Preface to a History

A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.

When a diabolical English lord is murdered, Sherlock Holmes and Watson must unexpectedly exchange roles in order to solve "the perfect locked room mystery.

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.

A young woman investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.

ingerence: Unwanted involvement, interruption, or meddling in the internal affairs of another person, entity, or sovereign nation.

In the near future, a teenage girl attends a virtual reality high school.

Two people get lost on their way to a haunted bowling alley.

A film about the choices we make and the chances we take. From grief and abjection to bliss and communion, it takes us through one day in the lives of two gay men.

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

A long night on a film set gets longer, as an intensely committed but emotionally unstable independent director races the clock to find the perfect performance for a crucial scene. As Milton Tibbons demands take after take, his cast and crew begin to lose their patience with their director's outbursts, until the director makes an emotional disclosure that pushes his set to the point of boiling over