5.7

The Echo

2007, USA

• Actors: Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon, Iza Calzado, Louise Linton, Jamie Bloch, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Aron Tager, Hrant Alianak, Jayne Eastwood, Arnold Pinnock, Marvin Hinz, George Santino, Paulette Sinclair, Bathsheba Garnett, Stacey LaBerge, Jesse Bradford, Brendan Carmody, Kevin Durand, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Robert Morse, Vanessa Petronelli, Courtenay J. Stevens
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Yam Laranas
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he tries to intervene, however, a mysterious curse entraps him.

  4.9

A Broken Life

2007, Canada

• Actors: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Grace Kosaka, Ving Rhames, Saul Rubinek, Arcadiy Golubovich, Cynthia Dale, Kristen Holden-Ried, Danya Nearon, Faye Ly, Nathan Carter, Cosette Derome, Joanna Jang, Stacey LaBerge, Carinne Leduc, Marty Moreau, Ipsita Paul, Bonnie Qian, Jillian Rees-Brown, Austin Strugnell, Edane Tobias, Lyne Tremblay, Laurel Morgan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Neil Coombs
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Tortured by his own mediocrity, Max decides to commit suicide and recruits his only friend Bud, a struggling filmmaker, to record his last day on earth. Bent on exacting revenge, Max tracks down and finally confronts his overbearing Boss and his ex-wife. His rage builds until his last day is turned upside down by the kindness of a young woman in a wheelchair. Just moments from his own end, Max finds hope but is it too late to fix what is broken?

  7.6

Away from Her

2005, Canada

• Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Deanna Dezmari, Clare Coulter, Thomas Hauff, Alberta Watson, Grace Lynn Kung, Lili Francks, Andrew Moodie, Wendy Crewson, Judy Sinclair, Tom Harvey, Carolyn Hetherington, Melanie Merkosky, Kristen Thomson, Jessica Booker, Janet van de Graaf, Michael Murphy, Vanessa Vaughan, Catherine Fitch, Ron Hewat, Jason Knight, Nina Dobrev, Nancy E.L. Ward
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Sarah Polley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Grant and Fiona Anderson have been married for forty-four years. Their marriage has been a generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. Fiona has just been admitted to Meadowlake, a long term care facility near their country home in southwestern Ontario, because her recent lapses of memory have been diagnosed as a probable case of Alzheimer's disease. She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so than Grant. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there. Based on what he sees when he is finally able to visit Fiona, Grant ultimately makes a request of Marian Barque, the wife of one of the other patients, a semi-comatose Aubrey Barque, with whom Fiona has struck a friendship and who is now at home permanently with Marian. The request is to see to both Fiona and his own happiness in this unfortunate situation.