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During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "Where I See Myself in 10 Years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.

Dreamy days and nights in the head of an introverted and isolated teenager who is swallowed in the depths of his imagination.

Shock film about prostitution and homosexuality among young boys. Two unemployed young men can't realize their plans because they have no money. They both need friendship and love. They decide to prostitute themselves. Unfortunately, what appeared to be an easy solution quickly becomes a dead end.

On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.

Biopic of one of Québec's most popular pop-rock band Les BB.

Off-beat dramedy following Pat (she hates Patricia), exuberant and melancholic author during a winter stay in her childhood cabin where buried memories resurface. Pat needs to look into the mirror and forgive herself in order to heal and save her relationship with her musician boyfriend Jan and maintain the fragile bond with her tween daughter Flavie. 1+1+1 features a restless but strong female lead and a blended family trying to live together, where each member is learning to love him.herself and to love each other.

Lights, Camera, Action! When a much-desired Hollywood heartthrob returns back to his home town for a reunion of sorts, he expects to rekindle an old closeted relationship. But soon he learns that things aren't as they seem and secrets always catch up in the end.

After blaming himself for the suicide of his best friend, an art prodigy crawls out of drunk isolation to find redemption in taking custody of his best friend's defiant son.

A trans musician is caught in a love triangle with his bandmates as they rise to fame, in this love letter to Toronto’s 2000s music scene.

Alex and Monica make a nice couple in front. However, behind this mask are two troubled paths where emotions are experienced on the surface. During a Sunday walk in Dunham, Alex decides to broadcast the chaos on Facebook Live. When he suddenly gets out of the car, he finds himself alone in a row in the countryside. The more he runs, the more his past catches up with him. Through these intertwined stories, we encounter different aspects of life, from marital problems to family troubles, from ego overload to psychological disorders, from ephemeral love affairs to endless breakups. Is love stronger than a like?

Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free.

Set in Montreal, this is a story about the communication gap between different communities who live and work amongst each other every day. Despite being born in Montreal, Rup Singh, struggles not only with how he is perceived by others, but also with how he may perceive them.

Jo lives in the shadow of his older brother. Amidst a world of delinquency, they become interested in illegal car racing. One night they participate in of them, never reaching the finish line. Jo will become Jonathan.

A day in the mind of Geoffrey Oswald Dodd, a seemingly kind, gentle and sane high school teacher. As we follow Geoffrey through the course of a typical school day we gain an eerie insight into the darkest corners of his soul and beyond. Beneath the carefully constructed veneer of Geoffrey Dodd lies something wretched, insidious and foul rotting him from the inside out.

Apart is a short film starring LJ Beaupré and Olivia Baker. It’s about a drummer and a painter and their quest to grow in their artistic abilities.

GO IN THE WILDERNESS tells the story of Lilith, Adam’s rebellious first mate, and her guardian, as they forge an uneasy alliance on their journey back to Eden. Once in the Garden, they meet Adam and his new mate Eve, and realise that all is not as it seems in Paradise...

Adrift in the cold streets, drug dealer Cristo is forced to come to terms with his past, present, and future.

The boundaries between fiction and reality blur when an aspiring actress is hired to play the missing daughter of a grieving couple.

A boxer on Death Row awaits for his execution.

Malek, a Lebanese immigrant from Montreal, is haunted by the violent death of his sister. Convinced that he could have avoided this tragedy, he is consumed with guilt. He lives alone, poor, jobless until he meets Shohreh, an Iranian girl, with whom he falls in love. A new life opens up to him and he quickly finds work. Malek gradually regains his dignity but the past resurfaces to the point where he is pushed, almost in spite of himself, to finally settle his accounts with himself.

In 2040, a generation of Torontonians have grown up after the economic collapse of the west. The movie consists of episodes of a documentary series popular in mainland China about the bad jobs some white people have -- the plucky and resilient souls unlucky enough to be born into the slums of North America are both amusing and moving to the Chinese audience. Oscar is a digital janitor, and has to manually cover up logos for copyright reasons in the future's answer to Google StreetView maps. Gary and Karen assemble robot baby dolls for the children of the wealthy in Asia. Anton and Toph are spider silk collectors. Serina is human spam and makes a living by mentioning brands and products in casual conversation.

Jacob, a hotheaded, socially isolated construction worker on parole, contends with the daily humiliations of his criminal sentence. He dreams of moving far away, and starting his life anew. When he fails to convince his paternalistic parole officer to help him end his sentence early, Jacob must decide to take freedom into his own hands - but at what cost?

Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke's court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the Master not to give up on his dreams. In this moving story of friendship, the Renaissance genius invents a flying machine and helps Roberto reach new heights.

A new wife loses her pregnancy, then her privacy, after moving to a suburb run by a strangely ritualistic mothers' group.

A prostitute befriends an old woman who is the complete opposite of him. This friendship deeply transforms the young man, but she keeps a serious secret that will upset their relationship.

A daughter tries to end her relationship with her volatile mother, but their goodbye unravels into a painfully honest conversation neither expected. In the quiet space between anger and affection, they find a fragile connection worth holding onto.

After the death of his wife, a South Asian father and his son begin seeing a shadow around the walls of their home, who the son believes to be his mother.

Adam is a 15-year-old teenager who has the strange peculiarity of having a body that changes, depending on the teasing and negative comments he receives from those around him. The accumulation of his physical changes just adds a layer to his already complex life.

When polar opposite sisters Nur and Karina reunite for their grandparents' wedding anniversary dinner, Karina starts itching and blames Nur for putting garlic in her food.

Disgraced rock star Ronan Garrett returns to the hometown and people he had forsaken a decade earlier, with little more than a suitcase, a well-worn knit cap, and a heart full of regret.

In the twilight of her 20s, Raf works two jobs and spends her free time playing boardgames with her boyfriend’s roommates. Privately, she fantasizes of a life of performance and dance clubs. Over the course of several charged encounters, she becomes friends with a charismatic and wealthy woman named Tal. Raf becomes infatuated with Tal’s take-no-prisoners lifestyle. With Tal as her guide, Raf begins to see a new vision of herself, until a weekend at Tal’s country home reveals the true power balance between them.

A walking sign, fed up with his job, dreams to dance.

A Calling Void is a short documentary-drama that sheds light on the complexity of emotion, distortions of reality and desperate needs for control a young woman encounters during her struggle with anorexia. Limited screenings in Vancouver are pending further festival submissions.

Journey of a University girl who seeks true love with an actress. They both find the nerve to break social expectation to pursue love with each other

Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed 'cool kid' whom he privately fantasizes about.

In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.

When her sister runs away from the Christian community where they've lived, Clara decides to set off to Montreal in search of her, and discovers the world, doubt, and price of freedom.

The ultimate royal family crisis. Prince Hamlet's father is dead, poisoned by his uncle, who has usurped the throne and married his mother, the Queen. When the dead King's ghost appears, commanding his son to revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, Hamlet is set on a course of action that can only end in the destruction of a dynasty and his own extinction.

An accident on the way to the cottage has horrifying consequences for an interracial queer couple contemplating parenthood.

Liz tries to keep her friend from making the worse mistake of her life.

A taut drama set in a travelling pickup truck about an all-female love triangle, Swerve is an unsettling examination of contemporary love and friendship.

A blue-collar construction worker is left alone to care for his infant daughter after his wife dies.

Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his French Canadian best friend’s son-in-law. This drama depicts the tensions between people from different ethnic backgrounds and their life-changing impact. Based on a true story, 'The Saracen Woman' paints a portrait of Italian immigration to Quebec and the affinities and conflicts that arose from the clash of two different cultures.

Will Brown, A life coach, investigates the connection of the Duppy-Man and the disappearance of two of his clients while on vacation in Jamaica.

Antoine, a boy living in Northern France at the outbreak of World War II, takes on the challenge of defending the family home after his father is drafted and sent to the Maginot Line. With the aid of his accomplices, war veteran Grandpa and imaginary friend Napoleon, Antoine digs trenches and stands guard by an old cannon in the front yard. Tensions mount just as the Nazis break through the Maginot Line, and the invading troops pass in front of the family home.

George and Anne go to their estranged father's apartment after he dies by suicide. As they clean up the place, they discover more than they expected.

The life story of Dr. Henry Morgentaler and his fight for the legalization of abortion on demand in Canada.

For aspiring comedian Natasha Marakova, grade school lunchroom politics is no laughing matter. Lunchbox Loser is a dark comedy about owning who you are and eating it with pride.

A tragic story of the death of a little girl, and the sister who thought she killed her.

An itinerant cook survives a shipwreck, paddles himself to an island in a stock pot, and finds himself on a surreal journey through his past to discover the ineffable connection he has with a clown living a desultory existence in a dilapidated lighthouse.