Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary – What Is a Documentary? Ways of Storytelling
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team…
House of Cards
When Ruth Matthews’s husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father’s death in a very odd manner. As Sally’s condition worsens, Ruth…
Wide Sargasso Sea
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette’s young son dies in a fire started by…
Last Light
Kiefer Sutherland plays Denver Bayliss, a condemned murderer who has killed three people, including a prison guard. He was brought into the system as a juvenile delinquent and never got…
Bedevil
Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in…
We Never Die!
This story has a horse-race fan main character who sells clothes-hangers On one trip, a young, teenager boy relative goes with him. They have a lot of adventures as they…
The Innocent
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend,…
Green Snake
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny…
Cracker
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Losing Isaiah
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality,…
The Bare-Footed Kid
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
The Bonnie & Clyde story is re-told from a contemporary viewpoint. Clyde in this movie is a high school nerd working in the local burger joint. Urges to steal things…
Girl
Carol Morley’s debut short uses the iconography of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – to explore the story of a girl’s relationship with her father, and…
Love & Human Remains
Dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city. Dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the ’90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a…
The Crude Oasis
Lonely Kansas housewife Karen Webb despondent about her love life, her husband Jim Webb coldness and philandering, has a strong urge to change her future. Karen discovers the truth about…
Sunset Strip
Young and beautiful Heather’s dreams of dancing and seduction lead her into one of the hottest strip club where she finds love in Tony. An exploration of a sexy woman’s…
We the Ragamuffin
Julian Henriques’ urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture. Filled with undeniable style, the vibrations of local sound systems and rhythmic Jamaican patois, Julian…
A Touch of Fever
The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin. They each have a lady friend, and everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he’s in love with Tatsuro.
Terminal USA
In a Japanese-American family, the mother is stealing the terminally ill grandpa’s morphine, the airhead sister is having sex with the family lawyer, one brother gets perfect grades but is…
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
It’s 1982, and Midwestern housewife Joyce Jackson is obsessed with Elvis Presley; she’s even used the King of Rock and Roll’s inspiration to turn her house into a wacky shrine….
The Last Outlaw
The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the…
Sopyonje
Dong-ho, a pansori performer, travels the country in search of Song-hwa, a fellow orphan who also studied under the same strict master.
Everything I Like
A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who’s soon to return home to England.
Beach Babes from Beyond
An intergalactic babe borrows her dad’s T-bird ship to do a little planet hopping with her two friends, but they run out of fuel unexpectedly, and must land on earth….
Vanished Without a Trace
Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the…
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
Abraham
This engrossing dramatization of the life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spans from the patriarch’s quest for the Promised Land to the…
Monolith
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don’t want them to stick their…
Little Ninjas
A treasure map found by three young boys allows them reason to get their kicks in more ways than one.
Shootfighter: Fight to the Death
Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a “shootfighter” (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of…
The Hit List
A hit man’s boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Midnight Witness
Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.
Project Vampire
A vampire scientist psychically charges the “longevity serum” he sells across the world, making all who use it into vampires loyal to him.
No Escape, No Return
Two cops go undercover to infiltrate a violent drug ring, and are in for a shock when they find out who’s running it.
I Love a Man in Uniform
Henry Adler lives in Ontario by himself, regularly visits his gruff and critical father, and works in a bank; he’s also an actor. He finds new purpose in life when…
What About Me?
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.