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While going through a period of limbo, filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte turns her camera on her playwright neighbour. Together, they dissect the various stages of artistic creation in irresistibly funny chapters.
Apr 2026
May 2026
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., swings from a ghost town to a protest epicenter. Sergei Kostin, a local activist moves between these extremes daily. His days are split between the roaring chaos of street demonstrations and the tender moments with his aging dog, Snoball. Against the backdrop of a divisive election that brings thousands to the heart of America's capital, Sergei faces a more intimate challenge - the painful preparation to say goodbye to his beloved dog.
Mar 2026
An eccentric sculptor enlists the help of her lovelorn assistant to create a life-sized sculpture of her ex.
At the doorstep of his ancestral home, one resilient man embraces the spirit of Saint George, choosing dignity and faith over surrender.
A young man, isolated by the traditional dynamics of society, accidentally meets a figure who will remind him, and in his image, humanity, of the roots of his identity. Over time, this acquaintance turns from a mere personal connection into a deep and complex struggle between dictated myths and reality, freedom and tradition.
On new year’s Eve of covid, the protagonist has been left alone at home due to quarantine. So she decides to cheer herself up by writing a script about her life. As she humorously says, “Since no one wrote me a play-script, I write it myself! I am my muse.” She writes as the pictures come to her mind without following a linear, temporal narrative, in a simple way and simultaneously with moments of poetic realism. The audience watches how her thoughts come to life on the screen and how she imagines them. That is why in every scene, we see her in a different place, with other clothes, a different mood, and a different art. She imagines that she is acting in theater, in a studio, in the park, at her house, in Kavala, at sea, in the snow, singing and dancing. She transforms some memories into digital art, animation, and into poetry. This is how this multi-art spectacle is created and will make the audience smile and be moved.
Toronto’s skyline-defining CN Tower launched a five-decade transformation of the Big Smoke into the 6ix.
In Salbardi village, mysterious deaths spark fear. Officer Manorama investigates amid superstition, political pressure, and resistance. As mansion secrets and power struggles emerge, she battles mental strain seeking truth and justice.
On the reefs of Pulau Manuk in Indonesia’s Banda Arc, sea kraits thrive among coral rooted in a volcanic island rising from deep ocean. As their daily rhythms unfold, a rare behaviour emerges. Sea kraits hunt in groups alongside schools of bluefin trevally, forming one of the ocean’s most elusive predator alliances.
A grieving mother returns to the cursed woodland where her son vanished, forcing her abusive husband to face the monstrous consequence of the violence he left behind.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli, performs Arvo Pärt’s *Fratres*, Antonio Vivaldi’s *Stabat Mater* (featuring countertenor Carlo Vistoli), and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.
Filmed during one night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of war-torn Ukraine. Between fear and exhaustion, moments of joy and scenes of the ordinary day to day, we watch as life goes on in spite of everything, witnessing the resilience of a nation gripped by uncertainty.
Rhys narrates the abridged story of 2025 hit film War of the Worlds
A Romanian-Canadian only child navigates his final year of university.
A group of dancers positions themselves between the ancient and modern ruins of the island of Crete, Greece.