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- Stan Rogers returns to Nova Scotia, the inspiration for many of his songs and the home of many of his family members.
- Anne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.
- An insecure little girl receives a visit from the tooth fairy and the two become the best of friends.
- A family cursed with an odd history of misfortune must come to terms with the fact that history is about to repeat itself again with the impending birth of a baby boy. An idiosyncratic comedy, MY UNCLE NAVY and Other Inherited Disorders follows Hodgie and his Uncle Navy as they search for his father in order to get him to the hospital in time for the birth of his ill-fated second son.
- Michael is dragged on an unwanted family camping trip which proves more enjoyable than he expected.
- Sally, The little sister of Ben's owner, Simon, would like her very own teddybear and asks Santa Claus for one. Simon teases Sally about her letter to Santa, whose existence he is a little skeptical about, and at the same time tries to find out what it is she wants. But for Sally it is a secret between herself, Santa and Ben.
- From the popular comic strip comes a Christmas special. Elizabeth struggles with being the middle child. Join the family through some life lessons.
- A botched mattress delivery, a broken vacuum, and a trip to the gynecologist conspire to shake-up the lives of some very imperfect people.
- Young William Bunnykins is excited about his upcoming birthday, but that day also happens to be his hometown's 500th anniversary and Queen Sophie is making a royal visit. William begins worry that his family and friends are too busy preparing for the Queen's visit, that they have forgotten his birthday.
- The Romans dispersed the Jews from Judaea in 70 AD; Islam became the religion of Palestine 1300 years ago. The film focuses on Gaza and the West Bank where soldiers and youths are caught up in the Intefada, and on the clash of history and ideas in regions to which both peoples have historical claims. The film intersperses in-the-street footage with interviews with academics, journalists, soldiers, artists, family members of prisoners, and victims of violence. With emphasis on the lives of the refugees and settlers, and following a "Golani" platoon of Israeli soldiers led by Lt. Kobi Motiv, the film dramatizes the irreconcilable positions of many on both sides.
- A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
- A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
- The history of post-World War II popular dance up to the mid-sixties is explored with the focus being on the Twist.
- A history of mankind's interactions with Niagara Falls, from initial awe, to harnessing of the Falls' power, which leads to the destruction of nearby areas such as Love Canal.
- A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
- An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
- Emily is celebrating her birthday and Dragon is invited, too. However, the birthday clowns plan to steal him.
- A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
- Alex admits to his best friend Brad that he is gay.
- Harry Raymond, Canada's Ambassador in Moscow, is at the pinnacle of a distinguished diplomatic career. When he is implicated in a potentially sensational scandal involving the murder of a young Russian artist, Harry and his emotionally fragile wife Marianne are recalled to Ottawa. As Harry's carefully constructed life of diplomacy comes crashing down around him, we learn of the surprising and sustaining role that Marianne has played in her husband's life.
- Two young boys are social outcasts in their community due to their disabilities and broken home lives. When they are paired together, they form a bond over their shared circumstances.
- A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.
- A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.
- A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.
- Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force.
- A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
- A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
- A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
- A Nova Scotian woman falls into a violently abusive relationship with a disgusting man, finally taking drastic measures to get rid of him forever.
- Lizette, Carol and Cheryl-Ann work as waitresses in Joe's donut shop located in the small town of Stayner, Ontario. While naive and perpetually smiling Cheryl-Ann, whose outwardly happy existence is despite her mother being seriously ill, considers Lizette her best friend, irresponsible Lizette - who is the bane of Joe's existence - finds Cheryl-Ann annoying. That is why it is with reluctance that Lizette asks Cheryl-Ann to be the replacement fourth for an ill Carol in tonight's double date, thirty-fifth birthday celebration for Lizette to the Dan Hill concert in Toronto. Terry (Lizette's exterminator husband) and Terry's exterminator partner Simon are the other two in the foursome. Lizette needed to find that fourth as Simon, who just broke up with his fiancée Pam, would not go without a date, and Terry wouldn't go without Simon, as both men really would prefer to stay in town and go to the local hockey game. The events of the evening, which don't go according to plan, begin the process of each examining their relationships with the other three as well as with other townsfolk including Lizette's younger sister Darlene who has self-image issues, and Johnny "The Polak", the enforcer for the local hockey team.
- A boy with an abusive alcohol drinking father has the passion for Jazz music finds befriends a worn out depressive Jazz club musician.
- A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
- After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
- A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
- A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
- Documents the contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.
- A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.
- Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.
- An adaption of the classic tale of a girl's dreams turned reality when her new toy turns out to be a young man placed under a curse.
- Kathleen's a hard-working single mother, who's saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoe. Sam's a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo. Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out. But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoe who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam.
- A ballet version of the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen from the Ottawa Ballet company with narration from Sally Struthers.
- A little boy is taken by the Sand Man to Santa's workshop, only to discover that it has been taken over and industrialized by an evil robot.
- In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
- 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.
- In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
- Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.
- Henry Adler, a bank employee and actor, is cast as a cop in an upcoming television series but he begins to take his duties seriously.
- An adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen story in which two mice rescue a tin soldier to reunite him with a paper ballerina.
- A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.