Toronto Metropolitan University

Matilde’s world is turned upside from the death of her beloved grandfather. As his primary caregiver towards the end of his life, Matilde inherits Avo’s store in Toronto's Kensington Market, to the dismay of his two children. Desperate to hold on to her connection with her grandfather, Matilde attempts the stress of business ownership. With Matilde’s mother and uncle disapproving, and her relationship with Annie beginning to take a turn, Matilde has to make some hard choices about what matters most.

Two siblings on a failed sheep farm in rural Canada decide to escape their trouble home by stealing their father's truck, but they are unprepared for the consequences ahead.

During a tense family Christmas party, Luci, a queer Peruvian-Canadian woman with a massive chip on her shoulder, slips away to give her beloved nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress.

A man is downtown and urgently needs to pee, but a vindictive voice on the phone holds the combination to his pants in this dark comedy of desperation.

Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.

Frida, an 8-year-old engineering prodigy, builds an airplane behind her mother's back to follow in her Abuela's legacy.

In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age.

Twenty-three-year-old Alroy Scott, who suffers from OCD, finds himself at the edge of his sanity after his best friend gets into an accident. Stuck with the debilitating & obsessive thought that the accident is his fault, Alroy is sent to group counseling sessions to confront his mental illness head on.

Filmmaker Lina Li interviews her dad to showcase a story of an immigrant family and the emotional challenges that they have experienced as intergenerational conflict remains unsolved.

It’s the 1980s, and Jay is thirteen years old. She’s managed to get her hands on a Playgirl magazine. She’s absolutely positive that it holds the key to unlocking womanhood for herself and her friends – if only they can muster the courage to open it.

Cordelia finds playing with fire to be an effective coping mechanism. With the ember of hope this new fascination brings, Cordelia decides to go one step further – and use that fire to protect herself.

21 year old Bobby Mayhill struggles to find guidance as his older brother Tommy serves a six year sentence for an assault on a police officer.

A man returns to his family home on the East Coast of Canada to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother.

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.

Feeling enormous guilt after a car accident, a young woman must confront her parents who want her to attend a family birthday party. But this decision isn't so simple when it's the one she left handicapped.

When his relationship hangs by a thread, an ex-chef ventures into his past, and out doors, in an attempt to restore love with food.

A struggling, up-and-coming punk band rents a cabin in the woods to write and record an album in seclusion, only to find out the cabin is being haunted by a malevolent spirit.

A young woman must confront her inner demons personified as a swamp monster in a battle for self- acceptance.

An 11-year-old Rachel has just discovered she no longer has a heartbeat. After seeking help from her unfazed mother, a useless doctor, and an eccentric spiritual healer, Rachel surrenders to the unsolicited aid of her homework partner, Charlie, who is determined to get to the root of her problem.

Follows emotionally shut down Des on her journey through grief after experiencing a great loss.