Maria Todorov-Topouzov

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Billie, 8 ans, s'appuie sur son imagination débordante et sur sa fidèle meilleure amie Sherry
pour démêler les secrets qui entourent la véritable identité de sa mère.  

8-year-old Billie leans on her vivid imagination, and her loyal best friend Sherry,
to unravel the web of secrets shrouding her mother's true identity.

Directed by Marie-Claire Marcotte

83 minutes

Featuring Maélya Boyd, Corey Loranger, Geneviève Langlois, Maïna-Rose Caméus

Production is supported by Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, Société Radio-Canada, APFC, and the NOHFC.

Produced by Fittonia Films and Calibou Films

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The Jennings family couldn’t be more painfully suburban, but when asshole Uncle Frank crashes their weekly Sunday dinner
with a nasty surprise, murder ends up on the menu.

85 minutes

Written and directed by Caden Douglas
Produced by littleBULL in association with HighballTV

Starring Enrico Colantoni, Mindy Cohn, Melanie Leishman, Iain Stewart, and Juan Chioran

Watch now on Amazon Prime or Apple TV!

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Fin des années 80: après avoir fui la guerre au Liban, la famille de Zeina et Fady s'installe
à Ottawa. La résidence familiale devient vite le lieu d'accueil par excellence des Libanais
en exil cherchant temporairement refuge.

8 × 22 minutes

Directed by Ania Jamila & Josiane Blanc

Productions Sahkosh
Productions Ocho

Directed by Mitchell Cushman
Written and performed by James Smith

98 minutes

“A memoir of minds gone out of tune” – The New York Times

Produced in Partnership with Soulpepper Theatre Company, TO Live, The Rose Theatre, The Stratford Festival, Crow’s Theatre,
Theatre Passe Muraille, Mirvish Productions, The Harbourfront Centre and Talk is Free Theatre

Lessons in Temperament is available to stream on demand!
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The story of four neurodiverse brothers, told through a cinematic escape into the art and science of piano tuning. An instrument goes out of tune whether or not anyone plays it – something that musician and theatre-maker James Smith knows all too well. So after months of being unemployed during the pandemic, he decides that he will spend his lockdown visiting shuttered theatres, and doing what he can to keep their pianos in tune. This ritual soon unlocks James’ own search for balance, growing up as one of four brothers living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. 

Adapted into a feature film by Smith and Director Mitchell Cushman from their award-winning play, Lessons in Temperament, offers an urgent and cathartic story that takes the audience inside James’ mind, inside his piano, and inside a dozen of Ontario’s most iconic theatres.  

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The story of Toronto's bizarre 1985 "patty wars," when Jamaican-Canadian bakers went
head-to-head with the federal government over the name of their beloved beef patty.

18 minutes

Directed by Chris Strikes

Produced by Callowgrove Entertainment and Third Culture Media

Winner of Best Short Documentary at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards

Watch it on CBC Gem

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Watch Season 2 here

La saison 2 composée de 8 épisodes présente l’histoire de Manu et de sa famille, suite à l’éviction de leur appartement de Toronto,
alors qu’ils tentent de s’habituer à leur nouvelle réalité de la vie en banlieue.

8 x 18 minutes

Directed by Josiane Blanc

Productions Sahkosh est une boîte de production de séries télé et de films, basée à Toronto, fondée par
Josiane Blanc et Ania Jamila, deux femmes issues des communautés racisées.

On a weekend away at a remote cottage, an accident portends the impending irrevocable change facing long time friends. In the tone of a neo-western.

8 minutes

Directed by Molly Flood
Interview here

An entrepreneurial farmer known as the Pigeon King comes up with a proposal for farmers to make money by breeding pigeons,
but investigative journalists suspect his deal may be too good to be true.

26 minutes

Directed by Maya Annik Bedward

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A couple finds strength in Capoeira as they raise their son with a life-threatening condition. A portrait of family and fun,
and the day to day challenges of keeping a family together.

26 minutes

Directed by Maya Annik Bedward
Produced by Third Culture Media

Directed by Lucy Cameron

8 minutes

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Check out the Five@50 lineup on the NFB website.

Series is winner of Silver Telly Award.

Featured on NOWNESS, NOWNESS ASIA, BOOOOOOOM, Girls in Film.

Series is winner of Silver Telly Award.

Check out more on LCBO’s Spirit of Sustainability.

Watch the full series now on Highball.tv.
Review by The Toronto Star.

Series is winner of Silver Telly Award.

Series is winner of Silver Telly Award.

Interviews on FAR-NEAR.

Video of the Day at Northern Transmissions

Write up by Aupium.