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- The wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.
- Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
- An immortal, bigoted, unethical taxidermist is doing research on "Patient Zero", the gay flight attendant who allegedly was the first to bring AIDS to North America, for a museum show about contagious diseases, helped by the man's ghost.
- A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
- Vijay Chatterjee was born in British India, and his dad was a freedom fighter. Unable to handle the riots between Hindus and Muslims in the late 40s, the Chatterjees first immigrated to Britain, and then to Toronto, Canada, where they enjoyed considerable bliss in the company of other Canadians from Bangla Deshis, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, and opened a restaurant. Shortly thereafter, the restaurant was attacked and pelted with stones by White Supremacists amidst cries of 'Pakis go back home'. An unsettled Vijay, who was now married to Sangeeta, and had a son named Ashish, re-located to Montreal, where he opened a Restaurant named 'Delhi'. After Sangeeta passed away, Vijay meets with a beautiful young florist named Maarya, and convinces her to first starting working as a Cook in his restaurant and then to get married to Ashish, which she does. Although both Vijay and Ashish are initially fascinated by her. Things do not go as planned when Maarya finds out that Ashish is homosexual, has a male friend named Michel Diol, who he likes to hang around with; and eventually starts falling in love and being intimate with her father-in-law. Things get worse when another male, Zakir, enters their lives - and it is this entry that will turn their lives upside down - especially when they find out that Maarya is pregnant - and may have a dark side to her character.
- A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
- A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
- Two friends meet after 15 years. One of them is in love with the other. One night she comes clean and is rebuffed by her shocked friend - at first.
- A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
- A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
- Wanda and Eric are a couple who lead a wild sex life, while Elaine and Frederick have a troubled marriage on the verge of divorce. Into the mix comes Gus, a pizza delivery man who gets drawn into the two couples' power games.
- The history of post-World War II popular dance up to the mid-sixties is explored with the focus being on the Twist.
- Jude hides behind a wall of complacency until, one day, at work, she counters an enigmatic man who gives her a lilac sprig. She is mesmerized by the beauty of the lilac and is strangely drawn to it. Day after day, Jude notices that, unlike her other plants, the lilac is not wilting but is, in fact, blooming - exponentially. Jude confronts the Man several times, trying to understand this phenomenon, but he remains enigmatic, giving her a gentle nudge toward a certain direction.
- Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.
- A Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine.
- A boy with an abusive alcohol drinking father has the passion for Jazz music finds befriends a worn out depressive Jazz club musician.
- French-Canadian adult brothers Mike and Bin still live with their parents in the working class neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Toronto, their parents who largely support them. Mike works a low paying nine to five job hoping to come out the other end with a long term stable career in the trades. Bin is shyster who doesn't really believe in work. What money he earns is in flipping junkers. His M.O. in selling them is to tell his customers of some minor issues with the cars so that they cannot come back to him later with the major issues which he doesn't disclose, he referring them back to the sales pitch and blaming the problems on their improper maintenance. Bin spends most of what he makes at the bar, with his one material extravagance being a several hundred dollar pair of alligator shoes for which he's long been looking. Despite the differences between the two, they will always help the other out of their frequent scrapes in the old adage of blood, at least theirs and their parents, being thicker than water. Their mother informs them that the youngest of their maternal aunts, Danielle, who is only a few years older than the two of them, is coming to live with them temporarily. Danielle has just been deinstitutionalized from her second psychiatric hospital stay. This temporary living situation is until she can get on her feet and demonstrate to social services that she is fit enough to retain custody of her pre-school aged daughter, Ginny. Danielle added to the household has the potential to tear the brothers apart as one wants nothing to do with her, while the other not only sees her as family but has a greater affinity to her emotionally. Being around Mike and Bin also has the potential to throw Danielle's recovery off track in coming between the brothers.
- Dramatizes the mysterious circumstances of three mothers dying in a Toronto hospital shortly after giving birth. When a nurse is charged in connection to the deaths, the other nurses on the ward decide to figure out what happened.
- The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only, and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.
- A well-intentioned, young Canadian couple help a family in the Philippines recover from the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan.
- Two college students on a survival weekend in the wilderness cross paths with three desperate killers in what turns into a fight for life.
- Faustus is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada. Back in the real world, Faustus' boss Robert Joy plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cultish geometric theory known as Total Education, but Joy may be foiled at any minute by the revelation of his earlier career as a flamenco dancer.
- Two sisters travel to their father's fishing cabin to spare others from their misery.
- Young vacationing couple get directions from a crazy mechanic.
- An excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (Sontata in primitive sounds) parades across the screen thanks to a Remington typewriter.
- Men who were hired for the main operations building in Hell and electrocuted at their computers to take them there describe their jobs and show viewers the technological and administrative side of maintaing Hell and each of its levels.
- Recalling her mother's painful secret of eating less and remembering her grandmother serving up an appalling swill called ""shipwreck,"" Helen (Kristen Thomson) tries to enjoy a creamy dish at a restaurant. When she finally decides to fight for food against her mother's loud protests, not only is she affirming her appetite, but also her independence as a woman and a lover.
- A shy young woman tries the latest craze in self-improvement: personality-modifying software diskettes which fit into a slot cut in your head!
- An ejaculate of sperm swim through a uterus. At the branches of the Fallopian tubes, half go one way and half the other. Down one tube toward the sperm bounces a female head, singing, happily on her way. Four sperm zero in; she panics but can't avoid them. Pow! they hit her full force and disappear into her. The decision she makes and what she does next change the course of her life in a major way.
- Mohawk high steel workers have a special place in North American history. The iconic New York skyline - with its great monuments to modernity - is the fruit of their labour.
- A short drama that takes a humourous look at the consumer society.
- A surreal narrative short, attacking themes of repression, fear, self-acceptance, love and mortality.
- An older woman remembers her youth and the time she spent with her now dead husband.
- Determined to help her depressed father, a young girl finds the key to his happiness: his very own junkyard.
- A woman contemplates the word 'spinster' through the memory of her first driving lesson, when at the age of 14, her spinster aunt put her behind the wheel of a car and told her to drive.
- The lives of six young people unfold in a journey where the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reality and dream cease to exist in post Soviet Latvia.