Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film Festival

When young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...

When Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. Featuring a remarkable performance from Sarah Sutherland in the le...

Nashville Film Festival Winner
Chicago International Film Festival Winner
Camerimage Winner

My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of both, must decide between his wife or his son.

"a compelling story about lost innocence" Cineuropa

Venice Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival

Directors Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark powerful, gripping drama centres on Daria (Ana Dumitraşcu), a young woman entering rehab having ...

Locarno Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Camerimage International Film Festival

Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

Martin is burdened with the relentless, wily personification of his anxiety and depression: a character named Hagge. After a freewheeling colleague encroaches on Martin's workspace, he comes to discover that his apathy is a choice. Serious subject matter is explored with humour and whimsy in this...

"Eva Marie Rødbro's arresting feature debut probes the inner and outer struggles of three generations of women in suburban Colorado Springs." Variety

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Cork International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival

A raw and emotionally impactful story of a y...

Vancouver International Film Festival

This distinctive short film from directors Chloe Van Landschoot and Niamh Wilson examines the relentless nature of healthcare work, the exhaustion that the job can elicit and the toll it takes on body and mind. Utilising movement, rhythm, and dance, Tidal is...

Toronto International Film Festival
Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...

"Full of rich comic moments and euphoric revelations." Toronto Star

Vancouver International Film Festival Winner
Brooklyn Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival

An unemployed gambling addict drags his pot-smoking teenage daughter on a road trip to Churchill, Manitoba, in hopes of showing her the ...

For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists...

"Family is family across the world, and the fights and familial bonds are all the same. Ivana The Terrible is an incredible relatable film." Film Threat

Locarno Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival

A deeply personal film from director Ivana Mladenovic, I...

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
Sheffield Docfest

"I dedicate my life to showing the world that one can pretend to be whoever they want.“ Eva. A 25-year-old drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist and model, Eva declar...

Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival

Miso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...

"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist

SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Dreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...

A working-class single mother tries to turn life around for her son, only to be thrust into a fight for survival when her addict ex-husband relapses and spirals out of control.

BFI Flare
Cucalorus Film Festival
Framline Film Festival

Based on a true story, Torrey Pines is an inventive, wonderfully imaginative coming-of-age tale taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. The animated film focusses on the filmmaker Clyde Petersen's childhood over the course...

Toronto International Film Festival
Winner Atlantic Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Joel Thomas Hyne's acclaimed novel about a Newfoundland drug addict's attempts to make sense of his own warped existence serves as the foundation for this poetic yet visceral addiction drama t...