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Robin is Santa's biggest fan. It's Christmas Eve and Robin has hatched a plan to stow away in Santa's sleigh and hitch a ride to the North Pole. Won't Santa be surprised! But it's Robin who’ll be getting the surprise. Robin is about to find out that you should never meet your heroes.
A long walk home sets the scene for young romance, a trip to the beach becomes an opportunity for quiet reflection and self-acceptance, a naïve mother uncovers the secret life of her daughter, and a sullen teenager sees a new side to her mother. Re-live the journey of young love through six coming-of-age stories exploring chance encounters and hidden longings.
Medical student Keity wants to become a surgeon like her mother and grandmother. But after her first operation takes a dramatic turn, she has to accept an internship at the morgue. Between her dead patients, her unconventional colleagues and seeing her grandmother’s spirit, will she tough it out?
On this January morning, Agnès and her brother are hanging out in the living room. This quiet day will take a wrong turn when Agnès' father, shaken by his recent divorce from her mother, decides to pay her an impromptu visit.
Alice, 65 years old, becomes roommate with Guy, 25 years old. After confessing to him that she’s recently widowed and incapable of going back in her own house since, Alice asks for Guy's help in facing her grief. Together, they return to her house, where memories are waiting.
Like a ticking time-bomb, Ronnie tries to hold his personal relationships and artistic career together while struggling with a debilitating writers block. "A Beautiful Rush" is a silent film that explores what it means to be selfish and lose sight of the blessings life has graced us with.
12 short stories about the weird and wandering denizens of the city of Calgary, Canada. From a broken hearted immortal cowboy, to a teenage girl on the train, to an addict escaping his room. This experimental meditation on dreaming asks: Do we dream of the city, or does the city dream of us?
When Lily finds out she's being cheated on, her best friends come to the rescue to lift her spirits and get revenge on her soon-to-be ex.
This documentary by Léa Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist plunges us into the vortex of online misogyny and documents hatred towards women. This bleak opus, reminiscent of a psychological thriller, follows four women across two continents: former President of the Italian parliament Laura Boldrini, former Democratic representative Kiah Morris, French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin, and Donna Zuckerberg, a specialist in online violence against women and the sister of Facebook’s founder. This tour de force reveals the devastating effects such unapologetic hatred has on victims, and brings to light the singular objective of cyber-misogyny: to silence women who shine. Some targets of cyber-violence will crumble under the crystallizing force of the click. Others, proud warriors, will stand tall and refuse to be silenced.
In a Kingdom where the monarch is increasing control onto its citizens, two friends share a bittersweet goodbye.
In this Paranormal Activity fan film, a young man moves in with his grandparents after graduation, but strange occurrences begin to happen.
Searching through junk and metal, a young scrap dealer tries to track down how rust clogged up his relation with his dad.
Les Grandes Crues are Eve Côté and Marie-Lyne Joncas. Both are graduates of the École Nationale de l'Humour, class of 2014. They will charm you with their verve, their sense of repartee and their very own way of portraying today's society. They are like a good vintage; sometimes full-bodied, but well balanced, and certainly not corky! On stage, the two young comedians talk about their recipe for happiness with a casualness and a very charming look. Their motto: "Life is two things: Accept who you are and... a good glass of muscadet.”
A conflicted teenager comes face-to-face with the cruel reality of her parent’s uncommunicative divorce.
Tired of her parents' constant arguments, 12-year-old Justine and her friends do everything they can to make them divorce.
Upon receiving a letter that would reveal her future, a normally decisive young dreamer's decision whether or not to open it is coloured by the loss of her mother and, the choices that lead to it.
Captivated by the town's whispers of a witch, a young woman places herself in an impetuous position seeking power over her fate.
In a solitary existence, a man is unexpectedly gifted a plasmaball at his doorstep, unraveling a startling revelation. A gateway to an alternate realm situated on the opposite end of his world.
After moving to a new apartment, Gabriel meets Sam, his new charming neighbor. After they have crossed to each other in the elevator a few times, Gabriel has to overcome his shyness and insecurities to call his new neighbor out.
A POV documentary following filmmaker Teresa Alfeld's journey uncovering the story of her childhood best friend's dad, Doug Bennett, leader of the legendary 1980s Canadian party band Doug and the Slugs.
The TNO (Unorganized Territory) Lac-Boisbouscache is a 150 square kilometer public forest located in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec, Canada. Through the eyes of the forest's residents and users, the film paints a portrait of a territory that has long been coveted by private groups with diverse interests. Boisbouscache is a story of dispossession based on current commercial uses combined with the absence of any political will.
Paul is stuck in a dying relationship. Every night, he escapes into his fantasy world by looking at the next-door appartment.
The Perfect Story offers a riveting, intimate look at the ethical and moral challenges sparked by the relationship between a foreign correspondent and a young Somali refugee. By revealing the boundaries of journalism and filmmaking, the film questions what stories are told, why, and who gets to tell them.
Caught up in a symbiotic relationship with her father, Inès (20 years old) embarks on a difficult path to try to escape from this imposing man in order to build her own identity and become an adult woman.
Like mother like daughter. Punk rock one-hit wonder Dani Destroyer and her punk-playing daughter Kat (played by a real-life mother-son duo) transform their angst into lyrics, as they navigate intimacy issues and the tendency to ruin perfect moments in their search for true love. This music-inflected movie centers around two twisty love triangles.
During a tense family Christmas party, Luci, a queer Peruvian-Canadian woman with a massive chip on her shoulder, slips away to give her beloved nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress.
Three separate young women hopelessly run for their lives after finding themselves on the hunting grounds of a flesh-eating humanoid creature.
Follows Abby, who inherited the property of Haven Restaurant and Inn, but being unable to manage both, she must team up with with hot shot chef Preston Weaver to "shake up" the holiday menu and get an investment from a restaurant mogul.
After coming home from a late-night study session at the library, a black university student realizes he is locked out of his apartment building where he has a confrontation with a skeptical white man.
A little boy who loves nature, especially crows, struggles to fit in with his schoolmates.
In a post-apocalyptic world, humans and demons co-exist, but a supernatural force makes them question their reality.
Follows Hazel, who goes to spend the holidays in her home town, where a romance begins to bloom with a local contractor who has been helping her father with their family bakery, but some misunderstandings threaten to tear them apart.
The journey of a young candidate running in the Pessamit community band council elections.
The story of the Toronto-based record store, Play De Record, and how it became a hub for underground music lovers across Canada.
The Apostle John receives disturbing visions of the approaching AntiChrist, the impending apocalypse, a series of demonic creatures, and a psychedelic descent into hell.
Montreal was initially the dream of people who believed in the possibility of creating a better world in New France. Who were those people? Which ideal did they pursue, and why? The answers can be found in a 17th century manuscript, allegedly the hidden memoir of Jeanne Mance. The filmmaker revisits this story in an original, personal way, highlighting how the past echoes the still current yearning to create a world with more humanistic values. —Annabel Loyola
During this exclusive 2 hour documentary experience incredible people sharing incredible testimonials that feature beautiful vistas, religion, traditions, tragedies, fishery, farming, heritage, culture, and amazing talent
Renowned Haida artist Bill Reid shares his thoughts on artistry, activism and his deep affection for his homeland in this heartwarming tribute from Alanis Obomsawin to her friend's life, legacy and roots.
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.
An offbeat dark comedy that follows the life of the reclusive, karaoke loving and heartbroken Ben. But when he receives an unsolicited package from a mysterious delivery man, his stale dreary life is turned upside down, taking him on a wild ride that brings a new love into his life.
On a summer morning, Chichou, a six-year-old girl, invite us to discover what her daily life is made of. Perhaps at the cost of what childhood should normally look like.
After moving from the Philippines to Canada, Marites and Carlo are once again faced with the reality of moving countries again.
A British folk singer is adrift and broken, a shadow of the folk singer that she partnered with as a young singing duo in Yorkville, Toronto. Now she is compelled to help him, and in doing so uncovers a revelation.
An aspiring conductor finds himself in his dream position, conducting an orchestra that doesn't exist.
The daughter of a country singer finds forgiveness and love when she loses her job at a record label and is urged to reunite with her famous father as his road manager.
Twenty young actors are brought together for a creation lab to create a collective work at one of the great national theatres. Over a full year, they scour contemporary Québécois poetry to tap into the spirit of the times.
After having glued hundreds of thousands of young people to their TV sets, what were the repercussions of the MIXMANIA craze and what legacy did it leave? In MIXMANIA : 20 ANS PLUS TARD, Bianca Gervais revisits this unique phenomenon that marked an entire generation by hosting a conventum evening with those who lived it 20 years ago.
The members of the dysfunctional Parker family have had their fair share of complications. When matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel, a feat captured on a video that goes viral-,the Parkers have to do something they never thought possible: act like a real family.
Following his father's death, Benoit must return to the house where he grew up. Blinded by anger and sadness, he goes there with the firm intention of cleaning up and throwing away all the things that remind him of his father. Touching the deceased's piano, the man is transported back to his childhood.
Following the viewing of a strange video, a young woman becomes dangerously obsessed by the ASMR phenomenon, to the great displeasure of her roommates.
A pseudo-documentary follows an unnamed raver obsessed with the extreme sub-genre "gabber," as he drifts through his lonely day by day, far from home and far from his culture.
After spraining her ankle fleeing a terrible date, Zahrah is forced to spend an evening with her estranged ex.
In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold.
Five female artisans from the Innu, Franco-Quebecois, and Zapotec peoples discuss their work. Their techniques, objects, and textile traditions give rise to stories that overlap. Their clothing reflects on identity and otherness.