In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false. (Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle). What about the boreal forest?
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In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false. (Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle). What about the boreal forest?
Heat waves are massively decimating coral. But some of them are resisting. To avoid an ecological disaster, researchers want to encourage the emergence of these survivors. A captivating scientific odyssey.
Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. Edgar is about to ask her to marry him when he surprises her bedding her boss. In shock, he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig.
After being betrayed and left for dead, David searches high and low for months; trying to find the man who betrayed him, John. After finding where he lives, he knocks on his door and greets him with a gun pointed to his head. After minutes of begging, even bigger secrets come to life which changes both men's lives forever.
Lindsay and Spencer are a typical young couple, but their lives are changed forever after a violent home invasion. Now Lindsay finds herself a prisoner in her own home as her husband tortures the men responsible.
A naive young woman in a surreal race decides to forge alliances while her greatest competitor starts taking lives.
A horror anthology of four distinct segments featuring a raucous combination of satirical humor, horror, gore, and enough surprises to satisfy film enthusiasts and horror fans alike.
Isolated in a country house, Simon questions his mother’s authority and resists bounderies. His behaviour influences his younger brother Colin, a sensible boy who is desperately seeking for a male role model. Colin will develop a perilous plan to try to stop Simon from running away.
When Aria receives an SOS from her long lost mother, she must travel to the edge of space and unlock the mystery of a ship called Somnius to find her.
A comedy about a fairly neurotic fella waiting in his car for his new girlfriend as they make a 3 minute pit stop on their way to a movie, and all that goes through the poor guy's head.
Born with cystic fibrosis, 28 year old Ethan Rice faces his demise with a dark sense of humour and more concern about what his passing will mean to those he leaves behind than for himself.
Journey to the heart of the conflict between Kurdistan and the armed group Islamic State. This region that has been neglected and ignored for ages is now one of the key destinations for refugees in the region. This medium-length documentary show the spectator the different groups and communities that are either fighting or residing in the Kurd area.
Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne, never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
Hakeem and A-Mac are like brothers. Together facing immigrant life in Montreal, while 'spotting' cars after school. Boost gives us a glimpse into the awkward adventures of teenage boyhood, then the jolt, when that innocence ends abruptly.
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.
Christian, a 20-yr-old swim teacher, is having a hard time recovering from an incident where one his students almost drowns on his watch.
They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS (the armed militants of the so-called Islamic State group), all while embodying a revolutionary ideal advocating female empowerment. As filmmaker Zaynê Akyol follows their highly regimented lives, seasoned fighters like Rojen and Sozdar openly share with us their most intimate thoughts and dreams. Even as fighting against ISIS intensifies in the Middle East, these women bravely continue their battle against barbarism. Offering a window into this largely unknown world, Gulîstan, Land of Roses exposes the hidden face of this highly mediatized war: the female, feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.
The film features exclusive footage of the dancers from the series "The Next Step", as they prepared for their first-ever tour in Canada. Also includes live performances and exclusive interviews with cast members.
Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
The estranged daughter (Lauren Lee Smith) of a recently deceased filmmaker gains a new understanding of her father when she offers to create a retrospective of his work.
Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.
A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny. Today, as the forests and rivers both man and animal depend on are threatened, their fates seem even more inseparable. Last of the Elephant Men follows over a period of time several members of the tribe as they attempt to save the animal that once defined their way of life and may hold the key to their own survival.
Sex, love, break ups, turning 30, and staying in.
Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. Now, at 85 years old, Anne sees a startling contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become. Weaving through the past and present, her harrowing journey gives us an intimate look into the factors that destroyed her career and the forces that brought her back.
Married in Canada follows seven love stories, which reveal why getting married is significant for many same-sex American couples prohibited from tying the knot in their resident states. The couples and their families illustrate why overcoming the obstacles to legal nuptials is worthwhile - despite the reality that once back home south of the border, the newlyweds will remain merely 'married in Canada,' with their marital status going unrecognized. With unfettered access to the brides and grooms on their wedding days, the film follows the most meaningful ceremony of their lives. In this first-ever documentary about human rights and cross-border same-sex marriage, Married in Canada explores the strength and conviction of lovers in their fight for equality.
A new office worker finds his productivity and sanity threatened when his colleague's pranks and hijinx get out of hand.
An experimental documentary about the spectacle of substance abuse on social media. More than 45 hours of footage, hundreds of pages of blog posts and interviews were distilled and remixed using glitch and cut-up techniques to insure anonymity, transcend the shock factor and unfold this complex, singular and stratified use of social media.
It's 1984 and an inner city youth group goes on a one week camping trip. Its the first time they have been out of the city and the new kid is keeping a huge secret form the guys.
The life of a woman told through one pair of shoes.
A single father in Paris struggles to care for his child and escapes periodically through contemporary dance.
A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed walls.
In this posthumous film, shot in Montreal in 2013 and completed by Michka Saäl’s colleagues and friends, the filmmaker salutes the beauty of Montreal and its people. From the back alleys of the Plateau to artists’ apartments, from a passionate recycling advocate to a queen of the night, everyday heroes are the subject of this final film. They are humble folk, faithful to their personal ethical sense, determined to make the world more beautiful. They are true adventurers, especially as seen by Michka Saäl.
The past catches up to three exotic dancers, two of whom were involved in the famous Wisconsin strip club massacre.
An observational look at the lives of five Toronto rappers.
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.
Nydia occupies her days by completing household chores and secretly reading poetry. Aspiring to escape a mapped out fate, she accepts a motorcycle ride invitation downtown from Jeff, a mysterious classmate of hers.
Claire Blanchet directs this visually stunning stereoscopic animation, adapted from Heather O’Neills eponymous slice of Montreal noir.
The night is coming to an end : the air is saturated and heavy, their minds are feeling both dazed and unsteady. The party seems like it’ll never end. But during one bike ride, longtime friends Camille and Felix get closer and closer to each other – although this nocturnal desire should best be ignored.
Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
Erin, a spunky twelve year-old attempts to woo the coolest girl in school with the help of her best friend, Liz.
In the 15 minutes following a difficult match, the soul-searching of a boxer who will never be a contender.
The evolution of mainstream pornography’s extremities and the early days of pay-per-view channels' noise.
Follows a Canadian filmmaker through Asia as she examines her father's relationship with his 23 year old bride-to-be who lives in the Philippines.
A lonely man has the chilling feeling that someone has broken into his home.
In this surreal and horrific adaptation of the cult classic Sandman comic "24 Hours", a psychotic escaped patient from Arkham Asylum decides to have some fun at the expense of six patrons of a 24 Hour Diner.
A young Japanese woman tells the memory of her sister who passed away a few months ago.
A psychological experiment between two friends spirals out of control. How bad could it be?
Paola, a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder enters a journey of self discovery finding clues about a new identity that appears through art
The lives of a disillusioned teen and an alienated man converge in 1980s Newfoundland.
The journey of Chang Hui, a young boy who escapes the confines of village life for the city of Ningbo.
"Years ago I was introduced to a big producer…The devil tempts but he doesn't win." Gatekeeper, the short film, the true story that inspired the song
Four Summer Camp Counsellors read scary stories from an Ancient Book of Evil.
The filmmaker explores his dysfunctional relationship with his parents.
Two years after Jason Parks (Landy Cannon) saved Warrior Princess Summer Vale (Brigitte Kingsley) from her life hunting Killopoths in the demon dimension, a sudden surge of supernatural activity and violent attacks have resurfaced on our plane beyond the normal parameters of the portal. The Rising Dark Agency, a black ops division of the government headed by Colonel Haggerd (Michael Ironside), suspects that the mystic strikes suggests the work of Mardock, an evil Demon-god capable of destroying worlds. When a new demon sub-species disrupts Summer's wedding and eats her fiancée, the war on the new Demon Lord begins. With her group of misfits and their BFG's - Summer sets out to destroy Mardock, but no one is prepared for who they find behind the Dark Lord's ascension.