When Ponds Freeze Over 1998
Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a feed of moose sausages and tea. Sexual frustration, co-dependency, domestic despair and just a hint of missing male libido all play out within the crestfallen subtleties of opposing table manners and passive aggressive tea-brewing rituals.
Sometimes being the WORLD’S GREATEST DAD doesn’t make you the “BEST DAD EVER.”
Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.
A young man struggles with the death of his parents. He connects with a psychic to find answers.
A dark comedy about a young man who mails himself in a cardboard box to his estranged girlfriend.
Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning.
Ann and Amy are sisters with a positive relationship, despite being very different people. They have been separated for the last two years due to Covid and work/ life situations. They are finally together to reconnect and share their lives as new moms. They are both in for a surprise.
When Newfoundland locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband. Increasingly isolated and with only a goldfish as a friend, she is forced to choose between placating her husband and freeing herself.
A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.
When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing. As their frustration grows and the fight escalates, it becomes clear that what they aren't telling each other is what's really bothering them.
A young girl named Pearl tries to help her father navigate the world of online dating.
When there's a knock on their apartment door Thanksgiving Day, Jay decides that today's not the day to introduce his girlfriend and common-law partner, Sam, to his Cameroonian parents.
Set against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1960's, 'Examination of Conscience' follows two brothers of questionable morals. This snapshot of their lives shows how they and their peers cope with the pressures of their time.
A comedy about a fairly neurotic fella waiting in his car for his new girlfriend as they make a 3 minute pit stop on their way to a movie, and all that goes through the poor guy's head.
The morning after a drunken romp, Henry and Evelyn reveal that they have shared more than just a simple night.
In this hilarious tale about facing adult responsibility, a young couple with relationship troubles must choose between talking things through or using their newly acquired magic wands to resolve their issues.
An eccentric old man in a local pub tells tales too tall to be true.