Tehranto

Twenty-seven year old musician Jane's phone won't stop ringing on the eve of her birthday. Uninterested in distractions from the world around her, Jane pores over books and analyzes notes in a frantic search for her way out of the curse she believes herself to be under: an untimely death at twenty-seven years old just like many of her artistic idols. Jane ignores repeated phone calls and angrily throws her phone away, working into the night and passing out from exhaustion. After waking up alive, Jane begins cleaning up her apartment and repairing her phone, ready to live without fear of her inevitable mortality and to appreciate life while it's happening. Screened at the Toronto Short Film Festival 2023. Nominated for best actress (Stephanie Cowan as Jane) at the Toronto Alternative Film Festival 2022 and the Couch Film Festival 2022.

After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to find his music in time for the event that could change his life - a meeting with a Grammy Award-winning producer.

After accidentally burning his breakfast, a man goes to a nearby cafe and struggles to read a graphic novel.

When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the food, she is suddenly able to relive suppressed memories of her deceased grandmother. Now she must confront their multifaceted relationship and her own identity to find her peace.

Two people flee from the city of Toronto which is overrun by the living dead, caused by a massive epidemic.

Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.

After a run-in with his estranged father, aspiring writer Ashish or "Ash" learns a secret that will force him to balance family, love and success while navigating the divide between the exciting city life he wants and his suburban reality.

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Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

Nora Denucci lives a simple life selling flowers till one day she inherits a struggling but innovative tech company. Unsure why or how, she aims to be a good boss under the guidance and leadership of the company’s newly appointed CEO, Claire Bloom. Symphony Dark is a slice of life Cinderella tale of a girl’s journey to find life’s purpose.

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Meticulously detailed and choreographed, director Kyle Credo delivers an authentic snapshot into Justin, a timid Filipino boy, and his afternoon.

A young boy and his father arguing on the road while the son teaching his father how to drive. Gradually, the tension between the two increases and causes a conflict between them.

After finding a strange DIY magazine at a coffee shop, a filmmaker attempts to uncover the identity of its anonymous author.

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The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.