Genre: Drama
Cocoon
Director
Juliet Belisario
Writer
Juliet Belisario
Cast
Jae Chung, Kole Parks, Corey Parks
Producer
Juliet Belisario
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Eitr
Director
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Writer
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Cast
Augusto Bitter, Guled Abdi, Mostafa Shaker
Producer
Farah Abdo
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Interest
BIPOC Stories
Original Language
English
The Jazz Infernal
Director
Will Niava
Writer
Kristelle Laroche
Cast
Alexis Belhumeur
Producer
Jerad Anderson
Genre
Drama
Interests
Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships
Original Language
French
Le dernier repas (The Last Meal)
Director
Maryse Legagneur
Cast
Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Gilbert Laumord
Producer
François Bonneau
Genre
Drama
Interest
Family Relationships
Original Language
French
Sur la terre comme au ciel (On Earth as in Heaven)
Director
Nathalie Saint-Pierre
Cast
Lou Thompson, Edith Cochrane
Producer
Nicolas Comeau
Genre
Drama
Interests
Family Relationships, Newcomer Stories
Original Language
French
La fonte des glaces (The Thawing of Ice)
Director
François Péloquin
Cast
Lothaire Bluteau, Christine Beaulieu
Producer
Ziad Touma
Genre
Drama
Interests
Social Justice & Politics, Strong Female Leads
Original Language
French
Modern Whore
By turns earnest and riotously entertaining, this documentary feature expands on director Nicole Bazuin and performer and co-writer Andrea Werhun’s book and short film of the same name. Werhun interviews a diverse community of sex workers and dancers, exploring their professions’ risks and rewards. Modern Whore is a revealing film that exposes the silencing effects of shame and stigma, a culture that fetishizes trauma, and the vulnerabilities that underlie a lack of labour protections.
Director
Nicole Bazuin
Cast
Andrea Werhun
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats)
With Heartbeats, Xavier Dolan captures the beautiful absurdity of unrequited love. Two friends fall for the same enigmatic stranger, and their friendship slowly unravels under the weight of fantasy and projection. Stylish, playful, and emotionally raw, the film examines how desire often says more about our own longing than about the person we chase. Dolan’s pop-infused aesthetic turns heartbreak into something both painfully relatable and strangely glamorous.
Director
Xavier Dolan
Dolan is an acclaimed filmmaker and actor, whose films have won over 90 awards internationally. J’ai tué ma mere and Heartbeats both won the Regards Jeunes Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Laurence Anyways won the Queer Palm at Cannes, and Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, and Mommy won the Jury Prize at Cannes, 10 Jutra awards and nine CSAs. He also directed Tom at the Farm, It’s Only the End of the World, Matthias & Maxine, and others.
Writer
Xavier Dolan
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Languages
English, French
Language Version
EN Subtitles
The Things You Kill
Director
Alireza Khatami
Cast
Ekin Koç, Hazar Ergüçlü
Producer
Naomi Despres
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Interest
Family Relationships
Original Languages
English, Other Language
Language Version
EN Subtitles
The New Romantic
Director
Carly Stone
Writers
Carly Stone, Kyle Mann
Cast
Jessica Barden
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Redlights
Director
Eva Thomas (Ojibwe)
Cast
Ellyn Jade (Ojibwe), Kaniehtiio Horn (Mohawk)
Producer
Alan Bacchus
Genre
Drama
Interest
BIPOC Stories
Original Language
English
Sweetness
Director
Emma Higgins
Cast
Amanda Brugel
Producer
Amos Adetuyi
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Original Language
English
Sharp Corner
Director
Jason Buxton
Buxton directed and produced the short films A Fresh Start, The Drawing, The Garden, and Solo: A Portrait of Angela Hewitt. He also wrote, directed, and produced the feature films Blackbird (which won Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF and received the Claude Jutra Award at the CSAs) and Sharp Corner (which won the WGC award for best feature). Both films won Best Atlantic Feature and Best Atlantic Director at the Atlantic International Film Festival.
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Original Language
English
Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan (Once Upon My Mother)
Director
Ken Scott
Writers
Ken Scott, Roland Perez
Cast
Jonathan Cohen, Leïla Bekhti, Joséphine Japy
Producers
Sophie Tepper, Sidonie Dumas
Genre
Drama
Interest
BIPOC Stories
Original Language
French
Phénix (Phoenixes)
Director
Jonathan Beaulieu Cyr
Writer
Jonathan Beaulieu Cyr
Cast
Aksel Leblanc, Maxime Genois, Evelyne Brochu
Producer
Fanny Forest
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French
Monica’s News
Director
Pamela Gallant
Writer
Pamela Gallant
Cast
Polly Gallant-Mclean, Elisa Paszt
Producer
Terry Greenlaw
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
- Own Voice
Please, After You
Director
Rob Michaels
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Interests
Asian Filmmaker, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Newcomer Stories
Original Languages
English, Other Language
Canadian Distributor
Vortex Media
Clearcut
When a lawyer loses an appeal to stop a logging company from clear-cutting a forest, Arthur, an Indigenous militant activist, drags him and the kidnapped logging mill manager into the forest. The lawyer's empty talk about how the company's greed should be punished is put into brutal action by Arthur, who tortures the manager in allegorical ways mimicking what loggers do to the forest.
The restoration of this film has been made available for National Canadian Film Day courtesy of Severin Films, who is donating the proceeds to Indigenous and environmental charities.
Director
Ryszard Bugajski
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
Cinepix / Famous Players Distribution (C/FP)
Shook
Director
Amar Wala
Amar Wala is an award-winning Toronto-based filmmaker and alumni of York University’s Film Program. His debut feature The Secret Trial 5 earned him jury recognition as an Emerging Filmmaker at Hot Docs and was named as one of the Top Ten Docs of the Decade by Realscreen. Wala has also directed and produced award-winning television series such as the acclaimed CBC Arts program In The Making and the award-winning comedy series Next Stop.
Writer
Adnan Khan
Cast
Saamer Usmani, Amy Forsyth, Pamela Sinha
Genres
Drama, Romance
Interest
Family Relationships
Original Language
English
Holy Days
Director
Nat Boltt
Writer
Joy Cowley
Cast
Miriam Margolyes
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Interest
Family Relationships
Original Language
English