Toronto Metropolitan University

A young Korean boy comes of age following the tumultuous time of his mother's death. Years later, after stumbling across an old roll of film that holds memories of his childhood, he attempts to reconnect to his father and his cultural heritage.

A man is downtown and urgently needs to pee, but a vindictive voice on the phone holds the combination to his pants in this dark comedy of desperation.

On the last night of his closing Cambodian restaurant, Pou struggles to accept his career is coming to an end.

A young woman must confront her inner demons personified as a swamp monster in a battle for self- acceptance.

After years of being routinely drugged, Sugar Baby finds herself sex trafficked and must try to piece her memory back together in a desperate bid to stay alive and escape the only person she trusts and loves.

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, a 7-year-old boy begins collecting small, delicate objects, retreating into the quiet sanctuary of his bedroom, his cocoon.

During a tense family Christmas party, Luci, a queer Peruvian-Canadian woman with a massive chip on her shoulder, slips away to give her beloved nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress.

A passionate chef decides to move to Paris in attempt to change his mundane, ordinary life.

When he arrives at the unremarkable Ontario town of Paris, a French tourist will have to test his ability and willingness to cross the language barrier.

Faced with the threat of blackmail, sixteen-year-old David is forced by Owen the incel to get him a date with his crush Sierra. But when the relationship proves impossible, David teams up with Sierra to take him down.

Cordelia finds playing with fire to be an effective coping mechanism. With the ember of hope this new fascination brings, Cordelia decides to go one step further – and use that fire to protect herself.

When 16 year old Faye’s complicated relationship with her mother manifests as feelings for her middle aged ballet teacher, she is forced to confront her own shame and desire while she prepares for her final solo.

Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free.

Feeling enormous guilt after a car accident, a young woman must confront her parents who want her to attend a family birthday party. But this decision isn't so simple when it's the one she left handicapped.

Taraji, overcome with grief after a significant loss, attempts to recreate a recipe in an effort to heal and reconnect with her culture.

After being told by her assignment partner, Ben, to “think more like a man”, a flustered investigative journalism student, Maggie Thompson, imagines herself as the male protagonist of a 1970s cop show working on their project in real-time.

A filmmaker revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering the truth she couldn't voice as a child.

A case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. How does the way we talk about natural resources reflect how we perceive and treat them? How do we begin changing those broken systems? What can we learn from our past mistakes?

A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal.

When left outside of the nightclub on New Year’s Eve, Lennon re-evaluates her relationships and the meaning of connection as everybody around her celebrates the most exciting night of the year.