Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya in a biopic about author Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat. Flannery O’Connor (Maya Hawke) is a deeply Catholic aspiring writer from New York of the 1950s. While travelling to Kentucky to visit her mother Regina (Laura Linney), Flannery is diagnosed with Lupus, a condition that previously took the life of her…
Life in a quiet farming village is disrupted by urban developers planning to build a “glamping” site in Evil Does Not Exist. Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) is a jack-of-all-trades living with his eight-year-old daughter Hana (Ryuji Kosaka) in a small village in a heavily forested village outside of Tokyo. The serenity of the village is disrupted…
A Miami hitman battles metaphorical and literal demons in Aggro Dr1ft. In a dystopian and infrared world, the world’s greatest assassin Bo (Jordi Mollà) traverses the underworld of Miami, while being haunted by a giant demon. For his latest job, Bo is assigned to take off the head of the hulking crime lord Toto. Aggro…
A teenage vampire finds herself unwilling to kill humans for their blood in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a 68-year-old “teenage” vampire, who finds herself feeling more empathy towards humans than seeing them as food. One night Sasha encounters suicidal teenager Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), who is completely willing to be…
A young opera director’s personal trauma transfers over into her production of Salome in Seven Veils. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) is a young theatre director tasked by the Canadian Opera Company with remounting a production of Richard Strauss’ biblical opera Salome, previously produced by her recently deceased mentor Charles. As Jeanine deals with her recent separation…
The life and career of Ernie “Mr. Dressup” Combs are revisited in Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe. Born in Maine, Ernie Combs moved to Toronto in 1962 to work with Fred Rogers on the original CBC version of MisteRogers. After Rogers returned to the United States, CBC built a new show around Ernie Combs,…
A 30-something woman balances her life with her multiple BDSM relationships in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed. During the day, Ann (Joanna Arnow) works an increasingly directionless job at a real estate company or gets together with her Jewish family. However, at night, partakes in master/slave relationships with multiple partners,…
A contestant on The Dating Game turns out to be a woman-killing serial killer in Woman of the Hour. Cheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) is a struggling actress in 1978 Hollywood. Cheryl’s agent gets her a role as the main contestant on The Dating Game, a cheesy match-making game show hosted by Ed Burke (Tony Hale),…
A pair of commandos fight back against a gang of 40 bandits on an Indian passenger train in KILL. Amrit (Lakshya) is a Captain in the Indian army, who boards a train bound for New Dehli to halt the arranged marriage of his love Tulika (Tanya Maniktala). However, the train is also boarded by a…
An African-American author’s satirical novel becomes a sudden and unexpected hit in American Fiction. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is an author and English professor, who is placed on a leave of absence after a confrontation with an overtly politically correct student. In addition, Monk is informed by his literary agent Arthur (John Ortiz) that…
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