A neurotic woman becomes obsessed with a traffic citation she receives in Retrograde. While helping her new roommate Gabrielle (Sofia Banzhaf), move into the house she shares with Rose (Bessie Cheng), Molly (Molly Reisman) ends up being pulled over and receiving a traffic ticket. Molly believes that the ticket was given to her in error, […]
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The contrast between teenage girls’ real and online lives is explored in Bloom. In the modern age, teenagers often find it easier to communicate with people online than in person. Three groups of teenage girls are followed as their lives on and offline are contested. Bloom Synopsis Bloom is a social-media-focused documentary directed by Fanie
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A Chinese-Canadian high school student tries to figure out his identity in Golden Delicious. Jake (Cardi Wong) is a teenager who is under a lot of pressure from both his basketball-loving father, George (Ryan Mah) and social media-influencer girlfriend, Valerie (Parmiss Sehat), to meet their expectations for Jake. Things change with the arrival of Jake’s
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A 12-year-old girl tries to find a way to force her always-fighting parents to divorce in How to Get My Parents to Divorce. Justine (Charlotte St-Martin) is a sixth grader who is tired of her parents, Julie (Isabelle Blais) and Martin (Pierre-Luc Brillant), fighting all the time. With her friends Charlie Fortier (Charlie Fortier) and
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Six lifelong friends have to decide the course of action after one of them makes a horrible confession in Bystanders. Sisters Lily (Deborah Castrilli) and Ayda (Marlee Sansom) arrive at their family’s cabin for an annual getaway with their lifelong friends Zeke (Cavell Holland), Sophia (Katelyn McCulloch), Kyle (Peter Sarty), and Justin (Taylor Olson). At
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A young woman has to choose between her new life in college and the well-being of her autistic brother in When Time Got Louder. Abbie Peterson (Willow Shields) has a very close relationship with her younger brother Kayden (Jonathan Simao), who has non-verbal autism. This causes a problem as Abbie leaves for college in California,
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A man hoping to cure himself of his sexist mindset hires a nanny eager to please in Babysitter. While at an MMA fight with friends, a drunken Cédric (Patrick Hivon) goes viral after he embraces reporter Chantal Tremblay (Eve Duranceau) on live television. After a scandalous newspaper article written by Cédric’s brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante),
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The estranged children of a Chinese couple are trapped by a snowstorm and forced to confront the events that tore them apart in Streams Flow from a River. Loretta Chow (Danielle Ayow) and her brother Henry (Liam Ma) return to the rural Alberta town where they grew up after being told by their mother, Diana
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A man sets off to ride from Canada to Brazil on horseback in The Long Rider. Filipe Masetti Leite is a young Brazilian-Canadian man who grew up with a love of riding horses. One of Filipe’s dreams is to follow in the footsteps of long riders of the past, who travel a thousand miles or
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A scientist trying to save humanity has to confront her troubled marriage in Ashgrove. In the not so distant future, a viral pandemic has made the world’s water supply toxic to humans and Dr. Jennifer Ashgrove (Amanda Brugel) is the scientist closest to finding a solution. However, the stress of the job becomes too much
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