Twelve films showcasing the land, legacy, people, and stories of our great country directed by Canada’s most promising future auteurs. Films in this section compete for the RBC Emerging Canadian Artist Award and a $10,000 juried prize.

Films in this Section are also eligible for the Telus Audience Awards.

FILM SPOTLIGHT

ADULT ADOPTION

Rosy, a former crown ward who has aged out of the foster care system, goes online to find love... with a parent.

Award Winner - Best Canadian Narrative

Winner of the $10,000 CAD RBC Emerging Canadian Artist award, announced September 27.

FALCON LAKE

Two teens searching for love get a supernatural surprise.

I LIKE MOVIES

A socially inept 17-year-old cinephile gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

NORTH OF NORMAL

After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything-but-normal mother.

RICEBOY SLEEPS

A Korean single mother raises her son in the suburbs of Canada, determined to give him a better life than the one she left behind.

ROSIE

An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone aunty and her two gender-bending best friends in '80s Montreal.

SOFT

Three adolescent friends join the queer nightlife scene when a missing person case pulls them back to reality.

THE SWEARING JAR

From swearing off swearing to keeping secrets to holding on to feelings longer than most, a couple will do anything for love.

UNTIL BRANCHES BEND

When a pregnant cannery worker finds an invasive insect in a peach, she must convince her community that the danger it poses is real.

YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER

When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with...
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