Movies: Toronto Metropolitan University

It’s the 1980s, and Jay is thirteen years old. She’s managed to get her hands on a Playgirl magazine. She’s absolutely positive that it holds the key to unlocking womanhood for herself and her friends – if only they can muster the courage to open it....

Twelve strangers share their feelings of isolation, grasp of reality and eventual hope....

A man is downtown and urgently needs to pee, but a vindictive voice on the phone holds the combination to his pants in this dark comedy of desperation....

A teenager attempts to keep his composure following a reckless crime....

Two siblings on a failed sheep farm in rural Canada decide to escape their trouble home by stealing their father's truck, but they are unprepared for the consequences ahead....

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, a 7-year-old boy begins collecting small, delicate objects, retreating into the quiet sanctuary of his bedroom—his cocoon....

Georgia sits down with the man she once loved and relives the events of their past, as well as their painful separation, in an attempt to find closure....

When his relationship hangs by a thread, an ex-chef ventures into his past, and out doors, in an attempt to restore love with food....

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgen...

A case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. How does the way we talk about natural resources reflect how we perceive and treat them? How do we begin changing those broken systems? What can we learn from our past mistakes?...

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires....

Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes....

Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning grandpa and his pet pug....

A space captain struggles with his robot crew during an intergalactic mission....

A man returns to his family home on the East Coast of Canada to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother....

Roommates Nick and Dave are attacked by a masked, hulking figure that has broken into their house. You'd think that'd be the worst of their problems, right? Yeah. You'd think....

In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age....

A stop-motion short film about a seahorse that is swept away from its coral reef and must survive the journey home....

Meet Margo -- an elderly woman who's trying to escape her old folks home in order to get her late wife's ashes to The Big Nickel in Sudbury, in time to celebrate their anniversary....

A young woman must confront her inner demons personified as a swamp monster in a battle for self- acceptance....