A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit…
An emotional mother-son drama.
Filmmaker Miryam Charles dramatizes what it could’ve been like if her murdered cousin was still alive in Cette Maison. Tessa (Schelby Jean-Baptiste) was born in 1994 in Stamford and died in 2008 in Bridgeport. The daughter of Haitian immigrant Valeska (Florence Blain Mbaye), Tessa’s life before and after her death is told in a series…
The bond between two brothers in 1990s Scarborough is examined in Brother. Michael (Lamar Johnson) grew up with his older brother Francis (Aaron Pierre) looking after him, while their mother Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake) worked late nights. In 2001, Michael lives on his own with a mentally broken Ruth when he is reunited with his…
A teenage cinephile works at his local video store to try and earn money to attend film school in I Like Movies. Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) is a 17-year-old high school senior in Burlington who is steadfast about attending the NYU Tisch School of the Arts to learn filmmaking. Lawrence takes a part-time job at…
A man becomes part of a behavioural research teaming observing and replicating the first crewed mission to Mars in Viking. David (Steve Laplante) is a man chosen by the Viking Society to take part in a simulation replicating the first human-crewed Mars mission currently in progress. David becomes the Earth-bound surrogate for crew member Thomas…
