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- Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and after some fussing about her gender, the institution's director lets her talk to Karl (after all, he'll have to talk to women after his release). Karl talks about his life leading up to the crime, and the reporter listens in horror.
- When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night's work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.
- Luke Laghari has been veering between panic and numbness ever since losing his wife to thyroid cancer. In a last-ditch effort to feel something, anything, he attends a bereavement counseling meeting at a nearby outreach center. When it's time for Luke to talk, he admits that he's angry with his dead wife, sparking a debate and a series of flashbacks that examine relationships, love, and anger.
- A spoof on TV commercials that presents odd and miraculous products, this one presents the latest fashion with "Reflecto-vision", a special device where you can use a helmet with mirrors on the top of the head to watch and observe every movement that goes on behind you or around you.
- A bored goth girl briefly animates and narrates 8 operas (with no music), catalogs the scandalous actions, and counts the deaths (36). The operas included are La Traviata, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Aida, Tosca, Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and The Ring of the Nielbelung.
- A group of youngsters discover that Mr. Templeton has 40 grand hidden in his home. They figure they can get their hands on the cash by masking themselves as Newfoundland Mummers.
- Borders explores the disintegration of one "all-American" family in the aftermath of Viet Nam, demonstrating the inability of any border -- geographic or psychological -- to contain the casualties of war.
- Kathy is a portrait of the most fascinating creature of all: the adult in training, the object of everyone's first affection, the teenage girl.
- Story from the the past century of a boy from Transylvania, who first becomes a well-known theatrical figure in Budapest, then a silent film star - And real a legend in Hollywood.
- In order to gain acceptance, young loner Donny Fowler joins his University's wrestling team. The only catch is he has to learn how to wrestle and lose 15 pounds in Ten Days.
- When Jack begins to forget, he visits Keystone, an organization with an unlikely mandate: making your most important memories truly 'unforgettable.' When Jack begins to recount moments from his life in an interview, he reveals the bond he formed with one particular woman, and the importance he has placed on their story.
- Glass Gardens is an animated film about the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. A lone woman wanders a landscape of a fallen city, gathering relics and creating new works. This black and white film combines sequential drawn animation and cutouts on richly rendered graphite backgrounds.
- It's a fine, frail line between fantasy and reality when the doleful, downtrodden state of a couple's relationship unfurls against the backdrop of a feed of moose sausages and tea. Sexual frustration, co-dependency, domestic despair and just a hint of missing male libido all play out within the crestfallen subtleties of opposing table manners and passive aggressive tea-brewing rituals.
- An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the human heart.
- Alice, a bus tour guide in St. John's Newfoundland with a broken heart unexpectedly tells her tales of love and loss to a group of life-weary tourists and realizes the power of the moments she has experienced in the city.
- A father and son duo, Charlie and Sam Pike, come to grips with admitting war-vet Charlie, who suffers from dementia, into a long-term care home.
- Elementary school. Valentine's Day. An exquisite time of emotional risk, possible torment and the glory of true love, all beautifully caught in this closely observed drama.
- The biggest snowstorm of 1988 leaves Tom stranded in a tiny basement apartment with his worst nightmare.
- Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
- In a coastal town in Newfoundland a man named Skip cares for his widowed grandfather, admires the local store clerk from afar and dreams of making something of his life through an unlikely endeavor: rock skipping.
- A tragic story of the death of a little girl, and the sister who thought she killed her.
- Of the Essence tells the story of a couple, Tom and Emily, who, after a chance encounter at a grocery store, have a fight which could end up being the last time they speak. Through alternating time lines between a frantic Tom racing through downtown St. John's and the catalyst encounter, Tom discovers that some battles are truly worth fighting, while others are insignificant in the grander scale.
- An itinerant cook survives a shipwreck, paddles himself to an island in a stock pot, and finds himself on a surreal journey through his past to discover the ineffable connection he has with a clown living a desultory existence in a dilapidated lighthouse.