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- After breaking the silence on bullying in schools, the animator Jasmin Roy is now tackling violence among girls and especially the daily aggressions to which those females 13 to 17 years.
- What can we get for $2? A coffee? Two stamps? Alexandre bets he can eat healthily for $2 a day in Montreal.
- For over 25 years, Bruce Robinson has been offering strangers $1000 to quit smoking on the spot. After more than 1500 strangers, and $1.5 million in offers, Bruce has had almost no success getting people to quit smoking. Follow Bruce as he goes on a journey to discover just why it seems to be so difficult to give up the habit.
- After a bad day a young man must fight for his life when an ex convict sends a hundred thugs to kill him.
- John 'Concrete' Hong has one night to fight his way across a violent city and rescue the one he loves. After eviction from their apartment, John and Bethany Hong are forced to live on the streets of Union, a violent city where street gangs control the lower blocks. When John journeys to the bottom of the city to find work, the WCC gang corners him. After fighting his way out, he becomes the target of the corrupt Police Chief and his hired assassin, Finger.
- The abrupt end of an illicit love affair leads 20-something Trevor on a downward spiral - of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll - while forces beyond his control begin to intervene.
- Historian Rob Nelson journeys through Canada, Germany and Poland, tracing the roots of the German policy toward Poles and Jews in the Second World war, imported from the Canadian Prairies in 1883.
- On the Damascus Road in Lebanon's beautiful Bekaa Valley, an aging man with late-stage Parkinson's takes one last journey.
- When two guys meets,they will live their adventures thru movie classics.
- What happens when, one week before an installation of 41 Pianos gets taken down off the city streets, a filmmaker decides to rush a piano player to play all 41of them in a non-stop marathon of madness, missing pianos and music.
- Des témoignages vibrants, un regard passionnant sur 75 ans d'évolution, voire de révolution, de la situation des femmes au Québec.
- 'Boundaries are completely imaginary...they're exactly what you believe them to be.' 8% No Limit steps into the mind of a blind runner reflecting a life bound by disability as she runs Canada's longest trail for 20 days, 885km, with 8% vision. 'Every day we are given a choice. Not only how we view the world, but how we let the world view us.' In August of 2014 Rhonda-Marie Avery set out on an 'ultra' adventure that would take her outside the limits of her disability that most would doubt possible.
- A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.
- An experimental film diary about young people in Winnipeg who have difficulty making ends meet.
- When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.
- Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
- A writer falls in love with a woman whose traditional family ties interfere with her life.
- Soheyla is a whore, thief and addicted woman that believes in God and good faith in mother nature. She wants to quit her job but she can't. She has her own reasons for living in such misery. She wants to provide her experiences to young girls who might end up like her.
- When well-known Syrian blogger Amina Arraf - purportedly kidnapped by local authorities during the Arab Spring - was revealed to be an elaborate hoax persona, an entire international community realized it had been catfished.
- A young girl struggling with life's obstacles tries to overcome the death of someone very close to her.
- John Kable, a wealthy socialite returns home to his family estate to discover it has been burned to the ground. In the ashes he discovers the death mask of his deceased fiance, Helen, who passed away mysteriously a few weeks earlier. John believes that his brother Al is responsible for the arson, and that he has also played a role in Helens death. Scouring the city to find his brother, John encounters a troupe of bizarre and roguish characters along the way including Lucky, an eccentric barfly; Vincent, a retired mob boss and Celeste, a struggling actress. When John and Al finally cross paths, the two collide in a monumental battle that will result in revelations and murder.
- Life needs a little Cabaret
- Over thirty years after her father's death, Anna, harbors a silent voice inside, and it seems to be getting louder as she gets older. She is still not over the loss of her dad and she is not sure why. She re-creates scenes in her mind, pulling both from her childhood memories as well as from her imagination of what his early 80's Middle East workplace might have been like.
- The story of Kathryn Calder (of The New Pornographers) and her mother's battle with ALS.
- Ten filmmakers. One night of horror.
- A Rock and a Hard Place is a portrait of Red Lake, a small Northwestern Ontario community built atop one of the world's richest underground gold mines. The film examines a modern-day gold rush as residents reflect on the boom and bust grind of life in a gold mining town. Following the extraction of gold from 7000ft underground to the surface, voices from the deep reveal a community long-dependent on a single resource; including the threat of relocation due to open-pit mine development.
- Conceived in an ashram, a young writer's transformational journey through India as he searches for his dying father who he has never met.
- World-renowned photographer Robert Frank is reunited with Japanese friend and publisher Kazuhiko Motomura at Frank's Nova Scotia retreat, for a intimate glimpse into the photographer's process; and unique creative collaboration with Motomura, who brought Frank's most personal work to life.
- We follow fictional character Detective Lacey on her travels to investigate aspects of female sexuality including women buying sex and Rent-A-Dreads. Lacey returns at the beginning of the film and reflects retrospectively on her journey.
- A film about genocide, survival, and physical and cultural continuity through the eyes of three women who have experienced three different genocides of the 20th century. The film puts women at the front and center of the narrative and seeks to transcend their victimization by highlighting their resilience and survival.
- From Igor Stravinsky to Norman McLaren to Frank O'Hara, Vincent Warren has touched history.
- A young, black NHL hopeful living in a racially divided Nova Scotian community finds his career prospects in jeopardy when tensions in his community come to a head.
- Is having control of our life a right? Are living and dying freedoms, duties or responsibilities? How should we love? How should we live? How should we die? These questions are woven into the story of Adrien, who suffers from kidney failure. He runs a garage in Trois-Pistoles, a small town on the St-Lawrence in Québec, where people seem ordinary, but aren't: each love story, each life, each destiny is unique.
- An underachieving pizza delivery guy finally asks out a beautiful female customer, only to be chased by two wannabe thugs with a kidnapping scheme. The pizza guy must discover his inner superhero to save the girl of his dreams.
- Dolly Jacob grabs hold of two long straps dangling down from the shadows of the big top. She hoists herself up...and begins to fly. From 50 feet below, what the audience can't see are the lines on Dolly's smiling face. Few of us have ever given a second thought as to what happens to these artists 'off the wire' after they've spent their lives entertaining and inspiring us. This film takes a unique look at a tightly drawn community in Sarasota, Florida, one with a deep value system that seems almost out of place today. With humour and warmth, these bigger-than-life characters are determined to support each other through thick and thin, at a time when they need it most: the end of their careers as Circus performers. When the march of time forces them to step out of the ring, After Circus depicts how performers survive without their lifeblood of the glittering spotlight and fervent applause.
- A tale of love and temptation in the age of Internet pornography.
- After becoming empty nesters, a couples spontaneous vacation is interrupted after the family unexpectedly returns for a surprise weekend together.
- After a young fashion designer runs afoul of her corrupt stepmother and stepsisters, she dons a disguise to help save the family business for her father.
- In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers donations to families who live in uninsulated sheds, overgrown with toxic mold. She is determined to raise awareness, believing that if only Canadians knew, her hometown's dire situation would improve. Over five years, filmmaker Victoria Lean follows Attawapiskat's journey from obscurity and into the international spotlight twice - first when the Red Cross intervenes and again during the protest movement, Idle No More. Weaving together great distances, intimate scenes and archive images, the documentary chronicles the First Nation's fight for justice in the face of hardened indifference.
- The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
- A young man spends his vacation at his estranged aunt's secluded country home, soon discovering that she has imprisoned her daughter under suspicion of a dangerous mental illness.
- A schizophrenic filmmaker, traumatized since childhood by the murder of his mother, writes and plots a retelling of his past staring a naive teenage girl and her friends while a creepy old man haunts them in the woods.
- Best frienemies pick up where they left off ten years ago, battling for supremacy in life and the arts.