Movies: Toronto Metropolitan University

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....

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....

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 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....

Bogo, a self-deprecating stand-up comedian, struggles to find happiness in a life where his only value seems to be making other people laugh....

An introduction to Isabelle, as she defiantly confronts the frustration, confusion and loneliness that are the effects of Alzheimer’s....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free....

A young finger puppet retrieves a lost letter written by her deceased brother while her parents struggle to cope with their grief....

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

Meet Margo -- an elderly woman who's trying to escape her old folks home in order to get her late wife's ashes to The Big Nickel in Sudbury, in time to celebrate their anniversary....

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

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

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"....

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...