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- Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
- The disruptions caused in the life of 13 year old Kenny born with underdeveloped legs, removed to replace other missing bones at 6 months old when a French film company comes to do a film about his life and family.
- Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
- During Christmas holidays, the children of a small village split themselves into two groups and begin preparing a week-long snowball war. The rivalry opens up tension among group members, especially leaders Luc and Sophie.
- Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
- A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
- A communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.
- When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.
- The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
- A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
- After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).
- A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
- Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre.
- Documentary focusing on the career of pro wrestler Bret Hart & his controversial exit from the WWF.
- Decided to 'make the States' a hit-man from Montreal accept a contract in New York to kill a mafioso boss, Frank Anastasia. Naturally the Americans don't accept what that 'stranger', that frog have done and track him back. Despaired he contact a radio talk show to tell his story trying to find a way to save the life of his partner in the hand of those who contract him.
- A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
- A couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
- A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
- A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.
- Three bickering people search after the gold mine the father of one of them owned.
- Cindy, an ex-prostitute rescues Marianne, one of her pimp's potential new recruits and a deadly rivalry begins.
- The film tells the story of an alien from outer space who befriends two young children when he lands in a small town in Quebec.
- A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- On a sandy desert, a man made of sand constructs other sand creatures to help make a beautiful sand castle for themselves.
- Set in mid-winter Montreal, a mentally unstable young man becomes involved with 2 women, which fuels his paranoia, forcing him to commit criminal acts.
- A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
- A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.
- Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- An experimental film that features busy urban areas, but does so without a soul in sight.
- A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
- A Frenchman has an affair while on a business trip.
- What can you do on an ice rink? Skate of course. Alone or in family. You can play ice hockey, organize skating races or simply slide for pleasure.
- Cruel, and utterly effective, Peter Foldes' experimentation with computer animation employs a bold speechless narrative to draw attention to the grave effects of consumerism. Who needs ethics when everything is within arm's reach?
- To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.
- A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative reactions of her parents, boyfriend, etc in a series of vignettes.
- This film is a documentary about the filming of one of Buster Keaton's movies: The Railrodder (1965).
- A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
- Jim King is a struggling country singer whose life if falling apart. His partner left him to pursue a solo career, his son is out of control and his ex-wife hates his guts and can't wait to see him fail. Life on the road is no fairytale.
- Through an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
- In this short animation film, a magnificent bird performs for the Emperor inside a glittering palace. Its plumage is a blaze of colour. A blackbird, watching enviously, strives to acquire what he so desperately covets, only to discover that a golden cage can't compete with the open skies.
- National Film Board of Canada Donald Owen teamed with NFB producer Donald Brittain for an imaginative profile of Montreal poet Leonard Cohen.
- The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.
- Egoyan's contribution to Inspired By Bach, a series of six films featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborating with different artists to explore new interpretations of six Bach Cello Suites.
- A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.
- A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.
- Explores the life and work of Ryan Larkin, as well as the making of Chris Landreth's short film Ryan (2004).
- An image of a boy in a rowboat is zoomed out to the cosmic vastness of space and then zoomed into the infinitesimal microreality of him.
- When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.