Don McKellar Movies

Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night...

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

A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their...

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...

Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups.

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...

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point...

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.

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

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

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.