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- In a blackly satirical near future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.
- An obsessive astronomer and a curious artist form an unlikely bond which leads them to a profound, scientific discovery.
- Although we human beings may look and seem different, we are in fact all related, sharing the same origins and the same common ancestry. To maintain good and constructive contact with other fellow humans.
- When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbor in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at her door...
- A teenage girl and her friend run into problems when they plan to leave town.
- Its the 1960s at the University of Toronto. Doug is a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend. Peter is a shy freshman, and new to the big city. Peter and Doug become best friends and soon start going to concerts, drinking, and playing in the snow together. When Doug brings Peter to a steam bath and washes his back, the friendship seems headed to a whole new level, at least in Doug's mind. But when Peter emerges from a party after having sex with a co-ed, things get even more complicated...
- A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- While spending the summer in cottage country on the shores of Lake Superior, three teens cope with boredom by testing the limits of their experience.
- Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.
- JENNY, a young professional woman, and her boyfriend, MARCUS, go outback camping despite Jenny's fear of bears. Marcus convinces her that between their beloved dog, HECTOR, and his ax, they can fend off any bear attacks. While hiking to a campsite, Hector goes missing but returns. Later by campfire, Marcus disappears while going to the bathroom. At first livid at what she believes is a cruel joke, then genuinely frightened. Suddenly, with a flash of light and booming noise, Marcus reappears at the edge of the woods where she comforts him until daylight. While striking the tent, another figure walks out of the woods and kills Marcus. Jenny is further terrified and confused to find the man who killed Marcus, is Marcus.
- A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
- When the whole world is hypnotized by an unexplained celestial event, a young boy must face his fear of the unknown in order to keep his brother and best friend from turning to the other side.
- A man with an uncontrollable Itch on his hand goes through increasingly extreme measures to get rid of it.
- Bob Reynolds, a recovered alcoholic teetering on the edge of a failed marriage, wakes up to grandeur visions of once being a beloved superhero known as The Sentry.
- A man returns to his family home on the East Coast of Canada to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother.
- A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
- Anxious about a new school and his relationship to his brother, a boy with Cerebral Palsy meets an alien who helps him cope with his fears.
- During the French Indian War, a half-Abenaki man journeys into the wilderness with a deceitful frontiersman.
- 7-year old Alex's pure wonder ignites a journey of gender self-expression.
- A young girl wears her afro to school on picture day and must deal with the unexpected consequences.
- When the stakes are high enough, anything can be justified...even if that means killing your best friend at his own birthday to cover up an elaborate embezzlement scandal. Sound complicated? Don't worry, as the plot gets more tangled the chemistry only heats up as 4 hilarious characters stumble their way through the worst thought-out murder in history. A lack of morals, raw sensuality and first degree homicide collide in this fast-paced black comedy reminiscent of the classic board game "Clue".
- A short film about a mentally ill undergrad student desperately trying to navigate her school's underfunded mental services.
- Safe Landing is a story that deals with a single mother named Grace and her seven year old daughter Jaehyun who travel back in time from 2040 to 2017 to meet Grace's mother who had passed away before Jaehyun was born.
- One day, while goofing around in a museum rocket display, our hero Max, somehow managed to launch himself into space. After a giddy ride, he crashed into the home of Kendra, a Deaf teenager, and inhabitant of Deaf Planet. Max is at first confused by the sign language used on the planet, but is helped by his ship's Wondrous, Indispensable Language MAchine (WILMA), a robot capable of interpreting every language in the universe. Kendra promises to get Max home with the help of the many wise and eccentric inhabitants of Deaf Planet.
- When Edward's wife is nearly killed by outlaws, he must decide whether or not revenge can be justice at the price of teaching his son, William, that violence is an answer.
- Felipo and Hernan, two Spanish American brothers come into conflict over the honourable way to make a living in the harsh times of the Great Depression. Their bedridden mother, who is sick with yellow fever and oblivious to Felipo's unlawful lifestyle, convinces Hernan to join Felipo for an electrical job. What was supposed to be an overnight arrangement at a run-down factory, has Hernan backed up into a moral corner.
- A space captain struggles with his robot crew during an intergalactic mission.
- A young boy tries to bring his dead lizard back to life.
- A bored goth girl briefly animates and narrates 8 operas (with no music), catalogs the scandalous actions, and counts the deaths (36). The operas included are La Traviata, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Aida, Tosca, Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and The Ring of the Nielbelung.
- Powerful As God - The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario is a documentary that delves into society's most controversial and secretive topics. The film navigates 'truth' by engaging twenty-six witnesses with diverse experiences into conversation. By facilitating a voice for individuals whose lives have been tragically affected, with observations and recommendations by experts who have worked directly with the agency (such as doctors, social workers and lawyers), the film reveals a child welfare system plagued by systemic and bureaucratic abuse that urgently requires public attention. Financed by tax dollars and wielding extraordinary power, the Children's Aid Society is deconstructed to reveal a broken system where employees have been heard to describe their influence over children and families to be as powerful as god.
- Earth to Avery follows the story of a young girl who believes she is from another planet as well as her foster parents' decision of whether or not to adopt her.
- In Nazi-occupied Bosnia in the 1940s, an unlikely friendship forms between two young girls on opposite sides of the war.
- An old waiter struggles to find a sense of meaning and dignity in his life amidst a world that is seemingly "full of nothing".
- Afternoon begins immediately after two teens experience the life-event of losing their virginities. The film follows their awkward interactions in the subsequent hours until they part ways - the essence of their experiences being highlighted through a series of vignettes. Together, they explore the multifaceted sense of losing one's virginity: the misguided expectations, the awkwardness, the naivety and the simultaneous duality of intimacy and alienation.
- 8th grader Jacob Murphy tries to navigate his first love as the impending doom of high school looms over him. As he tries and fails to confess his feelings, he worries he could be running out of time to get the girl of his dreams before it's too late.
- Praham Dolbin takes us on a ride with his best friends, the Sturdy Boys skateboarding crew, as they wrestle the jumps, joys and injustices of being a teen - and what a ride it is....
- GUION is a short, narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford, as he grapples with the reality that he is to become the first African American man in space.
- When eighteen-year old Jesse returns home from an eating disorder clinic, he discovers that adjusting to life outside of the program may be more difficult than he suspected as he is forced to confront his past compulsions alongside his obsessive family.
- After a traumatic loss, Griffon must travel alone through a dying world in hopes of finding a haven from the poisonous atmosphere. But on her way, she stumbles into a violent confrontation between a group of survivors and a unstable loner.
- Ally must use her wits and her bravery to escape from a monster that wants to eat her.
- An introduction to Isabelle, as she defiantly confronts the frustration, confusion and loneliness that are the effects of Alzheimer's.
- In the not too distant future, a young girl miraculously becomes the first recipient of a human brain transplant. Waking up in another person's body and experiencing the wonder and confusion of living within a shell that is not her own, young Alice questions what it really means to be yourself.
- An impromptu passenger on Benito's routine door-to-door sales trip up north forces him to take his nose out of his insurance folder and take in the view.
- Meet Emily: she's smart, attractive, talented, and has everything a girl could ever want. The only downside is that she's upside-down.
- Come one, come all! For the Coziest Cooking Comedy of all!
- The haunting fable of a young woman who spends her entire life mourning her husband at the bottom of a cast iron bathtub after he is swallowed by a whale.