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- A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.
- Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.
- A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
- When Angela (Sarah Smyth) refuses to leave her planned-parenthood clinic after it is shut down by the state, a family of fanatical evangelists vow to make her pay.
- A portrait of five Vancouverites living on society's fringes during the 2010 Winter Olympics, "Luk'Luk'I" takes us into uncharted territory, falling somewhere between a fiction we need to see and a documentary we wish didn't have to exist.
- Shae Fitzgerald is a new teacher dogged by a violent past and a relentless desire to reach his students, five tenth-grade misfits with clinical issues who don't give a shit.
- Sigmund is a docile and obedient worker who is given an opportunity of a life time when his manager, Mr. Wolfman, assigns him the task of completing a hefty dossier on their company's profit margin. Upon sitting down to start working however, Sigmund is confronted with his worst nightmare: naked people.
- A makeshift family of five roommates struggle to carve their own path while living on Vancouver's eclectic, diverse and unpredictable Commercial Drive.
- En route to an international competition, Closing The Gap follows the North Korean men's hockey team as they strive to bring home gold for Marshal Kim Jong Un. While their commitment and dedication to their training is unmatched, they're hard pressed to catch a break. Whether it be the UN sanctions on North Korea, or the flurry of injuries and rumours that plague the DPRK team, this film is a window into the lives of a group of underdog athletes. With the weight of their country's history and reputation on their shoulders, they struggle to seek that which we all seek - self-worth. Unlike any other film produced on North Korea, Closing The Gap is a lyrical composition which hybridizes elements of sport documentary (Last Chance U) with real-time, changing perspectives (White Helmets). The result is an honest portrayal of what these athletes feel and experience as they foray into the wider world beyond the DPRK. In what is the first recorded account of North Korea allowing foreigners access to any sports club, this intimate look reveals blissful subtleties of character from a regime not conducive to individuality.
- ShortFour university graduate students travel to the desert to test a time machine for the first time and become trapped in a life an death paradox.
- The Chorus (2018) by Dan Starling This cinematic artwork addresses the decline and eventual dismissal of the chorus of ancient Greece from epic drama.
- Run is a short psychodrama set in the world of Elite Triathlon. After receiving a life-altering message from his partner during preparations for a crucial late-season race,Tristan, a leading professional Triathlete, is forced to face up to traumas from his past before he can confront his new future.
- A weathered youth pastor and former Christian rocker follows his favourite youth group member to college to monitor his moral integrity.
- Carol discovers how to lose friends and alienate people when she starts singing songs she wrote about people she knows.
- Inspired by and featuring the songs of Dan Mangan, With Me is a rock music/film fusion that is an intimate and heartfelt exploration of sorrow and longing and our understanding of contemporary relationships.
- Nothing can come between a man and his robot pal until a mysterious woman appears --and trouble is close on her heels.
- A northern small town family embarks on a manhunt to avenge the death of one of their own.
- Two young men contemplate their course of action after finding out that one's sister is pregnant and her junkie husband has just come back into the picture.
- After having seen his estranged uncle on the bus for the first time in years, Eric weighs the merits of reaching out to him, and the risk it may pose to his family.
- Tired of being ripped off by entitled hipsters, taxi driver Inderjeet Dhaliwal is prepared to call the cops when his latest customer, a boisterous young soul singer named Maggie, can't pay the fare. Desperate to get to her audition, Maggie attempts to find some common ground between them, and uncovers an unexpected shared love of deep soul music.
- Featuring Canada's hottest new comics gather for one hilarious night of stand-up as part of JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just for Laughs Festival.
- 'Big O' follows Micky Carrington, a 20-something who seeks to confront misguided ideas of healthy female sexuality on her journey to achieve her first real orgasm.
- The Arrangement is a short crime / drama film about a hitchhiker who finds herself intertwined with three different individuals and fifty-thousand stolen dollars.
- For an Aboriginal girl who must choose between running from her abusive father or staying as a devoted nanny, family is all about perspective.
- A concerned son extends his visit home to take care of his aging father.
- Anderson Losada is a Columbian refugee resettled in Canada, where an obscure law prevented him from citizenship and cost him his Paralympic dreams in downhill skiing.
- A young man's future and an old man's past are discussed when their truck gets stuck on the side of the road.
- He was funny on Twitter and it changed his life. Follow a cashier manager whose Funny Tweets help him connect with Andy Richter and the writers of Family Guy & The Simpsons. Through interviews, they share how powerful a Funny Tweet can be.
- A professional mourner is hired to cry at her estranged father's funeral.
- A pitch-black comedy that follows a divorced couple as they quarrel over the ashes of their recently-deceased son.
- A dance through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside serves as a haunting metaphor for the life of an Indigenous sex worker.
- A woman, her lover and his muse.
- Filmmakers capture newcomer artist, Wally Preston hosting his first art exhibition where he hopes to impress an esteemed art critic.
- After staging a suicide attempt, Shelby is committed to a psych ward to be with the man she loves, only to realize that he doesn't remember her.
- A struggling actor abandons all logic when she finds a stranger unconscious in her laundry room.
- Ana, a newly wed woman, takes a break from her reception to have a private conversation with a long-time friend.
- A full-time mother/part-time sex-worker goes missing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- The film follows a disgruntled man who struggles to live in a self regulative society leading to his own psychosis. I See You & Me is a philosophical exploration into a world where even in our most private moments, we always feel like we are being watched.
- Three Downtown East Side residents have the chance to lose, and perhaps rediscover themselves in their most intimate fantasies.
- Trapped for 10 years in a basement, 16 year old Ariel who only one fairytale movie to keep her company, escapes and her innocent world based on fantasy collides with reality.
- Exploring the challenges of convenience culture is placing on the environment; doable actions anyone can adopt to curb waste in daily lives.
- Government officials and Indigenous youth, elders, and community leaders explore issues of wellbeing, health, housing, education and governance in three Northern Ontario First Nations in the Ring of Fire.