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A thirty-five-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.

A documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. The film follows three families who have been confronted with the decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington's disease - a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's simultaneously - and one of the first diseases people could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. As scientists discover more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, "do you really want to know?" will be a question more and more of us will face.

A failed real estate agent who has amassed huge personal debt, Mike Recket (Nicholas Lea) has fallen on hard times. His stunning but spoiled wife Jasleen (Agam Darshi) has kicked him out, refusing him visiting rights to their infant daughter. But Mike has met what could be the answer to his money problems in the form of lonely widow Leslie Klemper (Gabrielle Rose), and he has a plan in place that could set everything right. Then: Leslie goes missing. Enter a troop of solicitous cops lead by Detective Shane Knost (Paul Skrudland) to encircle Mike and his family as they investigate the woman's apparent disappearance, which may or may not have involved Mike.

"Eco-Pirate" tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson as he repeatedly flouts the law, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers: the illegal poachers of the world. Using verité sequences shot aboard his ship as a framing device, the documentary examines Watson's personal history as an activist through archival footage and interviews, while revealing the impact of this relentless pursuit on his personal life. From the genesis of Greenpeace to sinking a pirate whaling ship off Portugal, and from clashes with fisherman in the Galapagos to Watson's recent headline-grabbing battles with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the film chronicles the extraordinary life of the most controversial figure in the environmental movement; the heroics, the ego, the urgency of the world's original eco-pirate.

The Death Debate tells the story of the people behind the landmark 2015 Supreme Court of Canada case on physician assisted-dying.

Vancouver, often considered one of the most livable cities in the world, is facing a housing crisis, where there is insufficient supply to meet the demand by people who want to buy and/or live in the city, and the increasing housing prices, driven largely and often solely by market forces, is forcing many, including long time residents and people who were born and raised in the city and who would stay if they could, out. Much of the blame is often laid at the feet of wealthy offshore investors, generally identified as Chinese, many who use Vancouver as a nice place to live away from the less livable place where they made their money, while others only use it as a place to park their money, leaving their housing unit otherwise unused. A wide array of Vancouver residents talk about the issue, from born and bred Vancouverites to relatively new arrivals, from the poor to the wealthy, from millennials to seniors, from singles to people with families and others to consider, and from those who still aspire to home ownership despite the financial obstacles to those who have come up with other living solutions to fit their life priorities within the crisis. Vancouver based policy makers, academics, journalists and others who work directly in the housing business - all who obviously live in the city - provide their perspective of why the situation exists and some possible solutions. A unique perspective comes from the indigenous community, who sees what is happening now as just a larger and more publicly decried situation as what happened to the indigenous population when Vancouver was in its infancy as a political unit.

Maybe we're not totally screwed

Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.

For more than 40 years, newspaper columnist and photographer, Malcolm Parry has been chronicling the goings-on in the city of Vancouver -- first in the pages of Vancouver Magazine and later in The Vancouver Sun. There is likely no one who has taken as many photos of the people of Vancouver in that period as "Mac" has. Instead of the changing urban landscape of the city it's the changing faces of the city that he has recorded. Part artist portrait and part meditation of what was the original "social media", THE SOCIETY PAGE follows Mac as he makes his nightly rounds, while also threading together the story of his life, career and legacy.

The suicide rate among Canada's first responders has reached crisis level and continues to rise each year. What's behind this? Why are the people who choose to save lives ending their own in record numbers? The documentary AFTER THE SIRENS tells the stories of paramedics on the frontlines of the crisis.

"Post-War Blues" is an homage to the 1964 Stanley Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove. Like the original film, the video playfully skewers the political tensions of the time. Instead of a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union however, the plot follows a war-mongering air force general who launches a fictitious war 'for the kids' to justify arts funding cuts in favor of ramped-up military spending. The war even gets a jingoistic name, 'the War on Evil', that is used to indoctrinate the nation's youth. A shadowy (and seemingly desk-chair bound) weapons of mass media expert presents the war room with a live feed of how the plan is being carried out in school classrooms. Will the kids blindly accept the pro-war politics being foisted upon them or will they rise up in revolt?