Movies: Toronto Metropolitan University

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

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....

Following her brother's death, Georgia, a young college student, returns home to her reservation only to find she's become the prey of a shapeshifting, faceless figure....

Two young women occupy a liminal space that appears to be a medical clinic....

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....

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

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

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....

An exploration of the founding of nature aquariums and the way that they reconnect people with the natural world....

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....

Follows emotionally shut down Des on her journey through grief after experiencing a great loss....

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....

After years of being routinely drugged, Sugar Baby finds herself sex trafficked and must try to piece her memory back together in a desperate bid to stay alive and escape the only person she trusts and loves....

An impromptu passenger on Benito's routine door-to-door sales trip up north forces him to take his nose out of his insurance folder and take in the view....

Faced with the threat of blackmail, sixteen-year-old David is forced by Owen the incel to get him a date with his crush Sierra. But when the relationship proves impossible, David teams up with Sierra to take him down....

Authenticity, friendship and safety come into question during a sketchy sneaker selling transaction....

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....

A timid puppeteer working on Mayor Bobby, a popular puppet tv-show for adults, finds out she's been excluded from being apart of the new spin-off series and struggles to cope with the loss of her tv "family"....

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