Films produced by Toronto Metropolitan University

A case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. How does the way we talk about natural resources reflect how we perceive and treat them?...

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...

After being told by her assignment partner, Ben, to “think more like a man”, a flustered investigative journalism student, Maggie...

On the last night of his closing Cambodian restaurant, Pou struggles to accept his career is coming to an end.

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while...

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...

A passionate chef decides to move to Paris in attempt to change his mundane, ordinary life.

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

Filmmaker Juliet Belisario revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering truths she...

A struggling, up-and-coming punk band rents a cabin in the woods to write and record an album in seclusion, only to find out the cabin is being...

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...

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...

When Iggy, a traumatized teenager, runs away from her abusive boyfriend and takes the dog, Rosco, with her, she’s forced to choose between...

Taraji, overcome with grief after a significant loss, attempts to recreate a recipe in an effort to heal and reconnect with her culture.

Filmmaker Lina Li interviews her dad to showcase a story of an immigrant family and the emotional challenges that they have experienced as...

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

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...

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...

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...

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the...

A case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. How does the way we talk about natural resources reflect how we perceive and treat them?...

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...

After being told by her assignment partner, Ben, to “think more like a man”, a flustered investigative journalism student, Maggie...

On the last night of his closing Cambodian restaurant, Pou struggles to accept his career is coming to an end.