A cartoonist begins hiring escorts after the status of his live-in relationship changes in Paying For It. Chester Brown (Dan Beirne) is an independent comics artist, who is taken aback when his girlfriend Sonny Lee (Emily Lê) tells him she is falling for another man. Initially, Dan and Sonny attempt an open relationship, though it…
A family fights to protect their farm in a post-apocalyptic world in 40 Acres. After a pandemic has decimated the global food chain the most valuable resource has become farmland. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) is an African-American military veteran living on her heavily fortified farm with her Indigenous partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four…
The city of Winnipeg finds itself intersecting with Tehran in Universal Language. Set in an alternate reality, where French and Persian are the dominant cultures in Canada, Matthew (Matthew Rankin) boards a bus to return from Montreal to his hometown of Winnipeg. However, when he tries calling his mother, Matthew is surprised when a strange…
A teenage girl becomes a Documenter in a future world where people are forbidden to live past 50 in Can I Get a Witness?. Kiah (Keira Jang) is a teenage artist beginning her first day using her drawing skills to document End of Life events for those who have to undergo forced euthanasia as a…
A Montreal copywriter moves to France intending to become a shepherd in Shepherds. After a medical scare, Mathyas Lefebure (Félix-Antoine Duval) decides to abandon his life coming up with advertising slogans in Montreal and relocates to Provence, France intending to become a shepherd and write a book about his experience. Multiple local sheep farmers give…
The leaders of the G7 nations get lost in the woods while attempting to draft their provisional statement in Rumours. The leaders of the G7 nations convene at a rural German bogland estate to draft their annual statement to the world. Attending the summit are German Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett), Canadian Prime Minister Maxime…
Two old friends reunite in Matt and Mara. Mara (Deragh Campbell), a Toronto literary professor, is surprised one day to find her old friend Matt (Matt Johnson) waiting for her outside her classroom. Even though Mara is now married to musician Samir (Mounir Al Shami) and has a young daughter, she rekindles her friendship with…
A grieving man develops a burial shroud that allows him to observe the decaying body of his deceased wife in The Shrouds. Karsh (Vincent Cassell) has been grieving the death of his wife Becca (Diane Kruger), who died four years prior from cancer. Through his company GraveTech, Karsh has developed burial shrouds that can allow…
A Mohawk social media influencer has to prevent her family’s supply of seeds from being stolen from an evil conglomerate in Seeds. Ziggy (Kaniehtiio Horn) is a budding influencer sharing social media videos of native legends and ghost stories. Just after signing a promotional deal with the seed company Nature’s Oath, she is asked by…
The nearly forgotten story of one of pop music’s first black trans performers is told in Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star, before disappearing from the public eye in 1971. After her nieces Andrenee Majors and Vonnie Moore inherit her belongings and find her…
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