Judy is struggling to take control of her life while facing advanced Parkinson’s disease. Her son, Jamie, is battling his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta’s oil field work camps. Together, they hope to understand each other and themselves. – Amazon Prime
Director: Kathleen Hepburn
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway, Nicholas Campbell
Country: Canada
Distributor: levelFILM
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
12-year-old Luis befriends a trio of awkward aliens who’ve gotten stuck on Earth after watching too much home-shopping network. With a neglectful father at home, Luis decides to escape with the aliens so he can avoid being sent away to a boarding school. – Hulu
Director: Christoph Lauenstein
Cast: Michaël Gregorio, Dermot Magennis, Ian Coppinger, Paul Tylak
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark
Distributor: Viva Pictures
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes
Platform: Hulu
Special Programming: Family Films
Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, leading to an unexpected yet inevitable confrontation, changing both of their lives forever. – Amazon
Director: Sophia Takal
Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine
Country: United States
Distributor: Oscilloscope
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl, is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn, and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill. – Telescope Film
Director: Likarion Wainaina
Cast: Stycie Waweru, Nyawara Ndambia, Marrianne Nungo, Johnson Gitau Chege
Country: Germany, Kenya
Distributor: Juno Films
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 14 minutes
Platform: Video-On-Demand (Now available on Amazon Prime)
Special Programming: Family Films
Special Events: Centerpiece Gala
Alma travels to Bosnia to bid farewell to a father she hardly knows. This starts a journey with an unknown destination in which the outwardly indifferent teen discovers herself and her country of origin. – MUBI
Director: Ena Sendijarević
Cast: Sara Luna Zoric, Lazar Dragojevic, Ernad Prnjavorac
Country: Netherlands, Bosnia, Herzegovina
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Five factions run the underground life of Haldwell School, a prestigious east coast boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction – The Spades – sits Selah Summers, walking the fine line between being feared and loved. – Amazon Prime
Director: Tayarisha Poe
Cast: Lovie Simone, Nekhebet Kum Juch, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Jharrel Jerome, Jesse Williams, Celeste O’Connor
Country: United States
Distributor: Amazon Pictures
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Platform: Amazon Prime
Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue Bird, a song inspired on a fairy tale about the relationship between a girl and a bird. The musical piece puts both Mizore and Nozomi on the spotlight due to a solo part by Yoroizuka and forces the two girls to reexamine their friendship. – Hoopla
Director: Naoko Yamada
Cast: Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Touyama, Ayaka Asai, Tomoyo Kurosawa
Country: Japan
Distributor: Shout! Factory
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Platform: Hoopla
When a sacred statue is taken from his Andean village, a spirited boy who dreams of becoming a shaman goes on a brave mission to get it back. – Netflix
Director: Juan Antín
Cast: Andrea Santamaria, India Coenen, Saïd Amadis, Marie Christine Darah
Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes
Platform: Netflix
Special Programming: Family Films
Three aliens travel to Earth on a mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being, leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake. – Hulu
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Mahiro Takasugi, Yuri Tsunematsu
Country: Japan
Distributor: Super LTD
Rating: R
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Platform: Hulu
Special Programming: Midnight Movies
Atmospherically shot on 16mm film, Transnistra is an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. Award-winning director Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) intimately follows a group of young people as they move from a sweltering, carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. – Momento Film
Director: Anna Eborn
Cast: Tatyana Lipovskaya, Anatoly Nikolaevich, Alexander Stadnik
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Platform: MUBI (Not currently available)
Special Programming: Documentary Cinema
