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Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.
Jan 1986
It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a feed of moose sausages and tea. Sexual frustration, co-dependency, domestic despair and just a hint of missing male libido all play out within the crestfallen subtleties of opposing table manners and passive aggressive tea-brewing rituals.
Oct 2014
Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
Sep 1998
A young girl named Pearl tries to help her father navigate the world of online dating.
Oct 2008
An unemployed man desperate for work wanders around St John's, Newfoundland searching for a job.
Sep 1976
This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.
Aug 1988
Mock documentary about Elvis' iconic status in America
The third film of David and Paul Pope's "Pope Trilogy" alongside Offstage Line and Slipway.
Jan 1975
When a rising-star chef known for his signature use of garlic is bitten by a vampire, he must learn to reinvent himself in time for the most important review of his career.
Sep 2025
When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing. As their frustration grows and the fight escalates, it becomes clear that what they aren't telling each other is what's really bothering them.
Jun 2005
An Untidy Package sets out to dispel the popular misconception that Newfoundland women weren’t major players in the cod fishery before the moratorium, and that the federal compensation they received was only added to their husband’s claims to increase their family’s allowance. We learn at the outset that one third of the 35,000 workers displaced were women. Using the viewpoint of some of these women, this video examines the cod crisis and its social implications for families.
Sep 1997
Conceived, written and shot in Newfoundland, this study in grief and adolescent longing is a sure sign of local filmmaker Adriana Magg's huge potential. The plot centers on Crystal Janes, a young girl with an odd relationship to her dead brother. Typically moody and self absorbed, Crystal is nonetheless sensitive and smart. Growing up is hard enough in average families, let alone one still working through its grief and guilt. A strong performance by Marthe Bernard as Crystal helps to anchor the story in a strong sense of realism, ghostly presences and all.
Jan 2004
A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned.
Oct 1978
A short drama that takes a humourous look at the consumer society.
Jan 1989
When there's a knock on their apartment door Thanksgiving Day, Jay decides that today's not the day to introduce his girlfriend and common-law partner, Sam, to his Cameroonian parents.
Jun 2019
When Newfoundland locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband. Increasingly isolated and with only a goldfish as a friend, she is forced to choose between placating her husband and freeing herself.
Sep 2022
One of three films in the “Hall Trilogy” with lots of local talent. Two women with roots in Newfoundland find themselves trapped together on a stalled subway train.
Sep 1992
It's been 16 years since Rosemary returned home to her tiny tight-knit Newfoundland community following the untimely death of her husband. Through death, loss, and years of self-sacrifice she gives until it is time to give up the ghost.
Jun 2025
Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
Oct 2017
When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
Oct 2022