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  • A Line in the Snow - Greenland

    Movie

    On one of the wildest coastlines on Earth, a group of four skiers plan to climb and ski new routes. Setting out from a small Inuit village, and with very little recorded information available, they hope a new piece of mapping technology can help them commit to ski down faces they haven’t seen. Fe...

  • A Different Time

    Movie

    This is what love looks like in the 1960’s American South. Three people become trapped in a struggle of circumstance, proving how the status quo dictates lives.

  • A Change of Scenery

    Movie

    Meet Annie, a woman who, despite being caught up in the circus of everyday life, finds her balance. Using live-action footage and traditional animation, filmmaker Anita Lebeau takes us on a whirlwind tour through Annie’s busy world and shows us the power that lies in the small choices we make eve...

  • A Bullet For the General

    Movie

    El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unaware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.

  • A Brief History of the Unicorn

    Movie

    A young girl who is fascinated by unicorns comes into conflict with her parents and her catholic school when she demands that her confirmation sponsor be her aunt, who is a transgender woman.

  • A Box Came to Brooklyn

    Movie

    Naïve man-child Johnny stumbles upon an anonymous box on his quiet Brooklyn street. Panicky residents gather to investigate. What's in it, and who left it? Good-natured Steve struggles to be the voice of reason as and speculation turns to accusation. Prejudice and crackpot theories turn neighbor ...

  • 9BED(s)

    Movie

    One bed, five languages, nine mornings after in nine awkward minutes.

  • 88:88

    Movie

    When rendered powerless by an outside force, a young woman must find a way to fight back.

  • 45 Weeks Later

    Movie

    Holly, a woman in her thirties living in Edinburgh, struggles with sex and love addiction. While on her path to recovery, she makes a challenging encounter.

  • 3 Piece Kiss

    Movie

    A surrealist, cautionary tale about guilt.

  • 24 Hours

    Movie

    Inspired by the diaries left by Miao-jin QIU (1969–1995), Taiwan’s most renowned lesbian writer, the story begins with twenty-four hours in the life of Mai, a young expatriate writer. She shuts herself in her apartment while writing the last chapter of her novel Last Words.

  • 24 Days in Brooks

    Movie

    In a decade, tiny Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative, primarily Caucasian town to one of the most diverse places in Canada. Hijabs have become commonplace, downtown bars feature calypso and residents speak 90 different languages.

    Immigrants and refugees have flocke...

  • 24 Davids

    Movie

    Céline Baril’s latest film takes us across three continents on a quest driven by a simple yet original idea: to shine a spotlight on the inimitable Davids of this world. The 24 Davids in this film are of varying ages and professions, ranging from cosmologist to recycler; together, they construct ...

  • 19 Days

    Movie

    This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home.

    Located in the quiet Calgary neighborhood of Bridgeland, the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre is the starting point for g...

  • 1 Mes Y 2 Dias

    Movie

    I felt in love again. I dive into those feelings. I capture moments of my daily life for 1 month and 2 days.

  • (re)kindle

    Movie

    Ana and Helen, two divorced women, were close friends as teenagers. Today, amidst the Covid19 virus pandemic and in quarantine, they get in touch after 20 years via internet. Through video conference calls, memories, sensations and emotions flourishes, unearthing unanswered questions.

  • il Messaggero

    Movie

    The story of an Italian man from a small village in Calabria, Italy and his idea to bring messages of hope and joy to the United States as an immigrant in 1966.
    In doing so, he unknowingly immortalizes a generation of Italians through rare audio recordings. More than 50 years later we see its imp...

  • can't talk, a movie's on

    Movie

    A young woman thinks that nothing is real, and it turns out she's right. Somebody's watching her — but who?

  • Zagros

    Movie

    Zagros follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses nomadic and sedentary cultures, revealing the worlds of weavers, dyers and shepherds through their labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives,...

  • Your Audience (A Tua Plateia)

    Movie

    Portugal's countryside is everyday more isolated and lonesome.

  • Young Mr. Lincoln

    Movie

    A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

  • Yard Kings

    Movie

    Ellie, a 9-year-old girl from an abusive household, tries to escape her reality by taking refuge in a scrapyard with her friend Pete. There, they build a new home and dream of another existence. Vasco Alexandre wrote and directed this drama, inscribed in the so-called British “kitchen-sink realis...

  • Wrightwood

    Movie

    Scott is hoping for a relaxing weekend, but finds his friends exhibiting bizarre behavior that is either an endless prank or something more disturbing. Stay through the credits!

  • Words That Move: See Through A Different I

    Movie

    A first-of-its-kind stand up poetry special from award winning artist, Max Stossel who was named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year.