Genres: narrative

  • Lovely Is Your Name

    A rock video in the laundromat.

  • Lost Heroes

    Francisco, the lead character, is a Portuguese-Canadian artist who has just been commissioned to work on a painting celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974. His agent, upon realizing how distanced Francisco feels from his home, sends him to Portugal to rediscover it. Once there, he goes to meet Catarina, a childhood friend who lives with her family in a small village. Conflict arises when Catarina’s father discovers that Francisco has returned. An ex-captain of the notorious PIDE, the Portuguese equivalent to the KGB, he had Francisco’s father imprisoned, tortured, and killed…

  • Nude Not

    Jodie moves into a new house, only to discover her housemates are perpetually nude, or are they? A few incidents occur which could have a plethora of different meanings: narcotic illusion, dream, prank or inexplicable paradox.

  • Foreign Film, The

    Inept techies at a second-rate television station allow the audio track to slip back, becoming misaligned with the video of an Italian soap-film that’s trying to capture the essence of old black-and-white movies, with a few mistakes.

  • Urge

    A young woman has to pee. Due to various circumstances and her own inability to admit it, she holds it in. When the need becomes too unbearable, she takes matters into her own hands – with unexpected results.

  • Brick, The

    A docu-drama on the sterility of suburban high school life and an example of one young man’s attempt to escape. From a brief intense excursion into drugs, music and parties, to a rational attempt at change through participation in a school paper, “The Brick,” Michael’s alienation is symbolized in a recurring nightmare of frustration and anger where he hurls a brick into a black void. Eventually he comes to terms with his loneliness and blindness through photography, and accepts his entry into the adult world.

  • Day Jesus Melted, The

    “The Day Jesus Melted” is a playfully poignant story of a child’s confrontation with the mysterious world of faith.

  • BARE

    Dee wakes up with a stranger in her bed, while her neighbour Paul is discovering new spice in an old relationship. When inner-city living finds them at closer quarters than they might expect, sensual surprises and unexpected desires are the order of the day.

  • Bridal Shower, The

    A painfully funny, painfully realistic enactment of one of the most bizarre social customs ever to have evolved as the “most wonderful day” in any girl’s life. Surely nobody seeing this film can ever attend a bridal shower again. Or maybe the custom will have a glorious revival based solely on its strength.

  • Take-Out

    In this coming-of-age tale, Rory is a typical high school student – he runs track, smokes up, and has a lousy after-school job. His career so far consists of delivering chicken to suburbanites. But on a delivery like any other, Rory meets Pete, a middle-aged man in the midst of a breakdown, and Rory is drawn into a friendship with him. Their platonic friendship proves to be a catalyst: Rory’s sexuality forces him to reconsider his small world, as his curiosity propels him to take a risk. This film explores the challenging, heady and painful process of a teen’s understanding…