Movies: Aaron Poole

Friday night in Toronto’s lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol’s nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the din...

When a charismatic preacher finds his church in financial ruin after being swindled by a shady financial advisor, he rallies members of his congregation to pull off a heist to get their money back and save the church before it's too late....

As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son....

Plus-sized Lexie Ivy is a feisty B&B owner who desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding....

Set amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, 5 adolescent girls band together to escape their desolate lives. By reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own, they form an intense and obsessive bond that leads them to a dark p...

On the eve of her 16th birthday, a daughter and her dad drive around the perimeter of a nuclear power plant, reading books, and creating seemingly harmless nonsense games. The film invokes the erosion of language, the failure of mentorship, and the t...

Criminal organizations succeed by enforcing a strict code of trust and loyalty. To penetrate these organizations and gain access to their inner circles the police need a magic bullet. Alex Caine is that magic bullet. Only thirty years old, Alex, who ...

During the decline of the fur trade, a mercenary struggles to unite the survivors of a famine-stricken outpost plagued by a dark force that leaves its victims with an insatiable hunger....

What if you lost everything? Where would you go? What would you do? Joe, a young architecture student, is forced to drop out of school after his parents die in a car accident, leaving only unpaid bills behind. Scrambling around trying to find a job, ...

A couple is determined to plant a tree in the middle of winter following the loss of their child....

On Christmas Eve, Pastor Benjamin and his motley crew of congregants find themselves locked in the local mall just as a fearsome team of armed thieves breaks in to rob the place....

Anyone who’s ever begun a romantic relationship knows it can be hard to feel entirely welcomed by your new partner’s pals. But for the title character of this sly thriller, the situation becomes a whole lot more extreme as Victoria stirs up a hornet’...

Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. ...

When an innocent girl stumbles upon a botched drug deal and a half-dead sociopath desperate for her help, she unintentionally sets off a chain of events with irreversible consequences....

A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society....

Set in an alternate contemporary society that allows citizens to engage in mortal combat to settle scores, HONOR CODE follows a corporate middleman seeking revenge for a public humiliation....

The cycle of Steve's life choices are too large for him to recognize any pattern within. But as time is compressed and he flows through spirals of love and sexuality, he begins to sand down distractions and distortions to reveal an essential wound at...

Short film by Lily Gao....

Blake lives alone with her dog when she becomes consumed by the intensifying sounds coming from next door until one day they stop, forcing her to confront her own anger....

An unsolved homicide in a small, rural town leaves two former police partners in ruins and unearths a dark secret that's since formed between them....