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When June and Marissa go their separate ways, June goes to extreme lengths to bring back the connection that they once had.

Mi'kmaw poet and published author Rebecca Thomas uses words for a living, but she can't speak the language stolen from her father at residential school. Words Matter follows her journey to reclaim the language while exploring the complicated past that's kept it from her.

From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity and history. Filmmakers Johanna and Sara put their own experiences in local context by chatting with several Jewish Manitobans, including a rabbi, politician, artist, Israeli immigrant, and others. Archival materials, illustrations, and stop animations connect history with present-day opinions and stories, as Sara and Johanna explore what being Jewish in Manitoba means to them and others.

A young woman goes on an anonymous journey to her late husband's hometown Leshan, a small city in Sichuan province. There, she meets an old friend, a local theatre actress preparing for an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Sichuan). In a home-place unfamiliar, the traveling woman meets the imaginary. Ghosted by Shen Te the protagonist of the play, the actress loses the self at the intersection between fiction and reality. Unprepared, the filmmaker loses control of her camera. Together, they drift into a polyrhythmic experience of stasis.

Amato is about the diversity of polyamorous models in the Quebec portrait. Three unique and interrelated stories are staged through performing arts.

David Cronenberg stands in a softly lit bedroom and looks deeply into the camera before his gaze shifts to a motionless figure in the bed...

A young couple named Navid and Baran have problems in their marital relationship after migrating to Canada. Now Baran decides to share his main problem with Navid.

One summer in Montreal, a teenage outsider confronts his bullies with a little help from a classic horror movie.

Holly Dorfer is a grifter. Her life has been a series of let downs. She finally believes she's hit the big time with her new young, rich and handsome husband. But it turns out he was a bigger con than she. When he comes to an untimely death, Holly is left with nothing but half a lottery ticket. The other half of the ticket is in the hands of Eric Beck; he just doesn't know he has it. And it's a winning ticket. It's up to to Holly to convince the unemployed Eric to take her on a road trip where she plans to relieve him of his half of the ticket and collect the winnings. All appears to be going to plan until she falls in love with the unemployed novelist.

Lethbridge's matron drag queen, Didi d'Edada and her son Castrati can't find a dress for Mama to wear to the music video launch. When a tornado strikes they are whisked away to a magical land and all their fashion dreams come true.

A bald girl and a young boy with long hair are trying to solve their problem with the Tehran Morality Police without having to pay a fine.

Documenting the creative process of two master boat-builders as they practise their art and find a way back to balance and healing.

Naël's magic has been stolen by villains. Only Simon, Naël's chosen one, can save it. But since he's a newbie in this imaginary world, he'll need help in his quest... from Naël!

Hosted by the delightful Galipeau Sisters, the humorous documentary explores the evolution of the role women play in the arts and culture from 1960 to the present day.

Two women commiserate on their experiences with men while they make their way through the woods.

When a young girl becomes jealous of her little brother for receiving money from the tooth fairy, she hatches a peculiar plan to cash in.

When the patriarch of an emigrant Nigerian family visits their female-led Canadian home, traditional values collide with newer ones.

Lucy Mortimer, a successful attorney who returns with her mum to their old Christmas getaway - the Winterleigh Resort - which is on the brink of closing down for good. Much to her surprise, Lucy is reunited with her childhood Christmas dance partner Barrett Brewster and the pair give the resort a new lease of life as the passion between them heats up.

A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo LANDGRAVES, who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.

Norman has finally been discharged. You'll never look at a Q-tip the same way again.

The roar of their engines is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spotlight, on disputed and over-militarized lands. This war no longer concerns them.

Hailing from the remote village of Alert Bay, British Columbia snowboarder Spencer O’Brien dedicated her life to becoming a world champion. But, being driven to win came at a cost. Snowboarding at the elite level was taking Spencer further from her Indigenous heritage than she realized. Precious Leader Woman tells Spencer’s story from childhood to the world stage, to coming full circle to embrace her identity as she pushes forward bringing her heart and soul to her next challenge, the backcountry.

Bénédicte, a thirty-year-old woman with unstable mental health, sinks into a deep psychosis after getting killed in a holdup.

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.

In front of a live studio audience, host David C. Jones interviews three different panels of film industry professionals about the trials and tribulations for proudly queer and out actors.

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.

The incredible life of the Toronto Raptors’ biggest fan is the focus of this inspirational documentary.

A werewolf thinks she has her life figured out until a late night chance encounter changes her mind.

Inspired by geology, science fiction, and documentary archives, CORPS MINÉRAL integrates a narrative co-written by Gabrielle HB and Charline Dally (Le désert mauve). The film connects the spaces of our lives and of our sensible experiences with geological phenomena of immeasurable temporality. The layers of memory, whether they are contained in the rock or in our cells, are part of a cycle from sedimentation to disintegration. The work invites us to apprehend these processes with attention and empathy in order to consider their slowness as a means to heal even the deepest fractures.

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.

Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia fled their country, without their parents, when they were only children. They had to start all over here in Canada in the hope of a better life. Combining real shooting and animated cinema, "Alone" bears the imprint of hope: how does a child manage to rebuild himself in a new country, when he has left everything behind?

Tamara and her family are on their way to an event. On the road, Tamara has a chance encounter that will change the course of her life.

Unsatisfied and anxious about the state of her career, an actress finds solace in a recurring dream that promises otherworldly salvation - if only she can make it last.

With his industry on lockdown and no end in sight, Toronto chef Luke Donato tries to keep his culinary passion alive during the COVID-19 pandemic - even if it means teaching a group of misfits online.

A wolf finds a suit of human skin and uses it to join society.

Freebird is the coming-of-age story of Jon, a boy with Down Syndrome who learns to navigate the world with a loving mother, an absent father, a classroom bully, and a life-long crush. In just five minutes, we watch 45 years of his life flash by.

A man visits a small town hoping to investigate the creation of a machine that is said to visualize your consciousness. Upon arrival, he finds the machine has created controversy among the townsfolk.

Christmas blogger and aspiring photographer Hannah Reed just got the assignment of a lifetime; visit a charming town and Christmas wonderland called Christmas World in Alaska which will allow her to photograph the Northern Lights and maybe finally get published in her favorite nature magazine.

New buyers of a campground pushes the present owner to defend against the sale of the property during a global pandemic but a zombie uprising was never in his plans.

The Revue Cinema, which opened in 1912 and briefly closed down for ten months in 2006, is now the oldest cinema in Toronto. By transforming itself into a not-for-profit organization and building a solid connection with its community, the Revue Cinema provides an excellent example of how indie cinemas seek to provide much more than mere entertainment: they enrich the community and anchor its history. During the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, Roy Zheng—documentary filmmaker and culture researcher—dove into Revue Cinema’s massive archive and virtually interviewed 34 observers of its ongoing legacy. This research culminated into a 50-minute linear documentary that explores Revue’s past, present and foreseeable future. Revue Cinema: Reel Communities will guide you into this 108-year journey. - ROY ZHENG

A filmmaker explores his Mennonite roots and identity.

A diary film about produce, nervous ticks, and the moment you realize you can't go home again.

Largely composed of immigrants and first-generation Canadians from Vancouver’s suburbs, The Notic underground basketball collective overcame all odds to achieve global fame 20 years ago. In defiance of their high school coaches’ casual racism and desire for oppressive conformity, this gregarious group discovered self-expression through streetball’s loose structure and aversion to rules. Bursting onto the scene at the NBA-sponsored Hoop It Up tournament near Science World, the group unleashed a devastating arsenal of bravura tricks and moves. DIY VHS highlights of their showstopping exploits would soon be collected on their first "mixtape". With copies finding their way to every corner of the globe, it was anointed "the bible of streetball".

Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father’s only interest in them is sparked by Luisa’s actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime.

Jessie, a Chinese Canadian photography student takes on a self-portraiture assignment. After discovering the work of Cindy Sherman, she is torn to reflect on her own shifting identity and artistic voice, while juggling her role as a daughter to meet her her mother's expectations.

When Gérard finds a dead raccoon in his front yard, the old man becomes strangely distressed, shaken by thoughts of his own demise. Jocelyne watches the despair of her husband grow along with his obsession with the animal’s body, and his anguish takes root in her own mind. After a night of torment, they decide to go and bury the raccoon on the land where their house once stood in Joutel, a former mining town deserted since 1998. When they get there, the boreal forest is creeping in on the ruins of her former house, plunging Jocelyne into a deep nostalgia. Here, after a morbid picnic marking the raccoon’s burial, the couple meets a mystical being who leads them to make peace with their inner demons.

Ryan Reynolds reflects on his childhood, family and career—punctuated by diversions into the charitable side of Twitter to appeal to his Canadian sense of self.

After receiving a call from her husband saying he will be working late, Andrea goes and investigates, believing there is an intruder in her home.

At the crossroads of documentary and narrative fiction, Another tomorrow offers a window into the daily life of a single mother and her child through a typical day.

As the Earth nears its final days, a few brave survivors seek a way to survive. The answer: Red Earth, a new world that could save what's left of humanity.

A very jealous man, convinced that his wife is cheating on him, hires a private detective to follow her. Soon after, the detective develops a strong attraction to her target.

A photographer's psyche progressively collapses as he is assaulted by nightmarish sounds and visions intimately linked to his work.

A young woman, kidnapped and held in a basement, must use all her wits to control the situation from the confines of her cell and get out alive.