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Jake is an unhappy school teacher whose childhood scars are not merely skin deep. Jake's life is upended when his shifty, rogue of a father, Leif - an absentee parent and a man who best days as a travel writer are well past him-- insists that Jake help him with his next project, a book about Algonquin Park. Agreeing to a temporary arrangement, father and son arrive at the long-neglected family cabin in the woods, a tranquil backdrop to their fractious relationship. But bickering and bad feelings are soon cut short by an unexpected tragedy Laying his father to rest along with the man's many secrets, Jake decides to finish the book as a gesture to the father he barely knew. Back at the cabin, Jake's work is interrupted by unexpected visitors: a mother and child. Carmen and Iggy are revealed to be grieving members of Leif's secret family. For Jake, this deception seems to be the final straw. All he wants to do is pack up and leave. However something stops him. Iggy, just an eleven-year-old boy, has an uncanny amount of information about an event from Jake's childhood involving a horseshoe that he views as pivotal in his life and for the book. Can these two brothers, having just met, come together on an unlikely quest that may just help them both find what they're looking for and so badly need? Algonquin is a story about family secrets, second chances, and discovering the bonds that connect us through our families having nothing to do with luck.

The School the story of Edgar, a grade school teacher, who attempts to demonstrate the wonder life to his class through nature studies and other class projects. Despite his best intentions, each of the projects go badly and comically wrong. At a loss to explain why, Edgar is faced with a class who attempt to grapple with the larger implications of these failures.

Charles Taylor just doesn't measure up. Not compared to the others. The other Charles Taylors that is. Is there something about this names that destines one to success, fame or infamy? The protagonist of this dark comedy goes to great lengths to get some answers to his questions in this Google-age riff on identity.

This is a story of Mischa Weisz who, simply, will not give in and not give up. His is a relentless, but very pragmatic, and positive. It's an inspiration to watch. We tell a very human story about a man's battle with Stage Four pancreatic cancer, a disease that will beat him. For Mischa, it is all about the best fight - which means fighting alongside those you love and for those you love. We go places most people never get to see: Inside a chemotherapy lab, where they prepare the toxic drugs for patients. And inside a Chinese medicine apothecary, where they prepare different versions of the same drugs. The film shows that western medicine and eastern medicine are increasingly being combined to improve the quality of life of cancer patients.