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BABY
Director: Jackie Torrens
Production: Peep Media (Halifax)
BABY is a 1980s dark comedy that follows a quirky 14-year-old misfit who has two dead parents and one adult boyfriend. |
THE BANQUET
Director: Gloria Ui Young Kim
Production: Hawkeye Pictures (Toronto)
With her personal life falling apart, a
workaholic ad-exec is reluctantly pushed
by her fiery mother into the one
challenge she never thought she’d
have to take on: her family’s annual
Korean Thanksgiving celebration. |
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I COME HOME
Director: Glen Wood
Production: Little Mama Media (Toronto),
Viddywell Films (Toronto)
A bisexual, polyamorous relationship already tested by an unplanned pregnancy threatens to collapse at a cottage wedding where traditional expectations collide with their unconventional family. |
NEVERMAN
Director: Rodrigo Barriuso
Production: Hawkeye Pictures (Toronto)
When Alzheimer’s lands her in a hostile nursing home, a transgender activist must fight her last battle for dignity. |
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SMUDGE THE BLADES
Director: Cody Lightning
Production: Lightning Mill (Edmonton),
North Country Cinema (Calgary)
When an all-Indigenous junior hockey team
is kicked out of the prestigious City
League, they are forced to salvage
their final year together in the
rough-and-tumble rural league with the degenerate caretaker of the sports arena
as a fill-in coach. |
STRANGER IN TOWN
Director: Melanie Oates
Production: Goodbye Productions (Vancouver)
After an explosion of violence causes Ruth
to flee the fundamentalist sect that's
been her only home, she finds herself
suddenly alone in a secular world that's
as alienating as it is liberating. |
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YOU WILL BE FREE
MA FILLE TU SERAS LIBRE
Director: Bachir Bensaddek
Production: Caramel Films (Montréal)
Set between Kabul and Montréal, the film portrays a mother's tragic fight to protect her daughter's freedom for a better future. |
WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS
DONDE COMIENZA EL RIO
Canada, Colombia, Norway
Director: Juan Andrés Arango
Production: Midi La Nuit (Montréal)
Fleeing violent Bogotá, a young Indigenous mother, her daughter, and a teenage gang member embark on a journey into the distant jungle where dreams and reality entwine on a path toward healing. |
