The tragedy that inspired William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is dramatized in Hamnet. A young William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) is working as a Latin tutor when he meets and falls in love with Agnes (Jessie Buckley), a young woman deeply connected to nature who can see things others don’t. When Shakespeare goes to London to begin his…
Former celebrity chef Paula Deen tells her side of the racist slur controversy that destroyed her career in Canceled: The Paula Deen Story. Paula Deen, then 47 years old, was discovered by TV host Gordon Elliot in 1999 at her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia and would become the host of Paula’s Home…
A lonely gravedigger tries to resurrect her lover in Dead Lover. A putrid Gravedigger (Grace Glowicki) is desperate for love, though her putrid stench is too much for most possible suitors. However, this isn’t the case for a Dandy (Ben Petrie), who comes to the graveyard to bury his Opera Singer sister (Leah Doz) and…
Benoit Blanc investigates a murder in a small town church in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Rev. Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is a young priest attempting to atone for his past sins as a boxer. Jud is sent to assist at the Our Lord of Perpetual Fortitude church run by Msgr. Jefferson…
A single mother is kidnapped by an old hag and told to F*** My Son! Sandi (Tipper Newton) exits a department store with her young daughter Bernice (Kynzie Colmery) and our greeted with the sight of the elderly Vermina (Robert Longstreet) calling for help after a fall. However, it turns out to be a ruse,…
The orphaned son of a Yakuza boss trains for decades to become the greatest Kabuki actor in Kokuho. In 1964, Nagasaki, acclaimed Kabuki star, Hanjiro Hanai (Ken Watanabe), notices the onnagata skills of Kikuo Tachibana (Soya Kurokawa), the teenage son of a yakuza boss, who is slain in an attack. Hanjiro takes in the orphaned…
Two middle-aged criminals take an architecture student on a road trip across the Venetian plains in The Last One for the Road. Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla) are cash-strapped fiftysomething petty criminals who spend their time going to bars to have “one more drink for the road.” Carlobianchi and Doriano’s old friend Genio…
Filmmaker Darlene Naponse creates an immersive and meditative documentary of her homeland with Aki. Aki, Anishinaabemowin for “earth” or “land,” is a non-verbal, sensory immersion into Ojibway land-based life and survivance. The film was shot over seasonal years in Atikameksheng Anishnawbek in Northern Ontario, Canada and is structured around the Anishinaabe seasons – Biboon (winter),…
A Métis woman enters into a lesbian relationship with a newcomer while also dealing with the return of her alcoholic mother in Blood Lines. Beatrice (Dana Solomon) is a convenience store clerk and part-time journalist in a small Métis community who decides to help Chani (Derica Lyn Lafrance), an adopted woman looking for her birth…
Matt and Jay accidentally create a time machine that sends them back to 2008 in Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. As the latest plan by Matt (Matt Johnson) to get a show at The Rivoli fails spectacularly, Jay (Jay McCarrol) begins to seek other options for his music career. Meanwhile, Matt is inspired…
A woman recovering from a car accident is taken by her husband to a mysterious rehab centre in Honey Bunch. Diana (Grace Glowicki) is a young woman recovering from a near-fatal car accident, who is taken by her husband Homer (Ben Petrie) to an experimental rehab centre founded by Dr. Tréphine (Patricia Tulasne). Diana is…
This is an incredibly difficult editorial for me to write, since I am going to delve into personal struggles I don’t really like to make public. However, it involves events that affect my life not only personally, but also professionally. As such, I feel obliged to open up and delve into my conflicts from the…
A cartoonist begins hiring escorts after the status of his live-in relationship changes in Paying For It. Chester Brown (Dan Beirne) is an independent comics artist, who is taken aback when his girlfriend Sonny Lee (Emily Lê) tells him she is falling for another man. Initially, Dan and Sonny attempt an open relationship, though it…
A family fights to protect their farm in a post-apocalyptic world in 40 Acres. After a pandemic has decimated the global food chain the most valuable resource has become farmland. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) is an African-American military veteran living on her heavily fortified farm with her Indigenous partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four…
The city of Winnipeg finds itself intersecting with Tehran in Universal Language. Set in an alternate reality, where French and Persian are the dominant cultures in Canada, Matthew (Matthew Rankin) boards a bus to return from Montreal to his hometown of Winnipeg. However, when he tries calling his mother, Matthew is surprised when a strange…
A teenage girl becomes a Documenter in a future world where people are forbidden to live past 50 in Can I Get a Witness?. Kiah (Keira Jang) is a teenage artist beginning her first day using her drawing skills to document End of Life events for those who have to undergo forced euthanasia as a…
A Montreal copywriter moves to France intending to become a shepherd in Shepherds. After a medical scare, Mathyas Lefebure (Félix-Antoine Duval) decides to abandon his life coming up with advertising slogans in Montreal and relocates to Provence, France intending to become a shepherd and write a book about his experience. Multiple local sheep farmers give…
The leaders of the G7 nations get lost in the woods while attempting to draft their provisional statement in Rumours. The leaders of the G7 nations convene at a rural German bogland estate to draft their annual statement to the world. Attending the summit are German Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett), Canadian Prime Minister Maxime…
The final 90 minutes before the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live is dramatized in Saturday Night. It is October 11, 1975 and producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) is preparing for the launched of his new sketch comedy series on NBC. With the show yet to have a finalized script. network executive Dick Ebersol (Cooper…
A troubled First Nation woman struggles to rebuild her life in Aberdeen. Aberdeen (Gail Maurice) is a middle-aged woman from the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, whose life has been reduced to sleeping on park benches in Winnipeg. While being arrested for public intoxication, Aberdeen loses her Indigenous identification and subsequently learns that her brother…
During the end of the world, billboards begin appearing thanking an accountant for 39 great years in The Life of Chuck. Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a schoolteacher whose classes begin to dwindle due to seemingly apocalyptic events in the world. Marty begins to see billboards and advertisements congratulating Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) on “39…
A mother in the Dust Bowl era of 1933 Oklaholma comes to believe a spirit from a ghost story is tormenting her family in Hold Your Breath. Margaret Bellum (Sarah Paulson) is left having to care for her daughters Rose (Amiah Miller) and Ollie (Alona Jane Robbins) in their isolated farm plauged by sandstorms, while…
A filmmaking couple experience strange experiences at the Duplex they bought in It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This. Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf are a couple who have spent decades together making DIY movies with their friend Christian. While scouting for a upcoming horror project called Homebody, Nick and Rachel end up buying a…
A young member of an elite group of assassins goes rogue to save the son of her neighbour in The Shadow Strays. Codename 13 (Aurora Ribero) is the member of an elite group of mercenary assassins known as “Shadows.” 13 gets sloppy when she feels empathy on a mission in Japan and is instructed by her…
The final year of Ontario Place before redevelopment is observed in Your Tomorrow. When it opened in 1972, the provincial park Ontario Place was envisioned as a mirror for Ontario’s people. However, due to mismanagement by the Ontario Government, the amusement park that operated on the site closed after the 2012 season. It is now…
The haunting of a family is shown from the point-of-view of the ghost in Presence. After an unknown presence silently moves through the rooms of an empty house, realtor Cece (Julia Fox) arrives to show the house to Rebekah (Lucy Liu), her husband Chris (Chris Sullivan) and their kids, Tyler (Eddy Maday) and Chloe (Callina Liang)….
The career or provacative Irish author Edna O’Brien is told in Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story. Through her books such as The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien’s writing was often considered obsene or indecent. Edna also shared a tumultuous marriage to the older writer Ernest Gébler, who…
An English teacher in Buenos Aires adopts a rescued penguin in The Penguin Lessons. In the year 1976, Tom Michel (Steve Coogan) arrives at Buenos Aires to begin a position at an English Boarding School. Despite the fact that Argentina is in the midst of a coup d’état, it is the policy of the headmaster…
A kidnapped man desperately drops a note requesting help into a mailbox in Dead Mail. Josh (Sterling Macer Jr.), a kidnapped synthesizer engineer, crawls his way out of the house he is chained to and drops a call for help into the mailbox before his kidnapper and former business partner Trent (John Fleck) returns home….
A lonely Montreal man finds love right as he is targeted for abduction by aliens in You Are Not Alone. Since the end of his previous relationship, Léo (Pier-Luc Funk) has preferred being alone, working night shifts delivering pizzas from his family’s pizzeria. Things begin turning around when Léo meets Rita (Marianne Fortier), a sweet-natured…
Two old friends reunite in Matt and Mara. Mara (Deragh Campbell), a Toronto literary professor, is surprised one day to find her old friend Matt (Matt Johnson) waiting for her outside her classroom. Even though Mara is now married to musician Samir (Mounir Al Shami) and has a young daughter, she rekindles her friendship with…
The life and career of tenor Andrea Bocelli is revisited in Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe. Andrea Bocelli was born in the Tuscan village of La Sterza and has been completely blind since the age of 12. However, this hasn’t stopped him from enjoying a three-decade music career that encompasses pop, rock, and opera. Framed…
A horror-themed punk band are sent to a farm to record a hit song in The Gesuidouz. Hanako (Natsuko) is the leader of The Gesuidouz, a punk-rock band with lyrics using the titles of horror films. The band’s manager is frustrated that nobody knows that The Gesuidouz’s first album “Toxic Avengers Infinity War” exists and…
A grieving man develops a burial shroud that allows him to observe the decaying body of his deceased wife in The Shrouds. Karsh (Vincent Cassell) has been grieving the death of his wife Becca (Diane Kruger), who died four years prior from cancer. Through his company GraveTech, Karsh has developed burial shrouds that can allow…
An architect uses a powerful building material to create a Utopian city in Megalopolis. Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is the head of the design authority in the city of New Rome, who won a Nobel Prize for developing the infinitely malleable and miraculously strong building material megalon, which he has been using to reshape sections…
A couple undergo a weeklong series of tests that decides if they are appropriate to have a child in The Assessment. In a dystopian future with heavy population control, married couple Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) have applied for a weeklong assessment to decide if they can become parents. They are greeted by their…
An idealistic man pine over an engaged woman in Young Werther. Werther (Douglas Booth) has arrived in Toronto on a pit stop before embarking on a trip to Europe. However, Werther ends up falling head-over-heels for Charlotte (Alison Pill) when he meets her in a bar and won’t even let the fact that she is…
A young woman researches the history of Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow as a distraction of the imminant death of her mother in Measures for a Funeral. For her PhD thesis, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) has been researching Kathleen Parlow, a Canadian violinist from the early 20th century, who has been lost to history. Audrey’s research…
A high school science teacher tries to save his students from a malevolent vine-like growth invading his small town in Ick. For two decades, the small town of Eastbrook has been encroached by a viscious vine-like growth nicknamed “The Ick,” though one of the only people concerned seems to be football star turned science teacher…
A new mother begins to believe she is turning into a dog in Nightbitch. Mother (Amy Adams) has grown resentful of the fact that she gave up her art career to raise her 2-year-old son on her own, while her Husband (Scoot McNairy). Mother begins recieving heighted senses akin to that of a dog. After…
The story of Olympic boxer Claressa Shields is told in The First Inside. As a kid, Claressa Shields (Ryan Destiny) snuck into the gym of volunteer boxing coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry) eager to learn how to box. Jason takes Claressa under his wing and five years later, she is on her way to…
A New York sex worker spontaneously marries the son of a Russian oligarch, raising the ire of his family, in Anora. Anora (Mikey Madison), who prefers to go by the nickname Ani, is a sex worker who works in a New York City strip club. Due to her ability to speak Russian, Ani is introduced…
