Niv Fichman Movies

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story...

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to...

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they...

A father faces a personal crisis when he discovers his estranged son fleeing a botched drug deal. The two men embark on a violent odyssey that...

An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television...

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their...

When her daughter falls into a temporary coma after an accident at her home in Winnipeg, Sara, an overbearing Korean mother travels from Seoul to...

Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he...

The cast and crew of 'Enemy' guide the audience through the making of the film and the possible meanings behind its enigmatic imagery.

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Christopher Merk moves into a building in which every tenant can observe every other tenant through a system of perpetually running cameras installed...

A behind-the-scenes documentary about Jason Eisener's grindhouse exploitation film Hobo with a Shotgun.

Directors Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi bring viewers into the unpredictable world of Masaki Saito, Toronto’s sushi superstar.

Some of today's most original recording artists perform the work of famed composer Harold Arlen.

THE SOUND OF THE CARCERI explores the deep relationship between music and architecture through a high-tech 'virtual confrontation' between Bach and...