Jack Goes Boating

Philip Seymour Hoffman

USA

Adapted from Bob Glaudini's acclaimed Off Broadway play, Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. The film stars John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, ...

Jaloux

Patrick Demers

Canada

In this psychological thriller that was improvised during its 16-day shoot, a couple trying to mend their relationship set off for a weekend in the country. When they encounter a friendly neighbour, they are too absorbed in thei...

Janie Jones

David M. Rosenthal

USA

Aspiring recording artist Ethan Brand gets a stunning surprise on the opening night of a tour – a strung out former groupie appears unexpectedly, pleading with him to care for their daughter while she pulls herself together. Ente...

Jeanne

Martin Arnold

Austrian artist Martin Arnold presents a digital manipulation of the trial scene from the #1 film on the list, Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). The piece stitches together close-up shots of actress Renée F...

John Carpenter's The Ward

John Carpenter

USA

Acclaimed director John Carpenter makes his long awaited return to the screen with a thriller about a young woman in a 1960s mental institution who becomes terrorized by malevolant unseen forces.

Jonas Mekas In Kodachrome Days

Ken Jacobs

USA

Stroboscopic home movies of a famous filmmaker, by another.

Journey to the Moon

William Kentridge

Using Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) as a point of departure, Kentridge masterfully combines live action and stop motion in homage to the beginning of filmmaking and to Méliès' magical experimentations. Kentridge perfo...

Jucy

Louise Alston

Australia

Jackie and Lucy are best friends who spend all their time together, but not everyone approves of their "womance." Accused of being weird and co-dependent, they set out to prove their maturity. Jackie gets the guy and Lucy gets th...

Julia's Eyes

Guillem Morales

Spain

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative eye disease, finds her blind twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Julia decides to investigate what she feels is a murder case, entering a dark world that seems to hid...

k.364 A Journey by Train

Douglas Gordon

United Kingdom, Germany, France

Two musicians return to a haunted landscape and play the concerto of their lives.

Kaboom

Gregg Araki

USA, France

Smith’s everyday life in the dorm – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor – all gets turned upside-dow...

Karla and Jonas

Charlotte Sachs Bostrup

Denmark

Join thirteen-year-olds Karla and Jonas as they search for Jonas's birth mother in this intelligent and well acted coming of age story based on the book series by Renée Toft Simonsen.

The King's Speech

Tom Hooper

United Kingdom, Australia

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who would become King George VI, the father of the current Queen, Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ‘Bertie’ VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued ...

Klatsassin

Stan Douglas

Klatsassin refashions Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), a tale of murder with a narrative told from four different viewpoints, as a western rooted in the historical context of the Gold Rush and the annexation of land along Canada...

L.A. Zombie

Bruce LaBruce

Germany, USA, France

Corpse-eating meets poverty politics in this pornographic art film set on the streets of Los Angeles, where an alien zombie brings dead men back to life.

Landscape, semi-surround

Eriko Sonoda

Japan

Semi-opaque reflections of a landscape seen through a train window not only reflect back, but multiply and create a rhythmic composition worthy of hanging on a wall. With sonic dislocation and frame by frame animation, Eriko Sono...

Lapland Odyssey

Dome Karukoski

Finland, Sweden, Ireland

Three unemployed young men set off on a desperate journey to locate a digital conversion box in the north of Finland. Wildy funny, Dome Karukoski's Lapland Odyssey is a Finnish cousin to Harold and Kumar and Fubar.

Last Night

Massy Tadjedin

France, USA

Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes join forces in this tantalizing and emotionally astute story of trust, lust and deception. Last Night is a brilliant evocation of all the grey zones of fidelity - how a choice made in a mere instant...

Late Autumn

Kim Tae-Yong

South Korea

Anna is on her way to Seattle to attend her mother's funeral while on a special weekend release from prison. On the bus, she meets Hoon, a "companion for hire" for lonely, older women. Both are running away but both find somethin...

Leap Year

Michael Rowe

Mexico

Laura Lopez lives a lonely existence in her Mexico City apartment. Her few guests are men that she picks up at night for some anonymous sex. When she meets Arturo, what begins as some light slapping quickly turns into more extrem...

The Legend of Beaver Dam

Jerome Sable

Canada

This musical horror comedy follows an unlikely hero – nerdy Danny Zigwitz – at a summer camp listening to fireside stories.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Andrew Lau

Hong Kong

In 1920s Shanghai, hero Chen Zhen single-handedly avenges his mentor’s death by killing all the Japanese at a dojo in Hongkou, only to be showered with bullets while making his legendary flying kick. Now, years later, Chen Zhen, ...

Leona Alone

Oliver Husain

Canada

Ornate aesthetic interventions in a historic Toronto neighbourhood cum suburb. Art combats against poor taste.

Les fleurs de l'âge

Vincent Biron

Canada

Selling ice cream, smoking pot, falling in love, dealing with family: it’s just another summer day for a regular group of school kids.

Let Me In

Matt Reeves

United Kingdom, USA

Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road), a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, O...

Life, Above All

Oliver Schmitz

South Africa, Germany

After the death of her newborn sister, 12 year-old Chanda learns of a rumour that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. When it destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Chandra ...

The Light Thief

Aktan Arym Kubat

Kyrgyzstan, Germany, France, Netherlands

A funny and touching portrait of small-town politics in a rapidly globalizing world that follows Svet-ake, an electrician in a small Kyrgyz village who has been stealing electricity to help the impoverished local residents. When ...

Lipsett Diaries

Theodore Ushev

Canada

Deconstructing a visionary in experimental film, this animated documentary presents the incredible creativity and emotional tumult that defined filmmaker Arthur Lipsett’s life.

Little Sister

Richard Bowen

China, USA

Based on one of the earliest versions of the beloved story of Cinderella comes a beautifully crafted film filled with wonder and magic that reveals the Chinese origins of this widely known fairy tale.

Little White Lies

Guillaume Canet

France

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decides to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the littl...

Living History

Isaac Cravit

Canada

Living History follows a father and his teenaged son as they make their way to the annual reenactment of the Upper Canada Rebellion.

Look, Stranger

Arielle Javitch

USA

An elegant, spare and powerful telling of one young woman's journey through a wartorn landscape in an effort to get back home.

Lope

Andrucha Waddington

Brazil, Spain

Andrucha Waddington brings famed Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s passionate life to the screen. The young poet returns to Madrid from war and gets his foot in the door of Madrid's most important theatre troupe – quickly charmin...

Love Crime

Alain Corneau

France

Dangerous Liaisons meets Working Girl in this deliciously caustic tale of office politics. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier as mentor and ingénue, Love Crime is a remorseless clash of two competing egos.

Love. Marriage. Miscarriage.

Darragh McDonald

Canada

In the wake of a miscarriage, Magda finds herself at a family gathering,caught between denial and acceptance.