The Pitch

Director Michele Hozer
Year 2025
Run Time 99min
Genre Documentary
When Diana Matheson retires from the game she helped define, she takes on her biggest challenge yet: building Canada’s first women’s professional soccer league — and shaking up a system that has sidelined women for decades.

Director

Michele Hozer

Cast

Diana Matheson, Christine Sinclair, Erin McLeod

Producer

Bryn Hughes

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Female Filmmaker, Sports, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

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

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Director Noam Gonick
Year 2025
Run Time 97min
Genre Documentary
Through rarely seen archival footage and first-person accounts, Parade brings to life pivotal moments that sparked Canada's 2SLGBTQ+ movement, honouring the activists and elders whose resistance led to the rights we have today.

Director

Noam Gonick

Cast

Alexander Chapman, Tim McCaskell

Producer

Chanda Chevannes

Genre

Documentary

Interest

LGBTQ2S+

Original Language

English

Ciclo

Director Andrea Martínez Crowther
Year 2013
Run Time 92min
Genre Documentary
In 1956 brothers Arturo and Gustavo Martinez made a bicycle trip from Mexico City to Toronto. They were the first to accomplish this feat, and it changed their lives forever. Fifty three years later these two men, now 75 and 78, drive along the exact same route followed by a small film crew. 

Director

Andrea Martínez Crowther

Cast

Gustavo Martinez, Arturo Martínez

Producer

Ana Villegas

Genre

Documentary

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Female Filmmaker, History, Sports

Original Language

Other Language

La Région Centrale (The Central Region)

Director Michael Snow
Year 1971
Run Time 180min
Genre Documentary
One of most influential films in avant-garde cinema, this experimental film by Michael Snow was shot over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm, and consists entirely of preprogrammed movements. Snow programmed all the robotic movements so that they never moved the same way twice, so there are differences in every motion of the camera.

Director

Michael Snow

Genre

Documentary

Interest

Environment

Original Language

French

We Lend a Hand

Director Colin Field
Year 2025
Run Time 49min
Genre Documentary
We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes is a documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of 40,000 teenage girls who volunteered on Canadian farms and helped win the Second World War.
 

Director

Colin Field

Writer

Felipe Giaj-Levra

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Biography, Environment, History, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

English

Menteuse (Compulsive Liar 2)

Director Émile Gaudreault
Year 2025
Run Time 102min
Genre Comedy

A sequel to the smash-hit comedy Menteur (Compulsive Liar), this hilarious film was the highest grossing Canadian film of the year in 2025. Virginie lies all the time, but only because she cares about protecting people’s feelings. As her lies build, her whole world gets turned on its head, when all her lies become true! 

Director

Émile Gaudreault

Gaudreault co-wrote Louis 19, le roi des ondes, which Ron Howard adapted into EDtv. Gaudreault both co-wrote and directed De pere en flic (the highest-grossing French-language film in Canadian history), Le vrai du faux, Le sens de l'humour and Mambo Italiano, which earned six Canadian Comedy Award nominations. He also wrote and directed De père en flic 2, and most recently, the comedy Menteur. He also co-wrote the upcoming Lignes de fuite, and is producing the English-language remake of De père en flic, Fathers and Guns.

Writers

Eric K. Boulianne, Émile Gaudreault, Sébastien Ravary

Cast

Catherine Chabot, Antoine Bertrand, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé

Producers

Émile Gaudreault, Marie-Alexandra Forget, André Dupuy

Genre

Comedy

Interests

Family Relationships, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French

Amour apocalypse (Peak Everything)

Director Anne Émond
Year 2025
Run Time 100min
Genre Comedy, Romance
Adam, a kennel owner gripped by climate anxiety finds unexpected solace in conversations with a customer service representative. When he hears about a natural disaster where she works, he sets out on a cross-provincial journey to rescue her. Nominated for 15 Prix Iris, including Best Picture.

Director

Anne Émond

Émond's debut feature, Nuit #1, won the Claude Jutra Award for Best Feature by a first time filmmaker at the 2012 Genie Awards. Her other credits include the shorts La vie commence, Sophie Lavoie and Plus rien ne vouloir, and the features Nelly and Les êtres chers, which received seven Jutra Award nominations and won for Best Direction. Her most recent film is Manuel de la vie sauvage

Writer

Anne Émond

Cast

Gilles Renaud, Eric K. Boulianne, Patrick Hivon, Piper Perabo

Producer

Sylvain Corbeil

Genres

Comedy, Romance

Interests

Environment, Female Filmmaker

Original Language

French

Sedna, Empress of the Sea

Director Jerry Thevenet
Year 2022
Run Time 83min
Genre Animation, Family
In this brilliant animated reimagining of an Inuit legend, a young girl named Sedna is kidnapped by an evil raven and held captive on a remote island. Her escape takes her on an unforgettable journey full of action, songs and laughs.

 

Director

Jerry Thevenet

Writer

Jerry Thevenet

Cast

Shawn Youngchief, Paula Davis

Producer

Jerry Thevenet

Genres

Animation, Family

Interests

BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker, Strong Female Leads

Original Languages

English, French, Other Language

Deux femmes en or (Two Women)

Director Chloé Robichaud
Year 2025
Run Time 100min
Genre Comedy, Drama
Two mothers living next door to each other each feel overwhelmed by societal pressures, and undervalued in their respective marriages. When one enters into a spontaneous affair, it sends both of them on a journey of self-realization.
 

Director

Chloé Robichaud

Writer

Catherine Léger

Cast

Laurence Leboeuf, Mani Soleymanlou, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman

Producers

Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Interests

Family Relationships, Female Filmmaker, LGBTQ2S+, Strong Female Leads

Original Language

French