After discovering that his terminal illness is no longer manageable, Daniel leaves the hospital and wanders through landscapes in search of a final resting place.
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After discovering that his terminal illness is no longer manageable, Daniel leaves the hospital and wanders through landscapes in search of a final resting place.
Benjamin, a working class gay man living in Toronto, struggles to obtain expensive healthcare after being assaulted by a stranger.
Four strangers are being invited to a remote castle, only to discover they are being blackmailed for their past scandals.
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Down on his luck, Cruz Ross tries to win all the money he needs at an underground card room to save his family. After winning more than enough, he's faced with the dilemma to go big or just go home.
An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.
A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett (Stephen McHattie), in a small café. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beckett's life and forever changes Paul's future.
During the peak of an intense psychedelic trip in his dingy apartment, Alvin Cross is forced to confront his feelings for Sylvia Vale, an older woman with whom he shares a complicated history.
A young woman leaves the comfort of her small rural community to pursue opportunities in a big Canadian city. She encounters obstacles that almost force her to return home, but she eventually picks up the skills to adjust to the city.
In Post-Civil War America, two Confederate officers turned wanted bandits seek help from a Union soldier to dig up a coffin full of gold in hopes of changing their collective fates.
Firas, a Jordanian-Lebanese nine-year-old visits Jordan for the first time in nine years to renew his passport. After constantly feeling like a stranger in Lebanon, (where he lived all his life) he is convinced that he'd finally feel at home in Jordan. Through a series of dramedic events, it becomes clear that the two neighboring countries are worlds apart. Determined to fit in, Firas must go to extreme lengths to prove that he can finally belong.
A queer teenage boy takes his little sister on an adventure through the city for her birthday, but their celebration comes at a cost.
Several interweaving stories about an eclectic mix of English speaking Korean expats living in Seoul.
A high school jock bets his friends that he can score with the school beauty queen, who is also a virgin.
When her illegal husband is deported from Canada, Bassima, a young Syrian woman, finds herself in a difficult situation, both socially and financially. Desperately looking for a way to bring her husband back, she agrees to become a surrogate mother in exchange for a false passport for him. However, she soon finds out that she is already pregnant and must give up her own child.
James, a sensitive young artist, is torn between nostalgia for his childhood and a longing for success in modern society. Modified memories of his lost love as a child are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman.
A middle-aged woman is faced with poverty. As she struggles to find help in the system, her only option is to wait.
A short film about a woman who’s world begins to disappear around her.
A Job is a short crime drama that follows a day in the life of a low level hit man as he carries out one hit. While he is quiet and unassuming, the people that he meets throughout the day are colorful and the encounters range from humorous to disturbing. 'A Job' simultaneously covers familiar ground and subverts expectations while heading towards a climax that is both unexpected and haunting. A Job .... Everyone has one.
A popular travel blogger's negative impressions about Christmas are challenged when she must team up with the "holiday loving" town doctor in order to save her family's annual Christmas event.
A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The world's first 8K, 8.5-minute experimental animated short film using "hands" as story characters. This short film tells a story about human love, ethics, war and the future from a unique perspective in a small train space. It is like a mirror reflecting the current situation of today's society and provoking our thoughts.
In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
Clean-cut, handsome looking psychiatric patient Daryl Gleeson finds himself hopelessly falling in love with restaurant owner Brooke Daniels, after having instinctively rescued her little son Mikey from a traffic accident. When she doesn't return his love he snaps and begins to stalk her, eliminating all who stand in his way...
A ruminative and nostalgic day following Ruby, a Pakistani woman who recently immigrated to Canada. The fatigue of her journey gives way to a melancholic anticipation for the future. She waits for her husband and son to come home, and dreams of the countless faces of folks she's passed by on the streets of her new city.
This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of their beloved friend Max when the Harts go to Montreal for the reading of his will. While there, they learn of a clock Max has left for them with his niece, Marie, which is stolen before they can receive it. Meanwhile, Marie’s partner in their antique shop, Vivienne, meets with Ronnie, her secret lover and the husband of the Harts’ friend Lady Camilla Ashley, and is subsequently killed. The clock seems to be at the center of a mystery which includes kidnapping and murder, and the Harts will have to unravel it if they want to get their gift from Max back.
A naive girl with dreams of stardom, marries a powerful man, who abuses her while running a foundation that protects abused women.
Grandsons Louis and Claude are spending a weekend at Imelda's country place - but things go south when Louis takes one of their grandmother's pills.
In Montréal, a retired hitman is forced to take charge again and commit two murders without knowing he is about to trigger a series of events that will put his daughter's life in danger in Paris.
A family tries to schedule the medically assisted death of a loved one.
Native American Chief Sitting Bull seeks refuge in Canada.
In 1997, the year Ellen DeGeneres comes out, John is a boy who dreams of becoming a cop. He wants to confide in his neighbor, Mr. Carter, that he is secretly in love with him. Time is of the essence as the 65-year-old heterosexual detective is moving away forever.
During a training exercise in an abandoned open-pit mine, a crew of Canadian astronauts are interrupted by an Atikamekw elder, who asks them to deliver an important message to the spirit of his community on the moon.
Wealthy socialites gather for a lavish birthday, but when an unexpected event shatters their world, they face a choice that tests their loyalties. As tensions rise, not everyone is willing to make the same sacrifice.
In the science-fiction thriller 'Reinsertion,' Aïcha, a young woman accused of her fiancé's murder, finds herself sent to the psychiatric ward of the MK ULTRA prison, unaware of the dangers awaiting her. As she delves into a unique and dark story, she uncovers buried secrets and faces unexpected twists. At the heart of this experience, the film also explores the right to kill in self-defense, questioning the boundary between survival and morality. This extraordinary adventure surpasses all understanding and will transform her profoundly and unalterably.
Adapted and inspired from the play Lipsynch, Triptyque is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle a schizophrenic bookseller, Marie, singer and actress, and Thomas, a German neurologist. Three lives, three destinies that cross and resonate, Triptyque is a sensitive and deeply moving variation on the themes of memory and identity.
The rather convoluted plot follows Santiago, a car thief and supposed electronic genius who works undercover for the police and is attempting to shut down an auto theft ring. Various crime organizations are involved, each plotting against each others. To complicate matters, several law enforcement branches are also competing against each others.
In a dystopian future, Étienne, the son of an influential family in City 14 (formerly Montreal), flees to a neighboring commune to escape an alienating world. He finds himself torn between two opposing realities, where freedom clashes with comfort, leading to a tragic struggle for emancipation.
Tony is out to seek revenge for his little sister, Grace, who claims to be abused by a boy in her school. However, old demons from his past still haunt Tony, who has to face reality, as it's not what he makes it out to be. Tony's father tries to reason with his son, but it might be too late.
When an unhappy young boy discovers an older man quietly affixing painted eggshells to a disused wall in their neighbourhood, he begins to understand how even the smallest, strangest acts can leave behind something lasting.
A young college couple living together in a small townhouse experiment with a ritual that leads to both amazing discoveries and terrible consequences.
With their relationship on the rocks, David and Emily move to Halifax to catch a break from the pandemic and their monotonous routine. Upon meeting Emily's best friend Delilah and her local friend Meg, the already shaky groundwork of their relationship starts to fracture.
Lou is seventeen and thinks she has her life under control. On her prom night, she decides to run away from her father and her stable life. She seems to be keeping it together, until she comes head to head with a strange woman that has been stalking her through the halls of the school. Losing her composure, Lou spirals and starts to question everything.
Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.
Ratgirl, a diffident 19 year-old woman, as she and her older roommate Alice discover their apartment is infested with rats — a claim which is adamantly ignored by their miserly landlord. Over the course of a hellish fourty-eight hours, Ratgirl unconfidently navigates sexual harassment, housing instability, ex-friendships, and suppressed mental illness.
Unsatisfied with her prospects following graduation, struggling artist Eleanor "Nell" Ross reflects on her life with her boyfriend over a game of dominoes.
Two aliens escape from 1947 Roswell, New Mexico and set out to sabotage the Earth. The lady alien finds she enjoys sex and likes to seduce soldiers. However, the male eventually falls in love with an Earthling and decides to stop the female from setting off a nuclear weapon the two had developed.
A restaurant becomes a nightmarish stage where male bodies morph into pigs—a transformation that embodies the dehumanization experienced by the victim. The familiar veers into the abject, the visual and auditory saturation replicating the traumatic invasion.
A girl struggles to return to her home country amongst the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The story of the "The Fools and Bastards Club," a group of ten close friends who made a pact in high school to reunite every December 31st to ring in the new year together. Eight years later, what started as a simple party has evolved into a sacred tradition which preserves friendships that have otherwise grown apart. However, this year, one of the core members has mysteriously disappeared, leaving the rest to struggle with what has happened. At the center are Penny and William and a secret linked to their friend's disappearance, which could easily tear the group apart for good. Ultimately, they must decide what is more important, keeping the dark truth to themselves or keeping the "The Fools and Bastards" together.
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.
On the cessation of Covid, 30-year-old twin sisters give up their big city dreams to return home and navigate the challenges of starting a new career, living with their parents and reimagining their future.
A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne Vermette’s buzzing miniature A Black Screen Too is a burst of colour and movement undercut by darkness.
Province of Quebec, Canada, the Maple Spring, 2012. Driven by frustration and the desire to find a new life, Klas Batalo, Ordine Nuovo, Tumulto and Giutizia form a counter-cultural group, a radical cell guided by a deep hostility to the established order that they manifest through terribly ambiguous political expressions, Molotov cocktails and guerrilla tactics, seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to the overthrow of the government.
A communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.
Without warning, millions of people instantly vanish from the face of the earth! In the following hours civilization is torn apart as anarchy and chaos reign supreme. It is a time of Great Tribulation for those left behind.
A young girl is forced to reckon with the changing nature of her relationship
When his secret girlfriend falls ill, an undocumented worker living in Toronto must choose between getting caught and getting her the emergency medical attention she desperately needs.
Dealing with an illness and troubled past, an isolated man applies for the Mars Survival Mission with hopes to colonize Mars after the Earth has become over populated. Everett Curtis never fit in on Earth, and so when the chance for him to apply to become one of the first settlers on Mars arises he jumps at the chance. Befriending a local journalist and an old friends sister, he learns that Earth may be just as new to him as Mars.