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Performance artist/apartment cleaner David Roche looks at life and love as it impacts all the sexes.

Fresh from his role in the Broadway musical hit "Hairspray," self-effacing stand-up funnyman John Pinette delivers nonstop laughs at the Montreal Comedy Festival. An all-new routine covers topics from health food to family get-togethers, and backstage footage and hilarious outtakes add to the fun. Pinette's successful acting career extends to TV and the big screen as well as the stage; his films include Duets, Dear God and Junior.

In this spectacular sci-fi sequel, the emotionally-fractured Trance must overcome the demons of his past and once again wage war on the evil spirit of Einstein and his army of laser-wielding ghosts. Together with the ghost of his dead comrade, a rogue cop and a sultry scientist, Trance must return to Laser Cove and make a final stand against the technologically-advanced forces of evil.

A vigilante is captured and taken to a safe house in the middle of nowhere. A resident mob family aim to ruthlessly extract the whereabouts of one of their own from their mysterious captive, but he has other plans. As these worlds collide in an evening chockful of bloodshed and mayhem, something with its own sinister agenda emerges to threaten them all.

Sugar Sammy’s bilingual show performed 100% in french, in Quebec! The show that struck a chord by playfully undertaking topics such as sovereignty and french language laws. A show that simply transcended comedy and marked Quebec’s cultural fabric in a profound way. A must see, if you're from La Belle Province!

What could the illness afflicting Henri Castagnette be? Filled with anxiety, the young man puts his fate in the hands of the off-puttingly exuberant Dr. Von Strudel. In The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin, author of the popular “motormouth” graphic novels Phobie des moments seuls and Whitehorse, recounts the story of an endearing anti-hero’s frenzied and hilarious medical appointment. Produced by the NFB, The Turtle Syndrome is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.

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

Feminist comedy about Roukaya, an outwardly obedient middle class Muslim woman, in an unsatisfactory marriage, who discovers sexual pleasure through sex toys and decides to return to Egypt. With the support of two other women, they start a risky underground sex-toy manufacturing business.

An insomniac decides to try Sleepy Stories, a service that sends someone to your house who is so boring they can talk you to sleep in minutes.

"Welcome to 5 Minute Dating. Never sad. Never lonely. There is a great possibility you will finally meet your soul-mate."

Ms. Thing is a spoof on the late night TV infomercial. It follows the story of Jill, an emotionally volatile urban lesbian who is looking for love in all the wrong places. She’s a failure at dating. Her new, live-in relationship crumbles over a domestic difference. Just as she reaches an all-time low, stalking her ex on her social networking site, Jill’s knight in shining armor appears at the door. Not a man. Not even a woman. Jill’s prayers are answered by Ms. Thing, the perfect solution for women who are fed up with conventional relationships. Ms. Thing caters to her every need, provides unconditional love and long lasting sexual satisfaction.

A light sleeper struggles one night to get some rest amid his man's loud snores.

A shocking accusation pits two roommates against each other.

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.

In the mind of every filmmaker, there are two wolves locked in an epic, eternal, and fierce battle for control and influence. The combatants? The analytical left brain and the whimsical right. [INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] personifies these cerebral hemispheres in the monumentally (or at least marginally) comedic performances of Chrissy Mozylisky and Matthew MacCaull, evoking the cinematic manifestation of that cerebrum arm wrestle in the form of a meta-troll of the short film genre

An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.

After an ill-advised outburst gets wise-cracking Craig fired from his job, he agrees to deliver a package for a man he barely knows. The mysterious delivery turns to horror as Craig finds himself pursued by murder, mayhem and the mob.

Arthur Zimmer travels to Prince Edward Island to sell his father's house just as detached feet have been turning up on the island's shores.

Ben comes to volunteer for the first time at Paolo's retirement home, but something strange is going on there.

While on his honeymoon, a man who suddenly becomes impotent, tries to recover his virility.

Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into reality as "Fake Nooz Neville."

On a stormy summer night, Mathieu walks in on his parents. Horrified, he shares his disturbing discovery with his friends on a fishing trip and begins to ask some big questions. Faced with the loss of his innocence, Mathieu sets himself a mission. He’s going to make sure his parents don’t do the unforgiveable: bring another child into a burning world.

Romeo Montague is the alias of (the re-animated) Patient Zero, a skilled, mutated android hit-man/pimp/ancient relics collector, that lives in Verona City, N.Y.; a dystopic metropolis filled with extreme horror & sexual deviancy; featuring: a lustful, demonic, man-eating Astro-Queen, a psychotic South American underworld god, human/android sex-slave party-girls, bloodthirsty zombies, vengeful deities and alien hooker vampire junkies/go-go girls. The cities are also plagued with murderous cybernetic 'goon' robots, that are constantly trying to take Montague's life, as he and his street hustling pal 'Tricky' tries to figure out which one of his jive-ass enemies are trying to kill him (as well as trying to stay one step ahead of 'The Man'). In the middle of this chaos, Romeo/Zero tries to find the thief of his ancient , multi-million dollar voodoo ring.

A documentary filmmaker turns the camera on himself to examine the modern day relationship using his own past to guide him.

When Sylvia interrupts her partner Mort's obscure holiday tradition, the couple are thrown into a nightmarish confrontation with an ancient being that demands an offering.

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.

Arkelope is an animated short that takes a pointed look at endangered species and human indifference. When a middle-aged couple come across a nature documentary on the decline of the arkelope while channel-surfing, they learn that although the species has managed to survive a variety of natural disasters, it is now in imminent danger of extinction due to man's short-sightedness. With a serious yet funny approach, this little film illustrates human passivity in the face of the ubiquitous TV set.

The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.

A reclusive web-programmer is forced to confront the threatening concept of change when the food packages he receives in the mail each day from Syria mysteriously stop arriving.

To impress a girl, Nico promises to write her song, but somehow he’s never listened to music before! So he must embark on a journey, interviewing musical artists of all kinds to learn about music and make his song!

The new kid at school stands up to the bully with the help of a mysterious girl.

Citizens living in the city of Amos, Quebec, Canada and its surroundings are preparing for the worst. They have to act fast and make some quick decisions.

Chris tries to coerce his friend Dave into holding up a store, so that they can be on their way to becoming super villains.

Obsessed with becoming internet famous, Matt ropes his friend Olivia in attempting one of the craziest trends online, the Spicy Noodle Challenge.

Paula and Nathan just want a quick lunch at a local diner, but they end up getting much more than they could possibly afford: A specialty item for a particular class of customer.

Witness comedy history as the first teenager to have a full stand up special delivers a highly energetic performance that highlights the struggles of being a rebellious high school-er and the pressures of growing up.

A troubled, lonely, and irreverent young man debates the merits of his own suicide over the course of a day.

A group of everyday heroes encounter the fight of their lives in the deep mines of Northern Ontario where they unwittingly awaken an ancient giant octopus.

Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.

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.

An aspiring criminal mastermind (Owen Roth) assembles a crew (Mena Massoud, Ayinde Blake) and schemes to steal an experimental drug from a high profile medical facility.

Miss Odette doesn't blame you for your lack of manners. There's a lot of tricky social situations out there, folks. So she's got some guidelines for you. Lot's of guidelines.

Roommates Scott, a gay lab technician, and Gwen, a lesbian artist/waiter, are spending a typical Sunday evening at home, except it is October 31, and there’s a protest march that evening against gay bashing – and the boy from last night is calling for another date.

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

Canadian comedy comes with instructions of how to pick up single women.

A film between reality and fiction about a popular singer, played by Joël Denis, idol of that time. He is surrounded by a host of great actors and real and famous characters from the 60s.

A mute man searches far and wide for fish and honey amongst the tapestry of Vancouver Island.

A deer attempts to get lost in the woods only to be confronted by what he was hoping to escape from.

Two hours after breaking up with his girlfriend, Cedrik meets Karine in a nightclub. Man drinks, wants woman. Woman drinks, accepts man. After a night of passion, Cedrik is horrified to discover himself mysteriously switched inside Karine's body, while Karine inhabits his. Is it their chance to finally discover the secrets of the sexes? Is this body switch temporary?

"Why is the strange Mr. Zolock so interested in comics?" is a Canadian docufiction film, released in 1983. A documentary about comic books and graphic novels, the film features interviews with comics illustrators wrapped by a fictional frame story in which Monsieur Zolock (Jean-Louis Millette), an evil supervillain, hires private investigator Dieudonné (Michel Rivard) to investigate the cultural influence of comics as part of his plot to take over the world. The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.

A timid puppeteer working on Mayor Bobby, a popular puppet tv-show for adults, finds out she's been excluded from being apart of the new spin-off series and struggles to cope with the loss of her tv "family".

Spoof of typical university orientation films, about a freshman's life at university.

The year is 1999. Caldwell is a flippant people-pleaser, whose life choices led him into a dead-end job and a mountain of college debt. Everything gets put into perspective when the dead rise and descend upon his store.

A short musical drawing from the real-life exploits of lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman.

Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband and daughter.

A spirited high school girl goes through a self-discovery journey, while writing an admission letter. This short film won the 2025 TIFF Next Wave 48-Hour Film Challenge.

Housewife Megan's idyllic life is thrown into turmoil, when it emerges that her husband, Lloyd, faces a heavy prison sentence for tax evasion. Megan, caught completely unawares is sent into a tailspin as she, not only loses her husband, her home and her comfortable suburban life, but also finds herself implicated in the tax fraud and facing jail time. Down on her luck and with nothing to her name Megan has to rediscover who she really is. With the help of her son and her best friend, Lindiwe, she finds solace and hope in her life-long love and affinity for cooking. She learns that the path back home begins with realizing that she is enough and all she needs is her family, food and love. Life's 3 courses made easy.