Movies: Toronto Metropolitan University

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, 7-year-old Alex begins collecting small, delicate objects, retreating into the quiet sanctuary of his bedroom—his cocoon....

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

When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires....

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....

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

A father fears the sexual awakening of his disabled son, a teenager living with Down syndrome, and struggles with the notion of letting him grow up....

Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes....

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...

An exploration of the founding of nature aquariums and the way that they reconnect people with the natural world....

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 nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress....

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....

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

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....

18-year-old Jack get's kicked out of school after an extreme attempt at fitting in. But back at home he doesn't quite fit either. Against the backdrop of his father's death, Jack must navigate the expectations of his family and his friends to discove...

It’s the 1980s, and Jay is thirteen years old. She’s managed to get her hands on a Playgirl magazine. She’s absolutely positive that it holds the key to unlocking womanhood for herself and her friends – if only they can muster the courage to open it....

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....

Two young women occupy a liminal space that appears to be a medical clinic....

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....

a short, narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford, as he grapples with the reality that he is to become the first African American man in space....

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....