The new film by Christian Petzold (Transit, Phoenix, Barbara) is a bittersweet romance that reinterprets the curse of the European mythological figure, Undine.
Synopsis: Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her, and return to the water.
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Starring Samantha Robinson (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Love Witch), For Your Consideration satirically distills the filmmaking process into a single conversation. Over lattes, the privileged few riff on society’s inequities to decide who gets to be seen and heard. And as the characters pat themselves on the back, the audience is left to question their own entitlement.
Directed by Poppy Gordon and co-written by Mexican-American screenwriter Aldo Arias, For Your Consideration aims to challenge the existing power structures of popular culture.
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As this year’s winner of the 2021 Micki Moore Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival (TJFF), Lune is a powerful film about politics, religion, bipolar disorder, the mental health care system, and parenting.
Set in 1994 Toronto, Miriam, a South African-born Jew, navigates a manic episode triggered by her determination to vote for the recently-freed Nelson Mandela. Having spent years fighting apartheid, Miriam is eager to return to South Africa to vote in the historic election. But her mania escalates when she meets her teenage daughter’s African Canadian boyfriend.
Danish singer and songwriter, Lukas Forchhammer, has been performing since his early childhood years. Being a member of a band was only natural for his life trajectory. In his early twenties, he became lead singer of the Danish band Lukas Graham. The band formed in 2011 and gained popularity across Denmark from their YouTube homemade videos of their songs.
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Andrew Chung‘s first feature, White Elephant, offers a fresh perspective based on many 1990s high school rom-coms.
Set in 1996, in a majority-minority neighbourhood in Scarborough, 16-year-old Pooja (Zaarin Bushra) finds herself torn between her crush on Trevor, a white boy (Jesse Nasmith), and her friends Manpreet (Gurleen Singh) and Amit (Dulmika Hapuarachchi).
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Crisis is the latest crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Nicholas Jarecki. The film aims to present an overview of the opioid epidemic that countries like the US and Canada are currently experiencing.
Jarecki aims to present the complexity of the epidemic by including all involved and affected by it, from the substance user, their loved ones, the police fighting the ‘war on drugs”, those who sell and profit from the sale of these substances, and the large corporations that manufacture and distribute the substances while ignoring conflicting scientific evidence to their addictive properties.
Did you know that 1 in 7 girls in Canada will leave school this week due to a lack of access to period management products?
Directed by Canadian Screen Award winner Rebecca Snow, and helmed by an almost exclusively female production team, Pandora’s Box: Lifting The Lid on Menstruation locates the global issue of period poverty and menstrual inequality at the intersection of health, economic, social, and even environmental justice
The Sinners follows seven girls from a very conservative Christian town, who decide to rebel by embodying the nickname given to them by many at their high school… ‘The Sinners’ for the seven deadly sins.
From director and writer Courtney Paige, comes this horror thriller story about a group of high school girls, who must decide what to do when one of their group betrays them. They decide to ‘teach her a lesson’ through a prank. As you might guess, the prank spirals out of control whereby each member of the ‘Sinners’ group become the target of an unknown killer.
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A methodically slow, dreamlike, eerie film, Sator is a story about more than what is seen and heard. Director Jordan Graham teases the line between fact and fiction. Sator’s core story, of a demon making contact with an intimate family, is inspired by director Graham’s own life.
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Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this latest and bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents one of the world’s most popular love story.
Mixing text messages and Shakespearean dialogue, R#J takes us into the love language of the 21st century, where GIFs, Spotify playlist exchanges, and Instagram profiles kindle romance and emphasize moments of vulnerability.
Sundance shorts alum Carey Williams (Emergency) sends us into an impressive vision on his debut feature, where technology powerfully unveils timelessness.
