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The Undertone and The Bearded Girl
The Bearded Girl (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jody Wilson; Writer: Blake Barrie, Thiago Gadelha, Jody Wilson; Stars: Anwen O'Driscoll, Jessica Paré, Skylar Radzion, Ava Anton, Jude Wilson)
Cleo is ready to spread her wings and, tired of tradition and feeling like an oddball, she leaves her sheltered carnival life to find love and adventure.
Full Review See: Interview with Jody Wilson and Anwen O’Driscoll about The Bearded Girl
Buffet Infinity (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Simon Glassman; Writer: Allison Bench, Simon Glassman, Elisia Snyder; Stars: Kevin Singh, Ahmed Ahmed, Brandon Vanderwall, Ben Bauce, Claire Thibeault)
Late night local television adverts reveal the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the town of Westridge County.
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Foreigner (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Ava Maria Safai; Writer: Ava Maria Safai; Stars: Rose Dehgan, Chloe Macleod, Cassie Collis, Talisa Mae Stewart)
An Iranian-born teenager is desperate to fit in at her new high school in Canada, but the more she tries to absorb and understand the unfamiliar mindset, the more she becomes consumed by a dark entity.
Full Review See: Interview with Ava Maria Safai about Foreigner
Influencers (Year: 2025; Director: Kurtis David Harder; Stars: Cassandra Naud, Lisa Delamar, Veronica Long, Jonathan Whitesell, Georgina Campbell)
The troubled CW finds hope in a new relationship, but jealousy of a rival influencer leads to trouble.
Lucid (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall; Writer: Ramsey Fendall, Deanna Milligan, Claire E Robertson; Stars: Caitlin Acken Taylor, Georgia Acken)
Mia is a rebellious art student who struggles to create the ultimate project for a demanding professor. Desperate to find her artistic voice, she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, to access her creativity, but taps into something much darker.
Full Review See: Interview with Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall and Caitlin Acken Taylor about Lucid.
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Buffet Infinity and The Well
Sweetness (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Emma Higgins; Writer: Emma Higgins; Stars: Justin Chatwin, Steven Ogg, Amanda Brugel, Herman Tømmeraas, Kate Hallett, Aya Furukawa)
When a chance encounter with her rock star crush leads 16 year old Rylee to discover that he's a dysfunctional drug addict, she takes it upon herself to help him, ultimately forcing her teenage fantasies into reality.
Full Review See: Interview with Emma Higgins about Sweetness
The Undertone (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Ian Tuason; Writer: Ian Tuason; Stars: Nina Kiri, Kris Holden-Ried)
A woman tending to her dying mother finds her only escape in podcasting, but when her co-host presents ten disturbing audio files of a man and his wife, their experiences begin to seem disturbingly similar to her own.
Full Review See: Interview with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri about The Undertone
The Well (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Hubert Davis; Writer: Michael Capellupo, Kathleen Hepburn; Stars: Noah Lamanna, Sheila McCarthy, Joanne Boland, Natasha Mumba, Arnold Pinnock, Shailyn Pierre-Dixon)
In a world where environmental collapse has left survivors to fight over the precious remaining resources, a young woman's loyalties are tested by the arrival of a wounded man who discovers her family has a secret supply of fresh water.
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