Canadian Films (Watchlist)

A group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

A young hockey player deals with the consequences of hockey violence after he critically injures another player during a game.

Inspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

A psychological thriller about a taxi driver battling bureaucracy and legal manipulation in China.

Just after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.

A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.

A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.

Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.

A young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.

A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.

Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds.

An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.

A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.

A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.

Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks and the government, in which she will be somehow involved. Meanwhile, practising her theories, she makes some old men very happy and, by chance even passes as a saint!

The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.

A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life.

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the sky.

A documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.