Don McKellar

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

Acompanhado de sua parceira Caprice, o artista célebre Saul Tenser mostra publicamente a metamorfose de seus órgãos em atuações vanguardistas. Seus movimentos são acompanhados por Timlin, uma jovem investigadora, e por um grupo misterioso que se dedica a elucidar a próxima fase da evolução humana.

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

Ex viciado em heroína, Daniel Léger, se envolve em uma transação de drogas com as pessoas erradas e pelas razões erradas. Quando o negócio vai mal, Daniel é jogado em uma prisão tailandesa com a sentença de 100 anos. Enquanto ele tenta sobreviver a notícia chama a atenção do jornalista Victor Malarek, que decide ir atrás dos policiais responsáveis pela erronea acusação de Daniel.

A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare.

A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity.

Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits.

Oscar é um adolescente emocionalmente instável e traumatizado, porém muito criativo que deseja fugir das memórias de sua infância complicada e dolorosa. Certo dia, algo extraordinário muda sua vida por completo e o ajuda a descobrir sua identidade.

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups.

Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups.

Esta é a história de três artistas: Edward (Gael García Bernal), vaidoso diretor de cinema que precisa refilmar o final de um longa contra sua vontade e de repente começa a ter problemas sexuais. Michelle (Mariana Ximenes), modelo brasileira que deixa namorado e carreira nos Estados Unidos para voltar ao seu país e escrever um livro. E Emma (Alison Pill), que, desesperada para retirar seus implantes de silicone, recorre a meios duvidosos para ganhar um dinheiro extra.

Tickel Head é um pequeno povoado na costa canadense cujos habitantes são obrigados a viver de irrisórios subsídios do governo. Um dia, politicos chegam ao local com a proposta de instalar ali uma pequena fábrica. A ideia parece boa, mas a população só irá aceitar com uma condição: é necessário que a cidade tenha pelo menos um médico residente. Percebendo que não vão chegar a lugar algum, contentam-se com a promessa de que um médico ficará na cidade por apenas um mês. Assim o povo se une para tornar aquele o local mais agradável do mundo a fim de seduzir o médico a permanecer ali para sempre.

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

Mica (Douglas Smith) não é um garoto comum. Primeiro, sua casa foi transformada em um museu para homenagear o cantor mexicano Guillermo Garibai - e Mica ainda mora nesta casa. Segundo, ele tem cheiro de peixe, e os médicos nunca descobriram a causa do problema. Por causa do seu cheiro, o garoto não tem amigos, nem namorada. Um dia, ele conhece a garota Laura (Zoë Kravitz), que muda a sua vida.

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament.

A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Scott Pilgrim tem 23 anos, integra uma banda de colégio, vive trocando de emprego e tem um namoro firme. Sua vida está maravilhosa, até conhecer Ramona V. Flowers. Ele logo se apaixona perdidamente por ela, só que não será fácil conquistar seu amor. Para tanto ele precisa enfrentar os sete ex-namorados dela, que estão dispostos a tudo para impedir sua felicidade com outra pessoa.

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.

Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.

Leslie, My Name Is Evil é um filme canadense de 2009 escrito e dirigido por Reginald Harkema. Foi renomeado para Manson, My Name Is Evil, após seu lançamento inicial.

Quando uma epidemia chamada cegueira branca aparece em uma cidade, a mulher de um médico é a única pessoa que ainda consegue ver. Ela vai para um abrigo com seu marido cego e encontra todos vivendo em condições precárias. Agora ela tem que guiar um grupo à liberdade.

Quando uma epidemia chamada cegueira branca aparece em uma cidade, a mulher de um médico é a única pessoa que ainda consegue ver. Ela vai para um abrigo com seu marido cego e encontra todos vivendo em condições precárias. Agora ela tem que guiar um grupo à liberdade.

Um documentário fictício discute os efeitos que a guerra do Iraque deixou nos soldados e nos habitantes locais através de entrevistas com membros de uma unidade militar americana, a imprensa e os iraquianos locais.

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.

Karen O’Connor (Alison Lohamn), uma jovem jornalista, tenta desvendar a verdade por trás da separação de uma famosa dupla de humoristas, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) e Vince Collins (Colin Firth), algo que ocorreu há 20 anos. Naquela época, a relação entre os dois, que já não era tão boa quando como antes, se rompeu quando uma jovem foi encontrada morta no quarto de hotel em que eles estavam, logo após uma apresentação. Lanny e Vince tinham álibis convincentes e foram isentados no caso. Todavia, a repercussão do escândalo forçou a separação deles. Karen resolve ir fundo nos bastidores da história e o que ela descobre é algo impressionante, que mostra a verdade sobre a vida das celebridades e o que se faz para manter a fama – drogas, intrigas e assassinato!

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.

A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment.

An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of the deceased trigger extensive and intricately interwoven flashbacks that reveal surprising facts about the man's life and death.

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Three beautiful masseurs are committed to their upstanding clients and their jobs. But their new manager is trying to run an honest business. Will he be able to stop the girls from giving their customers a little something extra?

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.

Don McKellar’s autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers’ fierce desire to get into a screening.

Don McKellar’s autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers’ fierce desire to get into a screening.

A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly. And proud, desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest self-projection. All squeezing together for a few days, in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time. Of course, it rarely is. Mostly it's just a collection of almosts. Delicious, shared almosts.

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.

Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.

Uma garota, é salva por um senhor de pele estranha, depois ela resolve procura-lo e descobre que ele tem uma esposa e observa, que ele passa horas imerso em um tanque e aos poucos descobre que eles são frutos da mistura de humanos com seres marinhos.

Um criador de videogames precisa buscar refúgio em sua própria realidade virtual ao sobreviver a uma tentativa de assassinato. Os limites entre a realidade e o mundo virtual ficam cada vez menos claros quando o criador e seus aliados são envolvidos em um jogo perigoso.

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Em 1681 um artesão italiano, reconhecido pela qualidade dos violinos que construía, faz sua obra-prima para presentear o filho que estava prestes a nascer. Sua esposa acaba morrendo no parto, e inconformado, o artesão doa o instrumento para um orfanato. Mais de 300 anos depois várias pessoas estão num leilão disputando o instrumento, e o filme percorre então a sua história, desde a doação até o leilão.

Em 1681 um artesão italiano, reconhecido pela qualidade dos violinos que construía, faz sua obra-prima para presentear o filho que estava prestes a nascer. Sua esposa acaba morrendo no parto, e inconformado, o artesão doa o instrumento para um orfanato. Mais de 300 anos depois várias pessoas estão num leilão disputando o instrumento, e o filme percorre então a sua história, desde a doação até o leilão.

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.

Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger -- and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.

Camille é professora em uma faculdade cristã e conservadora em Toronto. Quando seu cachorrinho morre repentinamente, Camille é consolada por Petra, uma artista de circo moderno que está passando pela cidade. A partir deste encontro com Petra sua vida começa a mudar. Com um roteiro cheio de simbolismos, Quando a Noite Cai é uma dos mais importantes filmes da cinematografia sáfica. Um filme sobre a transformação, sobre o novo e sobre as mudanças que o amor pode provocar em todas nós.

Exotica é o nome de uma casa de striptease, em que a história de vários personagens começam a se ligar de maneira dramática.

Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and makes peace with herself and her son, while Freda discovers inner resources she never knew she had.

A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.

O filme mostra em 32 fragmentos (a rigor, pequenos filmes) a produção e a complexa personalidade do pianista Glenn Gould (1932-1982), com depoimentos e detalhes da vida daquele que era considerado um herói canadense.

O filme mostra em 32 fragmentos (a rigor, pequenos filmes) a produção e a complexa personalidade do pianista Glenn Gould (1932-1982), com depoimentos e detalhes da vida daquele que era considerado um herói canadense.

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.

Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.