Toronto Metropolitan University

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.

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

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 cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.

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.

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 is determined to get to the root of her problem.

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 cocoon.

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.

When the whole world is hypnotized by an unexplained celestial event, a young boy must face his fear of the unknown in order to keep his brother and best friend from turning to the other side.

Twenty-three-year-old Alroy Scott, who suffers from OCD, finds himself at the edge of his sanity after his best friend gets into an accident. Stuck with the debilitating & obsessive thought that the accident is his fault, Alroy is sent to group counseling sessions to confront his mental illness head on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A young woman must confront her inner demons personified as a swamp monster in a battle for self- acceptance.

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.

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.

Fighter asks the tough, awkward, and infrequent questions about mental health to three generations of firefighters. Home movies and impromptu conversations are woven into interviews in this deeply personal reflection on intergenerational connection, trauma and coping, and how expectations of masculinity in firefighting have an impact on mental health.

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.