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Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game

Alice

Alice

Drifting Snow

Drifting Snow

Like a House on Fire

Like a House on Fire

Little Orphans

Little Orphans

Hopeless Romantic

Hopeless Romantic

Saint Frances

Saint Frances

Body and Bones

Body and Bones

A Fire in the Cold Season

A Fire in the Cold Season

Spinster

Spinster

Ash

Ash

A White, White Day

A White, White Day

Catch and Release

Catch and Release

Stealing School

Stealing School

Resistance

Resistance

To Live to Sing

To Live to Sing

Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game

Alice

Alice

Drifting Snow

Drifting Snow

Like a House on Fire

Like a House on Fire

Little Orphans

Little Orphans

Hopeless Romantic

Hopeless Romantic

Saint Frances

Saint Frances

Body and Bones

Body and Bones

A Fire in the Cold Season

A Fire in the Cold Season

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In the rundown Sarajevo suburb of Alipasino Polje, Faruk is an orphan who lives with his ill grandmother and spends his days foraging for scrap metal and dabbling in petty crime. One day he meets Mona, a timid teen from a politically powerful and affluent family. As Mona dreams of escaping the overbearing toxicity of her home life, she seeks refuge and opens herself up to Faruk, a boy from a world entirely different than her own.

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TABIJA (THE WHITE FORTRESS)

written and directed Igor Drljaca

starring Pavle Cemerikic, Sumeja Dardagan, Jasmin Geljo, Kerim Cutuna, Alban Ukaj, Irena Mulamuhic

Bosnia Selection for the 94th Academy Awards
TIFF Canada's Top Ten 2021 Select

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RANGE ROADS
written and directed by Kyle Thomas
starring Alana Hawley Purvis, Joe Perry, Nicole De Boer, Chad Brownlee
From the director of Official TIFF Selection The Valley Below "

When her parents are killed in a sudden car accident, television actor Frankie King (Alana Hawley Purvis) returns to her hometown in rural Alberta to face this tragedy after being estranged from her family for 20 years. As she struggles to reconnect with her truculent brother Grayson (Joe Perry), old wounds are reopened and family secrets uncovered. Range Roads is an intimate story of grief, longing, and forgiveness, that explores the painful and beautiful complexities of what it means to be a family.

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EVENTS TRANSPIRING BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME
written and directed by Ted Stenson
starring Andrew Phung, Paul Cowling, Jay Morberg
Starring Andrew Phung from "Kim ' s Convenience"

It’s 1999 and the Middleview Ducks boys basketball team are about to play the most low-stakes game of their lives. As the team prepares for another certain loss, the dramas around the game become more of a focus than the score. Locker room conversations about existentialism, an assistant coach’s obsession with an NBA offence technique, organizing a radical theatre protest, and frantically searching for an osteoporosisstricken canine are just some of the events that take place before, during, and after the high school basketball game.

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After discovering her husband's addiction to escorts has left their family penniless, Alice finds herself drawn into the world of high-end prostition as a means of caring for herself and her child.

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ALICE
written and directed by Josephine Mackerras

starring Emilie Piponnier, Martin Swabey, Chloe Boreham

WINNER of SXSW 2019 Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature

WINNER of SXSW 2019 Cherry Picks Female First Award

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DRIFTING SNOW

directed by Ryan Noth

starring Sonja Smit, Jonas Bonnetta, Colin Muchrie

From the director of THE ROAD TO WEBEQUIE

Drifting Snow follows two strangers, Joanne (Sonja Smits) and Chris (Jonas Bonnetta), who make the best of a nighttime car accident by sharing a road trip together the next day. As a snow storm rolls across their route, their past year in Prince Edward County floats through each of their minds.

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Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE tells the story of a woman's struggle to regain the life she left behind.

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LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE

directed by Jesse Noah Klein

starring Sarah Sutherland, Jared Abrahamson, Dominique Provost-Chalkley

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LITTLE ORPHANS

directed by Ruth Lawrence

starring Marthe Bernard, Andy McQueen, Kyra Harper

Still struggling with her childhood abandonment, three sisters reunite at a wedding. But coming home and making a new family can come at a high cost.

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Relationships. Some are good. Some are bad. All are adventures. A recently widowed women, Anna, is forced to confront her complicated relationship with love when she bumps into her ex at a wedding.

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HOPELESS ROMANTIC

directed by Deanne Foley, Martine Blue, Stephanie Clattenburg, Ruth Lawrence, Latonia Hartery, and Megan Wennberg

starring Lynda Boyd, Hugh Thompson, Francine Deschepper, Susan Kent, Kristin Howell, Amy Groening, Lisa Hackett, Emily Power, Kathryn MacLellan, Bryan Heighton

Story editing by Margaret Atwood

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SAINT FRANCES

directed by Alex Thompson

starring Kelly O'Sullivan, Charin Alvarez, Braden Crothers

WINNER of SXSW 2019 Audience Award

WINNER of SXSW 2019 Special Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature

After her decision to end an unwanted pregnancy, 34-year-old Bridget reluctantly agrees to nanny the bright and rambunctious Frances, forming an unexpected bond with her and her parents.

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Withdrawn from her life, the one thing that comforts Tess is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe. When she wakes one day to find him in her kitchen, it ignites a spark of life in her that grows out of control.

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BODY AND BONES

written and directed by Melanie Oates

starring Kelly Van der Burg, Joel Thomas Hynes, Ruth Lawrence

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A FIRE IN THE COLD SEASON

directed by Justin Oakey

written by Kaela Babstock, Justin Oakey

starring Michaela Kurimsky, Stephen Oates, Stephen Lush

From the critically acclaimed director of FLANKERS

Starring Michaela Kurimsky from FIRECRACKERS

A whisper through sprawling forests and highway towns - a reclusive trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be are stalked by violent outlaws.

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After her partner breaks up with her on her 39th birthday, Gaby tackles her fears of loneliness as well as preconceptions of what it means for a woman to be single.

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SPINSTER

directed by Andrea Dorfman

starring Chelsea Peretti, Susan Kent, Amy Groening

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ASH

written and directed by Andrew Huculiak

starring Chelah Horsdal, Tim Guinee, Beverley Elliott

From the critically acclaimed director of VIOLENT

A small town news reporter is accused of unspeakable crimes while he follows a massive forest fire that threatens his community.

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A week before her college graduation, April Chen, a Chinese-Canadian tech prodigy, is accused of plagiarism by an unrelenting teaching assistant and must fight to prove her innocence in a secret trial held before an academic tribunal. As the day progresses, the motives and interests of all parties concerned are slowly exposed to reveal a complex web of corruption, greed and moral failings.

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STEALING SCHOOL

written and directed by Li Dong

starring Celine Tsai, Jonathan Keltz, Mpho Koaho

Featured on CBC The National and CTV eTalk.

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A WHITE, WHITE DAY

written and directed by Hylnur Pálmason

starring Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Icelandic pick for Best International Film for the 92nd Academy Awards

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An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

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A Sichuan Opera troupe are faced with the demolition of their theater and dissolution.

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TO LIVE TO SING

written and directed by Johnny Ma

starring Guidan Gan, Xiaoli Zhao

From critically acclaimed director of OLD STONE and Netflix's HOMEMADE

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RESISTANCE

written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz

starring Jesse Eisenberg, Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris

From the award-winning director of SECUESTRO EXPRESS

Before he became a world famous mime, Marcel Marceau joined the French Resistance, and used his talents to save thousands of orphaned children from the Nazis.

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Catch and Release is a psychological thriller about an extremist anti-abortion faction, who kidnap and transport a young pregnant woman, Keely, to a remote location, in an attempt to force her to bring her pregnancy to term.

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CATCH AND RELEASE

directed by Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert

starring Laurence Leboeuf, Nancy Palk, Aidan Devine

Based on the Pulitzer Prize nominated play Keely and Du