Exploring the bonds between people, in all their forms. Films: Cherry Lemonade; Faraway; Bruiser; Keep Calling; Like the Ones I Used to Know; Marlon Brando *Note: Audience Choice voting can only be completed via Internet browser.

Young Phoenix has always yearned to be the IT girl but can't shake her tomboyish ways. When her abrasive older brother, Kurt, breaks a promise, Phoenix ventures out on her own to a local corner store. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film.

Cherry Lemonade

On a hot summer day in a lower-income neighborhood, a black girl learns to take the lead on her own terms.

After being estranged from his family for his homosexuality, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and from far away as he navigates his solitude - all the while attempting to reconnect with his mother. In English, French, Arabic, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Justine Baillargeonjustine@h264distribution.com

Faraway

After being estranged from his family for his homosexuality, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and from far away as he navigates his solitude - all the while attempting to reconnect with his mother.

While Darious helps his father Malcolm lifts weights in the basement, the awkwardness between them is palpable, and that becomes more evident when they go for a father-son bowling outing and Darious is noticeably distant. After his father gets into a massive fight with a man at the bowling alley, Darious is forced to deal with seeing his father be so outwardly violent and aggressive. Heartland Film Alumni: Falling, 2014 Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film.

Bruiser

After his father gets into a fight at a bowling alley, Darious begins to investigate the limitations of his own manhood.

Lilian, [92], who suffers from Parkinson's disease, sings at home alone and lonely, until Michael, [45], himself suffering mental health challenges, joins a volunteer group phoning the elderly for company. Heartland Film Alumni: The Reinvention of Normal, 2016 Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Liam Saint-Pierreliam@liamsaintpierre.com

Keep Calling

A film about an unlikely couple overcoming loneliness and isolation.

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa Claus is late and Denis, alone in his car, is anxious at the idea of setting foot in his ex-in-law's house to pick up his children. Les grandes claques is an early coming-of-age story that is as squeaky as it is poetic. In French-Canadian, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Justine Baillargeonjustine@h264distribution.com

Like the Ones I Used to Know

Christmas 1983. Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa is late. Denis is anxious at the idea of picking up his children at his ex-in-law’s.

Cas and Naomi spend their days together, but when their future plans seem to drive them apart, their relationship will be put at risk. Courtesy of Canal+, available only from Friday, July 23, through Sunday, July 25. In Dutch, with English subtitles. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and are edited for length and clarity, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heartland Film. Film Contact:Varicolouredinfo@varicoloured.eu

Marlon Brando

Cas and Naomi spend their days together, but when their future plans seem to drive them apart, their relationship will be put at risk.

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