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Phantasmagoria

Cold hands. Strange packages. Mayonnaise

Owen has reached the end of his life. He cannot pass into the afterworld until he has come to terms with a tragedy from his past - a tragedy that took his wife and newborn baby from labour complications. His life is flashing before his eyes like a dream. But it is not the life that he lived; it is the life he would have wanted to live. Each flash is another moment in time that he wished he could have spent with
his wife Meg had their life continued together. Each room in his old house that he floats through like a phantasm is another memory that he'll never have known. It is only after he finds forgiveness in his soul and is able to come to terms with what happened in the past, that Owen finds redemption.

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Sweet Sixteen (2001)

Hope Thompson has always led a hard life. She has some unknown medical condition that makes her parents overprotective, her classmates ridicule strange blackouts she has, and she can't explain the strange shards of memory from 1984, before she was born. As she nears her sixteenth birthday she begins to question the realness of her supposed illness, and stops taking the prescribed medication. Yet this increases the memories and images she gets in flashes. As she heads down the days to her sixteenth birthday Hope begins to uncover the secret her parents have hidden from her and the rest of the world. In the dark corners of her own home, she will discover the remnants of a life of a sixteen year old girl, who looks just like her, and ended her life in a tragic accident back on an evening in 1984.

 

Downtown

An honest look at the interwoven lives of seven people in their "downtown" years- the years following a reliance on parental support and previous to supporting families of their own. Set in Toronto with an offbeat jazz score, the film explores the many differences between men and women and how they react when it comes to finding love and the various stages of their unstable relationships. Directed by Jason Herbert.