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- A psychiatric patient with a brain implant that allows her to relive her dreams finds her reality being encroached upon in unappetizing and surreal ways.
- It's 2049 on a forsaken island off the coast of Toronto where the survival of the islanders depends on young Ti-Jeanne to risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a caribbean priestess and save her people.
- A volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
- 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.
- In a dystopian future, three musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.
- It's about a woman's pursuit to join her missing lover by crossing into a parallel dimension.
- Ordinary people in New York are asked to talk about their lives and their hopes for the future in a time marked by political division and climate change.
- A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.
- Erwin (Erwin van Cotthem), a family man who spends most of his time playing computer games, makes a drastic shift in his life when he suddenly decides to leave his wife, yet finds himself in the same rut as before.
- Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, while her mother was in prison, Walaa is determined to survive basic training to become one of the few women on the Palestinian Security Forces - not easy for a girl who breaks all the rules. Following Walaa from 15 to 21, with an intimate POV and the exuberant energy of its subject, this is the story of a young woman navigating formidable obstacles, learning which rules to break and follow, and disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.
- A woman retreats to a lonely cabin in the woods in order to wrestle with her demons and the debilitating ailment that plagues her.
- A family tries to schedule the medically assisted death of a loved one.
- Exhausted by her newborn, a first-time mother's home becomes a trap as her husband's sinister intentions emerge.
- What do you do if you're nine and nobody will tell you what "fellatio" means? When Andy's Uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behaviour. Armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, Andy corners the men, who can do nothing buy comply.
- A young girl wears her afro to school on picture day and must deal with the unexpected consequences.
- London had the Sex Pistols, New York had the Ramones, but Toronto had a punk movement all its own. In the end, the Toronto landscape by the late 70s was forever changed with the infusion of the DIY/Punk/Alternative culture(s) movement.
- Derek is 34 and lives in his parents' basement. Single, self-interested and gauche, he divides his time between casual work for his uncle, cringe inducing encounters with women and an animation project.
- 16 Filmmaking Teams created a broken-telephone-narrative. A sprawling DIY epic. A movie that morphs rapidly before your very eyes. An ambitious community project formed in the midst of fractured isolation.
- From a pile of deteriorating 16 mm home movies from 1936 to 1951, a moving story emerges of a Chinese American family, set against the backdrop of race and class in Chicago.
- Two strangers meet. One moment, one sentence, one choice sets their lives on a dramatically different course. A poetically urban exploration of violence and grace.
- A westernized Indian gains his first exposure to South Asian culture when he wanders into Toronto's Little India, and when he tries to woo a beautiful girl, discovers reality is not quite like Bollywood.
- A cinema verite documentary about the lives of four journalists in the midst of an industry-wide crisis.
- Eugene, a teenager with Down syndrome, spends hours drawings his favourite thing, rainbows. But behind his seemingly colourful world is a reality he can't escape, his mother's illness. Desperate to help her, Eugene soon learns that hanging onto the life he knows means losing more than he ever imagined.
- A fallen corporate executive spending her last moments in her office makes a fleeting connection with the security guard tasked with escorting her from the building.
- 'Girls on Top' is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the lives of eight women as they reunite to perform in an award-winning production of Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls'. A funny and insightful examination of what it means to be a 'top girl', 'Girls on Top' features screen and stage icons including Ann-Marie MacDonald and Megan Follows.
- Ska and Reggae legend Stranger Cole moved to Toronto in the early 1970s leaving stardom behind in Jamaica. We met with the veteran some 40 years later in his old neighbourhood to unearth his legacy in Toronto.
- A short film that explores euthanasia and assisted suicide. The narrative centers on Marie, a woman in her thirties who is struggling with the decision to 'pull the plug' on her sister Magda, who has been in a coma for an extended period. Marie is haunted by Magda, who appears to her in various forms and pleads with Marie to give consent to end her life. In contrast, Marie's mother, Giovanna, considers any intervention that would hasten Magda's death to be tantamount to murder. Interspersed with the story is documentary footage of people answering the question, 'What does it mean to be alive?'projected onto our set. Marie ultimately escapes her torment with the help of a mysterious character who helps her choose for herself and her sister.