John Peterson lives with his partner, Eric, and their daughter Mónica in California. When John’s father Willis pays a visit, tension builds between Willis and the rest of the family.

Drama | 113 min

Falling

An intellectual with a PhD is forced to work as a deliveryman to make a living. One day, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly wrong: two dead and millions in money bags laying on the ground.

Drama | 128 min

The Fall of the American Empire

When a hoax goes very wrong, Veronica, a young teacher, is falsely accused of abusing her position of authority over 17-year-old Clive.

Drama | 104 min

Guest of Honour

White Lie depicts the life of a popular undergrad faking cancer who struggles to maintain her secret.

Drama | 96 min

White Lie

In the bleak aftermath of an outbreak of zombies in rural Quebec, Bonin (Marc-André Grondin) struggles to survive along with the rapidly dwindling remaining population.

Horror | 103 min

Les Affamés (The Ravenous)

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

Drama | 80 min

The Rest of Us

Guy's tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David.

Drama | 102 min

L'etre Chers (Our Loved Ones)

An emotionally intense drama which follows Anne in a difficult time in her life. After skydiving at a bachelorette party, she begins to push limits of relationships, and suffers the consequences.

Action and Adventure | 75 min

Anne at 13,000 Ft

Belle returns home for her father’s funeral. Having caused her mother consternation when she came out as a lesbian when she was a teenager, Belle is now desperate to keep secret that she’s in a relationship with a man.

Drama | 88 min

Splinters

In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.

Suspense | 89 min

Akilla's Escape

1974: A long war is ending and the President of the United States is about to be impeached. In Los Angeles, cops open fire on the safehouse where a group of self-styled revolutionaries hide out with the kidnapped heiress who has shocked the nation by embracing their radical cause. Across the country in upstate New York, Jenny (HONG CHAU) watches the violence unfold on live TV, along with her reclusive employer (ELLEN  BURSTYN).  But there’s more to Jenny than meets the eye – she is also in hiding, wanted for the anti-war bombing of a draft office. Little does Jenny know that the radicals’ most famous convert, Pauline (SARAH GADON) has survived and gone underground, along with a couple of her abductors. But Jenny’s anonymous isolation is destroyed when a go-between recruits her to babysit the three surviving radicals while they write a quickie book. When Jenny meets the enigmatic Pauline, everything she believes about loyalty and betrayal will be thrown into question.  Isolated along with the increasingly erratic Juan (JOHN GALLAGHER JR.) and the ruthless Yvonne (LOLA KIRKE), Jenny struggles to comprehend Pauline’s transformation, with the growing realization she faces a watershed choice.

Drama | 87 min

American Woman

The film follows Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

Drama | 101 min

Indian Horse

Held captive for years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Drama | 118 min

Room

Hello, Destroyer is a deep character study of small-town sports culture, as a reserved major junior hockey star suddenly becomes an outcast when a routine hockey play goes bad.

Drama | 112 min

Hello Destroyer

REMEMBER is the contemporary story of 90 Zev, (Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer), who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some 70 years ago is living in America under an assumed identity. Despite the obvious challenges, Zev sets out on a mission to find the guilty man and deliver long-delayed justice with his own trembling hand. What follows is a remarkable cross-continent road-trip with surprising consequences.

Drama | 91 min

Remember

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Animation | 93 min

The Breadwinner

A black police officer plots revenge on the community he is supposed to be protecting after he is racially profiled and attacked by some of his co-workers.

Black Cop

A weathered woman and her odd teen-aged daughter live in isolation on a desolate farm in South Korea. An affluent city woman comes to them seeking help with a sensitive matter and the three women soon fall into a new rhythm of life together, each working to fill a void within. However, as their very different paths converge, their deal becomes more than what they bargained for.

Drama | 116 min

In Her Place

Mahendra Saini (Rajesh Tailang) is a chain-wallah who peddles his zipper repair skills on the streets of Delhi. Armed with a megaphone, Mahendra markets himself to anyone within earshot. As with any service-oriented business, location is everything. So when his usual beat stops being fruitful, Mahendra’s 12-year old son, Siddharth, is recruited to earn a second income. Mahendra’s brother-in-law, Ranjit (Anurag Arora) suggests a trolley factory where child labor, though illegal, is a means of income. Siddharth travels to the factory unharmed, but two weeks before he is to return home, he disappears.

Drama | 97 min

Siddharth

The lives of 25-year-old Jean Jones and her multi-generational, middle-class Jamaican-American family of strong-minded, stubborn yet loving women, come to an arresting stop when an estranged grandfather dies on the doorstep of the family’s brownstone during a Sunday dinner. Tensions rise and old conflicts come to a boil as Jean uncovers the family’s buried secrets. The Jones women face their divorces, infidelities, and past transgressions, while Jean faces the tough truths of her failing career and her crippling ability to move on from a past relationship to the love staring her right in the face.

Comedy | 87 min

Jean of the Joneses

The story of devoted Chinese-Canadian wife and mother Maria Wing, whose life is altered when the discovery of her husband's infidelity forces her to confront how powerless she truly is. Maria's efforts to find out the truth send her on a journey of liberation.

Drama | 89 min

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