2024 Calgary Film Festival

In a post-apocalyptic world with food scarcity, a Black family of Canadian farmers descended from American Civil War migrants defend their homestead against cannibals trying to seize their resources.

Freediving champion Jessea Lu nearly died during a world-record attempt. She revisits the site of her near-death in this documentary, facing past traumas and struggling back to life.

During a village anniversary parade, Étienne attempts to demonstrate to townspeople that his family"s noisy chaos has beauty.

Alan built a castle in rural Illinois with his late love. Facing life alone, he revisits their fantasy through musical re-enactments transporting him to the world they shared.

Inseparable since childhood, levelheaded Katie takes her codependent best friend Delaney on a girls" trip to break the news that she is getting married. Things do not go as planned.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha"s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real-estate business in 1970s and "80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.

Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn"t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.

Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves, their people and their fortune.

Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan"s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown in Northwest China. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black stray. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey together.

When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life. Inspired by a true story.

A global thriller, documenting the fierce competition between scientists, collectors, and museums for dinosaur fossils worth millions, exploring how these ancient relics redefine our understanding of history and our uncertain future.

Follows Cécile, a young woman who spends the summer in a villa in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond and his latest love interest, Elsa. Theirs is a lived-in compatibility a world of ease and languor.

11-year-old Mildred"s world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

In a not so distant future, there is a reality where in order to save the planet, "death is everyone"s job", with 50-year-olds taking the sacrifice, while teenage artists need to document it.

A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.

Follows the misadventures of a sexless couple, as their relationship falls into shambles in the early part of the pandemic.

Five best friends juggle their lives as teenagers with their goal of winning the Canadian Junior Curling Championship. Coached by their former Olympian moms, they navigate the pressures of intense training, competitions and social lives.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation"s demands.

A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.

An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.

An aspiring actor undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance, but his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

Disco. Never. Died. DISCO"S REVENGE is a pulsating deep dive into the very soul of disco music and its impact across genres and history. Told by the people who created it, nurtured it, and in turn, discovered themselves on the dancefloor.