Mia, a 19 year old woman living with a broken wrist, and a prescription to strong painkillers. Is struggling to get out her routinish life tangled with drug addiction and self hatred. So she tries to face her own demons and problems, which ends up only worsening her situation, sending her into a...
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies,...
A feature length documentary about extraordinary Canadian singer songwriter, Ron Hynes... an insightful and entertaining exploration of the creative process, the genesis of song, the meaning of performance and the vulnerability of an artist compelled to bare his soul through his music. The film is...
Second Skin takes an intimate look at three sets of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by online virtual worlds. An emerging genre of computer software called Massively Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs, allows millions of users to interact simultaneously in virtual spaces. Of the 50...
In this film titled “From Candy to Cocaine” from 1986, the “Teens Kick-Off” performance group, a performance group recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, perform a modern theater piece on their personal stories of addiction and recoveries. The film also portrays adolescents, who share...
Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19, shelters closed, jobs were lost, and homelessness in "Victoria B.C." (unceded L'kwungen Territories), swelled. A community formed in the city’s biggest park...
The Business of Recovery examines the untold billions that are being made off of families in crisis. With little regulation or science, addiction treatment has become a cash cow business that continues to grow while deaths pile up.
Sam is a 19-year-old artist drifting through post-high school adolescence in a drug-fuelled haze, doing anything to avoid actually painting. Her art used to bring her joy, but now it wants her to destroy herself. So she does. As her insecurity spirals into a surreal nightmare, Sam's mother...
Because of the internet's accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addictions have risen to epidemic levels, destroying intimacy, marriages and families, while distorting our definition of sex and sexuality.
This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent drugs they used.
Ed, Who was once beloved by his hometown as Mumbles the Clown, is now a party clown who battles depression and addiction. His last shred of light in his life Trixie has struggles of her own. Being pushed from all sides who and what will stop this endless spiral?
When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.
