Toronto Metropolitan University

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.

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

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.

When his parents announce their divorce, ten-year-old Neil believes he's stuck in a dream and sets out on a mission to wake up.

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

A teenager attempts to keep his composure following a reckless crime.

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

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 unconfident young man is manipulated into a rural community’s devious scheme and sets out to escape before his life is at risk.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When 16 year old Faye’s complicated relationship with her mother manifests as feelings for her middle aged ballet teacher, she is forced to confront her own shame and desire while she prepares for her final solo.

Cordelia finds playing with fire to be an effective coping mechanism. With the ember of hope this new fascination brings, Cordelia decides to go one step further – and use that fire to protect herself.

A young Korean boy comes of age following the tumultuous time of his mother's death. Years later, after stumbling across an old roll of film that holds memories of his childhood, he attempts to reconnect to his father and his cultural heritage.

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.

After being told by her assignment partner, Ben, to “think more like a man”, a flustered investigative journalism student, Maggie Thompson, imagines herself as the male protagonist of a 1970s cop show working on their project in real-time.

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.