Cinequest 2026 • New Visions Award
Everyone in the room decides her fiction is a confession, and she is expected to keep smiling through it.
Cinequest 2026 • New Visions Award
Young Female Playwright
Pony Nicole Herauf
Everyone in the room decides her fiction is a confession, and she is expected to keep smiling through it.
TIFF 2019 • Contemporary World Cinema • Canada's Top Ten
Ninety-six minutes of watching someone maintain a lie the way other people hold down a job.
TIFF 2019 • Contemporary World Cinema • Canada's Top Ten
White Lie
Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
Ninety-six minutes of watching someone maintain a lie the way other people hold down a job.
Venice 2018 • In Competition • TIFF Special Presentations
A pop career grown straight out of a wound, staged like grand opera and lit like a stadium.
Venice 2018 • In Competition • TIFF Special Presentations
Vox Lux
Brady Corbet
A pop career grown straight out of a wound, staged like grand opera and lit like a stadium.
Mammoth Lakes 2026 • World Premiere • North American Narrative Features
Rent is due, so the living room becomes a business — and then the business starts running him.
Mammoth Lakes 2026 • World Premiere • North American Narrative Features
Toronto Apartment
Tristan Wheeler
Rent is due, so the living room becomes a business — and then the business starts running him.
Sundance 2005 • Special Jury Prize, Acting • Berlinale 2005 • Silver Bear, Best Actor
Every adult in the house is faking it too, and the film is generous enough to say so out loud.
Sundance 2005 • Special Jury Prize, Acting • Berlinale 2005 • Silver Bear, Best Actor
Thumbsucker
Mike Mills
Every adult in the house is faking it too, and the film is generous enough to say so out loud.
Cannes 2015 • Critics' Week • TIFF Best Canadian First Feature
Three boys dare each other toward adulthood on a Lake Superior cliff, and the dare becomes the whole friendship.
Cannes 2015 • Critics' Week • TIFF Best Canadian First Feature
Sleeping Giant
Andrew Cividino
Three boys dare each other toward adulthood on a Lake Superior cliff, and the dare becomes the whole friendship.