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Ali and Ava

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Becoming a Queen

Becoming a Queen

Becoming a Queen

Small Town Pride

Small Town Pride

Range Roads

Range Roads

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

Ali and Ava

Ali and Ava

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Becoming a Queen

Becoming a Queen

Becoming a Queen

Small Town Pride

Small Town Pride

Range Roads

Range Roads

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

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The arrival of a grandchild upsets an immigrant's plans for a new beginning.

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LE COYOTE
directed by Katherine Jerkovic
starring Jorge Martinez Colorado, Enzo Desmeules Saint-Hilaire, Eva Avila

COMING SOON

RICEBOY SLEEPS
directed by Anthony Shim
starring Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Hwang

Official Selection at TIFF and nominee for the Platform Prize

Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.

A man from the future, now trapped in the past, tries to make a life for himself, oblivious to the consequences he has set in motion.

COMING SOON

RELAX, I'M FROM THE FUTURE
directed by Luke Higginson
starring Rhys Darby, Gabrielle Graham
Official Selection at FIN Atlantic Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival

COMING SOON

COME BACK ANYTIME
directed by John Daschbach
starring Masamoto Ueda and Kazuko Ueda

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For more than forty years, ramen master Masamoto Ueda has been serving his legendary Tokyo-style ramen to a community of regulars who are not only his customers, but true friends.

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Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother who self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation.

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TENZIN
directed by Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann
starring Tenzin Kelsang, Tenzin Choekyi, Yeshi Tenzin, Chemi Lhamo, Mr. Tibet Sangyal

A Tibetan-Canadian Feature based in the Tibetan community of Parkdale, Toronto

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TRAMPS!
written and directed by Kevin Hegge
starring by Judy Blame, Duggie Fields, Princess Julia, John Maybury, Philip Sallon, Mark Moore, Les Child, Andrew Czezowski

Opened at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

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Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialize on the streets of East London, England.

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THE NOISE OF ENGINES
written and directed by Philippe Grégoire
starring Robert Naylor, Tanja Björk
Nominated for Best Achievement in Direction , Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role , and the John Dunning First Feature Award for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.

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Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava’s past relationship, and Ali’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.

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ALI AND AVA
directed by Clio Barnard
starring Claire Rushbrook, Adeel Akhtar

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BECOMING A QUEEN
written and directed by Chris Strikes
starring Joella Crichton, Kenney Coombs, Lou-Ann Crichton, Mischka Crichton
Nominated for a DGC Craft Award for Best Picture Editing Documentary

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The rise and legacy of Toronto's nine-time Queen of Carnival, Joella Crichton who is aiming to win a historic tenth crown in her last ever performance.

An intimate portrait of LGBTQ2S+ pride and queer life in small towns, told through the stories of people from communities across Canada.

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SMALL TOWN PRIDE
directed by Chelle Turingan and Riley Sparks

Official selection at Inside Out Festival

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

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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 Mochrie

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

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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.