Serge Nakauchi Pelletier

After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.

Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past.

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of kilometres away, that continues to affect their lives.

In both amateur and professional sports, being gay remains taboo. Few dare to come out of the closet for fear of being stigmatized, and for many, the pressure to perform is compounded by a further strain: whether or not to affirm their sexual identity. Standing on the Line takes a fresh and often moving look at some of our gay athletes, who share their experiences with the camera. They’ve set out to overcome prejudice in the hopes of changing things for the athletes of tomorrow.

Hundreds of Western volunteers have joined Kurdish armies in Syria and Iraq in their efforts to fight the Islamic State. What drives some Canadians to put their lives on the line?

Morgan loves fly fishing in the river near her home. She also likes boys. But boys don’t like girls who fish. Morgan can't seem to reconcile her two interests. Will she have to choose one and abandon the other?

At the Waseskun Healing Center, men with troubled and violent pasts follow a treatment plan based on Indigenous philosophy. In the great tradition of cinéma vérité, director Steve Patry spends an extended period of time at the centre, producing a gripping film that captures daily life in this unique alternative detention facility.

눈 덮인 캐나다 퀘백의 설원, 눈보라 치는 밤길을 차로 달리던 브루스는 누군가를 치고, 눈 속에 그 시체를 파묻는다. 점차 눈이 녹으며 마른 땅이 드러나듯 사고에 얽힌 추악하고도 슬픈 진실이 드러나면서 관객의 마음을 서늘하게 만든다. (2013년 제17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)