Movies: Toronto Metropolitan University

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...

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on....

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....

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, 7-year old Alex begins to unravel his own sense of gender expression. Despite living in an unsafe household, Alex finds comfort in his blooming femininity and the confinement of his bedroom, his coco...

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....

Anxious about a new school and his relationship to his brother, a boy with Cerebral Palsy meets an alien who helps him cope with his fears....

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....

Two estranged sisters reconnect at a funeral for their father....

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....

Frida, an 8-year-old engineering prodigy, builds an airplane behind her mother's back to follow in her Abuela's legacy....

In a city notorious for being cold to strangers, several lives intersect one night, oblivious to the loneliness that connects them all....

A father fears the sexual awakening of his disabled son, a teenager living with Down syndrome, and struggles with the notion of letting him grow up....

An 11-year-old Rachel has just discovered she no longer has a heartbeat. After seeking help from her unfazed mother, a useless doctor, and an eccentric spiritual healer, Rachel surrenders to the unsolicited aid of her homework partner, Charlie, who i...

An introduction to Isabelle, as she defiantly confronts the frustration, confusion and loneliness that are the effects of Alzheimer’s....

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

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

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....

In the near future, where babies are genetically modified to perfection, a young mother must choose between customizing her baby in vitro, or having a child naturally....

During a tense family Christmas party, Luci, a queer Peruvian-Canadian woman with a massive chip on her shoulder, slips away to give her beloved nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress....

Five friends must fight for survival, salvation and sanity when a local hunter mistakenly kills one of them in barren Canadian wilderness....