Enquanto procura a sua mãe desaparecida, a jovem corajosa Enola Holmes usa os seus dotes de detetive para passar a perna ao seu irmão Sherlock e ajudar um Lorde.
Após sua mãe e seu padrasto serem presos, Vanessa Lutz decide que ao invés de ir para um lar adotivo, prefere procurar pela avó que nunca conheceu e viver com ela. Porém, na estrada, a caminho da casa da vó, seu carro quebra e ela é forçada a pegar carona com Bob Wolverton, um conselheiro escolar para jovens problemáticos. Aos poucos, Bob conquista a confiança de Vanessa e a convence a falar sobre os abusos sexuais que ela sofreu nas mãos de seu padrasto. Quando ela percebe que ele está gostando demais do assunto, começa a desconfiar que Bob é um assassino em série.
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.
Aviva tem treze anos de idade, é desajeitada e sensível. A sua mãe, Joyce, é calorosa e ama-a, como o seu pai, Steve, um homem normal que tem um temperamento rude de quando em quando. O filme move-se em redor da sua família, amigos e vizinhos.
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
As mais sombrias das fantasias que rondam nossos pesadelos emergem quando Christian recebe terrível vídeo pornográfico de sua filha morta recentemente. Em sua procura por respostas, ele logo se vê diante de um mundo de violência e crueldade enquanto segue as pistas pelo submundo da pornografia, com seus métodos únicos de interrogatórios brutais. Dirigindo através do norte de Queensland para localizar o suspeito final, ele relutantemente dá carona para Alice, uma desajeitada fugitiva. Logo um vínculo improvável se desenvolve. Mas, enquanto as peças do quebra-cabeças são reunidas, uma verdade terrível é revelada, o que leva a todos para um caminho perigoso.
Based on true events (mostly), Freddie, a 15-year-old runaway becomes intimately acquainted with California’s “Murder City” after being released from jail, just shy of midnight. Absurdly self-reliant, completely broke and 120 miles away from her friends she has nothing to depend on but her wit and youthful charm.
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a bumbling police chief who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet during a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues.
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force. Written by Vancouver Film Festival, Handbook
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
Six high-school classmates, three boys and three girls, coming from different strata of society, who have each their own problems in their respective families and escape from their homes, deciding to live together on their own with the help of an older friend of theirs.
Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support by Kenny, who secretly plans to make her pregnant and sell the baby for adoption. Based on a true story.
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her.
Frank and Paul are best friends forever and raised Frank's daughter Lilli after a tragic car accident. The two men scrape a living by working as barmen and bouncers in a strip club while Lilly has grown into a lively and self-confident teenager. The disaster unfolds when Lilli seduces Paul and gets pregnant.
A caribou tracker obsessed with finding a missing caribou herd befriends a teenage rebel who gets lost while on the run.
Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.
The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20th century. Zahed was 13 years old when he enrolled in the Iranian army. Najah was 18 when he was conscripted into the Iraqi army, and he fought against Zahed in the Battle of Khorramshahr. Fast forward 25 years, a chance encounter in Vancouver between these two former enemies turns into a deep and mutually supportive friendship. Expanded from the 2015 short film by the same name.