An anthology of thrillers that explores what it means to navigate an unkind world and struggle to keep your head.
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An anthology of thrillers that explores what it means to navigate an unkind world and struggle to keep your head.
After the suicide of his best friend, a teenage boy is forced to deal with his guilt and sexuality.
Head Space is a hilarious and heartwarming film about Floyd (Struan Sutherland), an agoraphobic with no intention of ever leaving his basement. His past as a taller-than-average comedian and TV pitch-man has left him broken and unable to face his demons. That is until he finds himself both summoned for jury duty and under the constant harassment of the pizza delivery guy (Stoo Metz). With no other option, Floyd must confront his past, make friends with his enemies, and battle the great big scary unknown that is the outside world.
A man trapped in a cold and ultra controlled routine, lives under the constant watch of a surveillance system.
This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their parents' home but still has not made an home of his own. Our protagonist’s alienation is palpable; for him life is a game, not because he chooses to make it so, but because he is unable to make anything more of it. But for those who befriend him and eventually turn him loose again, his game is not enough.
Sandy retreats to the cabin for solitude but is confronted by Jordan, their emotionally complicated ex. What begins as banter quickly reveals unresolved feelings and clashing desires. Jordan longs for connection, while Sandy struggles to maintain the boundaries they desperately need. The tension between longing and letting go reaches a quiet boiling point. Their final conversation may be closure or the start of something new.
In late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witness to the murder is also killed, Murdoch must stop the killer before he strikes again.
When Charlotte's son Benny learns about the old tradition of the Christmas train parade, he persuades her to try and reignite the Christmas magic that brought together their community and the neighboring towns. They enlist the help of Benny’s teacher, but just as Charlotte thinks she might be falling for him, she finds out that he’s been harboring secrets related to why the parade ended in the first place.
Brandon is back! In this long-awaited unofficial sequel/spin-off to the Amateur Porn Star Killer trilogy. It is the first film in history to include more than 100 directors! Filmmakers from all around the world have contributed.
He had promised her love and faithfulness until death do them part, but Antoine, the widower, will be willing to lose his soul to be reunited with his wife on the other side.
Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.
A talented but abrasive chef struggles mightily with his personal demons and the relentless pressures of running a high-end restaurant. Over the course of one frantic day and night, he faces a rash of private trials and professional tribulations in a desperate bid to beat the odds and save the business that forms the very core of his identity and self-conception.
An overprotective mother (Veronica Lake) goes to great lengths to thwart her daughter's (Meredith MacRae) budding romance.
This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution caused by human inventions.
Marc Hall, a young man living in Quebec, registers his prom date as per his Catholic school's rules. He is denied his request, because his prom date is a boy. Marc Hall is an openly gay teenager in a very conservative Catholic school. This film documents his struggles (legal, emotional, ethical and personal) to be himself and to live his life the way he deems best. With the help of friends, family and supporters, "Cinderfella" makes it to the ball, With his Prince Charming.
A feature film created with one man's voice, license-free music and stock photos. Cinema in its impurest form. In Joel Edmiston's Elfing Around, Santa Claus is out for revenge after his disgruntled elves send him to space. Jolly Old Saint Nick no more, he doesn't care who he pisses off on his journey to get home, get laid and get even.
Once upon a time, Titus was locked up in a cellar by his adoptive parents with only a television set, a VCR... and five hundred cartoon tapes... Twenty years later, Titus escapes. The world seems to him then a simple amusement park...
A hard-working mother hires a male nanny to take care of her son, but soon discovers that he is an antisocial psychopath bent on destroying her family.
In this tale, halfway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. But as the night begins to rumble, Amani’s joie de vivre disappears to give way to his pain.
Always passionate about hockey, young Jean-Philippe Tanguay dreams of only one thing: becoming a player agent. He idolizes his cousin Yves Tanguay, a former NHL player, now playing with the Barbares de La Malbaie amateur hockey team. When the team advances to the Canadian championship, Yves convinces his young cousin to accompany him to Thunder Bay to attend the championship. The two cousins see this as a unique opportunity for their careers and will embark on a road trip that will lead them to discover the price to pay to make their dreams come true.
In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
Carmen Aguirre and Tony Nardi star in a remarkable story of friends, lovers, seekers and thieves. Set at the intersection of the Latin American, First Nations and Italian communities, "Bella Ciao!" captures a struggle towards solidarity in East Vancouver's urban mix.
Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with (and sometimes manipulating) the many offbeat charact... read more ers that surround her- including her broken-hearted father, an aging anarchist beekeeper, a beloved and asthmatic quasi-mother-in-law, a priest in the midst of a crisis of faith, and a biker with a wandering heart, for whom she has unconditional love. And then, of course, there's the village in which she lives, where everyone knows your business and makes it their own. No wonder Simone feels that she lives her life like a reel of film jumping in the sprockets of a projector. Life is strange and complicated enough, and then an aviator falls from the sky, threatening everything Simone loves the most.
Amanda is in a relationship that is spiraling out of control and leaving her physically battered. Georgie, a well-meaning and meddlesome stranger, encourages Amanda to share her pain in a serious discussion that turns into a comedy of errors.
Laura visits a boarding ranch in the country to learn horseback riding. Her mother spends five years trying to get her brainwashed daughter back from a cult.
A revered cult leader takes a day off on the most important event of the century: the deliverance of his followers. With the lights turned on, the truth is revealed. Whether they believe it is a different story.
You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future.
Grandfather and retired Israeli general Noam Tibon rescues his family from Hamas terrorists invading their home during the October 7, 2023 massacre - a coordinated assault on Israel sparking an ongoing conflict.
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
Tito and Jay are two brothers living in the Montreal neighborhood of Park Extension. Accompanying these young people in their daily life marked by complicity and intimidation, Star tackles themes dear to teenagers: identity and friendship.
When eleven year old Amy finds an old eighties video game magazine she dials the phone number displayed on the back, and in a strange cosmic glitch gets connected to Caesar Spinone, a video game call center employee in the year 1989.
"Lord of the Brush" details the artist John Howe's history and passion for J.R.R. Tolkien's works. John's story is brought to life with over 100 of his beautiful illustrations, which have had a major impact on the fans and readers of the world about how J.R.R. Tolkien's work is envisioned in images.
After a violent car wreck nearly takes his life, Detective Jack Barnes begins having inexplicable and terrifying premonitions of horrible disasters. At first his warning calls go unheeded, but as the premonitions begin to come true Jack is shocked to find himself wanted for questioning by the FBI. He goes on the run, narrowly avoiding both the FBI and a band of terrorists on the verge of unleashing a deadly attack. As he scrambles to unlock the meaning of the visions, he must race against the clock to stop the terrorists before they can strike again.
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
When Angie moves into her “no pets allowed” building, a parrot arrives unexpectedly. New neighbor Ted and the dog he’s secretly sitting try to help her find the bird’s owner without being caught.
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.
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.
Kelly, a successful career woman and single mother, and her friend Evelyn are both in search of the ideal man. Kelly eventually finds herself torn between sophisticated art dealer Thomas and struggling writer Jonathan, while Evelyn continues her quest for a flesh and blood version of Michelangelo's "David". But will either woman find the happiness they are seeking?
Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange environment, Nick learns the value of personal honesty and integrity and discovers what defines true friendship. He finds himself torn between his affection for Angelica, who believes with her Aunt Olivia that the forest should be preserved, and loyalty to his boss, the owner of the lumber company. In the end, this city boy must choose between his own safety and the lives of those he has come to love.
Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps leads to a sleepless night full of uncanny occurrences.
Kunjumon who is working in a law firm has his life turned upside down when a client comes with a special case
A young woman attempts to reclaim the unicorn paddleboat she associates with her happier, more privileged former life.
A young woman loses her umbrella in a café altering her perception of the world forever.
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.
Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.
Fourth entry in the Castration Movie series. Plot details unknown.
A priest’s ritual unleashes an ancient demon that moves between souls through their eyes, leaving a trail of hollowed hosts—and a final victim no one expects.
Two friends, Don and Dave were diving in the cave of Boesmansgat: 283 meters. Right before surfacing up, Dave - who'd just broken a world record - finds a body. They decide to dive back and retrieve it.
On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy, Belgium or Spain. The long shots of curving landscape and open road are set to a mesmerizing soundtrack in this documentary, and the results are spellbinding.
Two women in separate relationships find themselves in a motel room where they enact in a lustful romance, when they are interrupted, the idea of guilt, sexual freedom and love comes into question.
There are situations in which the love of close ones does not reach the limits achieved in personal development. Tenzin, who has grown up in a Tibetan community in Canada, has reached the milestone of his twenties and finds himself standing at a bewildering crossroads of life. The previously unwavering belief in fighting for the eternal preservation of the Tibetan people collapses when Tenzin’s brother decides to set himself on fire in the course of a protest held in China. How do you feel pride and gratitude for your brother’s suicide together with others? Unable to find answers in the fields of meaning of spirituality, Tenzin sets out to seek these in the madness of the modern culture.
The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States is bringing the world's population back into a Cold War-like climate. In the small town of Baie-St-Paul (Québec, Canada), Pier-Luc is afraid: afraid of dying, of course, but, above all, afraid of dying before he could make love for the first time. With his buddies, Hubert and Samuel, he goes through "the summer of last chances" and takes drastic measures in order to lose his virginity... Before we explode.
In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.
In an abandoned house by the river, a man meets a woman. All night long, they try to love each other.
Just an ordinary Saturday in Montreal on an outdoor basketball court. Mustafa Uzuner filmed here for four years as this ever-evolving group of men try to get the ball into the hoop. His lively and sensual portrait captures a diverse community that changes along with the colorfully painted court.