2024 Films
8th Street Menace
Directed by
Feature
Gavin Baird
Jacob Farrell
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1:07:00
Canada
Mitchell “Menace” Dubois, a Métis slacker with a heart of gold, attempts to achieve his dreams of becoming a big time rapper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with some help from his cuzzin & ragtag group of friends, lovers, and enemies.
A Good Day Will Come
Directed by
Short
Amir Zargara
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Persian
22:38
Turkey
Arash is a professional wrestler with dreams of representing his country and winning gold medals. The country is in turmoil and its people are suffering. Arash must decide between using his platform to stand up to tyranny, or put his head down and remain silent.
Boxcutter
Directed by
Feature
Reza Dahya
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1:28:42
Canada
After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to find his music in time for the event that could change his life - a meeting with a Grammy Award winning producer.
Champion
Directed by
Short
Swaroop Elamon
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5:00
Canada
In a race against time, a forgetful husband must utilize his own time-travel app to retrieve his lunch box from a friend's house before his wife arrives, to prevent disastrous consequences.
Contiguity
Directed by
Short
Sammy Mohamed
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14:30
Canada
Abdullah, a part time student and full time security guard, is implicated in a drug sting by his cousin Latif. Now, at the mercy of the court, his freedom and immigration status in Canada are in jeopardy.
Deadpan
Directed by
Short
Aidan Cheeatow
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4:55
Canada
A family bids farewell to their beloved dog.
DROP
Directed by
Feature
Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi -
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English
1:36:00
Canada
Aging out of his art form, a contemporary dancer is forced to deal with an unknown future while desperately trying to save a young friend from a life of crime echoing his own shady past.
Empty Your Pockets
Directed by
Short
Tara Aghdashloo
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Persian
19:58
Canada
Hassan is a young airport customs officer who must secure an advance on his salary to afford his mother’s medication. On this day, he deals with various passengers at the busy airport all with different situations -- including an old man whose daughter and granddaughter have been sent away to the ‘women’s section’. As the dark side of his job becomes more clear, Hassan must decide what matters to him the most, and what cost he is willing to pay.
Hatch
Directed by
Short
Alirez Kazemipour,
Panta Mosleh
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English, Arabic
10:57
Canada
An Afghan refugee boy hides with his mother inside a moving water tanker trying to cross the border to safety. Losing his mother in the process, NAAJI forever tries to find a way to relive his last memory of her.
Into the Void
Directed by
Short
Chris Gaudry
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French
5:20
Canada
The places we go to escape
Johnny Libertella - One Million Smiles
Directed by
Short
Bruno Dramatik
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French
10:17
Canada
Sixty-year-old Johnny Libertella has spent his entire life in the Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie neighbourhood. Like his parents before him, he lives just above his shop on Plaza St-Hubert. An introvert by nature, he has chosen to devote himself to his business. For over three decades, he has religiously manned the counter of his footwear shop that specializes in cowboy boots, only straying away from the Plaza to visit his daughter every Sunday.
Les Filles du Roi
Directed by
Feature
Corey Payette
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English, French
1:41:58
Canada
A young Mohawk girl, Kateri, and her brother Jean-Baptiste, have their lives disrupted upon the arrival of Les Filles du Roi in 1665 ‘New France’, forge an unlikely relationship with young fille Marie-Jean Lespérance - whose dream of a new life is more complicated than she could have imagined.