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- Wayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city's last porno cinema from his estranged father Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile their relationship, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the pornography business. While running the cinema Wayne meets a cast of characters including Ralf, a slimy business partner of Al's, James, a young man with special needs employed by Al, and Athar, a young boy who lives in the upstairs apartments. Each character acts as a piece of a puzzle in helping Wayne rediscover the father he barely knew. But the old cinema turns out to be much more than Wayne anticipated. Between the community's pressure to have it closed and the antics of the devoted patrons, unresolved traumatic experiences from his youth bubble their way to the surface and begin to paint a clearer picture of Al. Landing his first lead role in a film, Wayne can't help but recognize the similarities between this fictional character and his father. Wayne slowly takes on Al's persona in preparation of filming, but begins to lose his own identity in the process and eventually his grasp on reality. As Wayne lives and breathes everything Al, he finds himself in a much darker place than anything he ever could have imagined. No longer just a character study, Wayne painfully reconstructs his traumatic experiences using Athar in the role of himself as a child. But Wayne goes too far and ends up on the wrong side of his memory. It's only then that he realizes the errors of his ways. He must now find reconcilement with the people he has affected along the way. In a final act of closure, Wayne decides to close the porno cinema and embrace his own identity.
- Your local dive bar is probably the last place you'd expect to get rich quick. But that's what the regulars at a bar called Good Eats are hoping for when they find out that one of their own, Foggy, is on the run with a bag of money from a botched drug deal. With cross-crossing story lines and high stakes black comedy, Junkie Run follows the intertwined, desperate lives of seven distinct characters. Each has their reasons for wanting - and needing - the money. There's Jimmy, a recent immigrant who is desperately trying to finance his family's sponsorship to Canada. Shane, another regular, is unemployed, expecting a child, and willing to do anything to prove he's a capable father - even if the means are illicit. Barb's a gambling addict and the primary caregiver for her grandson Troy, who has special needs. Tesus and Skim Milk, aspiring rap artists, want to build a proper studio to record their first album. And then there's Bernice, a dreamer who sees the money as a way to fulfill her fantasy of moving to Hollywood with David, her fallen celebrity boyfriend with ambitions to walk the red carpet again. Each of these eccentric characters find community in the eclectic, anything-goes atmosphere that Good Eats provides. But the solace their local dive bar provides is quickly shattered by the desperation that runs deep through each of its regulars. Soon, greed takes over, especially as word spreads and more people join the race to find Foggy - and hopefully get their hands on some of his cash. Between the scheming, backstabbing, and lying, alliances are broken just as fast as they are formed. The stakes are raised higher and higher with each day Foggy is on the run, leaving behind a trail of destruction and bloodshed.
- Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill. The question becomes not how much money he can make, but what he'll be compelled to do to make it. If you've got nothing to lose, how far would you go?
- Eugene, a young man with Down Syndrome, embarks on the journey of a lifetime: he's going to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and save the day.
- Always Had A Nice Time is a character-driven documentary that follows the lives of six different people living in Toronto's Parkdale community going through transitional moments in their lives. Candy is a trans woman whose late sexual awakening has inspired her to live life more boldly. Jack is an artist who has created a new art movement (Spiritual Depressionism) and is desperately looking for others to join his cause. Kingi is a Toronto fashion designer who has specialized in screen printing clothing for over thirty years. As gentrification takes hold of the neighbourhood, she is trying to figure out how to stay relevant and find new innovative ways to keep her business alive. Grizz is an artist living in an encampment at a neighbourhood park. He spends his days painting, getting high, meeting new people, and grieving over the recent loss of his two daughters and granddaughter. Close friends, Ron and Phil, are panhandlers. They share what they make with one another, but with Ron's health in decline, their friendship and future of panning together is put in jeopardy. Always Had A Nice Time is a celebration of doing what makes you happy and a reminder that happiness looks different for each and every one of us.
- Eugene, a teenager with Down syndrome, spends hours drawings his favourite thing, rainbows. But behind his seemingly colourful world is a reality he can't escape, his mother's illness. Desperate to help her, Eugene soon learns that hanging onto the life he knows means losing more than he ever imagined.
- On the eve of a storm in rural Newfoundland, feuding fishermen are forced to set their conflicts aside when an emergency arises.
- Spiders have been known to cling to grapes when they are removed from their tropical climate. Sometimes these resilient spiders make it all the way to the final vendor. In this case, they end up inside John's head!