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For a second year, Christian Bégin hosts Télé-Québec’s special presentation of its new season of TV programming. Personalities will be invited on the show to discuss the new programming for all ages and in all genres: documentaries, magazines, fiction or variety shows, linear or digital.
Lean into loneliness — and know you’re not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone.
A love story at the end of time.
After nearly 40 years in operation, the family-run Koto Japanese Restaurant is closing down. Over the course of its final service, the small Vancouver Island community bids farewell.
Alex is caught up in anxieties of the academic universe- until she meets the radical and daring, Lucy. She begins to open up to escapades, exposing herself to vulnerability and ambisexuality, only to be shut down by Lucy's unreciprocated love.
The blinking sun on the surface of the river becomes the ranting mouth of god and utters nova scotia into existence.
Using immersive camera work and a heart-pounding soundtrack, Faceless takes us to the frontline of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to meet four young people who risk their lives and fly in the face of absolute power.
Ornately abstract textural imagery forged from hand-processed and hand-painted Super8 film painstakingly edited by Vallée allows Sharp's masterful and mesmerizing new music to occupy center stage while unfolding it into a sublime optical dimension.
Adira, a teenage girl discovers her love for gaming with some help from a top Twitch streamer as her mentor, Autumn Rhodes. Adira quickly rises to a professional streaming status and must overcome challenges that come along with her newfound popularity.
A young woman's grand finale in her pursuit of artistry, and Dallas.
Multiracial and multiethnic Jews have a long and rich history globally, and here in Ontario. Yet within our own Jewish community, there exists a lack of understanding of our ethnically diverse Jewish world. Through an exhibition of commissioned portraiture accompanied by a newly produced documentary film, No Silence on Race, in partnership with the Ontario Jewish Archives, explores the lives of multiracial and multiethnic Jews within the community. The project broadens our concept of Jewish identity that has historically privileged Ashkenazi Jewish culture and presents a call to action to the Canadian Jewish community about the need for greater education on Jewish ethnic diversity within the Jewish world both in Ontario and nationally.
Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other's, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.
When she can no longer care for her sick sister, Mabel decides on a whim that she will abandon her in a forest.
Two lovers find themselves in a stalemate as the late-night booty call starts to get old. Can a fresh cup of coffee infuse new life into their relationship, or will it kill it once and for all?
Struggling to find true love, a young and depressed man named Flynn, seeks out to find the love of his life.
A high school reporter falls hard for high school royalty - and fights to keep her "voice".
A series of five short films by Canadian filmmakers, produced to celebrate the NBA's 75th anniversary and its connection to Canada.
100 M Criminal Conviction is a crime thriller set against the backdrop of the fashion industry. As they maneuver through the maze, the characters weave an enthralling tale of tactics and trickery.
Leonardo, a ballet dancer, and Sara, an ambitious lawyer, are young black Cubans desperate to leave their country. They realize that their ticket off the island is for Leonardo to seduce one of the foreign students at the salsa school where he teaches. Dreams collide when they meet a lonely Iranian-Canadian woman who is seeking adventure and passion in paradise.
A police search disturbs the peace and quiet of a suburban family and arouses suspicions in Nicolas about his father Sylvain, a secret man with suspicious activities.
A more frank, more real, simpler, more raw show, in which Laurent fully accepts the idea that we cannot please everyone. His style is refined, closer to the roots of stand-up, and his tone is decidedly more biting, while remaining unifying. This 4th show adds to an already busy roadmap. With more than 200 performances of this show and more than 100,000 tickets sold, Laurent Paquin's popularity continues, and after more than 25 years of career, he has not aged a bit.
A developer relocates to a remote island with his family, where the cursed land takes over his soul, but will it make him a killer?
New York City: 2020. As the outbreak of the global pandemic descends upon the city, terrified masses evacuate the streets to quarantine or flee to safer areas to escape the lethal virus. As millions stay indoors under unprecedented lockdowns, a lone journalist calls in a favor and hits the road. While sheltering from the pandemic on a remote mountaintop, »W« discovers that he is not alone.
Three storytellers navigate the muddy water that is Manitoba’s subconscious, where truth is blurred by the power of the currents. Their narratives reveal hard moments in the prairie’s shadowy queer history.
This portrait of choreographer Zab Maboungou provides insight into the meticulous training and physical strength behind one of her pivotal works: Mozongi.
In the harbour town of Seyðisfjörður, cruise ships higher than any building have become part of the landscape and passengers outnumber the local population. An experienced local guide voices the changes and challenges of this new wave of mass tourism.
Examining how women’s perspectives on their own body hair begin, grow and come undone, this stop-motion animated film traces the ways in which social norms of body hair are easily established, but not always so easily accepted.
Following a family tragedy, a reserved teen moves in with his uncle, but begins to suspect not everything is as it seems.
Joe Buffalo, an Indigenous skateboard legend and Indian Residential School survivor, must face his inner demons to realize his dream of turning pro.
Queer teen Gloria Chau rediscovers her sense of purpose when she loses her childhood dream of playing Canadian Olympic hockey.
The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.
We are in Simon’s head, an agoraphobe who is afraid of everything. He shows us his deep dark fears.
A diner is bound to get a surprise as he prepares to order in a unique sidewalk cafe.
Explore the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences—phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena—Joshua Bonnetta connects their testimonies with 16mm images and a sonic montage of the physical and aural environment of these enchanted islands.
We know the truth: Stories to inspire reconciliation is a CBC Manitoba documentary that recasts Canada's history and future through the empowerment of Indigenous people. Meet Indigenous people who are telling the true history of Canada and residential schools, and creating change on their own terms. Reflect with residential school survivors. And be inspired by those who are working hard to keep their culture and languages alive.
Interrogations of patricide offenders, footage of vandalised statues, and photographs of Victorian children in faux gardens are interwoven into a metaphor for the perverse legacy of privilege and wealth inherited by those who inhabit The Garden.
Zoey enters a hair salon to dye her hair for the first time. As she questions her decision she replays her recent graduation dinner where an explosive fight becomes a chance to settle an old score. Will changing her hair be a final defiance or the first act of something more meaningful?
Trying to freeze time is an illusion. Whatever we do, life unfolds in one direction. Memory is a Dying Horse is yet another desperate attempt to challenge the irreversibility of time. A sparse, raw, somehow childish collage of reminiscences filmed on Super 8 between Syria, France and Canada. The film is accompanied with musical experimentation by Stefan Christoff.
When Sasha's mother doesn't show up to her fiancé's funeral, she invites her over for dinner to settle the matter. The evening becomes increasingly sinister when her mother lets Sasha in on a little secret about her fiancé's death.
A demoralized soldier is lost in the wilderness, one of the few remaining in a militia for hire known as the Mortal Decree. As their deranged General pushes the ill-equipped survivors on a manic hunt for 'the enemy', Henri Fabergé must face the absurdity of his own mortality, experiencing the loss of his friends, of his moral compass, and of his own mind. A disturbing examination of war, power, friendship and honour, the film's tone pivots from dark comedy to a metaphysical dream as our anti-hero is made to realize that the enemy is never what it seems.
Do you really need MORE cables when the pile of old ones in the storage boxes are starting to gain sentience?
Some fragments of the story of a young man alone and in search of love. A film adaptation of play "A", an unpublished solo by Antoine Pelletier exploring contemporary LGBT2SQ + relationships.
In the distant future, within the city of LOS MUTANTES, FREDA DAVIS and LUCILLE NERO, two spies from the National Union of National Spies (N.U.N.S.), ask BETTY POWELL to help bring down the Catholic Association of Quebec (C.A.Q.) and its oppressive leader, JEANNE VERSACON.
Hot-shot gunslinger Henry confronts gang leader Randy in order to avenge his deceased father.
Alice has recently begun seeing Noah - a dark, handsome man with a vague past, and is introduced to his older sister Lucy, who shares the same dark beauty as her brother. Along with her friends Cassia, and the twins Jack and Daniel, Alice agrees to try out a new party drug called Wonderland on a night out. She soon finds however that Wonderland is indeed a fantastical trip - but the effects are deadly.
There is a strong link between singing and mental illness. This documentary tries to break down some prejudices by focusing on the music industry environment. To achieve this feat of awareness, without falling into moralization, popular artists from here lend themselves to the game of this therapy.
A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles apart. Dhruv lives a lonely life in Toronto, Canada. He is a forty-year-old student who has discontinued his education and gets by working odd jobs. Sheema is the sister of Dhruv's brother-in-law, looking for someone to take care of her apartment while she and her son return home to visit Bangladesh for a few months. Dhruv, never having met Sheema, agrees to house-sit. Communicating over the phone, they develop a friendship and help each other to solve problems related to the cultural challenges of being Bangladeshi immigrants to Canada.
Between 2000 and 2011, seven First Nations high school students in Thunder Bay died. Five were found in rivers surrounding Lake Superior. All were forced to leave their homes in order to attend school. Anishinaabe/Polish Canadian journalist Tanya Talaga brought international attention to this tragedy through her award-winning non-fiction book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Talaga returns to Thunder Bay and her ancestral roots to talk with the family members, Indigenous community leaders and youth whose resilience in the face of unjust colonial systems provide a path forward.
A bizarre and vaguely CEGEP romance.
An anti-love story set in the shadows of Vancouver.
A toddler's life is suddenly turned upside down in this tale of every parent's worst nightmare.