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

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Drama | 90 min

Away from Her

With the help of his recent recruit, a gang leader takes on an established crime lord in a battle for control over Vancouver's arms and drug trade.

Drama | 104 min

Beeba Boys

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.

Double Happiness

Two best friends’ plan to escape their destitute town becomes derailed when the consequences of a night of debauchery begins to dismantle their friendship and threatens their chance at freedom.

Coming of age | 93 min

Firecrackers

Based on the novel by Shyam Selvadurai and set in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 80s, Deepa Mehta's FUNNY BOY explores the sexual awakening of a boy named Arjie set against the backdrop of the civil war.

Coming of age | 109 min

Funny Boy

Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young woman who travels from India to Canada to marry Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a man she has never met. Her dream of a new life morphs into a nightmare as marriage to Rocky and his family becomes a numbing spiral of confusion and pain. Chand finds hope in her friendship with Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a street-smart woman from Jamaica who works with Chand at a laundry factory. Rosa gives Chand a magical root and promises that it will make Rocky fall deeply in love with her. The experiment ends in a surreal parallel life that mirrors an Indian fable involving a King Cobra.

Drama | 105 min

Heaven on Earth

In the not-too-distant future, two ambitious young women, Nell and Eva, live with their father in a lovely but run-down home up in the mountains somewhere on the West Coast. Suddenly the power goes out; no one knows why. No electricity, no gasoline. Their solar power system isn’t working. Over the following days, the radio reports a thousand theories: technical breakdowns, terrorism, disease and uncontrolled violence across the continent. Then, one day, the radio stops broadcasting.  Absolute silence.

Mystery | 101 min

Into the Forest

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

Meditation Park

Midnight’s Children is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India declares independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor woman, and Shiva, the offspring of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India’s whirlwind journey of triumphs and disasters.

Drama | 136 min

Midnight's Children

The film is based on a stage play of the same name, written by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. The story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, as she expresses “the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman’s head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother’s funeral,” including writing her eulogy.

Mouthpiece

When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.

Drama | 86 min

Murmur

A contemporary romantic drama that tells the story of a very young couple's marriage as it unravels over its first year.

Paper Year

Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes, and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.

Drama | 91 min

Red Snow

A young woman's married life is shattered when she falls for an artist who lives across the street.

Comedy | 117 min

Take This Waltz

An Inuit community in the Arctic is transformed when a high school teacher reignites his students' passion for living through the game of lacrosse. Ben Schnetzer, Booboo Stewart, Anna Lambe, Will Sasso, Tantoo Cardinal.

Biographical | 107 min

The Grizzlies

Anna is nervous when she and her son, Tomas, arrive in the small, close-knit community of Igloolik in the Canadian Arctic. Anna had a short-lived affair with Tomas’s Inuk father when she worked in Igloolik. But Tomas, now 14 years old, was born and raised in his mother’s native city of Montreal and never knew much about his origins. Tomas is bright, strong, and curious about his father’s culture, but his father is no longer around to show him the way. For Tomas’s mother and Inuit family, the joy of his homecoming is mixed with memories of a brief and painful chapter in their shared history. Over the course of two weeks that seem to blend into one long day under the midnight sun, Anna and Thomas strive to rebuild the family they could no longer ignore.

Coming of age | 86 min

Uvanga

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

Cartoon | 88 min

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