Powerful Movies

After their friends are discharged from the psych ward, a hot tempered teen must learn to be a role model to a new patient, a sweet lost soul in dire...

A group of teenagers who have been selected to participate in a recreational white water rafting trip. All of the kids selected have AIDS or have...

The film follows Lika, a young girl forced to flee the war with her little sister and mother, leaving her father behind. Haunted by fear and loss,...

Short animation about biology, cyborgs, chickens, symbiosis and suffering.

Set in rural Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s contemplative drama about the human condition, The Slow Man and His Raft, centres on Nadhar, a...

The Garden addresses a recurring theme for David Hartt: the historically determined world that we call "natural" and tend to consider as lying beyond...

Mateo, a young Mexican man, embarks on a pilgrimage through Spain to confront his past, but becomes entangled in a dangerous Catholic cult where...

INDEPENDENTS Season 1. Screened for the first time, worldwide at INDEPENDENTS PREMIER 2025. CUE: "First" Toronto Metropolitan University. 1/4

When a world-famous film director is finally given the chance to write his own script, painful memories from his past resurface. Seeking solace, he...

Pinnicer Warner, struggling to support his grandmother due to unstable jobs and her gambling addiction, gets involved in a dangerous situation after...

Atmospherically shot in black and white North Circular Road travels the length of the eponymous road exploring the history, music and streetscapes of...

Impassioned surfer Taylor Lane builds a functional surfboard with 10,000 cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The Cigarette Surfboard...

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.

A couple returns to Aghdam, the city they once fled 32 years ago due to the war. It's a story about memory held in people, and about the small,...

The American government prepares for a covert operation to kidnap the Venezuelan president. The fate of global trade and potential military...

The LGBTQIFA+ Center of Lille has been welcoming people for several years who fled their countries due to homophobic or transphobic persecution. A...

A struggling but capable teenager works through his increasingly odd responsibilities on a family farm.

When a group of teens discover a dead body at a get-together, chaos erupts—but as paranoia builds and the bodies pile up, they must think...