MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
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.
MOVIES
SXSW 2020 • Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature
A homesick freshman and his RA talk until sunrise, and the film bets everything on the talking.
SXSW 2020 • Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature
Shithouse
Cooper Raiff
A homesick freshman and his RA talk until sunrise, and the film bets everything on the talking.
MOVIES
Filmfest München 2024 • Best Director, New German Cinema
A deadpan Berlin comedy where the laugh and the ache keep arriving in the same breath.
Filmfest München 2024 • Best Director, New German Cinema
Sad Jokes
Fabian Stumm
A deadpan Berlin comedy where the laugh and the ache keep arriving in the same breath.
MOVIES
Sundance 2004 • Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) • Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Two engineers build something in a garage, and the story quietly stops being theirs.
Sundance 2004 • Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) • Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Primer
Shane Carruth
Two engineers build something in a garage, and the story quietly stops being theirs.
MOVIES
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 • Official Selection
A gross-out premise played with unnerving sincerity — the joke keeps landing and it keeps hurting.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 • Official Selection
The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man
Braden Sitter Sr.
A gross-out premise played with unnerving sincerity — the joke keeps landing and it keeps hurting.
MOVIES
Cannes 1998 • Prix de la Jeunesse
The world ends at midnight and Toronto responds with dinner parties, favourite records, and one honest conversation.
Cannes 1998 • Prix de la Jeunesse
Last Night
Don McKellar
The world ends at midnight and Toronto responds with dinner parties, favourite records, and one honest conversation.
MOVIES
Sundance 2025 • Midnight
Grief played as a filthy joke, until the joke stops being funny and the longing underneath shows through.
Sundance 2025 • Midnight
Dead Lover
Grace Glowicki
Grief played as a filthy joke, until the joke stops being funny and the longing underneath shows through.
MOVIES
Cannes Directors' Fortnight • Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award
Fatherhood as a two-week bender: all games, no rules, and a love that keeps outrunning its own competence.
Cannes Directors' Fortnight • Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award
Daddy Longlegs
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Fatherhood as a two-week bender: all games, no rules, and a love that keeps outrunning its own competence.
MOVIES
TIFF 2016 • Vanguard
A night-shift concierge, a mountain outlaw, a man adrift at sea, and one soul splitting between them.
TIFF 2016 • Vanguard
Buster's Mal Heart
Sarah Adina Smith
A night-shift concierge, a mountain outlaw, a man adrift at sea, and one soul splitting between them.
MOVIES
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