Festival Favorites
Babysitter
A middle-aged misogynist and his sensitive brother, Jean-Michel, team up to co-author a confessional book apologizing for their past misogyny.
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- Canada, France • 2022
- Director Monia Chokri
- Cast Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante, Nadia Tereszkiewicz
- Genre Comedy
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Sundance
Crimes of the Future
Surgery is the new sex!
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- Canada, France, Greece • 2022
- Director David Cronenberg
- Cast Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar
- Genre Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, AMC on Demand, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV
Donkeyhead
Four adult siblings navigate their own lives and relationships with each other while caring for their ailing Sikh father.
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- Canada • 2022
- Director Agam Darshi
- Cast Agam Darshi, Stephen Lobo, Huse Madhavji, Kim Coates, Sandy Sidhu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
Fire of Love
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: each other, and volcanoes.
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- Canada, United States • 2022
- Director Sara Dosa
- Cast Miranda July
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Disney Plus, Apple TV
Framing Agnes
The story of Agnes, a pioneering transgender woman who participated in gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s.
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- Canada, United States • 2022
- Director Chase Joynt
- Cast Zackary Drucker, Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, Stephen Ira
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video, Kino Now, Eventive
Wildhood
Teenage Link embarks on a journey to find his estranged mother while reconnecting with his indigenous roots and sexuality.
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- Canada • 2022
- Director Bretten Hannam
- Cast Phillip Lewitski, Joshua Odjick, Michael Greyeyes, Joel Thomas Hynes, Avery Winters-Anthony, Savonna Spracklin
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Eventive
You Can Live Forever
Sent to live in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a teenage lesbian falls in love with a devout follower.
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- Canada • 2022
- Director Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts
- Cast Anwen O'Driscoll, June Laporte, Liane Balaban, Hasani Freeman
- Genre Drama
- Available on Eventive
All My Puny Sorrows
Two sisters struggle to face the demons haunting them from the past after one of them unsuccessfully attempts suicide.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Michael McGowan
- Cast Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Amybeth McNulty, Mare Winningham, Donal Logue, Mimi Kuzyk
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Spectrum On Demand, Google Play Movies, YouTube, FlixFling
Beans
A 12-year-old indigenous girl grapples with conflicting aspects of her identity during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Tracey Deer
- Cast Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Rainbow Dickerson, Joel Montgrand, Paulina Jewel Alexis, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Filmrise
Best Sellers
A retired author reluctantly joins a young publisher on a book tour.
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- Canada, United States • 2021
- Director Lina Roessler
- Cast Michael Caine, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Speedman, Ellen Wong, Cary Elwes, Luc Morissette
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV
Bump
A young man’s unwillingness to let go of a trivial encounter leads him to seek retribution.
- Canada • 2021
- Director Maziyar Khatam
- Cast Maziyar Khatam, Dylan Ray Hatton
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Sundance
Charlotte
The true story of German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon living in the south of France between 1941 and 1943.
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- France, Canada • 2021
- Director Éric Warin, Tahir Rana
- Cast Keira Knightley, Raoul Bhaneja, Hanneke Talbot, Scott McCord, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Sadie Deogrades
- Genre Animation
- Available on Hulu, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, Kino Now, Kanopy, Gooddeed
Drunken Birds
(Les oiseaux ivres)
Mexican drug-cartel worker Willy goes to Canada in search of his missing girlfriend Marlena.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Ivan Grbovic
- Cast Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Marine Johnson, Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Maxime Dumontier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Eventive
Fanmi
A daughter reeling from the end of a relationship is visited by her mother, who has her own news to share.
- • 2021
- Director Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on Eventive
French Exit
The story of an aging socialite, her directionless son, and a cat embodying the spirit of a dead loved one.
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- Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom • 2021
- Director Azazel Jacobs
- Cast Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, AMC on Demand, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
My Salinger Year
Aspiring writer Joanna works at a fabled literary agency. Life changes.
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- Canada, Ireland • 2021
- Director Philippe Falardeau
- Cast Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Brían F. O'Byrne, Colm Feore
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Night of the Kings
(La nuit des rois)
African fairy tale meets stark realism in this powerful prison drama.
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- France, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire • 2021
- Director Philippe Lacôte
- Cast Koné Bakary, Steve Tientcheu, Digbeu Jean Cyrille, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Issaka Sawadogo, Denis Lavant
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, AMC on Demand, DIRECTV, Kanopy, Neonrated
Night Raiders
In a post-war future, a mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try and rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.
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- Canada, New Zealand • 2021
- Director Danis Goulet
- Cast Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer, Violet Nelson
- Genre Science Fiction
- Available on Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Hulu, YouTube, Apple TV
Oscar Peterson: Black + White
Learn about the life and legacy of Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2021
- Director Barry Avrich
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu
Saint-Narcisse
Dominic is a young man in love with himself -- until he meets his identical twin.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Bruce LaBruce
- Cast Félix-Antoine Duval, Tania Kontoyanni, Alexandra Petrachuk, Angèle Coutu, Andreas Apergis, Myriam Côté
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Dekkoo, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy, Filmmovement
See for Me
A blind former skier is cat-sitting in a large secluded mansion when three thieves break in, attempting to steal the hidden safe.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2021
- Director Randall Okita
- Cast Skyler Davenport, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Laura Vandervoort, Pascal Langdale
- Genre Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, DIRECTV, Tribeca
Social Hygiene
(Hygiène sociale)
Hedonistic philosopher and delinquent Antonin's way with words has put him into a bind.
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- Canada • 2021
- Director Denis Côté
- Cast Maxim Gaudette, Éléonore Loiselle, Ève Duranceau, Larissa Corriveau, Kathleen Fortin, Évelyne Rompré
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Spamflix, IndieFlix, Apple TV
The Exchange
Friends don’t have to be alike in every way.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2021
- Director Dan Mazer
- Cast Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia, Justin Hartley, Jennifer Irwin, Paul Braunstein
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Showtime, Showtime Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Paramount+ Showtime, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox
The Gig Is Up
A very human documentary about technology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 2021
- Director Shannon Walsh
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Redbox, Kanopy
Dune
A young man embarks on a dangerous interplanetary quest to ensure the survival of his people.
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- United States, Canada • 2020
- Director Denis Villeneuve
- Cast Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya, Jason Momoa
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, AMC on Demand, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Mafia Inc.
The son of the mafia's tailor is in over his head when tries to get involved in the mob's affairs.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2020
- Director Daniel Grou
- Cast Sergio Castellitto, Marc-André Grondin, Gilbert Sicotte, Mylène Mackay, Donny Falsetti, Tony Nardi
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Redbox
Marlene
A woman fights to exonerate her husband from a crime he did not commit in this gripping docudrama.
- Canada • 2020
- Director Wendy Hill-Tout
- Cast Kristin Booth, Greg Bryk, Julia Sarah Stone, Dempsey Bryk
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
No Ordinary Man
A complex and empathetic portrait of late jazz musician and trans icon Billy Tipton.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2020
- Director Aisling Chin-Yee
- Cast Billy Tipton, Susan Stryker, Kate Bornstein, Zackary Drucker, C. Riley Norton
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy, Oscilloscope
Our Own
(Les Nôtres)
The news of a teenage girl's pregnancy sends shockwaves throughout the small Quebec town of Sainte-Adeline.
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- Canada • 2020
- Director Jeanne Leblanc
- Cast Émilie Bierre, Marianne Farley, Paul Doucet, Judith Baribeau, Denis Larocque, Marie-Ginette Guay
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy, Oscilloscope
Peace by Chocolate
After his family's chocolate factory is bombed in Syria, Tareq Hadhad and his family immigrate to a small Canadian town.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2020
- Director Jonathan Keijser
- Cast Alika Autran, Eric Davis, Mark Camacho, Domenic Di Rosa, Hatem Ali
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Redbox, Kanopy
The Free Ones
(Les Libres)
A documentary about four ex-cons trying to rebuild their lives by working at a sawmill following their prison sentences.
- Canada • 2020
- Director Nicolas Lévesque
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Sparqfest
Violation
Two sisters and their husbands gather in a cottage. The horror begins.
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- Canada • 2020
- Director Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer
- Cast Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe, Obi Abili, Jasmin Geljo
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Shudder, Vudu, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel
Antigone
A modern retelling of Sophocles' historic play where a defiant young immigrant fights the system to save her troubled brother.
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- Canada • 2019
- Director Sophie Deraspe
- Cast Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Rawad El-Zein, Rachida Oussaada, Hakim Brahimi, Paul Doucet
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Giant Little Ones
Everyone knows what they want --- until they don't.
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- Canada, United States • 2019
- Director Keith Behrman
- Cast Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Taylor Hickson, Kyle MacLachlan, Maria Bello, Peter Outerbridge
- Genre Drama
- Available on Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Kuessipan
In a Quebec Innu community, the close friendship of two girls is changed when one falls in love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2019
- Director Myriam Verreault
- Cast Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine, Yamie Grégoire, Étienne Galloy, Cédrick Ambroise, Caroline Vachon, Mike Innu Papu Mckenzie
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Video, Artmattan
Road to the Lemon Grove
Calogero must scatter his father's ashes on the family lemon grove that his brother is trying to sell.
- Canada, Italy • 2019
- Director Dale Hildebrand
- Cast Burt Young, Rossella Brescia, Nick Mancuso, Charly Chiarelli, Loreena McKennitt
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Freevee, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, FlixFling, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
The River You Step In
Social worker Stevie allows three of her at-risk clients to stay in her home in the East End of Toronto.
- Canada • 2019
- Director Jon Michaelson
- Cast Astrid Van Wieren, Sharmila Dey, Daniel Briere, Claire Burns, Marcel Stewart
- Genre Drama
- Available on Sparqfest
White Lie
A girl who has been faking having cancer must provide proof of her diagnosis or be exposed to her entire university.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2019
- Director Yonah Lewis
- Cast Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson, Martin Donovan, Connor Jessup, Thomas Olajide, Christine Horne
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Darkmatter TV, Freevee, Plex
City Dreamers
(Rêveuses de villes)
Four seasoned female architects from Canada reimagine the cities of our world, for today and for the future.
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- Canada, United States • 2018
- Director Joseph Hillel
- Cast Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Denise Scott Brown, Samuel Bronfman
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Sharkwater Extinction
Filmmaker and activist Rob Stewart is determined to save a shrinking shark population, investigating the corrupt fishing industry destroying aquatic wildlife.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2018
- Director Rob Stewart
- Cast Rob Stewart, Paul Watson, Madison Stewart, Les Stroud, Boris Worm, Randall Arauz
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
The Accountant of Auschwitz
Documents the attempt to prosecute one of the last living Nazi war criminals, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning.
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- Canada • 2018
- Director Matthew Shoychet
- Cast Jeff Ansell, Hedy Bohm, Hans-Jürgen Brennecke, John Demjanjuk, Alan Dershowitz
- Genre Crime, Documentary, History
- Available on Freevee, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Kanopy, Peacock Premium, Plex, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Peacock
Never Steady, Never Still
A mother and son seek to find themselves as they face debilitating obstacles.
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- Canada • 2017
- Director Kathleen Hepburn
- Cast Shirley Henderson, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway, Nicholas Campbell, Jared Abrahamson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Apple TV
The Breadwinner
An enchanting story of a brave young girl who puts her life at risk to provide for her family.
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- Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg • 2017
- Director Nora Twomey
- Cast Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus
- Genre Animation, Drama, Family, War
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Hyena Road
An intelligence officer enlists a sniper to track down a legendary freedom fighter.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2015
- Director Paul Gross
- Cast Paul Gross, Rossif Sutherland, Clark Johnson, Allan Hawco, Christine Horne
- Genre Drama, Thriller, War
- Available on Freevee, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube Free, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Peacock Premium, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock
Stories We Tell
Every family has a story.
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- Canada • 2012
- Director Sarah Polley
- Cast Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Freevee, DIRECTV, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Apple TV
War Witch
(Rebelle)
Behold, magic is in your soul...
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- Canada • 2012
- Director Kim Nguyen
- Cast Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga, Ralph Prosper, Jean Kabuya
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Pluto TV
Barney's Version
First he got married. Then he got married again. Then he met the love of his life.
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- Italy, Canada • 2010
- Director Richard J. Lewis
- Cast Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman, Rachelle Lefevre
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube, Apple TV
Mothers&Daughters
A comedy about three different mother-daughter relationships.
- Canada • 2008
- Director Carl Bessai
- Cast Tantoo Cardinal, Babs Chula, Gabrielle Rose, Camille Sullivan, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Tinsel Korey
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, Apple TV
One Week
When Ben is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he embarks on a motorcycle trip through Canada in search of adventure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2008
- Director Michael McGowan
- Cast Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, Campbell Scott, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV