By turns earnest and riotously entertaining, this documentary feature expands on director Nicole Bazuin and performer and co-writer Andrea Werhun’s book and short film of the same name. Werhun interviews a diverse community of sex workers and dancers, exploring their professions’ risks and rewards. Modern Whore is a revealing film that exposes the silencing effects of shame and stigma, a culture that fetishizes trauma, and the vulnerabilities that underlie a lack of labour protections.

With Heartbeats, Xavier Dolan captures the beautiful absurdity of unrequited love. Two friends fall for the same enigmatic stranger, and their friendship slowly unravels under the weight of fantasy and projection. Stylish, playful, and emotionally raw, the film examines how desire often says more about our own longing than about the person we chase. Dolan’s pop-infused aesthetic turns heartbreak into something both painfully relatable and strangely glamorous.

You've never seen anything like this before: There's a man named The Barbarian who's been cursed to work at a thrift shop for his crimes. Casual ghosts. An alcoholic special-ed teacher. Fatal erections. A Martial Arts Fight that may result in the end of the world… All these surreal threads come together beautifully in Writer/Director Olivier Godin’s newest feature, Oublie pas le gruau (Don't Forget the Oatmeal), a sweetly hallucinatory tale of a man looking for meaning in his life before it all ends. Beautifully shot, cleverly funny, and sneakily moving, it’s got the low-stakes charm of About Schmidt alongside the gentle fantasies of Bergman’s Wild Strawberries.