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After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s...

A cancer-bearing high school janitor befriends an abused student who purposely puts herself in detention.

Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to...

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

In an isolated prairie farmhouse, on a sweltering summer night, two sisters are locked in a battle of wills. Tension, frustration, anger and hatred...

Abuse is all around us, where do you fit in? Swing is an abstract , stylized dark comedy about abuse. In this short film, escalating abuse is...

After encountering a group of bandits with plans to rape and steal from her, a young widow ventures into the wilderness in search of justice.

Lena flees to her rural hometown after her 13-year-old daughter's overdose attracts the attention of child services. She reunites with her estranged...

What started for fifteen-year-old Manon as a secret holiday romance at an all-inclusive resort, slowly turned into a memory that she looks back on...

A serial killer is on the loose. There have been gruesome murders, with victims being ghastly dismembered and their severed body parts dumped in...

The animated documentary - a mix of live-action footage and animation - tells of the brutal everyday life in the orphanages of the 60s / 70s. Often...

Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home...

Carrying the blame for her mother’s pain, Ricki searches for a way out of an abusive family relationship. She and her younger sister face a dilemma...

This is the story of Maria, a young woman who has come to accept her unorthodox relationship with Juan, who she lives with. A shared moment with a...

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life...

After many years, Julia returns to her childhood home, where as a child she was sexually abused by her recently deceased father. But inhabiting that...

A depressed teenage girl leads a monotonous life, which is shaken up by a painful accident and a chance encounter she never would've expected.

An, at times, experimental film about the tainted nature of love set against the Alberta landscape.

The story of a friend lost in hell.