The Art of Telling Lies

The Last Porno Show

2019 · ★ 5.6

A man inherits his estranged father’s prized possession — a derelict porno theatre — in Kire Paputts’ second feature, about gentrification and finding love and compassion in unlikely places.

Where Darkness Dwells

2025

Assigned to a missing person case, reporter Trish Bostwick follows the trail to a secluded asylum hidden in the New England woods, but everything changes when a knife-wielding stranger hijacks her car, plunging her into a descent of paranoia and madness.

Rescued

2026

A homeless man finds the motivation to turn his life around after a stray dog saves his life and refuses to leave his side.

Blue Heron

2026 · ★ 7.2

In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.

Kids

1995 · ★ 6.9

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Paper Tiger

2024

When thirteen-year-old Ronnie gets her first period on September 11th, she struggles with her newfound womanhood as the world crumbles around her.

Cookster: The Darkest Days

2025

Misunderstood by his family, abandoned by the system, and desperate for respect, a dyslexic teenager becomes a drug dealer struggling to balance his addiction and debt to a local gangster while a rival threatens to destroy his world, driving him apart from the girl he loves and a daughter he's never known.

Cookster: No Going Back

Wayward London youth Jason, seduced by the lure of fast money and unlimited cocaine, becomes a gangster's runner who struggles to survive within London's criminal underworld where his only escape hinges on whether he can kill another to save himself.

Marcelo's Phantom

2025 · ★ 10

Marcelo's interest in writing becomes an unstoppable obsession once he meets a strange man on the bus.

Cup of Jo: The Patron Saint of Desperate Cases

A single mother begs, borrows, and steals to provide her son with a better life than she had, with little help from her ex-husband or her mother.

The Summer of Walter Hacks

2009

Eleven year old Walter Hacks is a farm boy in 1952. Between milking cows, haying fields and working on farm equipment he finds he has to grow up faster than he should have to. His love of western movies and his imagination take him on adventures where he meets the many interesting neighbors in his seemingly quiet hometown.

Lady D

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.