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- A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
- An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
- A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
- A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
- A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor.
- A lawyer has to defend his lover who's accused of a murder he has committed himself. Now he has to defend her in court without implicating himself.
- The last days of the poet Dylan Thomas as he dreams and drinks.
- Things appear to be looking up for a cash-strapped, regional hospital when it hires a reputedly brilliant cardiac surgeon to head up its pediatric cardiac surgery unit. But when increasing numbers of children begin dying on the operating table, the unit's top O.R. nurse begins to suspect that the new surgeon is not as experienced as everyone has been lead to believe. She finds herself alone, faced with jeopardizing the career she loves by taking on the powers that be and blowing the whistle on the influential surgeon and the harrowing goings-on at the hospital.
- "Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as children, Thomas and Sean Phelan grow up building their lives on opposite ends of the law. Thomas, the studious and responsible brother, creates a better life for himself through education and hard, honest work. Eventually, he builds a successful career as a US Attorney. Sean, the more rebellious of the two, gets caught up in a life of crime and rises through the ranks to become the head of the Irish Mob. Spanning from post World War II during the late 1950's through the Irish Mob wars of the 1970's and culminating in their adulthood in the 1990's, the story is set to the backdrop of backroom politics and the realities of the Irish Mob and it's gang wars. The theme of the film simultaneously addresses the similarities between the two factions of law and crime while revealing the similarities between the two brothers.
- Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making things out of bones... he boils a neighbor's dead dog for the bones... and he is visited by an old friend who is dying of ailments and thus commits suicide, leaving a million dollars in a suitcase. A woman claiming to be interested in Algernon's Egyptologist great grandfather pretends to be in love with Algernon... and he almost falls for it.
- A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
- The Boxers from Brockton, MA and the Canadiens from Fredericton, NB are two teams at a 2003 Montréal junior hockey tournament. The Boxers almost didn't attend because of the rising global tensions due to the US initiated Iraq War. After arriving in Montréal, the Boxers wished they hadn't attended as they face anti-US sentiments time after time, some bordering on the potentially violent. This situation is especially troubling for the family of the Boxers' star forward Michael Carver, whose twenty year old brother Chris Carter gave up his own hockey life to enlist and is scheduled to head over to Iraq soon. One half of the Canadiens star first line, coach Neil Martin's twelve year old son Jordan Martin, doesn't like the treatment shown to the American team. Although distracted by his parent's crumbling marriage whose problems are due primarily to competing careers, Jordan decides to do his small but seemingly insurmountably problematic part in fixing the wrong that has been done. Regardless of if Jordan can pull off his plan which may be at the expense of his own promising hockey career, his actions may show others that bridging gaps in other aspects of life are worth attempting.
- CANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit's intrigues.
- Geraldine Elmhurst Liddle - Deen to her friends - is up against five other contestants for the $2 million jackpot on the game show "Bring Home the Bacon!". News of her upcoming appearance on the show takes her small New Brunswick hometown by storm. She practices and studies for the show, but her friends and family just assume she's going to win. Even her younger sisters Rose and Greta and her friend Tina - her "three little piggies" as they are referred to on the show who are supposed to answer any question she cannot - don't study on the assumption that Deen will do all the work. In addition to her three little piggies, her friends and family let her know what they could use with her winnings. Beyond what happens on the show, Deen's notoriety from this event brings out some skeletons from the Elmhurst family closet.
- A skateboarder witnesses his best friend get killed by a local drug lord, and is faced with paranoia wondering if he's next, all while struggling to cope with the death of his friend and tries to settle the score.
- In a futuristic 1999, a highly trained Vietnam veteran, now evangelical minister, goes on a mission of holy vengeance after his wife and child are brutally murdered.
- 11 year old Elly unravels the clues found in letters from her grandfather...and discovers a normally unseen world of beauty and amazement that staggers the imagine.
- "The Pitch" takes a look at the world of international street performing buskers to find out why these men and women have chosen to "pass the hat" to make a living, along with the challenges they face.
- A fisherman in the Bay of Fundy loses his sweetheart while he is at sea.
- A Security guard and a Welfare bum are the only hope for humanity when they discover that the villainous Tuna Man has enlisted all of the reprobates from the city to help him destroy the world.
- During World War Two, an important suspected spy for the French Resistance is captured by German soldiers in a small French town, currently occupied by Germany, and Russia's most ruthless interrogator is called on to get important information about the Allies. It seems all is lost, including a finger. Until, at the last moment, good unexpectedly overcomes evil.
- A feature length documentary film tracing the explosion of heavy metal music in Canada's' Maritime Provinces beginning in the late 1980s and 90s and continuing through today. The film also explores the fascinating social and technological factors behind the music scene's tremendous growth alongside the rise of the world-wide web.
- A middle-aged man struggles with his ability to distinguish between his dreams and his memories as he reminiscences on his past.
- Everything is going right for Rick. A wife he loves, a son he adores, a respectable career. However all that changes in one day as his company deals with layoffs and off shoring, then learns of news about his son that forces Rick to question who he is, and who he needs to be.