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- University of Texas student Duane Graves chronicles his charismatic childhood chum Rene Moreno, a San Antonio native with Down Syndrome, in this playful, stirring, remarkably unique portrait documentary.
- Des works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Colin, an aspiring writer who refuses to look for a job. Des meets Laurie while visiting a work-mate who is dying of leukemia. While they go for a drive, Laurie invites Des to a rent party at their house. After this Vancouver counter-culture party, Colin finds Des and Laurie in bed together.
- Tom is a working-class student in his last year at high school, and hopes to win a scholarship to the university. He and his friend Bill are obsessed with watching women, and blame their lack of success in seducing them on not having a car. Tom studies with the rather plain Cathy, but there is a casual camaraderie between them. Tom goes steady with the buxom Elaine, but never gets very far with her, as she is saving herself for marriage. Eventually Elaine persuades Tom to propose. Meanwhile, Cathy and Tom's playfulness goes too far, and she becomes pregnant. Bill's friends threaten to say that they all had sex with Cathy, if she forces Tom into marriage.
- A young drug-addict couple sell their bodies for sexual purpose
- Insecurities wreak hilarious havoc as we follow struggling actress Jane Post on "the audition from hell"!
- Dominic, a courageous missionary working in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, is called home to Canada to arrange his mother's funeral and figure out how to deal with his brilliant yet schizophrenic older sister, Grace
- Can someone actually become wealthier after they die? In this revealing hour-long factual series viewers will find out how rich the famous actually were when they died and the surprising fortunes being made years after they're gone.
- When the economics of life in the big city force a frustrated young writer to hole up with a nutty musician, a clash of the misfits ensues as the two artists struggle to remain productive in one another's company. When the musician's home plumbing project destroys the writer's magnum opus, the young scribe strikes back, leading to a hilarious revelation that could enable the two to live together in harmony.
- In a world where romance has been replaced by speed dating, is arranged marriage the hassle-free way of getting hitched in the new millennium? This documentary takes a lighthearted look at young American Desis who are willingly placing their destiny in the hands of their parents, marriage brokers, and internet matrimonial ads. Navigating us through the film is Rupa Gawle - a young, hip, and very single popular Desi columnist. As she tries to understand how young, successful South Asian-Americans would want to subject themselves to the age-old tradition of arranged marriages, we are introduced to a cast of colorful characters who will tell us exactly why.
- A bittersweet teen drama - doubling as an outrageous action-comedy - about a group of graduating Vancouver high school students facing their fears, their futures and each other while playing a no-holds-barred, spy-vs.-spy style water gun game.
- In Celebrity Damage Control we follow celebrities as they build an illustrious career but then make one wrong move - one misstep or a series of disastrous choices - that take them crashing down to rock bottom. From driving under the influence, to shoplifting, to tax evasion, to beating up the paparazzi, to murder we unveil Hollywood's most notorious celebrity scandals and find out how these celebrities manage to rebuild, overcome or climb up out of the hole they've created. Our experts examine their past and present, and the damage control steps they take that extraordinarily help our celebrities arrive back at the top unscathed.
- A mother-daughter relationship, with its misunderstandings and long simmering resentments, is explored with humor, insight and understanding... The film is notable, too, for bringing back to the screen the long absent and lovely South African actress Mary Peach.
- Nightfall. Marco, a politician, is murdered while he is going home. Also Luca, a gay man, is going home, where his partner Paolo is waiting. But he is on the killer's way, and he is shot. Paolo dashes to the hospital but the doctor doesn't want to tell him anything because Paolo isn't a "real" relative. Luca dies. Paolo starts walking in the streets of the town, where his loneliness will be ever misunderstood. A barman tries to comfort him supposing he was discharged by his girlfriend. Luca's mother orders Paolo to leave the house. A guy takes Paolo to him's, looking for a partner in the night. Paolo runs away from everybody, also from his friend Francesca: she says she is understanding but she can't. While the dawn is coming, Paolo reads about the murders on the newspapers, and realizes that what happened was reality.
- A frustrated, despairing housewife and young mother of two, imprisoned by her domestic world and ignored by her succesful husband, becomes increasingly bereft of hope and a means of escape.
- Countercultural celebs put their own spin on everything from infomercials to maniacal Orange County housewives.
- Created by award winning producer/director Tony Papa for CBC Television, ICE: beyond cool explores the hopeless posturing, isolation and angst of contemporary kids, grounding them in the explosive energy, fresh language and fast paced reality of high school life. Compelling, multi-layered, a vivid kaleidoscope of music, movement and hard-hitting drama, the film artistically captures an urban teen's struggle to fight the creeping unreality of her life and the increasing attraction of suicide.
- "Traveler" is a visual, aural, and sensual feast which chronicles a woman's spiritual journey. It is an experimental short film about metaphysical journeys described as a "non-narrative, nation-hopping adventure." A woman travels through Indian cities and deserts, Southwest American ruins and dunes, and west coast beaches, seeking the world's sacred places, in a journey compelled and colored by the music of Paul Horn and Christopher Hedge.
- A man is admitted into a psychiatric hospital under emergency section. We follow his experience of anxiety, false hope and frustration.
- Bertie, a 77-year old woman, struggles through a Thanksgiving with her overbearing family, her deteriorating health and her craving for a cigarette.
- A computer geek meets a fruit bearing new age goddess from the web personals and has a soul altering experience.
- Poe retold without a net. This dark-humour retelling of Poe's twisted classic about a man driven to commit murder most foul by causes most innocuous, contains a timely warning. College student, Ned, is afflicted with an unusual malady. He craves peace and quiet. Like Poe's character in the original, he is saddled with a rare nervous disorder that causes him to hear every sound amplified ten-fold. Enter Thor, Ned's head-banger room-mate, aptly named after the Norse god of thunder. Thor is fun: "PARTEE!" Thor is deep: "I see dude people!" Thor is noise personified; an all-American party dude on sonic steroids. Ned jams in ear plugs and dons ear muffs, but it's like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Thor turns the cooking of a simple meal into a Motorhead mike test. Ned has to kill him. Less problematic alternatives, like moving, are out of the question. The world is awash with noise. Ned must create peace and quiet at home. He uses a chainsaw. Like Poe's bipolar protagonist, Ned flips and attempts to clumsily dispose of Thorian chunks when interrupted by the police. The cops, self-absorbed guys who hate their job, completely miss the obvious while preoccupied with such irrelevancies as the effects of a high carb diet on bowel habits. A morality tale for duplicitous times, Tall Tale Heart echoes Poe's tortured sentiment (rendered here in bumper-stickerese) "the more I hear from the world, the more I prefer silence.
- Germany's 1916 Olympic hopeful must face his destiny even if that means he will never see the Olympic games.
- An emotionally disconnected married couple and a hapless drifter are all connected when a mysterious little girl appears to them individually. Some fear, some embrace and some evade. None of them knows what to expect from the unknown.
- Midas is a retelling of the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch. It is told from the perspective of the narrator who was read the tale over and over again as a child. The film begins brightly but becomes darker as some of the narration's unspoken implications are revealed.
- A comedy/drama set in the outskirts of New York. Two men, one young, Costa, and one middle-aged, Gary, fight for the feelings of the same girl. Costa is propelled by rage and power, while Gary is fueled by desire and deceit, but can a war be won with such flawed motives?
- A haunting dance showing off the ES Dance Instrument.
- Josephine sets the mood; music, candles, and a steamy hot tub for a romantic evening with her boyfriend Jeffery. Unfortunately, their evening is quickly interrupted by the unexpected entrance of Josephine's Ex: Shaun. Shaun has some issues; namely he is still in love with Jo and knows that she still loves him. Jeffery, however, disagrees. An emotionally charged evening ensues with Josephine in the middle trying to sort out love, passion, friendship, and her own sense of self. This short film poses the ultimate question: Can another person possibly make us whole?
- Matt Wilton, a 10-year-old Eurasian boy, is having breakfast with his parents when they tell him that he must go and see his Grandpa because it's Grandpa's birthday. Matt isn't keen on the idea. Grandpa lives in the past and Matt doesn't understand him. Grandpa's so old-fashioned that he doesn't even own a computer. But Matt is a good boy and does his duty and when we finally meet Grandpa we discover that he's a real groovy geezer.
- A follow up to "Eterne Sangui" showcasing disabled dancers for the first time on film.
- Sherri is Joe's half-brother's stepdaughter. When 'Uncle' Joe visits for the first time in years, Sherri has grown up and changed...as have her ideas about the special connection they've always shared. A fun and offbeat look at family, identity, and the search for meaning in our lives.
- Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas.