All You Can Eat Buddha At an all-inclusive resort, a man's voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism and a series of strange, small miracles begin to attract curious onlookers.
Allure A house cleaner meets a teenaged girl and convinces her to run away and live with her in secret.
American Animals Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Blood & Donuts - NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY FREE SCREENING A recently awoken vampire falls for a woman working at a donut shop.
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn After getting fired by her scheming husband, dissatisfied Lulu Danger is stunned when a TV commercial for “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn For One Magical Night Only” reveals a mysterious man from her past.
Fake Tattoos This exhilarating debut feature from Québécois filmmaker Pascal Plante follows the heartfelt and raw love story of two teenagers living on the fringe.
Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show with David Letterman) are back with an all-new edition of the Found Footage Festival, featuring newly unearthed VHS gems found at thrift stores across the country.
Freaks And Geeks: The Documentary FREAKS AND GEEKS challenged the norms of basic cable television and beautifully captured the sad yet humorous challenges of teenage life. It became a cult classic, and ushered in a new wave of comedic talent.
High Fantasy A group of young friends travel to an isolated South African farm for an overnight camping trip. When they awake the next morning to discover they’ve all swapped bodies.
Jack Of All Trades Stu is on a mission to discover why his beloved baseball cards are worth nothing more than the memories they hold of a happy childhood. What he didn’t plan on finding, though, was the most elusive card of them all, his father Jack.
Knuckleball After his grandfather unexpectedly dies in the night, 12-year-old Henry finds himself cut off and alone on an isolated farm. When his nearest neighbour, Dixon, realises that the boy has no one to protect him, Henry becomes a target for reasons he cannot understand.
Kusama - Infinity An exploration of artist Yayoi Kusama’s journey from a conservative upbringing in Japan to her brush with fame in America during the 1960s and concluding with the international fame she has finally achieved within the art world.
Let The Corpses Tan A beautiful, experimental and bold take on the classic pulp crime story from visionary directors and CUFF alumni Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (AMER, THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS).
Mexman German is a young artist and filmmaker striving to complete his first feature film, while plagued by the ghost of a long-lost love and a battle for creative control with his producers.
Paper Year An impulsive young woman makes a series of bad decisions that jeopardize her new marriage.
Pin Cushion A mother hopes that a move to a new town will provide a better life for both herself and her awkward daughter.
Ratcatcher An unabashed kid navigates the filthy world of 1973 Glasgow, preoccupying himself with the equally poor youth around him.
Rebecca Addelman’s “Inside The Writer's Room” Master Class We're excited to be holding a master class for local industry intersted in writing for television, lead by Director / Writer Rebecca Addelman (PAPER YEAR, THE NEW GIRL)
Relaxer This oWith the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.ne is top secret. Even after you see the film, it remains secret to everyone else.
Revenge Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Roller Dreams The rise and fall of the Venice Beach roller skate dancing scene from 1978 to present. Can these soul-inspired brothers and sisters reunite and revive the roller dream?
Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! A 3-hour trip into the weird and wonderful world of yesteryear’s animated antics accompanied by an all-you-can-eat buffet of cereal!
The Secret Poppo An eccentric shut-in recognizes his missing granddaughter off a milk carton, and, in a hapless quest to find her, stumbles into a whimsical conspiracy involving cults, cows, and secret families
Shorts: A Turn For The Worse Something goes awry with each of these best laid plans.
Shorts: It's All In How You Say It Communication is an art. A breakdown in it can have results ranging from funny to terrifying
Slave To The Grind For more than 30 years, grindcore acts have bashed at the limits of extreme music, unleashing second-long microsongs of condensed fury, walls of pure sonic aggression, and everything in between.
Tigers Are Not Afraid dark, stunning fairytale told from the magical point of view of a gang of incredibly brave and unusual children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
Time Share A family’s vacation doesn’t get off to a good start when they must share their room at a resort with another family who were double-booked in the same bungalow. The two fathers team up to protect their families from the evil plans of an American timeshare company.
To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story The harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying to become a horror film icon.
Top Knot Detective This is the story of how a failed Japanese samurai series, became an instant cult classic.
Vampire Clay A creature/horror movie about a group of art prep school students attacked by a cursed clay monster.
We Need To Talk About Kevin Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
You Were Never Really Here A contract killer uncovers a conspiracy while trying to save a kidnapped teen from a life of prostitution.
1st Day & Next Minute An explicit rush adventure into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs.
The Accomplice Jerry discovers a number of urgent messages on his answering machine from his impulsive and inept friend, Randy (Evan Peters). While away from home, Jerry has become an unwilling participant in one of Randy's boneheaded schemes.
Emergency In the midst of an emergency situation, a group of young Black and Latino friends discuss how to go about calling the police.
Flow When two women rebels are involved in a skirmish, they have more to argue about than the enemy.
G.E.M. Where does a bicycle shop fit within feminism? A look into a weekly initiative created to allow people of marginalized genders to comfortably participate in bike shop culture.
The Good Samaritan A tale about a woman in trouble and a man eager to help.
Lunch Ladies Two burnt out high school lunch ladies do whatever it bloody takes on their quest to become Johnny Depp's personal chefs.
Midnight Confession West Berlin 1989 - A man calling old friends to make amends for past deceit does not receive the responses he was expecting.
Mother A mother receives a call from her young son, on holiday with his father. What follows is an escalating nightmare.
Neutral A bounty hunter and his prisoner break down on a desert road. After a long, hot, miserable day together, their shot at freedom comes unexpectedly.
Never Better Rudi lives in complete denial of her mental state regarding her break up. She takes a road trip to reconcile with him but things take an interesting turn.
Night Crosser A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous customs officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.
Painting With Joan Are you curious about Minnesota's #3 public-access painting show? Watch Joan paint beautiful snowy mountains and debate extraterrestrial sexuality with herself!
Penny Whistle When a little girl blows into an old tin whistle she finds in the dirt, something follows her home.
Poolside A retiring lifeguard in a landlocked town has one more story to tell.
Rearview A woman walks alone through a parking structure. Is she really alone?
Robo Greaser On the closing day of his beloved roller rink, Robo Greaser does his best to skate through his final shift.
Stay A cult of women summon a demon. When Carol goes rogue, plans go astray.
Thursday Night An elusive stranger pays Bimbo a visit in the middle of the night to deliver a vital message. Both are dogs.
Trope A game of make-believe backfires as two children face the crushing ennui of adulthood in this absurd, darkly comic short.
We Are Going Into The Woods In a peculiar atelier, Fabrice kills Patrick, unaware that his brother Wim is watching. The killing is the beginning of a macabre dance driven by madness, distress and fear.
We Summoned A Demon They just wanted to be cool. Instead, they got a demon.
Welcome To Bushwick On the heels of a successful first date, Evan and Marceline end up back at her place.
What'S That In The Ground? When you want one thing, sometimes you get the complete opposite or something worse.
Wren Boys On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
The Calgary Underground Film Festival
