Sam is a young stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, who is weighing whether or not to join the search for Brooke, a missing girl she used to nanny.
Through the entanglement of home movies, archival footage, and cinéma vérité, "Ghost Camera" captures 116 years of Toronto history to tell the tale of a documentarian's descent into artistic madness.
Kindness, creativity, inclusivity, and a touch of magic makes the world a brighter place. Explore the story and impact of Canadian entertainer Ernie Coombs and his iconic series, Mr. Dressup, which enriched the lives of five generations.
Two months after leaving his camp in search of a new home, Trevor makes his journey back with answers.
This incisive, urgent documentary examines the history of anti-Black racism in hockey, from the segregated leagues of the 19th century to today’s NHL, where Black athletes continue to struggle against bigotry.
Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their testimonies, about us and about themselves, interspersed with newsreel footage and sequences of a theatrical creation in which they put all their soul, make them immediately endearing and overturn many prejudices held against refugees. A film that makes you want to get to know them better.
Faced with the threat of blackmail, sixteen-year-old David is forced by Owen the incel to get him a date with his crush Sierra. But when the relationship proves impossible, David teams up with Sierra to take him down.
A biopic of the legendary Paul Bellini, by Bellini, of Bellini, for Bellini.
When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.
A short documentary depicting the immense impact of a local diner and its devoted community.
Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.
A young woman passes an emotional night in the city.
Munkie follows a vengeful daughter whose violent plan of revenge against her domineering "tiger parents" spins out of control.
When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.
A self-portrait short film on 16mm from a trans male perspective.
Three second-generation teens from Toronto navigate the everyday pressures of high school and their futures.
Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.
There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace looks at the transformation of an iconic Toronto block - where the world famous Honest Ed's store once lived - through the stories of its community members as they reconcile their history with the future, all while facing the biggest housing crisis the city has ever seen.
Matilde’s world is turned upside from the death of her beloved grandfather. As his primary caregiver towards the end of his life, Matilde inherits Avo’s store in Toronto's Kensington Market, to the dismay of his two children. Desperate to hold on to her connection with her grandfather, Matilde attempts the stress of business ownership. With Matilde’s mother and uncle disapproving, and her relationship with Annie beginning to take a turn, Matilde has to make some hard choices about what matters most.
The film revolves around a Chinese man who returns to New Zealand following the death of his wife and begins to discover that she harbored a number of secrets.