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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.
- 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.
- A teenage girl and her friend run into problems when they plan to leave town.
- 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 short film about a mentally ill undergrad student desperately trying to navigate her school's underfunded mental services.
- 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 round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
- Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.
- 7-year old Alex's pure wonder ignites a journey of gender self-expression.
- 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.
- Following her partner's funeral, a young woman and her newly-inherited greyhound explore the awkward weight of grief in a honeymoon suite, leaving the weight of another death.
- A grieving soul meets his other half from past lives only to realize that their love always ends in tragedy. But saving his soulmate's life means he must choose between a life without loss or a life without love.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The 1930s was a time of immense drought for rural Saskatchewan. The decade-long dry spell would become known us as the Dust Bowl. Unfortunately, this is the circumstance we find Paul, Ellen, and their newborn baby. In the midst of an intense dust storm cooped up in their small farmhouse, the pair is forced to confront their conflicting desires surrounding one question - whether or not they should abandon their farm. When the storm begins to settle Paul is faced with the answer. He realizes he cannot salvage his land, nor his family.
- Uses a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic to look at the ways individuals evolve, adapt and break.
- 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.
- Kaira is the story of a woman who is forced to relive suppressed memories from her childhood when she discovers her once step-father has passed away. Kaira realizes that she must find the strength within herself to cope with her past.
- 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.
- Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning grandpa and his pet pug.
- A space captain struggles with his robot crew during an intergalactic mission.
- 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.
- A passionate chef decides to move to Paris in attempt to change his mundane, ordinary life.
- 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.
- In Nazi-occupied Bosnia in the 1940s, an unlikely friendship forms between two young girls on opposite sides of the war.
- There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace looks at the transformation of an iconic Toronto block - where the world famous Honest Ed's store once lived - through the stories of its community members as they reconcile their history with the future, all while facing the biggest housing crisis the city has ever seen.
- An African university student attends a dinner party with her French boyfriend's family. She attempts to navigate the dinner without ruffling any feathers.
- 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.
- A young filmmaker finds herself in a new a apartment where her neighbour is literally up all night. Her anger turns to curiosity as she sets out to make a documentary about 'The Man Who Doesn't Sleep'.
- A man returns to his family home on the East Coast of Canada to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother.
- 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.
- A couple of film students attempt to build a device that could potentially revolutionize the medium. But one day an important object that is required for their experiment goes missing.
- The Naked Entrepreneur with Dr. Sean Wise reveals the naked truth behind entrepreneurial success. The series unearths the entrepreneurial stories and struggles of those involved in the process on entrepreneurial innovation.
- A film about a group of friends at two points in their lives. In high school, then eight years later on a road trip back home reflecting on how much they've grown up and how much growing up they still have to do. They see how their friendships, relationships and how their own lives have changed.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- Man-Boy follows high school freshman Nicky as he decides how to deal with someone who harasses him at school, being pushed to openness by his mother and into fighting by his brother.
- 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.
- A woman with Alzheimer encounters a man who claims to be her husband. What ensues is a beautiful moment of connection before the nurse returns.
- A young boy tries to bring his dead lizard back to life.