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Browse 110 movies from Toronto Metropolitan University
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler’s best childhood friend, who had left home to lead a lavish lifestyle.
Jan 1980
A man returns to his family home on the East Coast of Canada to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother.
May 2017
21 year old Bobby Mayhill struggles to find guidance as his older brother Tommy serves a six year sentence for an assault on a police officer.
May 2015
A teenager attempts to keep his composure following a reckless crime.
Apr 2007
Tensions, along with demons from the past, rise as a young farmer, the mashgiach (kosher supervisor) and the local Rabbi try to decide what to do about the mysterious illness infecting the cattle.
Sep 2018
In a city notorious for being cold to strangers, several lives intersect one night, oblivious to the loneliness that connects them all.
Sep 2013
Meet Margo -- an elderly woman who's trying to escape her old folks home in order to get her late wife's ashes to The Big Nickel in Sudbury, in time to celebrate their anniversary.
The trans-national fencing team arrives to practice to find their studio destroyed. They must fix the studio, go to competition, and process their trauma - all while trying to make space for themselves in the sport of fencing.
May 2019
Twenty-three-year-old Alroy Scott, who suffers from OCD, finds himself at the edge of his sanity after his best friend gets into an accident. Stuck with the debilitating & obsessive thought that the accident is his fault, Alroy is sent to group counseling sessions to confront his mental illness head on.
Jun 2017
Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.
May 2008
Taraji, overcome with grief after a significant loss, attempts to recreate a recipe in an effort to heal and reconnect with her culture.
May 2022
Proving there is always more than meets the eye, a school hallway water fountain’s use and abuse are the subject of this explorative short film
Jan 1972
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.
High school senior and promising pianist Violet has her world turned upside down when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis days before her audition with a world-renowned music school.
Oct 2016
A space captain struggles with his robot crew during an intergalactic mission.
Jan 2009
A struggling, up-and-coming punk band rents a cabin in the woods to write and record an album in seclusion, only to find out the cabin is being haunted by a malevolent spirit.
Jul 2021
When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires.
Oct 2024
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 young woman must confront her inner demons personified as a swamp monster in a battle for self- acceptance.
May 2024
A timid puppeteer working on Mayor Bobby, a popular puppet tv-show for adults, finds out she's been excluded from being apart of the new spin-off series and struggles to cope with the loss of her tv "family".