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Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing the presence of a rare duck.

Swallowed is a fictional story that spans the life of Mike Seaward, a fisherman in outport Newfoundland, Canada. An unemployed fisherman, he reflects back to his younger days when he loved and respected the sea. We follow Mike from his days as a young man in a community thriving on the ocean and it's great resources, to the current day, where most of the community has left due to the decline in fishing stocks, in search of a better more stable life. Mike is struggling with the thought that there is no future for him, not only in the virtually deserted community, but anywhere else. He must make a decision either to follow the rest of the community and accept government offers of relocation and re-education, or to follow his own family and be at peace with himself.

A young man struggles with the death of his parents. He connects with a psychic to find answers.

Dan and Liz just want a perfect family; and in a world where families are allowed only one child, they want to make sure they get it right.

In a ruined Newfoundland city where art has been outlawed one lone hacker SOLO attempts to preserve what remains.

Didi and Max are the most competitive best friends in the fourth grade. But their friendship hangs in the balance when Principal Jack announces a school-wide contest to see who can sell the most fertilizer.

The lives of a disillusioned teen and an alienated man converge in 1980s Newfoundland.

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.

The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.

The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Henry lives alone growing rhubarb in the dark when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest. Together, they tentatively explore the boundaries of their relationship community spaces in a tender and touching film about loneliness and longing.

After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.

Diminished by grief, 18-year-old Tess (Kelly Van Der Burg) is moving through her life like a ghost. The one thing that comforts her is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe (Joel Thomas Hynes), a local legend who left home almost 20 years ago. Tess is stunned when she wakes up one day to find him in her kitchen, igniting a spark of life in her that grows out of control.

Edda, a parrot-woman hybrid, and former circus performer, struggles to deal with her daughter's new found embarrassment of her freakish family.

One wild and tumultuous summer in the life of young Jude Traynor as he attempts to navigate his way through a life of delinquency and petty crime.

Sadness, happiness, despair...for a mime, these are the tricks of the trade. Blurring the line between what's real and what's not can be achieved with a gesture of the hand, or the tensing of a body. Life of a Mime explores a day in which the performance never ends. A nameless entertainer, the titular mime can't catch a break. Beginning with an unenthusiastic crowd his day goes from bad to worse as he contends with a society that doesn't seem to quite understand nor tolerate him. Things then take a turn for the drastic when he arrives home, penniless. Come and enjoy this dark comedy which shows that a day in the Life of a Mime isn't always so black and white.

A tragic story of the death of a little girl, and the sister who thought she killed her.

"A Life In The Days Of Mary" tells the life story of Young Mary, a Newfoundland outport girl, in seventeen-minutes. It starts with her childhood abuse at the hands of a powerful man in her community and follows her life's journey until her death as a very happy, very old woman.

In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.

A short film about two friends who have different personalities and it is because of their different personalities they are best friends.

It's been 16 years since Rosemary returned home to her tiny tight-knit Newfoundland community following the untimely death of her husband. Through death, loss, and years of self-sacrifice she gives until it is time to give up the ghost.