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- The worst nightmare of an loner comes true when he forms a relationship with the girl he's been obsessing about. As they find out about each other, an anti-romance ensues. LTD challenges day-to-day life, the things we take for granted and the repercussions that arise from taking a chance.
- A three-paneled look at the worldwide A.I.D.S. crisis. Three tragic stories taking place in South Africa, China, and Montréal.
- Five Card Stud is an intimate glimpse of a group of friends forced to face the cards they have been dealt. It is a story about love, life, and the consequences of war as seen through the eyes of five women. Kay, Lynn, Sue, Barb and Roxanne met at university and have been close friends ever since. Over the years as each woman's view on politics, power and belonging has grown and shifted, they have continued to get together for poker nights. When Roxanne 's protected world as a successful lawyer comes tumbling down, her friends are confronted with the reality of their own experiences of violence and war. From travel to countries crippled by conflict, to radical politics, to sexuality and self-hood, each woman brings to the table a unique perspective that bears witness to those forgotten in the aftermath of hostility and our incredible capacity for rebirth.
- From East German icon to Europe's ultimate cult car, the Trabant is arguably the most unique car ever made. This documentary tells the intriguing story of the Trabant built out of cotton and resin due to scarce resources by a number of brilliant engineers who defied an oppressive regime and the harsh realities of the cold war. Built for three decades, the car becomes worthless at the fall of the wall. Against all expectation it achieves unprecedented cult status within a few years.
- One hour documentary featuring the long forgotten fate of the people of Southern Sudan.
- A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
- Mysterious...rugged...beautiful - Lake Superior - the largest fresh water body of water in the world. Georgian Bay - home to thousands of islands draped in rich history. Combined, their coasts stretch for over 4000 kilometers to form some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes in Canada. Experience an intimate journey into this magnificent region through the eyes of an artist compelled to capture on canvas this remarkable land. Along with his young family, Cory Trépanier spent almost a month in each season exploring and painting this magnificent wilderness by canoe and kayak, on foot and by snowshoe. Filmed over the entirety of the excursions, this documentary explores the creative process in the first person, bringing the viewer into the artist's mind as he paints from the land, and from his canoe, on location. It shares the adventure of exploring and creating in these challenging environments, and the rewards of taking children into the wilderness, exposing them to fragile and important ecosystems. This timeless, inspiring story will leave viewers with a greater appreciation for our environment, our families, and of course art, as they embark on a journey through an artist's eyes, words and paintings.
- Father and son run their own two-man furniture business but have opposing ideologies on what should guide their craftsmanship, quality or commerce.
- A young missionary, plagued by dreams of an abused alternate life, searches for meaning in a dying world, and discovers that he has an unusual effect on all those he meets. But when tragedy strikes unexpectedly, he realizes that before he can save others, he must first find a way to save himself. A desperate prostitute may hold the answer, but the end is closer than he knows. Produced for less than $1000, this hour-long drama constructs a non-linear puzzle for the viewer that is not complete until the final, shocking moment.
- Everybody and their brother in Little Italy has a story. But few bring together a celestial event, a one of a kind ring, a mysterious man in a white suit, petty jealousy, loving larceny, a would be gondolier, a duel, and a very full spittoon. Eight people's lives are about to change as Jupiter and Venus come together in the night sky for a once in a lifetime event. A Taste of Jupiter is a whimsical romance set under the stars.
- Through winter and summer, across endlessly varied landscapes in search of perfection... not just for the rush, but to unlock the philosophy of The Edge. Against these unadulterated backdrops, the athletes look more animal than human. Like a gecko clinging to a wall, Klem Loskot moves sinuously up a sheer rock cliff. Jerome Ruby leaps from a lonely, lofty sandstone spire to swoop towards the desert below, more falcon than man. David Arnaud descends raging mountain rivers as fluidly and powerfully as the fish that call it home. Australia, Canada, Madagascar, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, the United States, and Vietnam are just some of the locations that provide the organic arenas for their high performance antics.
- Filmmaker, Walter Forsyth sets out on a journey to make a tribute film about photographer/filmmaker, Robert Frank, deconstructing the documentary form along the way. With appearances by Albert Maysles, Nick Broomfield, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Alfred Leslie and Matt Damon. "He pulled a sad poem right out of America, taking his place among the great poets of our time" - Jack Karoac.
- A group of people starts a money pyramid scheme. As they start to make major money, jealousy and greed enter the picture. Their friendships are tested when they start to turn on each other.
- A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results.
- A group of U.S. soldiers defy their country when they release mistreated prisoners.
- Inspired by a true story, Amnesia tells the story of a young man (Dusan Dukic) who wakes up on a Montreal street knowing nothing about himself, except that he's gay.
- An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface.
- To impress a foxy divorcee, ladies' man Nick offers to take her kids on an extended road trip, unaware of the torture he's in for.
- A new global phenomenon: over-equipped police facing furious, defenseless crowds brandishing their cell phones to record everything. The war of images on social media further polarizes police and demonstrators.
- Forty-year old Louis is a loud-mouthed repo-man who has nurtured a lifelong dream of becoming a successful actor. Fortunately for Louis his cousin is a casting agent, and he soon learns that local producers are seeking to fill the role of a father videotaping a final message for his two year-old son. Lately the strain of his job has been wearing not only on Louis, but his frustrated girlfriend Suzie as well. When Suzie discovers that she is pregnant, she immediately begins pondering the prospect of leaving Louis to raise the pair's child in a more stable environment.
- A troubled young man struggling to right himself after the premature death of his father.
- After her mother's sudden death, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed stepmother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
- Two struggling brothers discover a suicide victim who has jumped from a bridge. Curious about his story, they attend the stranger's wake and from there begin crashing other stranger's wakes for inspiration (and free food and booze) in their own lost lives.
- Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey (Jon Lovitz), is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington (Jackie Burroughs), leaves him her entire billion-dollar fortune. Bailey is lucky, that is, until he becomes the target of an elaborately-designed dognap scheme hatched by Constance's nasty nephew Caspar (Tim Curry) and his money-hungry wife Dolores (Jennifer Tilly). The despicable duo's wicked plan is to ultimately gain custody of the canine so they can get their greedy paws on his inheritance. Unfortunately for them, there's a thing or two they don't know about Bailey. Not only does he have great street smarts, he has great pals too. Bailey's loyal guardian Theodore Maxwell (Dean Cain), kind-hearted animal advocate Marge Maggs (Laurie Holden), her daughter Samantha (Angela Vallee), and a clever border collie named Tessa (Melissa DiMarco) set out on a hilarious madcap adventure to free their four-legged friend and put the nasty dognappers out of business for good.
- 'Balkan Brothers' is the story of the multinational and ethnically conflicted assembly of apatrides from war torn ex-Yugoslavia, hired by a crippled war merchant to sew labels upon fake jeans and participate in drug smuggling ring. Forced and humiliated into doing such work they are locked up in a Paris cellar where they find out that their Western fate brings even worse temptations then the war in Yugoslavia that made them leave the motherland.
- In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.
- A film noir-style musical telling the story of how a man met his end by getting sucked into a web of lies and deceit by a beautiful, dark-haired singer.
- In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
- Tom Green stars as a bumbling buffoon who lands at Butlering after working his way through all other 'A' and 'B' jobs.
- In this first ever China-Canada dance co-production, BONE joins the vision of Montreal's Snell Thouin Project with the extraordinary talents of Willy Tsao's Beijing Modern Dance Company.
- BREAKING POINT brings viewers back to those tense, critical moments when Canada's future as a country was at stake.
- Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
- A man becomes a butterfly, a writer meets the Minotaur.
- In this no-budget Canadian film, two rival factions of high school students aim to take over the world, or at least have an effect on the world around them.
- A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
- A travel writer (Graham) who begrudgingly assumes control of her father's wedding magazine finds the new experience might just change her take on love.
- In August 2005, Thomega Entertainment in association with Credit Union Centre shot the second one hour documentary in their on going commitment to archive and broadcast these important Canadian legacy stories. This program featured Venessa Corkal and Phydra Faulkner, two teenage girls, who together discovered why it is important to never forget.
- In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
- The emotional true story about a small-town Mountie who goes beyond the call of duty to bring an elusive pedophile to justice.
- A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her prisoner as the mysterious John Lawson, a rouge agent, now selling classified information on the black market, wants what Claire has - a deadly biological formula. Claire, unaware that she has it, proclaims her innocence, and together with Kate, must escape from Lawson and his two seasoned assassins Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Harry Eden, a CIA operative and Kate's former lover, is dropped into the equation to help Kate but ultimately might lead to her demise as a deadly game of cat-and-mouse is played to its extreme.
- In Canada, George is a statistician. But in China, George is Elvis... CHAIRMAN GEORGE is a documentary feature about a Greek-Canadian troubadour who refuses to live anything but an extraordinary life. ln Ottawa, George is a statistician who lives with his mother. But every few months, he takes an extended leave from his job and heads to China where he metamorphoses into an international man of culture. Armed only with his bouzouki, guitar and cell phone, he becomes a star in China (with both the critics and the ladies). He concludes that since he is "the only Greek in the world who can sing in Chinese," it is his duty to perform at the Closing Ceremonies of the Athens Olympic Games, as the torch is passed from Athens to Beijing.