Rent 10 Incredible Films for $1.99

Great news, film lovers: #TIFF16 is right around the corner.

To celebrate Canadian film excellence (and the fact we have Blind Vaysha, hand.line.cod, Window Horses and We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice at TIFF this year), we and the wonderful people at Canada Screens have a selection of films from previous TIFF editions at a discounted rental rate of $1.99!

See more films here. The rebate ends September 18th!

Laurence Anyways

Xavier Dolan directs this transgender romance about a couple that is sorely tested when Laurence, then living as a man, wishes to become her true self: a woman.

Maps to the Stars

Enjoy this David Cronenberg film about a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Ninth Floor

Take a penetrating look at the 1969 Sir George Williams University riot when a protest against institutional racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation.

Ninth Floor, Mina Shum, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Pink Ribbons Inc

Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go? Léa Pool‘s doc investigates this question.

Pink Ribbons Inc., Léa Pool, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Sarah Prefers to Run

Discover Chloé Robichaud‘s film about a young woman whose love for long-distance running seems to be a crutch for her confusion about everything else in her life.

Starbuck

Montreal comedian Patrick Huard plays a slacker whose life is changed when 142 people he helped artificially inseminate file a class action lawsuit against him.

Stories We Tell

Enjoy Sarah Polley‘s genre-twisting film that playfully excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

The Lesser Blessed

Check out a drama centered on a First Nations teenager trying to find his place in the modern world.

The Wanted 18

This film mixes live footage with animation to tell the surprising tale of a herd of cows acquired by the Palestinian community of Beit Sahour that came to be seen as a security risk by the Israeli army.

The Wanted 18, Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Trick or Treaty?

Follow Canada’s Indigenous people in their fight for justice with this powerful doc that examines the legacy of Treaty No. 9 in First Nation communities.

Trick or Treaty?, Alanis Obomsawin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada