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The residents of a tiny Newfoundland town consider voting to resettle it.

A young couple named Navid and Baran have problems in their marital relationship after migrating to Canada. Now Baran decides to share his main problem with Navid.

Documentary study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba.

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.

The Agnostics follows freshly-relapsed alcoholic Suzanne and her father Mark to an Easter gathering, which they hope will result in a much-needed cheque from their senile Uncle Raymond.

The cinematic and intimate version of Ariane Moffatt's most recent album. Punctuated by a rich visual universe, his performance is an attempt to resist headwinds. An oscillation between the sublime and helplessness.

A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo LANDGRAVES, who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.

Photos of Cape Breton landscapes are a google search away, my friends and family are a phone call away, I could probably get a decent donair just about anywhere. If all these things that make my home "home" are so easily accessible, why do I find it so hard to leave? "home(sick)bound" attempts to break that down.

Unable to cope with recent events, screenwriter Jason Miller dives relentlessly into his newest screenplay in an attempt to avoid dealing with a traumatic experience. Holed up in his apartment, his mental state teetering on the edge, he meets Lisa; his beautiful neighbor from down the hall and a relationship begins to develop. Jason burns the midnight oil to finish his script he becomes more and more intrigued by her as strange and mysterious things begin to happen in the building causing him to question everything. With Jason's mind unraveling, his life spinning out of control, we soon realize that things aren't always as they seem as he struggles to hang onto the one thing he wants most. - hope.

These two men need information, and they'll use every pun in the book to get it.

A woman's life becomes a living nightmare when she becomes the prime suspect in her boss's murder.

Toronto jazz saxophonist Dezi Williams is withdrawn from his band and tries to spend his days in solitude as an instrument repair technician, but is haunted by his memories, a mounting pain in his jaw, and an intrusive new neighbour.

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

An ambulance transferring dangerous convicts crashes in the middle of nowhere. It soon becomes clear that the crash was no accident, and the survivors are being stalked by a killer. Just 30 feet to the road, but will anyone reach it alive?

In this honest and deeply personal account of living with addiction, a young man talks about the realities and challenges of living in the Anishinaabe community of Kitcisakik and the hope he still harbours for himself and his people.

Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs.

HELLBOX is a paranoid supernatural thriller about a shadowy conspiracy against humanity that stretches across five centuries. It’s told through interweaving storylines in which assorted people (knights from a holy brotherhood, a group of college girls, a suicidal psychiatrist, and a haunted couple with their own dark secrets) see their lives horribly changed when they come into possession of an ancient, mysterious box… Some say it holds a piece of Hell.

Twenty-five years after she moved away, Canadian filmmaker Kristina Wagenbauer (a participant in the 2019 Talent Lab) returns to her native Russia to visit her grandmother – her Babushka – with whom she spent part of her childhood, in this film brimming with tenderness and humour. The two women reflected in the mirror bear an undeniable resemblance, and each seeks to recognize herself in the other. Plumbing her memories, Wagenbauer hopes to re-establish a lost bond of intimacy and to confront the wounds of the past. Babushka has survived the Second World War, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the void that her daughter and granddaughter left behind when they moved abroad, and, more recently, the death of the love of her life. Despite all of this, she holds to life with a strong spirit of resilience.

Caroline North is one of the LA's entertainment power-attorneys. She is beautiful, smart and aggressive type-A woman in her 30s. She is also a very lonely workaholic. Her best friends, Jackie and Samantha, decided to end Caroline's long streak of working weekends and lonely holidays by booking a surprise Christmas vacation for her in Prince George, Canada.

A man who flees from the scene of a fatal bicycle accident soon finds that he is being haunted by more than just his own guilt.

Explore the legend of Hollywood’s most celebrated cat, Orangey, in this adaptation of Dan Sallitt’s essay of the same name. The prolific feline actor’s 16-year filmography includes roles in Rhubarb (1951), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)—or did it? The protege of star animal trainer Frank Inn, Orangey’s storied career leads Sallitt – who shares the screen here with another curious co-star – on the trail of a mystery.

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly. Snow crunches underfoot as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain. Despite the frights, Nalujuk Night is a beloved annual event, showing that sometimes it can be fun to be scared. Rarely witnessed outside of Nunatsiavut, this annual event is an exciting chance for Inuit, young and old, to prove their courage and come together as a community to celebrate culture and tradition. Inuk filmmaker Jennie Williams brings audiences directly into the action in this bone-chilling black and white short documentary about a winter night like no other.

Regular life is still a struggle for John years after his fall from grace. If he was marvelled at by the world again, life wouldn't be so bad.

A surreal, horrific and disturbing film that explores the sensation of waking up.

Impending extinction comes to a tipping point for one of the world's most iconic species — the Southern Resident killer whales. For two filmmakers, this crisis sparks a stunning journey across the Pacific Northwest, joining activists, scientists and Indigenous leaders, to uncover corruption and stop injustice before it’s too late.

With doubts of delivering their first child in the hospital, Sarah and Kevin decide to hire a midwife to give birth safely in their own home. But their worst nightmare occurs when their midwife, Rose, conceives a different plan and kidnaps their newborn to have a grandchild of her own. Now Sarah and Kevin must find Rose, and most importantly their baby.

CAPTIVE is a cinematic exploration into the heart of darkness, exploring the trauma of captivity as seen through the eyes of girls abducted by Boko Haram and a journalist coming to terms with her own past.

In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-something Quebec man before fleeing. With help from a Vietnamese former refugee, they try to solve the mystery.

The experience of 2nd generation immigrants, people who are born and raised in a country different than the one their parents were born in. The identity issues they face within a multicultural country.

A young man recounts a disturbing dream to his therapist.

Against Reason is a short film about when two exes (Jack and Anna) spontaneously meet up for a night of fun. The two get more than they bargained for when playful reminiscing turns into a critical review of what went wrong in their relationship. Jack and Anna realize that they're going to have to confront things they never did during their breakup.

On a stormy night, an anxious eight-year-old from a fractured home wakes up to the terrifying realization that the monster under her bed may be real.

Award-winning war photographer Rita Leistner goes back to her roots as a tree planter in the wilderness of British Columbia, offering an inside take on the grueling, sometimes fun and always life-changing experience of restoring Canada’s forests. Leistner, who has photographed some of the world’s most dangerous places, credits the challenge of tree-planting for her physical and mental endurance. In Forest for the Trees, her first feature film, she revisits her past to share the lessons she learned. The film introduces us to everyday life on the “cut-block” and the brave souls who fight through rough terrains and work endless hours to bring our forests to life. The rugged BC landscape comes to life magically in Leistner’s photography, while the quirky characters and nuggets of wisdom shared around the campfire tell a sincere story of community.

Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.

In a post-pandemic world a lonely and introspective drifter searching for a human connection encounters an unloved woman who challenges his dreary perception of relationships.

Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.

Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis of diabetes.

A newlywed thrupple meet the local minister in this polyamorous horror film.

Every second is a lifetime. With the four-pound trigger pull, Jared and Sergei - two youths from vastly different backgrounds - become forever linked. From that split second as the hand of the clock hits 8:37, each of their lives veers onto a path that sets the seeds of their mutual destruction. 22 years later, Jared is released from prison for the death of Sergei's father; deeply regretful, he tries to forge ahead into a better life. Sergei, now a professor of mathematics, descends into a guilt-ridden abyss of a revenge-driven obsession. Both men must face their demons; one man might lose his life, the other his sanity.

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm reduction in the Kainai First Nation.

When the patriarch of an emigrant Nigerian family visits their female-led Canadian home, traditional values collide with newer ones.

Jessie, a Chinese Canadian photography student takes on a self-portraiture assignment. After discovering the work of Cindy Sherman, she is torn to reflect on her own shifting identity and artistic voice, while juggling her role as a daughter to meet her her mother's expectations.

Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed in a disturbing world of strange mystical codes, he learns that his father was tracking a huge buck with awe-inspiring antlers alongside the “Indian”. After several outstanding short films, Aurtenèche delivers a first feature that obliquely references the legend of Saint Hubert, who encountered the Almighty while hunting a stag. A cryptic thriller, hidden manuscripts, the quest for self-knowledge, psychotropic drugs: La Contemplation du mystère boldly shifts between moods and genres.

Waitress and animal lover, Molly Bishop is desperate for a holiday miracle. Broke and needing major car repairs, she's counting on a big career opportunity to come through before the holidays - without using her family's name to get there. But when handsome cafe regular and do-gooder Aiden Ford starts to meddle in her life, Molly will have to figure out if it's too much or just the holiday miracle she needed.

Canadian power-rock hitmakers Triumph revisit their ’80s heyday and prepare to meet devotees in this doc from Sam Dunn and Marc Ricciardelli

Follow this ever brief conversation that is deeper then the actual words between the two woman and their families. Set in the landscape of Iqaluit, a conversation at the airport and a woman’s slow drive home all tell the story in this gentle searing story of grief.

Montenegro is the newest European country with a proud history, one that is being falsified for current political purposes, thus creating an alternative identity. In a nation where it possible for two brothers to claim different ethnic backgrounds despite having the same parents, everything is on the table: language, church, democracy. Can the truth set Montenegro free?

Madison O'Hara performs as a singing elf for Christmas parties with her best friend, but her real dream is to be a singer-songwriter and to find the perfect man.

Four close sisters have only one idea in mind: to do it. As their feminine bodies bloom, they slowly become more and more aware of their seductive power and above all they become painfully aware of their universal solitude.

Pulled from Jamaican folklore, DUPPY is a horror-driven meditation on the displacement of diaspora through the eyes of a man grappling with who he is in the world. When a disturbing occurrence befalls a young man packing up a shuttered bookstore on Eglinton West, or as it's better known to the people of Toronto, the neighborhood of Little Jamaica, he comes face to face with a terror greater than anything he's ever experienced.

Documenting the creative process of two master boat-builders as they practise their art and find a way back to balance and healing.

Comedian duo "Corbeil et Maranda" have their shows canceled by a global pandemic. They therefore find themselves forced to find a new job and become delivery men… Their cargo? Sketches!

After dropping out of University and moving back in with her parents, an amiable young woman reconnects with her former high school friends and spends time with her family—while she tries to figure out her place in the world.

Norman has finally been discharged. You'll never look at a Q-tip the same way again.