Alongside the return of Jason Bourne, a biopic of Jane Austen and the big-screen debut of the Bratz, the documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals arrives Friday in two cities through the small Toronto distributor Vagrant Films Releasing.

YMKA, which played at Hot Docs and Montreal’s Fantasia film festival earlier this year, opens in Toronto and Saskatoon before expanding to Edmonton and Calgary on Aug. 10 and Vancouver on Aug. 17.

‘We held off on Montreal, so we can wait for the college and university crowd to come back,’ Vagrant president Ryan Levey tells Playback Daily, offering that the city’s activist community is the right audience for the U.S. doc.

YMKA, from director Curt Johnson (Thoth), explores the ongoing battle between animal rights groups like PETA and big business. Vagrant (Notorious CHO) came on board as Canadian distributor and one of several international sales agents for the doc, which is handled in the U.S. by Halo-8 Entertainment. Levey, who heard about YMKA through a programmer friend at the San Francisco Indie Fest.

Also arriving Friday is the Jane Austen biopic Becoming Jane, from Alliance Atlantis, playing in four cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa before expanding on Aug. 10, and the wide release of Universal Pictures’ The Bourne Ultimatum. Meanwhile, the musical animation Bratz opens wide via Alliance’s sister Odeon Films, which is also expanding Don Cheadle’s Talk to Me to Vancouver and Montreal.

Other new releases for the week include the wildlife documentary Arctic Tale, which opens in Toronto, and the action comedy Hot Rod, both from Paramount Pictures. Disney is also releasing the family film Underdog through Buena Vista.

Coming up, Maple Pictures is opening the horror Skinwalkers next week after numerous scheduling changes. A spokesperson at Maple says the recent July 27 date was changed to go day-and-date with the U.S. through Lionsgate on Aug. 10.