The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.
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The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.
When a demanding lover inspires her to write, an idle woman must fake the relationship in order to complete her new book.
Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, Après-coups creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
A world-famous chess grandmaster is led into a game of psychological cat and mouse when he accepts a challenge from an overzealous fan.
When a magazine writer is blackmailed by a coworker for using Artificial Intelligence to write articles, he turns to the AI again, only this time to brainstorm ways to get away with murder.
Once celebrated as a gay icon of adult cinema, aging performer Brent Everett clings to the fragments of a dream of becoming a serious visual artist. As memories of fame blur and the grip of drug addiction deteriorates his sense of self, he pays the ultimate price of desire but never truly seen.
Short film. Premise and duration unknown.
In this fun family comedy, a village rooster's punctual (and loud!) crowing keeps everyone awake until a group of sleepy locals hatch a scheme to get rid of him.
Fitness instructor Julia is down on her luck, trying to make her baby boot camp a thriving business. To make ends meet, she becomes a part-time nanny for a single widowed father. Trouble is, she knows nothing about taking care of children.
EXTREME is a visually stunning 45-minute journey into the soul of adventure featuring a cast of world champion athletes. Combining incredible extreme sport action with narration from the athletes and an eclectic, contemporary soundtrack, EXTREME explores the paradox of human nature: facing fear from the edge of life.
In 1988, in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, an 11-years-old boy is worried for his grandmother's life. Worn out by illness, the old storyteller tries to convince her grandson that Death no longer exists. Her story will bring back to life the extraordinary people from the village in 1927 who, by using rocambolesque tricks, will eliminate Death that threatens them. From now on, Death will coincide with the birth of legends.
A pair of aspiring mystery novelists realize they know next to nothing about crime and decide to live their adventures venturing out into the big bad world. The boys pose as a cop and a criminal and quickly get in way over their heads.
Five strangers are kidnapped and forced into a game of life or death, all while the world is in a state of chaos. A virus has decimated almost half of the population and Xena corp. A.I. humanoids have replaced the vast majority of the work force. A detective must confront a failed case to be able to David his way through this corporate Goliath.
A park ranger must protect hikers from an invasion of meteor-spawned aliens and hunters that want to eliminate the creatures - and any witnesses to their arrival on earth.
Chaos ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tries to win over acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a boil at the funeral.
Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel’s only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story to tell, his hope to share.
Two exes unexpectedly reunite, but they have very different ideas on what they want their relationship with each other to be.
Compilation film of the three shorts: "Caroline", "Françoise", and "Solange dans nos campagnes".
Guests of a country inn begin disappearing and dying.
Dany Rabbit is the improbable encounter between an old lady and a teenager standing at a crossroad in their lives.
Things appear to be looking up for a cash-strapped, regional hospital when it hires a reputedly brilliant cardiac surgeon to head up its pediatric cardiac surgery unit. But when increasing numbers of children begin dying on the operating table, the unit's top O.R. nurse begins to suspect that the new surgeon is not as experienced as everyone has been lead to believe. She finds herself alone, faced with jeopardizing the career she loves by taking on the powers that be and blowing the whistle on the influential surgeon and the harrowing goings-on at the hospital.
Lila goes to her grandmother’s to spend the weekend. There, she meets her cousin Maxime with whom she has been very close since childhood. It’s during this weekend that an event will forever change the relationship between the two and tarnish Lila’s worldview.
Sharon Avery is a blind woman who is having visions of murder. She "sees" children being killed and the face of a serial killer. Everyone around her, including the police are skeptical with the exception of one inspector who has fallen for her.Can she convince them in time to prevent any more murders, including her own?
After a freak accident at WizCorp transforms an overlooked Dragoon worker into a mighty dragon, he uncovers an impossible truth: his kind were once legendary rulers of the skies, until the wizard-CEO Hex shrank them, erased their memories, and stole their power to build his empire. Now, with his best friend at his side, the fiery heroes must find the courage to rise, awaken their kind, and prove that even the smallest spark can light up the sky.
Young Willow discovers her magical heritage and is transported to Wickensburg in the 1600s, where she must stop Mr. Hexenmeister from seizing an ancient artifact.
A short drama film.
A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment.
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
When a romance writer is murdered, matchmaker Angie Dove gets entangled in another case…and with Detective Kyle Cooper. Can they read between the lines to find the murderer?
Winning America is a documentary television film about the Canadian band Said the Whale. It follows the band on their first US tour down through California, and then to South by Southwest.
After being kicked off a jury for arriving five minutes late, a troubled woman becomes obsessed with the verdict, which sent a woman her age to prison for life. As she fights to have the case reopened, her bond with the prisoner forces her to confront questions of guilt, justice and responsibility.
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.
A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
When popular love and relationship podcaster and future author, Nikki Parsons is dumped by her boyfriend the day before she meets her new publisher, she has to think fast. She enlists her irritatingly handsome neighbor to pose as her boyfriend for a weekend of mingling with the literary elite.
After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to recover his music in time for the event that could change his life - a meeting with a Grammy Award-winning producer.
In this follow-up to Blood for Irina and Queen of Blood, the vampire Irina rises again like a ghost from her watery grave to bring bloodlust and madness to a lonely woman living in a seaside motel.
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!
Yasha, a bird hunter, finds the dead body of a well-known man on a snowy day in a mountain town. He becomes involved in a 300 billion Tooman embezzlement after getting clues leading to finding the killers. He begins to seek his benefit in this adventure.
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
Christine attends her sister’s wedding with her two partners, Alex and Stephane. As the trio adjusts to their newly formed polyamorous relationship, Christine learns she is unexpectedly pregnant. The news sparks conflicting reactions and exposes tensions about commitment and the future. Surrounded by judgmental relatives and controlling parents, the wedding becomes a pressure cooker where private doubts and fragile dynamics surface. Over the course of the celebration, the three must confront what love, family, and responsibility mean for them.
The prophecy of Khoa Lê’s 93-year-old grandmother (bà nôi) burdens his unknown future and reflects the roots of his past. Born in Vietnam but raised in Canada, Lê’s homeland pilgrimage is measured parts self-portrait, ethnography and an ethereal quest for identity. His bà nôi is funny and forthright in a matriarchal manner, as one with little time to worry about what others think. Stark observations of her home life and family visits contrast visually stunning dreamlike sequences of fog-laced silhouettes and twilight vistas that echo an unpredictable path. As he celebrates New Year’s events with family traditions and rituals steeped in superstition, fortunes and horoscopes, it’s clear Lê is seeking signs of destiny as he poetically captures a soul floating between two worlds.
A man dies in a freak accident on a golf course only to learn he must perform one last good deed to get into heaven.
An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.
SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
A group of hunters and photographers reaches the secluded area of Canada. Soon they discover that they are camping near an ancient Indian burial site. According to some legend a magnificent treasure is hidden there guarded by a mighty spirit of the wind Wendigo.
At the dawn of spring 1860, a girl sits in a park, reading a book, as she is approached by a distinguished man in a scene that seems a bit too good to be true.
A young man goes to a lakeside getaway with his friends after a devastating breakup. While there, he faces his grief and discovers that his body is host to a horrific parasite.
Meet Jonathan Noel, a man with an obsessive need for order, whose life is upended by the sudden appearance of a pigeon on his front porch. His routine is thrown into disarray when the unwelcomed intruder is introduced into his meticulously controlled world.
Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.
While searching for their hidden birthday presents on the eve of their birthday, Freddy and Cara inadvertently discover a cave under their house which is full of vampires.
In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.
A young Iranian-Canadian man comes to terms with his sexuality, and contends with the disconnection from his culture, while inadvertently cohabitating with an ancient Persian Spirit of Chaos.
When he discovers a young orphan girl in the middle of the forest, Winkie, a violent but caring monster, decides to raise the child in his own image while protecting her from the dangers of the outside world.
When a misstep after a workplace shooting puts alcoholic Marcy on leave, she heads out to see her sister in California. Halfway there, she stops for a couple of days at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House. The walls close in on the deeply troubled Marcy, as she loses touch with reality and comes face to face with the misdeeds of her sordid past.
Single mother Grace loves Christmas but her new partner John just can't abide the occasion. As the festive season approaches, it begins to drive the two of them apart so Grace decides to get to the bottom of his disaffection.
This short documentary revisits Mi’kmaq territory, where an iconic moment was captured in 2013—igniting into a symbol of Indigenous resistance and halting fracking exploration on unceded lands.
A CIA agent helps a Nebraska farm boy battle a white supremacist who brainwashed the locals.