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  • Everything Will Be
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    Everything Will Be

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    "Kwan's dream-like cinematography beautifully captures Chinatown in its contemporary state of flux..." Exclaim

    Hot Docs Film Festival
    Vancouver Film Festival

    As 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 ...

  • Love During Wartime
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    Love During Wartime

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    "a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic

    Tribeca Film Festival
    CPH:DOX
    Göteborg International Film Festival

    The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want des...

  • Robin & Mark & Richard III

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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...

  • Mujer Conejo (Rabbit Woman)

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    Palm Springs International Film Festival
    Hamburg Film Festival
    Black Movie Film Festival

    Ana, 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...

  • Crackie
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    Crackie

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    "...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 Festival

    This is a story about a teenager who has been abandoned by her mother, ...

  • Hard Goodbyes: My Father

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    Locarno Film Festival Winner
    Thessaloniki Film Festival Winner
    Toronto International Film Festival

    Elias 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...

  • It's Hard to Be Human

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    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...

  • The Hitch-Hiker
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    The Hitch-Hiker

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    100% on Rotten Tomatoes
    TIFF Cinematheque
    AFI Fest

    In 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)...

  • Nowhere Land
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    Nowhere Land

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    ImagineNATIVE Film Festival
    Berlin International Film Festival

    Nowhere 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...

  • Mobilize
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    Mobilize

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    Sundance Film Festival
    Toronto International Film Festival

    Caroline 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...

  • With You Always

    Movie

    Newport Beach Film Festival
    Canadian Film Festival
    Blood in the Snow Festival

    Mark 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 ...

  • Darkside

    Movie

    Oaxaca Film Festival
    Cucalorus Film Festival
    Canadian Film Festival

    Emmie, 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 ...

  • How Are You?
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    How Are You?

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    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
    Writte...

  • The Case of the Massey Bodice Ripping

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    Venice Short Film Festival Winner
    Grand Budapest Festival Winner
    Canadian Film Festival

    The 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
    Write...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Krotoa
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    Krotoa

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    Harlem International Film Festival Winner
    IndieFEST Film Winner
    Beijing International Film Festival

    In 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...

  • Such A Small Thing
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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 Festival

    A woman in her 40s returns to her small hometown to confront her ex-boyfriend about an assault that happene...

  • Night Shoot
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    Night Shoot

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    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 ...

  • Martin's Hagge
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    Martin's Hagge

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    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...

  • Centaur
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    Centaur

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    Indielisbao
    Sarajevo Film Festival

    First, 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...

  • Letters From The Desert (Eulogy To Slowness)

    Movie + 1 extra

    Camerimage
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
    Montreal World Film Festival

    One 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...

  • FOGO
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    FOGO

    Movie + 1 extra

    Cannes Film Festival
    Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
    Moscow Film Festival

    Dark 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...

  • 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.