When Vegas, a disillusioned artist turned taxi driver, picks up an unassuming stranger, things take a drastic turn when it is revealed not everything is as it appears. Bold and electric, Vegas is a film about the beauty of living ones most expansive and authentic self.
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.
A young women craving attention in her relationship, finds a lump in her breast.
Two young women find themselves in an impossible situation. With no one to turn to and against all odds, the pair take the road trip of their lives. Based on the story Melody by Lisa Moore, from her 2002 collection of short stories, Open.
A young man is forced to confront his past traumas following his first day of work on a logging camp in the 1930s.
Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew. You can try to make art imitate life, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier.
Northerner is a short super-hero film. The style and premise make it a 'street level' story because the characters have no supernatural powers, but still deal with - or create - exceptional real-world problems. Northerner has three principal characters, Shane, Northerner, and Kate. Shane is a thief, who embraces his evolution into a super-villain. Kate has a reputation as a dirty cop and is bound by Shane to her past. Northerner is the catalyst who confronts both Shane and Kate with the opportunity to change the course of their lives.
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
A lavish dinner party turns uncomfortable for Jacob when he learns of the hosts unusual and archaic approach for settling debates.
Joan Morrissey lit up a room. She was a lounge singer six nights a week and raised her six children. She sold over 50,000 records and when a record company sent her a cheque for $38.00 she took them to court.
Director Bruce Alcock takes his inspiration from Chopin’s eponymous composition in this wonderful 3D animation, which pays tribute to the moments of beautiful chaos that can spring suddenly from the mundane.
The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully.