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- An interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black prisoner living in a Cape Town penal colony and a Dutch sailor -- who weather injustices as a result of their affair.
- A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula", stylized as an Expressionistic silent film.
- A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
- The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
- After silver spoon Geoffrey tricks arranged socialite date Diana Riggs into dumping waitering commoner lover Percy, she seeks revenge on all boys. So she convinces her private prep school, the only local one for girls, to limit prom dates to the winners of an exhausting competition between Geoffrey's rich jocks school Lancaster and Percy's more modest nerds school Selby. Failing to talking either school out of the whole war, Percy refuses to be bought by Geoffrey and proves a worthy adversary in a ruthless war between horny hordes, which Diane's herd is determined to fire on further. The principals have a feud and agendas of their own. After the close result follows a final twist.
- After discovering that he is attracted to a classmate, an adolescent boy begins seeing and experiencing strange things.
- On his eighteenth birthday, Pip receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the ghosts of the past.
- The film tells the story of three couples on the road between the Atlantic coast and the Northwest Territories in Canada.
- Documentary about the bloody beginning, bloodier middle and unceremonious end of the French Revolution, an event that ended in blood the reign of kings in France and laid the foundation for a new - republican - system of government.
- A former political police agent that has left communist Romania decades ago in search of freedom has to go back to find it.
- Matthew, a white medical student in Canada, tries to discover himself by returning to his birthplace, Guyana, after his parents have died.
- A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife and the band's former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he's been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.
- Peter Jordan is 33 years old and stuck in a dead end retail job at Super Duper Computers. To make matters worse, he's managed to rack up over $35,000 worth of debt. Student Loans, credit cards, Big Screen TV. His love life is equally in debt. Just when it seems he will never break out of his rut, an old high school buddy named Frehley shows up unexpectedly. Under Frehley's influence, Peter takes large cash advances on his newest credit card to go out every night. He even purchases his dream car, a classic '72 Volkswagen Bug. Frehley's easygoing take on life soon begins to affect Peter's co-workers as well. Before long Peter and his buddies Stan and Willie are having the time of their life. Not only are they meeting women, they're finally picking them up as well! When complications arise, Frehley disappears as quickly as he arrived, leaving a hockey bag full of pot in Peter's apartment...
- Father and son run their own two-man furniture business but have opposing ideologies on what should guide their craftsmanship, quality or commerce.
- When a drug-dealing pharmacist quits dealing when he falls in love with a woman who wants nothing to do with drugs. But when a psychotic killer informs the pharmacist that they are now business partners, quitting is no longer an option.
- A young husband does not recognize his wife's postpartum depression until it's too late.
- A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother.
- Lars meets the smoldering Karis at a nightclub. Instantly drawn to each other, they embark on a night of frenzied sex. What follows is a riveting story of obsession, lust and revenge, ultimately revealing that everyone has their own truth.
- The story is about three gay men named Peter - one, Cort, is writing the book about male circumcision, another, Koosens, is transcribing that book in a typing agency and is obsessed with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the degree that draws attention of police officer. Third Peter, Denham, seduces the first two in succession and after that betrays them...
- Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels from place to another and finally arrives at her new outpost. It is a remote shed, where a half-insane co-worker is waiting for her. It is obvious that Weisz has not been promoted, but punished. However Weisz does not realize that herself. Without questioning she just accepts her promotion.
- A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
- Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew. Based on his grandfather's stories to him, Bayo has a fantasy of rowing across the Atlantic to Portugal. On Phillip's next visit ashore, Bayo pleads with his grandfather not to give Sharon enough money to leave. Aging Phillip's own thoughts about his immediate future and Bayo learning more about his father may have an affect on what happens in Sharon, Bayo and Phillip's collective lives.
- Dominic, a courageous missionary working in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, is called home to Canada to arrange his mother's funeral and figure out how to deal with his brilliant yet schizophrenic older sister, Grace
- A young women unsure of her cultural heritage, arrives in rural Quebec, Canada.
- Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
- A Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb family have come to Vancouver to find peaceful new lives only to find themselves embroiled in the ethnic conflict they left behind.
- The story is narrated by sportswriter, Reg Locker, as he prepares another fan reunion to visit Sure Shot's grave.
- Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an splendidly situated burial site. Everything goes smoothly, especially that the town's luxury funeral home has just acquired Lady Di's hearth. Tacke has some money for the funeral ceremony, he also has some friends who would mourn for him, but he is out of luck: the funeral site he was hoping to acquire was just given to somebody else.
- The Girl in the White Coat, follows the tragic story of Elise, an impoverished middle-aged factory worker whose meager existence is only worsened by her heartbreaking circumstances.
- Wannabe rock star Goldi lands in a house of three musicians, one too hot, one too cold, and a third who seems just right. They let her sing with their band, and she romances them one at a time, thinking she's found her new home. But when she unleashes her own songs on the guys, they cut her out of their scene, forcing her to discover that real success means becoming your own rock and roll hero.
- After the mysterious death of their infamous director, members of a formerly renowned theatre company reunite for his wake. The grieving widow welcomes the thespians to her country house, but the drama intensifies when old rivalries and jealousies erupt, exposing a myriad of secrets and lies.
- divorced couple have 2 children.A boy and a girl. The mother is growing children but the father is trying to take the children back and grow them himself and then ....
- Nikola Tesla, the visionary scientist and engineer whose inventions form the basis of our modern technological civilization, left behind his greatest achievement - the blueprint for a new era of sustainable energy.
- In this impressionistic homage to Renoir and Rohmer, a group of young professionals spend a day at the beach uncovering disturbing truths about themselves and one another against visual beauty.
- A desperate filmmaker tries to create a media event by faking the death of Mel, the innocent subject of his sensationalistic documentary. Little does he expect that Mel, far wilyer than he seems, is about to turn the tables on him and expose him for the fraud that he is.
- A poetic documentary about the mystery of electromagnetic fields, the promise of new energy and the dangers of electromagnetic pollution. With music, image and dance, Powerlines explores the differences between the energy of life and the energy we have surrounded ourselves with.
- In a small Central American country with a population of 270000, three veteran musicians share moments of their daily lives with us.
- The counties of Brasov and Covasna are located in the very center of Romania. In Brasov, 87% inhabitants are ethnic Romanians. In Covasna, 76% inhabitants are ethnic Magyars. This is the story of a clandestine village, built right on the boundary between those two counties. A place without electricity nor water supply with 700 people officially registered at one same house, other 200 people without any official address, and many children without hope of ever receiving an identity card.
- By exploring the astonishing and dramatic course of Napoleon's 100 Days - the period during which Napoleon escaped from exile and marched on Paris to conquer Europe once again - the film opens an essential window revealing the inside story of modern history's greatest conqueror.