Gabrielle Rose

Mob Princess

Mina Shum

Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael Moriarty

A woman wants to clear her father's name. He supposedly murdered a shady night club owner. She starts looking for clues about the real perpetrator, but finds more than she bargained for.

Maudie

Aisling Walsh

Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

Machinegunner

Patrick Dromgoole

Leonard Rossiter, Nina Baden-Semper

A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.

The Sweet Hereafter

Atom Egoyan

Ian Holm, Sarah Polley

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Terry Ingram

Dave Collette, Tyler Johnston

Aurora Teagarden is a beautiful young librarian with a passion for solving murders. After an exhaustive search for the perfect home, Aurora finally purchases her dream house, unaware of its murky history. As she prepares to move in, Aurora discovers that the family who once lived there mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

A Dog's Purpose

Lasse Hallström

Josh Gad, K.J. Apa

A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

The Birdwatcher

Camille Sullivan, Gabrielle Rose

A single mother of two, after being diagnosed with cancer, embarks on a journey to re-connect with her estranged birth mother.

Hungry Hills

Rob W. King

Keir Gilchrist, Alexander De Jordy

In 1954 after two years in a home for boys, Snit Mandolin, 15, returns home to his seemingly unhinged and reclusive aunt Matilda. Defeated by a community that still shuns him, confronted by the impossibility of surviving on his aunt's farm, Snit falls in with Johnny Swift, 16, another outcast. Johnny makes moonshine and sells it through a local bootlegger. The boys work together and become fast friends. And Snit finds first love with a free-spirited local girl, Robin, 16. Their adventure is interrupted by the enigmatic and unpredictable Roy Kane, the district's private cop, who took Snit away two years ago and will now use the boys to get to the bootlegger. Dogged by Kane, betrayed by a bootlegger and plagued by the ghosts of the past, the boys' partnership ends - their friendship broken. Alone once more in the community that rejected him, Snit comes to a violent crossroads.

The Journey of Natty Gann

Jeremy Kagan

Meredith Salenger, John Cusack

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Peter Chelsom

Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room

Peter DeLuise

Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange

A sleuthing garage sale maven suspects foul play when her friend dies in an old house with a cursed reputation. Even though police evidence - and even webcam footage of the death – point to natural causes – this mysterious death in a cursed” home poised for multi-million dollar sale seems too coincidental. Putting her keen instincts to work, she examines a few key suspects. As she digs into this deadly mystery, she uncovers clues that bring her closer to the truth, and even put her own life in danger.

Operation Christmas

David Weaver

Tricia Helfer, Marc Blucas

As her new romance blossoms, a single mother, Olivia, is dismayed when her boyfriend, Scott, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children they decide to give back to the struggling military families on his base and, as their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.

The Devout

Connor Gaston

Charlie Carrick, Ali Liebert

A story about the power of belief, The Devout follows Darryl Eckford during trying times: his 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, has terminal cancer with weeks to live. Abigail is obsessed with space, and she talks with extraordinary detail of the Apollo 1 space mission. After she admits her former name, Darryl researches the space mission and finds inexplicable coincidences. A devout Christian, Darryl faces a crisis of faith when he begins to believe that his daughter was an astronaut in a former life. This newfound belief instills hope in Darryl, because, if his daughter has lived before, she will live again. He must face his wife, community and his own faith as he seeks out truth, because, if his daughter has lived before, she will live again. Its intriguing story and meticulous direction from Connor Gaston makes The Devout one of the most impressive Canadian independent films of the year.

Love, Mary

Robert Day

Kristy McNichol, Matt Clark

A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.

Rabbit

Jesse James Miller

Derek Hamilton, Robyn Ross

A man is forced to go back home to the small town he grew up in to find his missing brother. His journey back begins to uncover secrets that could destroy his life, ultimately forcing him to fight for the truth and life he knows.

Family Viewing

Atom Egoyan

David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?