Don McKellar

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

Dir. François Girard · With Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli

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.

Dir. Don McKellar · With Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Dir. Don McKellar · With Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Roberta Maxwell

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.

Dir. Daniel Roby · With Antoine Olivier Pilon, Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Dir. Fernando Meirelles · With Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.

Dir. Don McKellar, Park Chan-wook · With Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Toan Le

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Dir. Pedro Morelli · With Gael García Bernal, Alison Pill, Mariana Ximenes