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A film written and directed by Adam Paradisio. —For all those who have stopped believing.

Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the young woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.

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.

Wounded from his past, Sam is a self-doubting dreamer who discovers a rare and intense attraction to a stranger on a bus. He fantasizes about different scenarios of approaching the girl but never finds the courage to actually do so. Conflicted, Sam takes the audience into his own mind, where he confronts his long-time ex-girlfriend, Marie, face to face.

The sounds of a cello played by a young woman herald the onslaught of puberty and its headaches for a precocious 13 year old boy when he is enrolled in a cello lesson.

Accompanied by his young cub, an orphaned stray roams industrial landscapes, longing for the return of his one true companion.

A young girl who is being abused at home runs away to the seamy side of Montreal where she makes friends with a prostitute who helps her to survive the urban jungle.

Weaving in and out of a variety of seemingly unrelated events, Random examines the life of Steve. Beautifully shot in a series of non-sequiturs, the film adds up to a lot more than the sum of its parts.

Frank - a homeless alcoholic - lives a fruitless existence. All that begins to change when he finds a puppy that was left to die in a garbage bin.

A Theatrical Documentary Synopsis "Inside Hana's Suitcase", is the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish. Based on the internationally acclaimed book "Hana's Suitcase" which has been translated into 40 languages

Willow Song, a recovering addict and parolee, struggles to start over. Willow finds herself in a concrete wasteland. Facing isolation and displacement, shadows creep into Willow's mind and her nightmares become too real.

A love triangle caught in the circle of time....

The mysterious circumstances behind the death of a student's boyfriend threatens the friendship between she and her roommate.

A dramatic short based on true events in which a brave mom hides a shocking truth from her daughter who believes she is a princess and mom is a warrior.

A healing and poetic essay on our intergenerational relationship with water.

A small town is riddled with a series of murders targeting couples at make-out point. The police, the mob, and individuals of Union, Ontario take it upon themselves to try and stop their .44 killer before it's too late.

David misses his ring-necked dove. It was his pet, his solace, and to remember the little creature he loved, he insists on adding its ashes to ink for a memorial tattoo. As the bird’s empty cage looms in his apartment and he goes about his daily work as a music engineer, the tattoo becomes infected. Avoiding the comfort of his girlfriend for weeks, his grief will soon take over his body in the most unusual way

Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

Darya a ballerina working for a prestigious Russian dance company decides to immigrate to Canada. Once there, she finds it hard to adapt, since she barely speaks English.

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 garagist must take care of his sick mother and irresponsible brother.

Reflections follows Gael, a young man drowning in grief and guilt after his brother Walker’s death, as nightmares and flashbacks blur into his real life with an alcoholic, grieving mother and a friend who may be hiding her own pain; when Gael turns to sleep aids to escape, the weight of blame and unresolved trauma culminates in a tragic ending that reunites the brothers in an eerie, quiet final moment.

The volatile bond between two young women threatens to combust in the face of an incomprehensible catastrophe.

Pablo, Chilean emigrant, ex-professor, seeks work in a Montréal steel mill. Cut off from family, country and profession, he is baffled by a language he doesn't speak and a job he doesn't know. The film reproduces with accuracy and sensitivity his efforts to adjust to a new and bewildering world.

A guitarist writes a song for his girlfriend, but this one does not seem to appreciate its composition while playing.

After being forced to return early from summer camp, Dana and Sam are planted in the midst of their recently late grandfather's Buddhist funeral ceremony.

The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.

Caught in the tensions of the returning Pierrot, an ex-con, and the neighboring outlaws, Coralie attempts to distance herself from an ambiguous if not tormented past. Set against a busy highway, the butting houses dominated by a boss loosing sight of his operation are suspended as an anarchic surge approaches.

Jennifer's husband determines for her to get a pregnant, however, she wants to leave with the man she loves.

In a high-rise apartment young parents Alex and Mahsa live with their seven-year-old daughter Mina. Everything about the family is completely normal, uncomfortably real: Their home, their jobs, her school, the way they hold and love each other. The line between fact and fiction is blurred because THEY ARE A REAL family. Until completely normal turns into what they fear the most. Alex's injury opens the door to a malevolent force that attacks and dismantles the family one person at a time: A violent aggressor determined to prove that possession is real, unconscionably disturbing and very different from how it's depicted in the movies.

A fashion student is put under harsh stress when trying to craft her final college assignment, but during the process discovers a horrific new addiction

An elderly widow finds companionship with a garden gnome but begins to feel alone when it disappears truly; then mysterious postcards follow.

A man explores the relationship with his drifter father as he carries his body to its final resting place.

A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.

Alex, a devoted member of an armored combat organization, measures his worth in violent spectacle. When a brutal duel shatters his ego, he spirals into the group’s traditionalist dogma, a fusion of medieval LARP and far-right grievance. After a street confrontation escalates from mockery to physical rage, Alex’s performative chivalry collapses into raw aggression.

When his parents announce their divorce, ten-year-old Neil believes he's stuck in a dream and sets out on a mission to wake up.

In the midst of a future-past world, frantic preparations for an elementary school music recital are underway in a theatre building crumbling due to the reverberations of a far-off battle.

Angela (Sera-Lys McArthur) and Henry (Matthew Kevin Anderson), a young Ottawa couple with a baby on the way, embark on a short trip north to the Cree community of KiiWeeTin to visit Angela’s beloved childhood nanny, Mary (Renae Morriseau). When Angela is harassed by a menacing shadow figure, Mary moves to bless and protect Angela and her unborn child with illegal Cree ceremonies and medicine. And as Angela discovers the truth about both her ancestry and the spectral figure’s identity, she must delve into her newfound spiritual traditions in order to defend herself from her husband’s escalating purity-obsessed racism.

There comes a time in every crack addict's life where he can still beat the addiction and get clean. Once that time has come and gone, the addiction will take him over. This is that moment. What will he choose?

Shabnam, a model in Canada, sees her pregnancy as a potential conflict with her career. She also feels that her husband, Amirali, is keen on having a child more than a family. The issue escalates to the point that their original wish of having a child turns into the ultimate problem and results in them losing their jobs, leaving the marriage and Shabnam wants to get an abortion.

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.

An Armenian film director location scouts for an upcoming film on the history of the movement of ideas and contagion along the ancient trade networks which connected the historic Armenian capital of Ani to the world. Along the way he encounters the complex geopolitical realities which impact the region.

Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her trust as she regains her health. However, he soon discovers she's wanted by the law, and circumstances become difficult for him as he tries to hide her from the authorities.

French Canadian TV-Movie

Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.

A young woman attempts to chop a coconut for the first time, in hopes that the refreshing treat will lift her ailing father's spirits.

In 2020 Karen Knox got a nose job and saw an opportunity for comedy…...dark comedy. Co directors Karen Knox and Matt Eastman filmed The Year of Staring at Noses over the course of three years chronicling the surgery and Knox's alter ego "Samantha's" quest to find love on a reality television show. A lot of it is real. Some of it isn’t. The film is about the contemporary thought poison that we will only find love through self modification in its most shallow expression. In this instance, plastic surgery and reality television. It’s about the digital age brain rot that has lead us to the equation that looksmaxing + capitalism = happiness. This film was made with four people, a girl, a gun, and a camera.

An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

A woman travels from the big city to the countryside. The locals are suspicious.

Focuses on the love life of a Vancouver-based female DJ who is having a very hard time finding the right person to connect with.

Kicked out of his home for being gay, a young man (Ephraim Sykes) finds a new family with Los Angeles drag queens.

An Indigenous woman, Sarah, recounts to her grandson Devin a story from her time in Residential School, when she was believed to be possessed by a demon.

Sarah, upon accidentally discovering time travel through the use of a drug, must now travel back one year into the past to save her son from a fatal accident.

Léandre is a Montreal computer scientist in charge of the protection of the Minister of Public Safety. After selling secret information to the Mafia, he realizes he’s been directly implicated in an attack on the politician. If things weren't bad enough, Léandre ends up in the hospital because of awfully painful kidney stones. He then decides to leave his problems and his girlfriend behind to find refuge with his aunt in his small hometown of Havre-St-Pierre. Hiding from everyone that he’s wanted by the police, Léandre renews his relationships with his childhood friends and his childhood sweetheart, Ève.

Vojta and Rami roam around Prague, witnessing the damage caused by mass tourism.