Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic lined with two-way mirrors, Cowards is twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment: the mythomaniacal Maddin casts ’himself‘ (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales, and resurrects his father as the teamÕs radio broadcaster and his own romantic antagonist. And it all takes place within a drop of sperm. Originally presented as an installation in ten peepholes at TorontoÕs Power Plant gallery and the 2003 Rotterdam Film Festival.

Dreamtrips is a time-traveling, continents-traversing journey about a young Hong Kong woman in Toronto who, sufferring from insomnia and worried sick over a missing boyfriend, decides to take a trip into the dream world through computer networking. Inevitably, she ends up with more than she bargains for, but, in the end, all seems to boil down to the simple pleasure of a cup of Hong Kong style "milk tea".

Award-winning director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist) hooks up with actor/activist Woody Harrelson to deal you Grass, a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America’s most deeply rooted cultural myths: “the evils of marijuana.” Find out how a nice person like yourself became a dangerous criminal. Includes special bonus features.

There are the damned, the doom generation. Stealing the group home station wagon, a quintet of jaded juveniles invade a closed down amusement park called Wonder World which for one day and night threatens to become Teenage WasteLand. Lovers Chloe and Darrin are there for more than fun and games: after a positive pregnancy test, she wants to end their lives with a spectacular double suicide. Uncouth pals Stick and Sanj are around to see if the pair will really go through with it, and Darrin’s little brother Justin, an unnervingly quiet sketcher, is using the trip as a jumping-off point to run away to Spokane. How much of this is mere Gen-Why poseur boastfulness, and how much of it is really going to happen?

Clive Holden's collection of 14 film poems is an epic ride through a uniquely early 21st century landscape. Featuring music by Christine Fellows and Jason Tait and John K. Sampson (The Weakerthans), Trains of Winnipeg presents suburban and urban dystopias, explores the politics of form and the form of personal politics, and celebrates the raw joy of moving pictures, sound, colour and light.

A feature length bundle of two of director Ron Mann's counter cultural studies. Dream Tower is an incisive look into Toronto’s notorious Rochdale College, an eighteen storey high rise completed in 1968, and intended as a free college; instead Rochdale quickly turned into an experimental living environment peopled by artists, draft dodgers and hippies. Echoes Without Saying (28mins) looks at CoachHouse Press, an innovative Toronto-based publishing and printing house.

Sissy Boy Slap Party
Originally commissioned as a four-minute short in support of the Saddest Music in the World, this longer version is an exercise in grafting the Three Stooges onto a Kenneth Anger lilac bush. Now contains 50% more slapping.

The Workbooks
A collection of rarely seen Maddin shorts! Includes: Fuse Boy (4:00); Rooster (3:54); Zookeeper (3:53); Chimney (3:52); Audition 01 (5:04); Audition 02 (2:33).

Dead Father, The
A grey comedy about a boy who keeps forgetting, and a man who cheats on his wife by dying.

Sombra Dolorosa
In this Maxi-Mexi-Melancolour short, the widow Paramo attempts to prevent further familial tragedy and her daughter Dolores wants to join her father, the recently deceased Don Paramo, in death and by taking on El Muerto, Death himself, in the wrestling ring.