Sook-Yin Lee Movies

In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Dawson

Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his...

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Cast: Rick Roberts

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raphael Barker

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chloë Sevigny

WHISPERS AND SHOULDERS An experimental short directed by Sook-Yin Lee Conceived by JOOJ (Lee & Adam Litovitz) Made from the raw footage of JOOJ's...

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Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Wesley Shipp

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Cameron Mitchell

Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sean Astin

A documentary discussing the legacy and impact of the famous Crocks N Rolls bar, a music club in Thunder Bay, Ontario that featured many prominent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Laurence Fishburne

A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

No Tickets At The Door is an in-depth look into Toronto’s diverse underground music scene and the myriad of challenges that musicians,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Britt Lower

Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tim Matheson

During the rise of the music video era in the 80s, Canada launched "MuchMusic", a low budget TV network that revolutionized how the world's biggest...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Anthony

Sam has a chance encounter with an old friend on his way home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliot Page

On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) develops an...

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Cast: Sook-Yin Lee

The fog of grief shrouding Miriam, a branch librarian, begins to lift when she starts a love affair with cab driver Janko. But what’s the deal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Britt Lower