This featurette stars a young Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983, who escapes into a world of fantasy, as she deals with the pressures of youth.
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This featurette stars a young Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983, who escapes into a world of fantasy, as she deals with the pressures of youth.
Lester and Humphrey are the Royal Jester and Doctor, respectively, in a Kingdom terrorized by a mysterious giant whose presence is known only by his horrible voice and giant shadow. The giant takes the crown jewels which permit the Evil Prince Malokeo to convince the King to let him marry Princess Marigold. Marigold, horrified at the prospect and in love with Prince Daryl, turns to her friends Lester and Humphrey for help.
A lone man tries to open a door.
Seasick is a meditative exploration of ones love of the sea to the soundtrack of traditional Croatian music.
When her home is invaded by a mysterious fog, a young woman must journey into her own mind in order to stop it from enveloping everything around her.
Long working hours and overwhelming capitalism don't seem to fit with Mica, who, guided by premonitory dreams, wanders the city looking for a portal to travel to other dimensions. Using mirrors as thresholds to the unconscious.
On the last broadcast of punk rock radio show "Dead Baby Syrup," DJ Eve St. Tilly invites her fans to visit the station. When one convinces her to play his band's record, all hell breaks loose.
Sinclaire embarks on a killing spree to collect sin in the form of candy under the command of her dead mother from Hell.
A fox attempts to eat some delicious grapes.
Young Emily didn’t see anything wrong with her drawing of two girls holding hands, but her mother saw otherwise and tore both the paper and her child’s heart in two. Little did they know, the drawings had come alive and are determined to reunite with one another across the vast bedroom of pages, no matter what risk comes their way. An adventurous and heartwarming tale, “Drawn to You” shows audiences both the struggles and joy that comes with being true to your heart, and not letting others tell you who to be.
LUZ is an ambulance driver. Her work brings her to discover the inert body of Dorothée. That's when her dreams reveal the identity of the murderer: a malevolent woman who pursues her. There follows a duel between the two women, where the supernatural mixes with lightning.
Buried in his denial and running from authorities, Bobby Angel produces online videos proclaiming his innocence. The audience is exposed to his perspective as he battles himself, the demon of his nightmares, finds refuge in his delusion and ultimately is lost within it. What he sees and the world he creates reveals to us the complex and very terrifying reality he experiences.
An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
This short film, in which a hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave, tells the legend of a river, and of how fog came to the land. The story is enacted by Inuit using katadjak or throatsinging. The audience is locked in an alien world of sights and sounds where human activity seems propulsed by primeval forces.
In Montréal, after a car crash, Martine finds herself in a world in-between life and death.
A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community.
The story goes that girls fleeing abuse and despair can find refuge in the Maidenswood at the edge of town, where they transform into the forest. Reeling from the return of her abusive father, Diana begins to hear the Maidenswood's call.
Two confused, afraid, and overwhelmed childhood friends on the cusp of adulthood, seek out the counsel of the legendary Shroom Jesus: a psychedelic suburban shaman with a reputation for resolving even the deepest existential conundrums.
Based on the Lewis Carol nonsense poem "Jabberwocky," this three-minute animation brings to life the fearsome Jabberwock, the Jub-Jub bird, and other fanciful creatures. Hand-coloured still photographs and cell drawings lend a storybook quality to this imaginative fairy-tale
Deep in a fetid swamp on the edge of reality, a delirious vagrant named Jenkins is thrust into a quest for an unholy elixir known only as "grog." Guided by cryptic visions, a babbling frog-man, and a cosmic thirst, GROG is a psychedelic piss-soaked fairy tale of addiction and trusting your gut.
Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.
On his deathbed, Catrín confronts Death not to ask for more time but to understand why she saved him 20 years earlier. When she denies it, his desperate search for answers forces her to reveal the truth: she is in love with him. After a final, tender moment, she lets him go, leaving herself alone forever.
A girl with the unique gift of making dreams visits every sleeping person at night. She creates their dreams and nightmares with the power that flows from her hair. A journey through the creation of our most common and confusing dreams leads to the beginning of her story... a road trip gone terribly wrong.
A black cat rescues a foxling in a wooded clearing
This critical/fictional narrative examines the Norse mythological warrior woman (Valkyrie) and attempts to locate evidence of her contemporary existence.
At the edge of the world a Child learns from her Grandmother that she is descended from the fairies. She longs to know more but her Grandmother is silent. To find the story of her past, the Child enter the land of The In-between and travels to the beginning of time when Fairies roamed the earth. But the story she finds is not the one she wants. In a fit of anger she sends her Grandmother down into the sea to find the magic story she wishes for. Filled with remorse, she plunges into the sea to bring her back. As the Child sinks, the sleeping world of fairies begins to stir and the long lost secrets are awakened. The Water’s Tale is a story of the interconnection between a woman and the past – herself as a child and the burden of history through the ages.
In a unknown world where a snowstorm is raging, a supernatural being seems to be invoking strange forces.
A merchant finds a well in an abandoned tent in the desert and tries to profit from it.
An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.
The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as it surprises. He tells Christmas in his own way, through his stories featuring the protagonists of the small village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. An unprecedented encounter of the symphonic world and the universe of this artist of words. Concert recorded on December 16 and 17, 2011 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
Sir Ludwig must keep the DuClaudian twins apart in order to stop the bloodline from ending.
When a kid starts spending time in the real world, it's up to his smartphone to bring his attention back to where it belongs.
A short, motion-comic film about a non-binary Afro-Indigenous youth who turns to the water for guidance.
A young man escapes his bullies by following a rabbit into a fantasy world as his drawings come to life.
Impressions of the lights of Christmas as they transform a winter's night. The myriad lights of a city seen through frost-sparkling air, the wonder on children's faces, the lyrical music of harp, celesta and flute--all combine to create the nostalgic mood of Christmas.
After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.
An evil omnipotent Queen. 3 spies determined to topple her regime. A magical wig that holds a secret source of power. Will the Queen meet her final hour? A surrealist and sexy queer espionage film that reimagines the Biblical Samson and Delilah fable.
The story of two friends on the cusp of adolescence, Rachel Samson's warm-hearted animation is an ode to those special summer days that contain major changes.
An air travel romance.
A story about a warrior, once fought with the light, now consumed by darkness. Trying to let go of his past, only for the voices of the ones he loved to flood his head.
Have you ever wondered what a movie mixing Twilight and Challengers would look like? Here it is.
Jack adheres strictly to his routine, as dictated by his phone. When a friend at work tries to free him, his phone fights back.
One starry night, a little girl chases a star streaking across the sky in the hopes of capturing it in her jar so that she may make one more wish.
An experimental short, We Are All in Your Head explores life and dream as one continuous realm. The figure of the sleepwalker is used as a metaphor for a new possible way to experience the world.
YGGDRASLL,(ig-dra-sil), The World Tree has always been, will be, and is. In this tour, its very roots will show us the nine worlds of old and, perhaps, a new mythology for the modern world. But travelers beware: traversing the nine worlds is not for the weak of heart or mind.
A building lost in the middle of urban smog, a squatter girl, a curious eye on its floor... This is the beginning of an unusual encounter between Arianne and her mysterious neighbour in this dystopic world hanging by a string.
When a mannequin mysteriously comes to life, she embarks on a whimsical journey through the world, experiencing the beauty, strangeness, and depth of human existence one outing at a time.
A scientist investigates a strange noise related to his daughter’s disappearance in an abandoned village alone.
A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.
Overwhelmed by the present, an entity retreats into a blissful state of nostalgia.
During an eerie Halloween season, a lonely teenage boy falls in love with a sentient leatherbound journal, who has nefarious intentions.
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.
A middle-aged university professor has a very serious date with a Female Air Marshall who may or may not share his family values and may or may not understand his family values-based pain. The Director's Cut is 20 minutes longer than the other two cuts and is presented as a bonus feature, but it is also the only cut that provides the necessary information to truly appreciate the story.
In a black-and-white world, lonely lumberjack Bill chases a stealing crow to a giant tree. When he strikes the tree, color fills the landscape. Bill, overcome by euphoria, hallucinates. When he wakes up, the raven flies away, leaving Bill behind to face his creation.
A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.
An experience through neon visuals, things you've seen before in ways you haven't seen it. Neon distorted imagery through visuals consisting of gaming, clubs, film, cities, nature, and unidentifiable moving imagery.