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Justin Simms is a Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker whose first feature film, Down to the Dirt, received the best Atlantic feature and best screenplay awards at the Atlantic Film Festival. His feature film adaptation Away from Everywhere (2016), based on the Chad Pelley novel of the same name, had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of Telefilm Canada’s Perspectives Canada program. His non-fiction credits include Hard Light (2011), Danny (2014) and the short Hand.Line.Cod (2016), which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Total trailers found: 76
01 January 2004
Conceived, written and shot in Newfoundland, this study in grief and adolescent longing is a sure sign of local filmmaker Adriana Magg's huge potential.
01 January 2014
Between Two Walls is a political thriller about an aspiring politician whose bid to secure top office is threatened when a dark secret from his past comes to light days before the election.
15 June 2005
When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing.
01 January 2010
Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.
18 June 2007
An intimate meditation on the relationship between a recently widowed husband and his young daughter.
23 October 2016
On the last day of packing up her home, a woman can't shake the regret she feels about her late husband.
27 April 2023
Through a tapestry of reflection, rare footage and her own home, Inuk filmmaker Holly Andersen tells the little-known story of the forced relocation of an Inuit community from Hebron, north of Nain, to more southerly locations along the Labrador Coast.
20 October 2019
The Death of Winter: In 1830s Newfoundland, a woman is on trial for the murder of her husband. While innocent of the homicide, she is hanged for having an affair.
14 September 2025
Nestled in her home by the ocean, Ash is creating wedding dresses for herself and the woman she’s about to marry.
10 May 2014
This short experimental documentary about memory and music follows a young Cuban couple charting a new course for their lives on an island in the North Atlantic.
17 October 2023
When Tommy is fired twice in the same week and finds out his brilliant best friend and lifeline, Costa, is leaving the country for a better job, he seizes an opportunity to prove his worth by taking his friends on a trip - in a stolen boat.
01 January 2014
An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the human heart.
15 September 2024
On the shores of a small fishing village lives a lonely settlement of men - capturing and domesticating otherworldly creatures that were never meant to be tamed.
05 April 2024
In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity stunt—portrays her troubled relationship with her father in the context of the Cuban Revolution.
18 September 2010
An itinerant cook survives a shipwreck, paddles himself to an island in a stock pot, and finds himself on a surreal journey through his past to discover the ineffable connection he has with a clown living a desultory existence in a dilapidated lighthouse.
09 September 2008
When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.
01 November 2012
"A Life In The Days Of Mary" tells the life story of Young Mary, a Newfoundland outport girl, in seventeen-minutes.
25 April 2015
A feature documentary about the life of former Newfoundland Premier, Danny Williams
22 October 2022
When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
01 January 2009
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade.
19 September 2015
A father and son duo, Charlie and Sam Pike, come to grips with admitting war-vet Charlie, who suffers from dementia, into a long-term care home.
01 October 2017
Karen attempts to grapple with the fleeting nature of romance through filmmaking, only to run into conflict with her surrounding cast and crew.
01 June 2006
In a dystopian future where the air is unbreathable and all citizens must wear elaborate masks in order to live, one young scientist fights to win his lover by defying the state and seeing her face.
05 June 2019
Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and time well spent as the fearless agent of her own destiny.
01 January 2006
Short film about a wedding toast that goes horribly wrong.
24 August 2018
When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left behind.
19 October 2023
The story of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.
01 January 2014
A glimpse into the life of a woman who, desperate to board a plane home, deals with unlikely foes: her own shoes.
01 January 2018
A young women craving attention in her relationship, finds a lump in her breast.
12 May 2019
In the stark Labrador interior, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life.
01 January 2009
After 30 years of salt beef and baloney, the instinctively vegan Isabel hops a bay bus to the city supermarket.
12 January 2003
Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent, arranges an assignment in Boston for a considerable sum of money.
01 January 2014
In 1940s outport Newfoundland, young Sadie struggles to cope with the tragic death of both her parents.
15 September 2018
Everyone has a different story to tell, especially when it comes to relationships. Lynda Boyd stars as Anna, a recently widowed cardiologist facing romantic challenges.
01 July 2013
Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.
23 June 2008
An armless outcast is confronted by a troubled teenager.
11 December 2022
End of the Line, which features Jessie Montgomery's PEACE, is a visual pilgrimage of one person's journey from big city lockdown to finding solace in the landscape of the natural world.
25 October 2025
When 74-year-old Robert Tilley agreed to take photographer Ting Ting Chen on a road trip across Newfoundland, neither could have predicted the deep, cross-generational friendship that would blossom between them, nor how Robert's role in Ting Ting's art would challenge traditional ideas of the artist-muse relationship.
01 March 2017
A struggling writer emerges from rehab and reunites with his estranged brother, but soon descends into a tragic love triangle and is forced to confront a devastating reality.
12 September 2022
Henry lives alone growing rhubarb in the dark when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest.
15 September 2008
A short film by Jacqueline Hynes made through Nifco's First Time Filmmaker Program.
01 January 2011
Surprise! is a dark comedy that satirizes the art world while taking a provocative look at the increasing problem of the misuse of sexual aid medication in elderly men with young wives.
14 September 2016
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line.
20 October 2017
Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need.
15 June 2024
After Raam, an international student, moves to Newfoundland to pursue his dreams and education, his housemate Joseph loses his job amidst the global pandemic.
24 October 2008
Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret.
16 June 2004
An exploration of music in the life, and writing, of James Joyce. Two Newfoundland actors, a Toronto opera singer and a New York Joycean scholar travel to Dublin and join forces with a group of Irish musicians to tell the story of music in the life, and writing, of the great Irish writer James Joyce.
23 October 2012
A woman looks past her insecurities in a time of change, self doubt and uncertainty.
10 August 2016
In a coastal town in Newfoundland a man named Skip cares for his widowed grandfather, admires the local store clerk from afar and dreams of making something of his life through an unlikely endeavor: rock skipping.
01 September 2022
When Vegas, a disillusioned artist turned taxi driver, picks up an unassuming stranger, things take a drastic turn when it is revealed not everything is as it appears.
10 January 2026
Chronicles ten weeks with Lauda - a pioneering youth ensemble within the internationally renowned Shallaway Youth Choir, one of only a handful of choirs in the world to embrace all neurotypes.
11 September 2007
A tale of two longtime losers looking for love.
17 September 2022
When Newfoundland locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband.
12 November 2021
Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition.
01 January 2011
This feature film uses Michael Crummey's seminal piece of Newfoundland literature to examine cultural change and modern relationships.
14 September 2019
A maverick artist is rediscovered in Paris when his taboo-busting 1967 film resurfaces in the art world.
22 October 2022
Luke has been veering between panic and numbness ever since losing his wife to Thyroid cancer. In a last-ditch effort to feel something, anything, he attends a bereavement counseling meeting at a nearby outreach center.
13 September 2024
It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope.
07 February 2019
A folklorist is summoned by the last living soul of a forgotten community to witness a folktale transform into a terrifying reality.
21 September 2021
In what appears to be a Sisyphean task, Newfoundland diver Shawn Bath has devoted himself to cleaning up the ocean floor one rotting tire at a time.
