Dirty Laundry illustrates the vulnerable reality of Burmese women forced to confront the deep-seated misogyny that surfaces in their everyday lives
A group of three students making a short film, however, while the two enthusiastic students are proud of the work, a reserved student casts doubt on how the audience will perceive the film.
When Ana's childhood friend dies she attempts to skip the five stages of grief with the help of her best friends, ex-boyfriends and naked Twister.
David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school, Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long, and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through traditional farming. Their son, Ibrahim, dreams of a different future for himself.
A samurai travels to America to seek revenge for the death of his master.
The red string of fate connects people to their soulmate. Sawyer is incredibly excited about this. Brynn? Not so much.
A college student investigates the moments leading up to her classmate's suicide.
Eight-year-old Sargis' father returns home and gives a present to Sargis his dream phone. On the same day, Sargis learns that his father has returned to break up with his mother.
Juliano is a young artist who lives a happy life with his boyfriend, Nuno, a 65-year-old man, until his relationship is shaken by the discovery that his partner has a degenerative disease.
Thomas is damaged. He is mentally ill and deeply troubled by feelings of guilt. Deep-rooted anger simmers in his psyche as he faces an appallingly violent crime. His mentor is Dr Jonathan Abrams, a psychotherapist who probes Thomas’s mind and pulls out his madness. As Thomas crumbles under the strain, Abrams pushes him to the very limits of insanity. Whether he likes it or not, Thomas is drawn into the dark, shadowy corners of the human condition and must make difficult choices concerning the truth about himself and his fractured reality.
A silent student short film with lots of drama. Courtesy of Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal Qc.
When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the food, she is suddenly able to relive suppressed memories of her deceased grandmother. Now she must confront their multifaceted relationship and her own identity to find her peace.
Apoptosis tells the story of the last living human in the world, after a lethal virus devastates all of humanity; it will accompany both her grief over losing her partner and her inner paranoia about possibly not being completely alone.
Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is 1960's London, and when the locals start making life difficult for the new arrivals, David has to choose between fitting and and standing up for his new friends
A man partakes in an interview that reveals more than he wants to know.
Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.