Category: OCanFilmFest Films

The Mayor of Comedy: A Canadian Stand-up Story

Canadian comedian Sandra Battaglini is an award-winning performer, a headlining comic and a veteran of the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Despite her success Sandra feels trapped in a system that offers low pay, few opportunities and a lack of support from the government. (WORLD PREMIERE at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 1 at 8pm – details & tickets) The Mayor of...

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Trouble in the Garden

Trouble in the Garden is a story about an estranged family in the aftermath of the 60’s Scoop. (screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 4pm – details & tickets) Most non-Indigenous Canadians are blissfully unaware that between 1960-85, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and adopted into white families in an effort to make them white....

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Nose to Tail

A talented but abrasive chef struggles with his personal demons and the relentless pressures of running a high-end restaurant.

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May Flowers

A misunderstanding occurs when Jimmy goes to pick up an order for his boss at May Flowers. Little did he expect how the tables would turn. (Screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 6:30pm – details & tickets) Marianna Phung is a Toronto-based director, writer and actor of Vietnamese descent. After graduating from York University with a BA in Theatre...

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Overgrowth

A couple take a hike to an old ruin and in the process discover how much their relationship has changed. (screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 6:30pm – details & tickets) Christian Belisle is a writer, director, and production designer. An Ottawa native, Christian graduated with distinction from Carleton University with an honours degree in Film Studies. After graduating,...

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Dog Bite

Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. Dog bites girl’s face and things get complicated. After a brutal dog attack, career woman Jen becomes determined to start a new life inside a child-like fort. Her dysfunctional family tries to coax her back out into the world. But the only person who can get Jen to go outside is Jen. (Screens at...

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Life Via Rail

Life Via Rail tells the story of Jason Shron, a train enthusiast from Canada who abandoned a prestigious phD program to pursue his dream of a career in the model train industry. Currently Jason is the CEO of Rapido Trains, one of Canada’s largest model train manufacturers. (Screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 2:30pm – details & tickets) Jonny...

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The Still Life of Annika Myers

When a survivor of the Dutch Hunger Winter discovers a treasure that had been torn from her family by a conspiracy of injustices, she risks breaking the law and a valued friendship in order to reclaim her heritage. (Screened at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 6:30pm) UPDATE: WINNER, AUDIENCE FAVOURITE, OCanFilmFest2019 During the Dutch Hunger winter of 1945, ANNIKA MYERS...

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Fragile Dream

In the Aboriginal conception of the world, all forms of life are part of a dynamic system of complex interactions.

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Rise n’ Shine

Marriage gets complicated when your husband decides to kidnap you. (Screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 2:30pm – details & tickets) During the Klondike gold rush, Tagish First Nation, Skookum Jim, hid millions of dollars’ worth of gold around the Yukon. 100 years later, Amanda, a small town wife/mother, dreams of opening Rise n’ Shine bakery on the Alaska...

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Baba Yaga

A desperate mother with an incurably ill baby ventures into the dark woods long believed to be the home of Baba Yaga, a mystical witch with the power to change fate. (Screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 2:30pm – details & tickets) Nicole Sitanski has always been fascinated with the lasting power of storytelling and the effect certain fables...

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The Order of Things to Come

Neil Berman, a petty criminal, was recently released from prison. In order to rehabilitate himself and go ‘straight’, he decides to reconcile with his old crime boss Frankie Flacco. Needless to say that the visit doesn’t go as well as he planned. (Screens at #ocanfilmfest2019 on Nov 2 at 6:30pm – details & tickets) Tavit Melikian is a three-time award-winning...

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