Don McKellar

Nash the Slash Rises Again! (2025)

Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, an invisible man in full formal white tuxedo and top hat buzz-sawing his violin through endless reams of electronics, melodies and distortion. His music and ...

Crimes of the Future (2022)

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterio ...

The Middle Man (2021)

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news. ...

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020)

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. ...

Target Number One (2020)

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarcerat ...

Through Black Spruce (2019)

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her. ...

Waiting for Ishtar (2017)

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987). ...

Meditation Park (2017)

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman's thong in his laundry. ...

Blood Honey (2017)

Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare. ...

Lolz-ita (2017)

A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity. ...

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017)

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she'd rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds her ...

Your Mother and I (2016)

Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits. ...

Zoom (2016)

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others. ...

Three Days in Havana (2014)

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba. ...

Treading Water (2013)

Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura. ...

Subconscious Password (2013)

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film featur ...

I'm Yours (2012)

A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy. ...

Trigger (2010)

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night. ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ...

Cooking With Stella (2010)

Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff. ...

Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)

A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder. ...

Green Door (2008)

Blindness (2008)

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. ...

Redacted (2007)

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis. ...

Monkey Warfare (2006)

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs. ...

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team. ...

Childstar (2004)

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother. ...

Clean (2004)

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son. ...

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers. ...

The Event (2003)

Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members — mother Lila and sister Dana — she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care ...

Public Domain (2003)

A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install survei ...

Rub & Tug (2002)

The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients. ...

Trudeau (2002)

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for ...

Waydowntown (2002)

Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and ...

I Was a Rat (2001)

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about t ...

The Art of Woo (2001)

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy. ...

This Might Be Good (2000)

A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or h ...

Vinyl (2000)

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting. ...

Sea People (1999)

At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live withou ...

eXistenZ (1999)

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged. ...

The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her. ...

The Red Violin (1998)

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays ...

Last Night (1998)

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. ...

Elimination Dance (1998)

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event. ...

Never Met Picasso (1997)

Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neit ...

Sarabande (1997)

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites. ...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption. ...

Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1997)

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late? ...

When Night Is Falling (1995)

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petr ...

Camilla (1994)

Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and m ...

Exotica (1994)

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his ...

Arrowhead (1994)

A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building. ...

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist. ...

My Niagara (1992)

Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she m ...

Giant Steps (1992)

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician. ...

The Adjuster (1991)

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords. ...

Highway 61 (1991)

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, ...

Roadkill (1989)

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs. ...

No Other Choice (2025)

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity. ...

Through Black Spruce (2019)

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her. ...

Closet Monster (2016)

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood. ...

It's Not You (2015)

Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups. ...

The Grand Seduction (2014)

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doc ...

This Movie Is Broken (2010)

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Bro ...

Blindness (2008)

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. ...

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul (2007)

A filmic love letter. One out of two. ...

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara (2007)

A filmic love letter. One out of the two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Film Festival in Paris. ...

Childstar (2004)

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother. ...

Preludes (2000)

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as ...

A Word from the Management (2000)

Don McKellar's autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers' fierce desire to get into a screening. ...

The Red Violin (1998)

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays ...

Last Night (1998)

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. ...

Elimination Dance (1998)

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event. ...

Dance Me Outside (1995)

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the ra ...

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist. ...

Blue (1992)

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche. ...

Highway 61 (1991)

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, ...

Roadkill (1989)

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs. ...