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We’ve all received scam phone calls, but what about the person making the calls? Cruise is a dark workplace satire about a hapless telemarketer trying mightily to give away a free cruise. And if he fails, there will be dire consequences.
Cruise
89-year-old Italian immigrant Mike Nardone operates a farm all by himself in Alberta, Canada.
Mike on the Farm
An incendiary queer drama for the Me Too era in which Wally, driven by rage, empathy, and something she can’t yet name, secretly patrols the streets at night, taking physical revenge on abusive hipster men on behalf of the survivors who can’t. When law-abiding Lou enters her world, love and revenge clash threatening to infiltrate their relationship.
Compulsus
By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.
III
Ingrid St-Pierre - Les émerveilleurs
An auto-fiction about the filmmaker digging a hole from Toronto to Hong Kong.
Why Do Ants Go Back To Their Nest?
The film depicts the lives of the two sole residents of an abandoned company town while unfolding a complex labour history and revealing the vestiges of environmental degradation. Combining large format cinematography and an inquiry into the archival record, it interlaces past and present.
Anyox
Anna (Laurie Gagné) is going through a particularly stressful time: she is preparing to reconnect with Jason (Thomas Lapointe), the son she was forced to place for adoption almost 20 years ago. Unable to go through with this meeting, she takes refuge, clandestinely, in the house of an elderly couple. A dramatic event changes everything and forces Anna to forge an impromptu relationship with Victorine (Louise Turcot). The strange cohabitation of these two women will help them find the courage to face their trials.
Notre Dame de Moncton
A charming date that takes a nightmarish turn when the lights go out.
In The Dark
During a period of self-reflection leading up to the New Year, David develops an unusual disorder and becomes determined to put an end to it.
A Week To Rosh Hashanah
Le milieu du garage
At the bottom of the sea, a statue tries to rise to the surface to breathe.
Breathe
In the Shadows
Since she has witnessed a conflagration, Adèle cannot stop playing with matches. The day after, while walking to school, she's caught on the act by a strange firefighter-dressed figure which starts following her. Unable to beat the figure away, the schooler resigns herself to revisit the still fuming ashes of a painful end of high school day.
Je me brûle les doigts
Les petits bonheurs de Béatrice
An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.
Geographies of Solitude
Bailey, a mentally ill undergrad at Pennbrook University, does her best to navigate her school's underfunded mental health support network in a desperate search for help.
Our Highest Priority
Filiatrault : Parcours d'une légende
A journey through the little known region of Ontario's Wabakimi Provincial Park.
Good Morning Wabakimi
Industry professionals speak on how theatre changed their lives until film was deemed obsolete. 10 years later, their friendships, the movie business and the entire world would be forever altered yet again but now by a deadly pandemic.
The Show Must Go On
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
Above Her Lips
A grieving scientist struggles to accept help from his robotic creation.
Eosphere
When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.
Desi Standard Time Travel
A celebration of House Mother Cotton and her sisters during Vancouver's ballroom scene of the 2000s. A tribute to the pioneering Canadian LGBTQ+ community and its dazzling legacy.
Supa Cottonelle
After moving into an old isolated house with her newly-single mother and her little sister, 12 year old Cassie begins to suspect that her family is being tormented by the spirit of a sadistic River Witch.
Where the Witch Lives
Since 1950, Alberta's fabled Rat Patrol has kept the province rat-free. But as pest control meets ecology in the 21st century, what does the future hold for this mythic institution and their "enemy?"
Living Without Menace
In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. Through a collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted memories, the past, present and future come together, fighting for a space where everyone is seen and everyone belongs. History is what we all make of it.
Unarchived
Chataïrène
Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, 'boulder').
The Year Long Boulder
Documentary on career criminal Jack Black during an episode of burglary in Victoria BC. Locations around Victoria and Vancouver are explored in present day, with narration from Black's autobiography.
Seven for Jack
A tribute to Marie-Soleil Tougas and Jean-Claude Lauzon, 25 years after their tragic accident.
Marie-Soleil et Jean-Claude: au-delà des étoiles
After years of being routinely drugged, Sugar Baby finds herself sex trafficked and must try to piece her memory back together in a desperate bid to stay alive and escape the only person she trusts and loves.
Sugar Baby
In their correspondence, the friendship between Jorge Lozano and Lina Rodríguez translates into an obvious creative complicity. Through a series of quiet, poetic flashes, the two filmmakers articulate a compelling reflection on the materials of cinema. A fascinating object mixing self-portraits, anonymous home movies and images shot in different South American countries.
Cinépistolaire - Episode 2
A portrait of a young woman providing companionship for juxtaposing demographics.
It's What Each Person Needs
A wealthy family withdraws from society after something unforeseen happens. When one of its members leaves the house on the pretext of paying an innocent visit to someone outside, the family’s fragile equilibrium is disturbed. In Broad Daylight presents an inscrutable, tantalisingly elusive fictional world enhanced by a colourful array of absurd characters.
In Broad Daylight
After graduating from University, Steve feels lost. He thinks it's time to leave his hometown behind and begin a new chapter. His decision plays on his mind as he bids his goodbyes to his friends and family.
From Somewhere Else
A journey over the seasons to discover the impassive and mysterious giant panda, in the heart of its natural environment. This series, filmed over 4 years, invites us to share the daily life of two panda families, from birth to adulthood. Up close, the black and white ursid is revealed as never before, in its most complete intimacy.
Four Seasons in the giant Panda’s kingdom
Interviews and discussions about children in naturism.
Children in Naturism
Les Mégafeux, la nouvelle guerre du feu
A fairy tale about a midwife, a young mother and a Witch Hunter.
Witch Woman
Grindcore Vacation melds the expository documentary, diary film, and live performance footage to produce a portrait of the musicians who play grindcore, an extreme sub-genre of punk/metal characterized by high speed and full volume. Shot during a weekend trip from Victoria BC to Dallas TX for a single DIY concert, it interviews members of Deterioration, Cognizant, and Imperial Slaughter. Live concert footage combines with interviews and Super 8mm film to create an impression of the people who play grindcore, why they love the genre, and their experiences as practitioners of the niche style.
Grindcore Vacation
Just like holiday dinners, things get complicated when a large group of people realize they're sharing the same table.
Chasing Birds
Prohibited, abandoned, and unexplored sites are hidden and sealed in Montreal. Entering defies the law, danger, and death. The urbex community is an even better-kept secret. Enter into this universe at your peril.
No entry
Adapted magnificently to the screen by the director Khoa Lê, the diptych serves both as an archive of research and creation work aborted by the constraints of an uncertain era and as a delicate and unique cinematographic object.
Dear Criminals: Trapped in a Lullaby
Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.
Summer with Hope
Love is grand. Love hurts. Sometimes, love is a battlefield. Finally - although events might suggest otherwise - love is all around. So if you're searching for love, it might be a good idea to get out of the house and take a look.
Look
A tragicomedy that follows Valerie, a young girl who seeks solace in the company of the vampire Chrysanthemum to escape her trauma.
It Gets Dark Too Early
Druh
When a single phone drains the life savings of a Jamaican student in Canada, she decides to take justice into her own hands and fight a rigged system.
Scammed
A patient camera glides over the everyday objects: still lives on the wall, flowers in the vase, a swaying drop light. The sun enters the cosy home where Noëlla sits smoking at her laptop, playing Solitaire. The situation is hopeless. She’s going to lose against the computer once again. All the while her son-in-law, Pierre, is organising everything she needs, pragmatic and friendly: breakfast, the (last) doctor’s visit – and then the transfer.
A Night Song
Popular River First Nation comedian Paul Rabliauskas brings his observational humour to Montréal where he talks everything from white people, and land acknowledgements, to being single during the pandemic in this uproariously funny half-hour comedy special.
Paul Rabliauskas: UNCLE
With only two dogs there are entire worlds of movement.
Two Dogs
Rebellious Walter drags his reluctant brother to rob the homes of the dead while their wake takes place at their parent’s funeral home.
The Wake
After Maryam Tsegaye wins a global competition for students to inspire creative scientific thinking, she reflects on family, community and her sense of self as she prepares to leave home and start a new and promising chapter of her life.
Out There
A street-busking Pierrot clown dreams of fame, but finds the place she's calling home less than supportive.
Void of Joy
Three couples at different stages of their relationships come to appreciate that any marriage requires equal doses of delusion, forgiveness, laughter, and sexual chemistry.
Midnight at the Paradise
Mélodies perdues - Une incursion des Ballets Jazz Montréal dans l’univers poétique de Patrick Watson
When Filipe Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalist sets out on an epic quest to ride from Calgary to his family's home in Brazil - and later beyond - entirely on horseback.
The Long Rider
A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.