Movies: Nifco

Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with...

Struggling to deal with the loss of her husband, Mary has not yet been able to enter the room in which he took his own life, let alone even open the door. After starting to hear tormenting voices and strange noises coming from inside, Mary must final...

Phillip Early recounts the months spent investigating a cold case. A police interrogator presses him for answers while trying to decode the role of a retired detective/successful author in the mystery....

When Newfoundland locks down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a former dancer becomes further trapped in a toxic relationship with her emotionally abusive husband. Increasingly isolated and with only a goldfish as a friend, she is forced to choose betwe...

In this hilarious tale about facing adult responsibility, a young couple with relationship troubles must choose between talking things through or using their newly acquired magic wands to resolve their issues....

An eccentric old man in a local pub tells tales too tall to be true....

A young girl named Pearl tries to help her father navigate the world of online dating....

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond....

A person who hates all their clothes struggles to decide what to wear to a house party. At the party they see their ex-it’s-complicated with a new partner. A tense interaction sparks a nascent lifestyle change....

Mock documentary about Elvis' iconic status in America...

This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related t...

When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips....

A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned....

This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and th...

It's been 16 years since Rosemary returned home to her tiny tight-knit Newfoundland community following the untimely death of her husband. Through death, loss, and years of self-sacrifice she gives until it is time to give up the ghost....

A man returns home to attend the funeral of a past love. When he receives a package she left for him, it takes him down a road of long-forgotten memories and a classic haunting romance....

Conceived, written and shot in Newfoundland, this study in grief and adolescent longing is a sure sign of local filmmaker Adriana Magg's huge potential. The plot centers on Crystal Janes, a young girl with an odd relationship to her dead brother. Typ...

Ann and Amy are sisters with a positive relationship, despite being very different people. They have been separated for the last two years due to Covid and work/ life situations. They are finally together to reconnect and share their lives as new mom...

The lives of 5 people with meetings at different ends of a coffee shop become the headline in tomorrow's newspaper....

An unemployed man desperate for work wanders around St John's, Newfoundland searching for a job....