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Everything Will Be
Movie + 1 extra
"Kwan's dream-like cinematography beautifully captures Chinatown in its contemporary state of flux..." Exclaim
Hot Docs Film Festival
Vancouver Film FestivalAs dawn breaks and most of the city still sleeps, the long-time merchants of Vancouver's Chinatown are hard at work. They haul out their ...
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Love During Wartime
Movie + 2 extras
"a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic
Tribeca Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Göteborg International Film FestivalThe recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want des...
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Robin & Mark & Richard III
Movie + 2 extras
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Over the course of three years, Martha Burns and Susan Coyne filmed the late theatre director Robin Phillips and performer Mark McKinney (The Kids in the Hall) rehearsing a piece from Shakespeare’s Richard III at Robin...
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Mujer Conejo (Rabbit Woman)
Movie + 1 extra
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Hamburg Film Festival
Black Movie Film FestivalAna, a beautiful young woman of Chinese origin who works as a municipal inspector in Buenos Aires, accidentally becomes involved in the local Chinese mafia. When they threaten her she flees to Argentina's Pa...
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Crackie
Movie + 1 extra
"...stunning cinematography and captivating performances by such actors as Walsh and Joel Thomas Hynes" The Globe and Mail
Toronto International Film Festival
Winner Torino International Film Festival
Göteborg Film FestivalThis is a story about a teenager who has been abandoned by her mother, ...
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Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Movie + 1 extra
Locarno Film Festival Winner
Thessaloniki Film Festival Winner
Toronto International Film FestivalElias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travel...
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It's Hard to Be Human
Movie + 1 extra
It’s Hard to be Human brings you the visceral experience of God’s daughter in the liminal place before death. Agnes is an 18-year old delinquent who can’t figure out the point of life on earth. Her father (God) is a busy man, a torn husband, and too tired to nurture anyone; her mother self-medica...
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The Hitch-Hiker
Movie + 1 extra
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
TIFF Cinematheque
AFI FestIn Ida Lupino's nail-biting Film Noir classic, two men on a fishing trip pick up a psychopathic fugitive with an intense hatred of humanity in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. Ray Collins (Edmund O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy)...
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Nowhere Land
Movie + 1 extra
ImagineNATIVE Film Festival
Berlin International Film FestivalNowhere Land focuses on Bonnie Ammaaq and her family as they remember the vastness and irreplaceable richness of living on the land. When the family relocates to Igloolik, they face the confines modern society can impose and how col...
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Mobilize
Movie + 1 extra
Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film FestivalCaroline Monet's short film Mobilize flows seamlessly through the rushing waterways of the far north parallel to the fast-paced urban south, witnessing the hasty streets of a city and the charging force of a canoe on water. In tandem wi...
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With You Always
Movie
Newport Beach Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival
Blood in the Snow FestivalMark is a fool for love. With the help of his closest confidant, Kyle, he decides to go after the woman of his dreams. When Katie notices a creepy figure lurking outside her workplace, she hurries home. These clashing ...
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Darkside
Movie
Oaxaca Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Canadian Film FestivalEmmie, a young kick ass rock singer, is consumed by the voices in her head telling her what she should be instead of what she wants to be. It's not until she finally overcomes her self destructive patterns and gives over to the ...
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How Are You?
Movie + 1 extra
Susan Coyne stars as a recently divorced woman continually confronted by the titular question and struck by the fact that those asking don't really care. Like any joke with a good punchline, this one slays thanks to a surprisingly operatic ending.
Directed By: Martha Burns, Susan Coyne
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The Case of the Massey Bodice Ripping
Movie + 1 extra
Venice Short Film Festival Winner
Grand Budapest Festival Winner
Canadian Film FestivalThe Case of the Massey Bodice Ripping is a comedy satire working to create a film that illuminates the overwhelmingly poor use of rape as a plot device in contemporary film and TV.
Director: Karen Knox
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Levantar (Arise)
Movie
Luis's earthquake is not the one that left him homeless in 2010; his own tremor starts with the imminent departure of his sister Ale, who has decided to escape from a city that rises leaving them behind. Between anger and wonder, Luis spends his days walking over the building waste of what was on...
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Victoria
Movie
"Victoria" searches to inquire the genre of eroticism, immersing in the fantasies of a woman alone in her new apartment after a breakup. Before the famous best-seller 'Fifty shades of Grey' arrived to Chile, it was already being developed the idea of approaching an abandoned topic: feminine eroti...
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Krotoa
Movie + 1 extra
Harlem International Film Festival Winner
IndieFEST Film Winner
Beijing International Film FestivalIn 1652, a bright, young girl named Krotoa is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve the Dutch East India Company. When she assimilates the Dutch language and culture, Krotoa ends up bein...
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Such A Small Thing
Movie + 1 extra
"Juno Rinaldi’s Such A Small Thing addresses the cultural inertia around intimate partner violence" - The Globe and Mail
Hamilton Film Festival
Toronto Shorts International Film FestivalA woman in her 40s returns to her small hometown to confront her ex-boyfriend about an assault that happene...
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Night Shoot
Movie + 1 extra
An eccentric one-line actor, keen to save his characters from extinction, uses costumes from past roles to tell their stories and inadvertently wins over a world weary wardrobe mistress into his theatrical imagination. This deeply affecting short film is anchored by the exquisite performances of ...
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Martin's Hagge
Movie + 1 extra
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...
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Centaur
Movie + 1 extra
Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film FestivalFirst, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...
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Letters From The Desert (Eulogy To Slowness)
Movie + 1 extra
Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film FestivalOne defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...
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FOGO
Movie + 1 extra
Cannes Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Moscow Film FestivalDark clouds hang over the island of Fogo. An evacuation order has been issued as a result of an increasing decay of the local community. People leave, often reluctantly, but they submit to their fate. And so do tw...
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Wapikoni Territory and Environment Programme Two
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Exploring the healing abilities and gifts that our surroundings can provide us, Territory and Environment Programme Two is made up of short films that show us how we can rise up and show up for the world around us, and how in exchange it can do the same for its people.