Drama
Rod Lott
Gilbert Toma had an original, envelope-pushing idea for his film school thesis project: Document the final days of someone who has decided to end his or her life, including the actual act of suicide. One Craigslist ad seeking such a subject later, 142 tapes were shot, and the end result is A Necessary Death.

CFN
Gazette staff
As if going to the dentist isn’t scary enough — what with all those outdated waiting-room magazines and those stainless steel instruments of torture and the dental hygienists who ask you questions while they’re carving God-knowswhat into your choppers — you can also worry about whether that dentist is a fake.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Following its hilarious Father’s Day, the ’80s-obsessed Canadian quintet known as Astron-6 unleashes another inspired homage/parody in Manborg. Instead of vengeance, sci-fi is the skewered genre of choice. And Manborg is indeed choice.