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The stranger-than-fiction true story of a group of artists who built and furnished a hidden apartment inside a mall, remaining undetected for years. This is an absurdly fun and surprisingly profound film about gentrification and art.

In this wild home invasion comedy thriller, Ziggy is a young Mohawk social media influencer who runs into danger when she returns to her family’s place on the rez and comes under attack by a mysterious stranger trying to steal her family’s heirloom seeds.

Two chimney sweeps living in heterosexual marriages find their views on sexuality and gender challenged by a series of unexpected events. In a set of sharply scripted conversations, both men confront heretofore unexplored aspects of their identity.

At once a love story, a tale of empowerment and an ethnographic record, this captivating drama follows pregnant Pema on a strenuous journey across the Himalayas to clear her name when her child’s paternity is questioned.

This superb psychological thriller stars Ben Foster as Josh, a man who comes unmoored from the safety of middle-class life. The problems start with a car accident in front of his new house, and soon our protagonist is on the verge of losing everything…

Three brothers unleash cosmic horror when they build a time machine out of their mother's wardrobe to bring her back from the dead. Veslemes’ surreal body horror is a hallucinatory freak show with a pitch-black sense of humour and skin-crawling visuals.

Mathyas abruptly quits his marketing job in Montreal and goes to France with the romantic notion of becoming a shepherd. He's in for a rude awakening... Sophie Deraspe’s film is an elemental epic of personal growth.

This moving, relatable film follows MFA grad Ash (a charismatic Sameer Usmani) through a tough, transitional period in his life, offering a loving depiction of Scarborough, Ontario and the pleasures of drama without sentimentality.

A unique collection of Canadian and International shorts: charming, funny, even a bit scary. These filmmakers bring unique stories to screen, showcasing animated imaginary and natural worlds, Indigenous futurist tales, and experiences from the everyday.

Presented by DigiBC and VIFF, Signals Creative Tech Expo takes place from September 27 to October 6, 2024 in Vancouver and is set to be a pinnacle event in the realm of creative technology.

In this unconventional biopic, the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig asserts herself as a female artist in the male-dominated art world of postwar Austria. Radically mixing documentary and fiction, the film captures the enduring enigma of Lassnig’s art.

In the early 20th century many traditional Indigenous masks ended up in Europe, in museums and art collections, and, as this entertaining doc reveals, in the hands of surrealist artists like Max Ernst, André Breton, and Joan Miró...