Production
A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
Bria Mack, a 25-year-old Black woman, navigates adulthood in a predominantly white world, which is made all the more difficult, but also more tolerable, by Black Attack, her invisible hype girl.
Shot in 9 days on a budget of $100k, Dinner with Friends follows eight friends trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The city is crumbling, the climate is changing, and worries about the future of the world are making it hard for this group of friends to stay together. But they’ll come to realize everything would be much harder if they don’t.
While out for drinks, a couple finds themselves in an intellectual discussion of how they feel about each other. Their clinical honesty is contrasted by a massive mural behind them that conveys the emotional truth of their relationship.
Following a Black man on his marathon through life as he comes face-to-face with the realities of being Black in 2020.
A film that focuses on the never-ending race that people of colour and marginalized communities are perpetually running.
A young boy struggles with his widowed mother's decision to relocate the family from Jamaica to Canada.
