Hims

Director Krsy Fox
Year 2023
Run Time 16min
Genre Horror
Jo and her three year old daughter Lulu struggle to adjust to life alone after her divorce. The worst is yet to come, when an evil force inhabits Lulu's bedroom.

Director

Krsy Fox

Writer

Krsy Fox

Cast

Elle Riot Fox, Krsy Fox

Producers

Krsy Fox, Spider One

Genre

Horror

Interests

Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

N.U.N.S. with Nunchucks

Director Lorenzo Gutiérrez
Year 2021
Run Time 13min
Genre Action/Adventure, Comedy
In the distant future, within the city of Los Mutantes, Freda Davis and Lucille Nero, two spies from the National Union of National Spies (N.U.N.S.), ask Betty Powell to help bring down the Catholic Association of Quebec (C.A.Q.) and its oppressive leader, Jeanne Versacon.

Director

Lorenzo Gutiérrez

Writers

Vincenzo Nappi, Lorenzo Gutiérrez

Cast

Alejandra Jiménez, Natasha Perry-Fagant, Jasmine Winter

Producers

Lorenzo Gutiérrez, Vincenzo Nappi

Genres

Action/Adventure, Comedy

Interests

Cult & Offbeat Cinema, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Tautuktavuk (What We See)

Directors Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk)
Year 2023
Run Time 82min
Genre Drama

Blurring the line between narrative and non-fiction, Uyarak and her eldest sister Saqpinak, embark on a difficult healing journey after a traumatic event that reminds them of the importance of community, culture, and family. Tautuktavuk (What We See) explores issues of trauma, resilience, and domestic violence from the perspective of two Inuit women.

Directors

Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk)

Writers

Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk), Gillian Robinson, Samuel Cohn-Cousineau, Norman Cohn

Cast

Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk)

Producers

Jonathan Frantz, Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk)

Genre

Drama

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, Indigenous Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

Inuktitut

In Flames

Director Zarrar Kahn
Year 2023
Run Time 98min
Genre Drama, Horror

Set in modern-day Karachi, the film opens with the death of the family patriarch. Mother and daughter find themselves in a precarious situation where their existence is ripped apart. In order to survive in a hostile world dominated by men, the two women have to work together in the face of threats both real and supernatural.

Director

Zarrar Kahn

Writer

Zarrar Kahn

Cast

Ramesha Nawal, Bakhtawar Mazhar

Producer

Annam Abbas

Genres

Drama, Horror

Interests

Asian Filmmaker, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Global Experiences, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

Other Language

Simple comme Sylvain (The Nature of Love)

Director Monia Chokri
Year 2023
Run Time 110min
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
This newest comedy from director Monia Chokri follows a university professor who is bored with her comfortable marriage, and finds herself drawn to the handsome contractor who’s renovating her summer home. Their budding relationship opens up the question of what happens when romance and class divisions intertwine.

Director

Monia Chokri

Writer

Monia Chokri

Cast

Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Monia Chokri, Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Francis-William Rhéaume

Producers

Nathanaël Karmitz, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Elisha Karmitz

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Interests

Female Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French

I Used to be Funny

Director Ally Pankiw
Year 2023
Run Time 105min
Genre Comedy, Drama
A dark dramedy that follows Sam (Rachel Sennott), an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

Director

Ally Pankiw

Ally Pankiw is an accomplished writer and director who has worked on such television shows as Schitt’s Creek, The Great and Shrill. She directed the first season of the Netflix comedy series Feel Good, and recently wrote and directed her first feature film I Used to Be Funny which won the Audience Award for best narrative feature film at Inside Out. She is currently developing the TV show Standing By with Dan Levy.

Writer

Ally Pankiw

Cast

Rachel Sennott, Olga Petsa, Jason Jones

Producers

Breann Smordin, James Weyman, Jason Aita

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Interests

Female Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Autumn and the Black Jaguar

Director Gilles de Maistre
Year 2024
Run Time 100min
Genre Comedy, Family

A young girl who befriended the last remaining black jaguar in the world goes on an incredible journey to fight the poachers who have depleted the jaguar population, and to prevent the extinction of the species.

Director

Gilles de Maistre

Writer

Prune de Maistre

Cast

Emily Bett Rickards, Lumi Pollack, Wayne Charles Baker, Paul Greene

Producers

Jonathan Vanger, Sylvain Proulx, Gilles de Maistre, Catherine Camborde, Marco Colombo

Genres

Comedy, Family

Interest

Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Director Ariane Louis-Seize
Year 2023
Run Time 90min
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

Young vampire Sasha is going to die if she doesn’t kill. Being entirely opposed to taking a human life to feed on, she has long relied on her family’s murderous habits to get her blood, until they suddenly cut her off. Enter Paul, a lonely teen who is considering ending his own life, and is more than willing to do so to help Sasha survive. As they each prepare for the next step in their budding doomed relationship, a true bond forms between them – one that is as sweet as it is inconvenient.


This truly unique coming-of-age story is a heartwarming and clever spin on the vampire genre, and has captured awards at festivals around the world.


“Ariane Louis-Seize makes her feature-length directorial debut with this daring and daffy horror-comedy that plays like Romeo and Juliet meets Beetlejuice and Amelie [sic].” – Kristy Puchko, Mashable

Director

Ariane Louis-Seize

Writers

Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon

Cast

Félix-Antoine Bénard, Sara Montpetit

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Interests

Cult & Offbeat Cinema, Female Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French

Seven Veils

Director Atom Egoyan
Year 2023
Run Time 107min
Genre Drama

After the death of her mentor, Jeanine (Seyfried) takes over the task of directing his production of the opera Salome, a piece they had collaborated on previously, to create his most celebrated work. But with the spectre of their complicated relationship still affecting her decisions, and mounting problems within the cast and crew as well as her personal life, Jeanine’s whole world could come crashing down at any second.


This stylish new psychological drama from Atom Egoyan, shot on location at the renowned Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, features an electric performance from Amanda Seyfried at the head of a terrific ensemble cast.


“A wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as many layers as the Biblical princess’ famous dance routine.” – Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

Director

Atom Egoyan

Egoyan received the Governor General’s award in 2015 for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. He was the first-ever Canadian director to earn two Oscar nominations (for The Sweet Hereafter). His award-winning films include Exotica, Ararat and The Captive. His most recent film, Guest of Honour, premiered at TIFF 2019.

Writer

Atom Egoyan

Cast

Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard

Producers

Niv Fichman, Fraser Ash, Atom Egoyan, Kevin Krikst, Simone Urdl

Genre

Drama

Interest

Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

The Queen of My Dreams

Director Fawzia Mirza
Year 2023
Run Time 97min
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Azra (Kaur), a young Queer Pakistani-Canadian woman, has long felt disconnected from her mother, Mariam (Bucha). Reuniting in Pakistan for her father’s funeral in 1999, flashbacks to 30 years earlier show a young Mariam (played in a dual role by Kaur) falling in love with Azra’s father, Hassan (Haq). Jumping back and forth between these two coming-of-age stories, the connections between mother and daughter become more and more clear – but will they realise this in time to save their relationship?

Sumptuously capturing the feel of a Bollywood film while telling a relatable cross-continental story, Fawzia Mirza’s impressive debut feature is an instant classic.


“Mirza has created a film bursting with creative energy and distinctive aesthetic sensibilities.” – Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

Director

Fawzia Mirza

Writer

Fawzia Mirza

Cast

Amrit Kaur

Producers

Marc Tetreault, Jason Levangie, Andria Wilson

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Interests

Asian Filmmaker, BIPOC Stories, Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, LGBTQ2S+, Newcomer Stories, Strong Female Leads

Original Languages

English, Other Language