THE FRIENDSHIP GAME
A group of teenagers in a small town discover a strange object that tests the strength of their friendship.
Directed by: Scooter Corkle
Written by: Damien Ober
Starring: Peyton List, Brendan Meyer, Kelcey Mawema
COLD COPY
An ambitious journalism student falls under the thrall of an esteemed yet cutthroat news reporter whom she's desperate to impress, even if it means manipulating her latest story - and the very idea of truth itself.
Directed by: Roxine Helberg
Starring: Bel Powley, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jacob Tremblay
Official Selection, 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.
Come To Daddy
A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.
Directed By Ant Timpson
Written By Toby Harvard
Starring: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson
Come To Daddy in the Media
THE APPRENTICE
Written by Gabriel Sherman, THE APPRENTICE is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Directed by: Ali Abbasi
Starring: Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.
A Canadian-Irish-Danish co-production.
Official Selection, Cannes International Film Festival 2024.
CLOSE TO YOU
Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday. Once there, he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old friend.
A film by Dominic Savage.
Starring: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack
Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2023
LONGING
A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.
Based on an Israeli award winning movie.
This is a story about parenthood, about the desire to be a parent and the afflictions that come with it: identification and honor. This is a journey that creates near-laboratory conditions for the examination of the hidden aspects of parenthood.
Directed by: Savi Gabizon
Starring: Diane Kruger, Richard Gere, Jessica Clement
Kayak To Klemtu
Adventure film celebrates the wild west coast of Canada and gives voice to communities living in the shadow of encroaching industry. Kayak to Klemtu invites viewers on an epic journey through the spectacular landscapes of The Great Bear Rainforest, as 14-Year-old Ella searches for the courage to speak for her people and the connection to the land they are defending.
Directed By Zoe Hopkins
Written By Zoe Hopkins and Michael Sparaga
Starring Ta'kaiya Blaney, Evan Adams, Jared Ager-Foster, Sonja Bennett, and Lorne Cardinal
Backstabbing For Beginners
Per Fly’s “Backstabbing for Beginners” is a political thriller based on Danish/American whistleblower Michael Soussan’s acclaimed memoir about the Oil for Food scandal, widely known as the biggest financial scandal in UN history.
Directed By Per Fly
Written By Per Fly and Daniel Pyne
Starring: Theo James, Ben Kingsley, Jacqueline Bisset and Belçim Bilgin.
Bang Bang Baby
A small town teenager in the 1960s believes her dreams of becoming a famous singer will come true when her rock star idol gets stranded in town. But a leak in a nearby chemical plant that is believed to be causing mass mutations threatens to turn her dream into a nightmare.
Directed and Written By Jeffrey St. Jules
Starring: Jane Levy, Justin Chatwin, and David Reale
Winner of TIFF’s Best Canadian First Feature Film award.
Brother Frank
Brother Frank follows a young woman, Odessa, as she grapples with articulating her ideas as a video-artist. She floats through the joyous esprit of the big city art scene, looking to find some purpose to infuse in her work. After hearing of his story, she journeys to meet Brother Frank, an elderly monk ostracized by his church. Through jilted conversation Odessa finds out more about Frank’s unfortunate situation with the monastery he refuses to leave. Their relationship develops until an unexpected turn of events changes the course of her visit.
Directed by Iris Fraser
Diamond Tongues
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.
Directed By Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson
Written By Pavan Moondi
Starring Leah Fay Goldstein, Abe Sanjakdar, and Morgan Osbourne
Dim The Fluorescents
Struggling actor Audrey (Claire Armstrong) and aspiring playwright Lillian (Naomi Skwarna) pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: corporate role-playing demonstrations. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date and the ensuing tensions threaten to derail both the production and their friendship. As wryly funny as it is unexpectedly poignant, DIM THE FLUORESCENTS is a one-of-a-kind portrait of the artistic life and process in the unlikeliest of settings.
Directed By Daniel Warth
Written By Miles Barstead and Daniel Warth
Starring: Claire Armstrong and Naomi Skwarna
Don’t Get Killed In Alaska
DON’T GET KILLED IN ALASKA follows Liney (Lee-nee) a 20 year-old tomboy as she travels back to Ontario with her new boyfriend Dan after a summer of tree planting. Having lost all their money in a questionable incident, Liney agrees to ask her family for money to get them both to Alaska where they plan to spend the winter working on a fishing boat. Liney is forced to deal with her family dynamics as she meets with her estranged mother, her judgmental older brother and her silent father. Everyone has a plan for Liney, except for Liney.
Directed and Written By Bill Taylor
Starring: Tommie-Amber Pirie, Oliver Dennis, Rosemary Dunsmore, Ben Lewis, and John Nelles
Falling
A conservative father moves from his rural farm to live with his gay son's family in Los Angeles.
Directed and Written By Viggo Mortensen
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Hannah Gross, and Laura Linney
Falling in the Media
Giant Little Ones
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Written and Directed By Keith Behrman
Starring: Darren Mann, Josh Wiggins, Taylor Hickson, Maria Bello and Kyle MacLachlan.
Hotel Congress
Two people meet in a hotel in the middle of the desert and try not to have an affair.
With a satirical wink at the romance of cinematic ennui, Hotel Congress is a funny and tender story of true love told through infidelity. Where principles act as foreplay.
Directed by Nadia Litz and Michael Kandinsky
Written By Nadia Litz
Starring: Nadia Litz and Philip Riccio
How To Rid Your Lover Of A Negative Emotion Caused By You!
Sadie and Dennis are a couple in love. Sometimes. Sometime they fight. Sometimes they get angry. It is becoming very difficult for Sadie to keep chloroforming her boyfriend, cutting open his stomach, removing the negative emotion, sewing him back up, and then pretending like nothing happened.
Directed By Nadia Litz
Written By Ryan Cavan
Starring: Sarah Allen and Joe Cobden
Impossible To Contain
This 360 documentary brings the viewer to experience the aftermath of a diesel spill near the First Nations community of Bella Bella, told through the experience of one family. Filmmaker, Zoe Hopkins, brings us to her homeland to experience a family dinner – of seafood, all from Gale Creek, where a tug boat ran aground, spilling over 100,000 liters of diesel. Her cousin, Robert Johnson, describes how the site of the disaster is a main food source for their people, and how it affects their family and way of life.
Directed By Zoe Hopkins
For the best viewing experience, watch this documentary in the YouTube app on a mobile phone.
Percy
Based on events for a 1998 lawsuit, Percy follows a Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser who defends himself against a major conglomerate when a company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in his crops. He and his family risk everything defending themselves against the giant corporation while representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers in a desperate war to protect farmer’s rights and world’s food supply against corporate greed.
Directed By Clark Johnson
Written By Garfield L. Miller, Hilary Pryor
Starring: Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, Zach Braff, Adam Beach, Roberta Maxwell and Luke Kirby
Rememory
Gordon Dunn, a famed experimental psychologist, is found dead on the eve of unveiling an invention that could change the world. A wave of speculation mounts, as the circumstances of his death and the potentially ground-breaking nature of his discovery cause a sensation. In her immense grief, Gordon’s wife, Carolyn, retreats into her house and cuts off contact with the outside world. She soon discovers the prototype, a machine that can play and record patients’ memories, and along with it a trove of “memory” drives from Gordon’s numerous patients, one of whom she expects is his killer. As powerful interests seek control of the invention, Carolyn becomes more and more suspicious. Only Sam, the man sent from the funeral home to deliver Gordon’s ashes, manages to gain her trust. Together Sam and Carolyn journey into her husband’s secret life, sifting through hundreds of memories in an attempt to find clues into Gordon’s mysterious death. As the two begin to uncover the truth of the past, they find that they must ultimately face their own memories in order to grasp the increasingly threatening reality of the present.
Directed By Mark Palansky
Written By Michael Vukadinovich and Mark Palansky
Starring: Peter Dinklage and Julia Ormond
Financier: Great Point Media
Peter Dinklage investigates a mysterious death in Sundance film ‘Rememory’: Exclusive clip
The Eden Express
Based on the memoir of the same title by Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt Vonnegut), The Eden Express depicts Mark’s 1970 quest alongside his girlfriend Virge, leaving his famous father’s house in Nixon’s America to go west in search of a better way of life on a British Columbia commune – ‘Eden’ on earth. However, as this new utopia comes into focus, Mark starts to hear voices and see wild visions that give him ominous instructions, marking the start of his journey with bipolar disorder.
Writer-Director: Daniel Cockburn
Producers: Scythia Films, Violator Films
Recent Press: Variety, Screen Daily
The Husband
A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor.
Directed By Bruce McDonald
Written By Kelly Harms, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Starring: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Sarah Allen, and Dylan Authors
The Parting Glass
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Directed By Stephen Moyer
Written By Denis O’Hare
Starring: Anna Paquin, Denis O’Hare, and Cynthia Nixon
The People Garden
When an actress travels to Japan to break up with her rock star boyfriend, she discovers he has gone missing in a mysterious forest.
Directed and Written by Nadia Litz
Starring Dree Hemingway, Pamela Anderson, James Le Gros, François Arnaud and Liane Balaban.
The Pin
Two young people find love while in hiding during WWII. The boy Jacob, now an old man, works as a Shomer, a religious watchman responsible for guarding the souls of the dead before their burial. One night he comes face-to-face with his long lost love Leah when her dead body is wheeled into the morgue where he works. As he is presented with a final chance at redemption, he recalls the brief but intense circumstances of his love affair with Leah.
Directed and Written By Naomi Jaye
Starring: Milda Gecaite, Paskal Vaklev, and Grisha Pasternak
The VVitch
Late October, 1630s. In an unknown corner of New England, a fledgling farm sits at the edge of a dark and ancient forest. The days are growing shorter. The crops are dying. The animals are ill. William, a poor farmer, left England with his family to live in the Christian utopia of the New World. The family finally found a place far from Satan’s influence. Or so they thought…
Written and Directed By Robert Eggers
Starring: Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie and Anya Taylor-Joy.
Winner of the Best First Feature at Sundance 2015 and the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards
Tomato Red
It’s not our talents that shape our lives, it’s our expectations. Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.
Written and directed by: Juanita Wilson
Starring: Julia Garner, Jake Weary, Anna Friel
Financier: Octagon Films
An Irish-Canadian co-production.
Wet Bum
It's the start of the spring term in a small northern town, heralding swimming lessons, hanging out with best friends, new classes and new possibilities. But this year, things are different for 14-year-old Sam. While her friends are moving on, focusing on boys, experimenting with drugs, Sam is too uncomfortable to even take off her bathing suit in front of the other girls. After landing herself into trouble, she is forced to work as a cleaner at the retirement home run by her mother. Sam finds unexpected and unlikely friendships with two of the retirement home's residents who end up teaching Sam a few things about growing up and growing old.
Directed and Written By Lindsay MacKay
Starring Julia Sarah Stone, Kenneth Welsh, Craig Arnold, Leah Pinsent, and Diana Leblanc
XX
Four short horror films that are directed and written by women.
Directed By Roxanne Benjamin (Don’t Fall), Karyn Kusama (Her Only Living Son), St Vincent (The Birthday Party), and Jovanka Vuckovic (The Box)
Written By Jovanka Vuckovic (The Box), Roxanne Benjamin (Don’t Fall, The Birthday Party), St Vincent (The Birthday Party), Karyn Kusama (Her Only Living Son)
You Are Here
You Are Here is the first feature film by internationally acclaimed Toronto-based video artist Daniel Cockburn. Funny, disturbing, and thought provoking, it pushes at the boundaries of cinematic storytelling — while creating a deep and strange emotional connection with its cast of characters as they negotiate an absurd and cryptic world.
Directed and Written By Daniel Cockburn
Starring: Tracy Wright, R.D. Reid, Anand Rajaram, Nadia Capone, and Hardee T. Lineham
22 Chaser
One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family.
Directed By Rafal Sokolowski
Written By Jeremy Boxen
Starring: Brian J. Smith, Kaniehtiio Horn, Aaron Ashmore, Raoul Trujillo and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee.
Youth Unstoppable
Youth Unstoppable: My Decade in the Youth Climate Movement (formerly An Inconvenient Youth) captures the vibrant untold story of the global youth climate movement. Decisions made today are shaping the world they will live in, and they are no longer willing to sit idly as the planet is degraded for the short term gain of the older generations. Director Slater Jewell-Kemker has been interviewing celebrities and politicians about the environment since the age of ten, now she is telling the stories of these remarkable young people on the front lines of climate change. The feature documentary also gives life to a thriving online community, already forming, that will continue as a youth focused environmental social network. This is the story of the youth of today fighting for their planet, their future.
Directed by Slater Jewell-Kemker
I, OBJECT
Grieving the loss of his father and unable to relate to the people in his life, 10-year-old Tom takes refuge in the everyday objects around him; they reveal their true identities and speak to Tom, helping him in his healing process.
Written & Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Starring:Bentley Storteboom, Skywalker Hughes, Anna Faris
PERMANENT DAMAGE
Prison escapee Tommy Gods spirals further into criminal life when he meets Joe Plísek and is forced to work for her crooked uncle. Together the couple plot to steal his "golden goose" to start a new life.
Directed by: Seth A Smith
Written by: Seth A Smith, Darcy Spidle
NUUR
Nuur is a sensitive and academically gifted 17-year-old boy growing up in Toronto’s Somali community in Dixon. Caught between his faith, intellectual ambitions, and fractured family life, Nuur faces a perilous journey that highlights themes of migration, identity, and belonging.
The film is adapted from the novel “The Youth of God” by Hassan Ghedi Santur.
Directed by: Lula Ali Ismail
Written by: Hassan Ghedi Santur.
Starring: Sabrina Elba