Another Planet

Director Christene Browne
Year 1999
Run Time 93min
Genre Drama
A young woman unsure of her cultural heritage, arrives in rural Quebec, Canada.

Director

Christene Browne

Writer

Christene Browne

Cast

Sandy Daley

Producer

Christene Browne

Genre

Drama

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Black Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Original Languages

English, French

Le coyote (The Coyote)

Director Katherine Jerkovic
Year 2022
Run Time 89min
Genre Drama
A widower's estranged daughter suddenly reappears with a grandson he didn't know about.

Director

Katherine Jerkovic

Writer

Katherine Jerkovic

Cast

Enzo Desmeules Saint-Hilaire, Jorge Martinez Colorado

Producer

Nicolas Comeau

Genre

Drama

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Newcomer Stories

Original Languages

French, Other Language

Les Jours heureux (Days of Happiness)

Director Chloé Robichaud
Year 2023
Run Time 118min
Genre Drama
On the brink of a major career advancement that relies on a perfect but difficult performance, orchestra conductor Emma struggles with her own anxiety and the pressure put on her by her father.

Director

Chloé Robichaud

Genre

Drama

Original Language

French

Le temps d’un été (One Summer)

Director Louise Archambault
Year 2023
Run Time 126min
Genre Comedy, Drama
For more than 25 years, Marc Côté, street chaplain and parish priest, has lived with the poor and the homeless. Today, Marc is a worn-out man. Exhausted from running his church, which serves as a shelter, and overwhelmed by the bills they can no longer pay, Marc must face the facts: he will have to shut down his church. Like a call from Providence, he inherits a property in the Bas-du-Fleuve region and decides to take a group of homeless people with him, who, like himself, need a vacation. Le Temps D'un Été immerses us in a bright story... A story woven with laughter, silences and tears... A feel-good movie where the sun and the clouds blend together leaving the audience with a delicious taste of hope.

Director

Louise Archambault

Montreal-based Archambault achieved success with her short film Atomic Saké. Her first feature, Familia, won her the Canadian Screen Award for Best Debut Feature, and Gabrielle was nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards. Archambault also directed the TV series Catastrophe and wrote and directed Il pleuvait des oiseaux, which premiered at TIFF 2019. She is currently completing her next two features, Irena’s Vow and Le temps d’un été. Next she will write and direct My Camino.

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Original Language

French

Tu te souviendras de moi (You Will Remember Me)

Director Éric Tessier
Year 2021
Run Time 108min
Genre Drama
The touching story of a growing friendship between a retired professor who is beginning to lose his memory and his young caregiver, who he inspires to live her life with a renewed sense of purpose.

Director

Éric Tessier

Tessier’s first film was the award-winning short Viens dehors! His feature films include Sur le seuil, Vendus, 5150 rue des Ormes, Junior Majeur, and Les Pee-Wee: L’hiver qui a changé ma vie, which won the Best Feature Film award at TIFF Kids. He recently directed the films Tu te souviendras de moi and When Love Blooms, and episodes of Hôtel and Transplant. He is currently directing The Amityville Curse.

Genre

Drama

Original Language

French

Sweetland

Director Christian Sparkes
Year 2023
Run Time 105min
Genre Drama

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

Director

Christian Sparkes

Writers

Michael Crummey, Christian Sparkes

Cast

Mark Lewis Jones

Genre

Drama

Original Language

English

Ghostkeeper

Director Jim Makichuk
Year 1981
Run Time 89min
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
A trio of friends on a snowmobiling trip in the Canadian rockies become lost after venturing up a trail during a snowstorm. They stumble upon a seemingly abandoned hotel lodge and decide to spend the night, unaware of the grave danger that they have put themselves in.

Director

Jim Makichuk

Writers

Doug MacLeod, Jim Makichuk

Cast

Murray Ord, Riva Spier

Genres

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Original Language

English

Before I Change My Mind

Director Trevor Anderson
Year 2022
Run Time 89min
Genre Drama

1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.

Director

Trevor Anderson

Writers

Trevor Anderson, Fish Griwkowsky, Katrina Beatty

Cast

Lacey Oake, Dominic Lippa, Vaughan Murrae, Matthew Rankin, Shannon Blanchet

Producers

Alyson Richards, Katrina Beatty

Genre

Drama

Interests

Bullying, LGBTQ2S+

Original Language

English

Ariel: Back To Buenos Aires

Director Alison Murray
Year 2022
Run Time 96min
Genre Drama

A brother and sister return to the country of their birth, Argentina, for the first time in their adult lives they fall in love with tango and uncover dark family secrets.

Director

Alison Murray

Writer

Alison Murray

Producers

Felicitas Raffo, Alison Murray

Genre

Drama

Interest

Female Filmmaker

Original Language

English

Café Daughter

Director Shelley Niro (Kanien'kehaka)
Year 2023
Run Time 93min
Genre Drama

Tells the story of a nine year old half-Chinese half-Cree girl, Yvette Wong. On top of struggling to find her place in a small Saskatchewan community in the 1960s, she is also faced with the passing of her mother, who always told her children not to let anyone know they were Native Indian, as she believed they would have a better life if this information was kept hidden. Yvette confronts racism on the prairies in the classroom, with teachers and fellow students letting her know she is different from them. Despite wanting to be a doctor, her teacher states that girls can't be doctors, and that maybe she would be better suited as a nurse. Yvette begins to explore and embrace her Cree identity when she befriends Maggie Wolf, a part Mi'kmaq girl who encourages Yvette to be proud of her ancestry. When her Cree ancestry is revealed at school, Yvette confronts discrimination, but perseveres to pursue her dream of going to medical school.

Director

Shelley Niro (Kanien'kehaka)

Writers

Shelley Niro (Kanien'kehaka), Kenneth T. Williams

Cast

Violah Beauvais (Mohawk)

Genre

Drama

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker

Original Language

English