a strange woman appears in their life, and is oddly drawn to their daughter. The egg donor has returned–and she wants what is “rightfully” hers.
A locksmith’s date night becomes a waking nightmare.
Follows Liza, who retreats to a '70s variety show in her mind as she struggles to cope with the impending death of her mother, trying to work through parts of their past without losing herself in the process.
Shot overs 3 years, with a small crew of 5 people, "Hier, Aujourd'hui, Hier" ("Yesterday, Today, Yesterday") is the first feature film from Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau and is a completely independent effort that explores, with sincerity, the ups and downs of love stories. The ones that leave scars. The ones that force you to rethink your life.
An endearing friendship drama about comforting heartache and the perils of online dating.
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.
While at her grandmother's house, a ten-year-old girl finds a coat in the closet. As she inspects it, she is suddenly taken back in time.
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Upon his release from jail, two-bit thug Don Keys gets caught up in the kidnapping plot of a mobster's daughter.
With frank language and explicit imagery, this video addresses difficult issues such as sex and injection drug use in the age of AIDS. It is non-judgemental in its portrayal of young people acquiring, using, and sharing knowledge about safer sex and needle use. The video was produced by, for, and with "street youth" by the STD Prevention Project of Youthlink—Inner City in Toronto, Canada.
Stuck in a small isolated room, two young women live only with the basic necessities. Tensions begin to rise as the relationship disintegrates, slowly unravelling the true reason of their stay.
A missing cat witnesses fleeting moments of human life and death in a neighbourhood.
One man's discoveries concerning the small town his mother grew up in reveals disturbing facts.
Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.
In Nazi-occupied Bosnia in the 1940s, an unlikely friendship forms between two young girls on opposite sides of the war.
Lauren simultaneously starts an affair with her boss, rents a bachelor apartment, and asks her boyfriend Tom to marry her.
This film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him, and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both.
Lou and her best friend Chantal plan to get out of their isolated, run-down town and move to a city far, far away. When Chantal’s unstable and possessive ex violates her during a night of partying, the girls decide to exact their revenge on him through a night of vandalism and debauchery.
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Audrey lives alone in Paris after moving there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without motivation or a sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers—Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems.
Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.