Interest: Arts and Culture

Kensington Market: Heart of the City

Director Stuart Clarfield
Year 2024
Run Time 104min
Genre Documentary

Director

Stuart Clarfield

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, History

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
NR
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
G
 Québec
NR
 Saskatchewan
NR
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The Jazz Infernal

Director Will Niava
Year 2025
Run Time 16min
Genre Drama
Koffi, a young Ivorian trumpeter, arrives in Montreal with nothing but the legacy of his father to guide him. Lost between the city's noise and the silence of his past, he must confront his roots to finally find his own voice.
 

Director

Will Niava

Writer

Kristelle Laroche

Cast

Alexis Belhumeur

Producer

Jerad Anderson

Genre

Drama

Interests

Arts and Culture, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships

Original Language

French

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
NR
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NR
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NR
 Québec
NR
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NR
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Silver Screamers

Director Sean Cisterna
Year 2025
Run Time 95min
Genre Documentary
A heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary that follows a group of spirited senior citizens as they embark on an extraordinary adventure far outside their comfort zones: creating a horror film.
 

Director

Sean Cisterna

Writer

Sean Cisterna

Cast

Sonny Lauzon, Diane Ament, Sean Cisterna

Producers

Sean Cisterna, Ivonete de Sousa

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Arts and Culture

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
NR
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
NR
 Saskatchewan
NR
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Clairtone

Director Ron Mann
Year 2025
Run Time 73min
Genre Documentary
Acclaimed director Ron Mann delves into the captivating rise and fall of Clairtone, an audacious Canadian electronics company founded by Peter Munk and David Gilmour during the vibrant 1960s.

Director

Ron Mann

Writer

Len Blum

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, History

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

G
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
G
 Northwest Territories
G
 Nunavut
NR
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
NR
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NR
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Barbaracadabra

Directors Renaud Lessard, Barbara Ulrich
Year 2025
Run Time 82min
Genre Documentary
As the star of Gilles Groulx’s Le chat dans le sac (1964), Barbara Ulrich epitomized a new sense of youthful vitality and freedom then emerging not only in Quebec’s cinema, but in its society at large. Sixty years later, Ulrich joined filmmaker Renaud Lessard for a cinematic experiment, one that provided her with the means to overcome her fears and define herself on her own terms.

Directors

Renaud Lessard, Barbara Ulrich

Writers

Barbara Ulrich, Renaud Lessard

Cast

Barbara Ulrich

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Arts and Culture, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
NR
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
NR
 Saskatchewan
NR
 Yukon
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Midnight at the Paradise

Director Vanessa Matsui
Year 2022
Run Time 96min
Genre Drama, Romance
In this heartfelt ode to independent theatres, Iris (Liane Balaban), feeling something is missing in her life, reconnects with her old fling Alex (Allan Hawco) who is back in town. With their paths colliding at a fateful screening at her favourite theatre, the two will soon face a potentially life-altering decision.

Director

Vanessa Matsui

Writer

Bill Robertson

Cast

Liane Balaban, Allan Hawco, Kenneth Welsh

Producer

Bill Robertson

Genres

Drama, Romance

Interests

Arts and Culture, Female Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
NR
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
NR
 Saskatchewan
NR
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The Movie Man

Director Matt Finlin
Year 2024
Run Time 89min
Genre Documentary
Keith Stata’s Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, ON is probably the most unique and eccentric cinema in the world. Faced with the unexpected rupture caused by the global pandemic, this wistful documentary follows Stata’s efforts to keep it alive while demonstrating what makes this place such a beloved and essential institution.

Director

Matt Finlin

Cast

Keith Stata

Producer

Karen Barzilay

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Arts and Culture

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
PG
 British Columbia
PG
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
PG
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
PG
 Saskatchewan
NR
 Yukon
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Mile End Kicks

Director Chandler Levack
Year 2025
Run Time 105min
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this dazzling sophomore feature from Chandler Levack (I Like Movies), a young music reporter leaves her job in Toronto and strikes out on her own in Montreal, armed with a book deal and a desire to start fresh. However, as she becomes romantically entangled with a band that she’s covering, her carefully made plans quickly start to fall apart.
 

Director

Chandler Levack

Levack got her start directing music videos, which earned her two Juno Award nominations for Video of the Year. She went on to debut her first narrative short, We Forgot to Break Up, at TIFF 2017. Her first feature film, I Like Movies, premiered at TIFF 2022 and was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten list. She also directed several episodes of the 2024 Crave series My Dead Mom. 

Writer

Chandler Levack

Cast

Devon Bostick, Barbie Ferreira, Jay Baruchel

Producers

Matthew Miller, Pat Kiely

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Interests

Arts and Culture, Female Filmmaker

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
NR
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
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NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
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NR
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NR
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NR
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NR
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NR
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2026 Spotlight

Boxcutter

Director Reza Dahya
Year 2024
Run Time 93min
Genre Comedy, Drama
2026 spotlight contributor Adam Nayman
Rome (Ashton James), an aspiring rapper, has a golden opportunity to share his work with a top record producer. But tragedy strikes as thieves break into his apartment, and steal his laptop with the only copies of his demos. With his career hanging in the balance, Rome goes on a quest across Toronto to recover his music before it’s too late.

This inspiring first feature from longtime radio host Rez Dahya won the award for Outstanding Direction in a Feature Film at the Reelworld Film Festival and went on to play at South By Southwest.

“It is a portrait of a city that feels both nuanced and universal” — Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail

Director

Reza Dahya

Writer

Chris Cromie

Cast

Zoe Lewis, Ashton James

Producers

Soko Negash, Reza Dahya, Alison Almeida, Kirthiga Rajanayagam

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Interest

Arts and Culture

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
14A
 British Columbia
14A
 Manitoba
NR
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
NR
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
14A
 Ontario
NR
 Prince Edward Island
NR
 Québec
14A
 Saskatchewan
NR
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2026 Spotlight

Bye Bye Blues

Director Anne Wheeler
Year 1989
Run Time 117min
Genre Drama
2026 spotlight contributor Jayne Eastwood
With her British husband fighting overseas during World War II, Daisy (Jenkins) returns home to Alberta with her family, in need of a way to support them. She starts taking piano and vocal lessons from Max (Ontkean), a trombonist in a local swing band that she joins, and starts to improve to the point where she can travel with them. With her husband missing in action and assumed dead, she becomes torn between her loyalty to him and her newfound feelings for Max.

This acclaimed musical drama is a true Canadian classic, and was nominated for twelve Genie Awards, winning three, including Best Actress for Jenkins.

Director

Anne Wheeler

Writer

Anne Wheeler

Cast

Michael Ontkean, Rebecca Jenkins, Chad Krowchuk, Jyoti Dhembre, Sumant Mastaher

Producers

Anne Wheeler, Arvi Liimatainen

Genre

Drama

Interests

Arts and Culture, Family Relationships, History

Original Language

English

Ratings by Province

NR
 Alberta
NR
 British Columbia
PG
 Manitoba
14
 New Brunswick
NR
 Newfoundland and Labrador
14
 Nova Scotia
NR
 Northwest Territories
NR
 Nunavut
PG
 Ontario
14
 Prince Edward Island
G
 Québec
NR
 Saskatchewan
NR
 Yukon
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