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Fester Fish returns in another throwback to classic theatrical cartoons with a dose of modern black humor.

This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.

It's a medical operation, the removal of the human being's nature and the implantation of concepts imagined by him.

quirky journey through recent time to an ethos of futurity, which explores the potential ramifications of technology on human beings while leaving us with choices.

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

Meet Me Under the Clock explores a little-known time in Toronto's LGBTQ history when an underground Halloween tradition became an annual confrontation between an invisible gay community and a fascinated, often hateful public.

In a future where sex kills and interaction between men and women is strictly regulated what will people risk to feel the pleasure of real intimate human contact?

Oil-covered fish meet skateboards and the War on Terror in this razor-sharp satire of media, government, and the tycoons who take advantage of the system. Inspired by found sound of kids talking about oil and gas, hand-drawn with love and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.

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.

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink. Simple forms dance about the screen to the discordant strains of an old-time circus calliope.

Humans have finally left the moon! LET'S PARTY!

Embark on a haunting journey with 'Threads,' a Claymation body horror directed by NOFAC3. After an exhausting day of stitching, Siouxzie falls asleep only to awaken to a horrifying reality—a parasite has invaded her body, multiplying and wriggling under her skin. In a desperate attempt to regain control of her own body, she resorts to a shockingly macabre solution – one that would forever redefine the delicate fabric of her existence.

A hand-crafted memory film told through the brutally simple point of view of a child. It deals with the relationship to things, places and people left behind when one is forced, by whatever circumstances, to leave what they considered home.

Through clever stylistic composition, this experimental film shows that everything is interdependent, even in the arts, and that, inevitably, both the artist and the viewer are being manipulated.

On the wedding day, a group of boys kidnap the bride. Her husband moves to the rescue.

A short film by Guillaume Vallée, Dérapage 2023, selected in the Subjects To Defend program concocted by La Bande Vidéo. "This experimental animation is a metaphor for my anxiety about a world that is changing drastically and becoming more and more unstable. The film was made without a camera on 16mm film."

In a child's bedroom, a lost puzzle piece embarks on a journey to find its place in the correct puzzle with the help of the monkey Temtem who helps it discover itself and the power of belonging...

“Open your heart and ears,” says Niilo to Aamu as he leaves her on the other shore... That's good advice for Aamu, a little girl on a journey to discover the world. What's the world made of,” asks the little girl. Are there monsters, witches, ogres and magicians? In fact, her footsteps led her to simple people living in harmony with nature, each a magician or magician in their own way. Under her grandmother's benevolent gaze, the little girl grows up in contact with these people, each of whom holds a gentle lesson in life. A soothing film about the beauty of the world.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

A slow sensuous dance gives way to a technical barrage of prismatic shards of love.

A fox attempts to eat some delicious grapes.

A boy chases after his dog.

Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.

An Inuit boy lives on the last melting igloo due to global warming. He struggles to survive by fishing empty tuna cans and plastic bottles in the polluted North Pole.

Jaime Lo, a shy Chinese-Canadian girl, observes the world around her through her drawings. When Jaime's father is sent to Hong Kong for a year-long work assignment, Jaime must use her creativity to cope with his absence. This story offers us a lighthearted glimpse into a common dilemma that many immigrant families face, where one parent must work overseas in order to provide for the rest of the family back home.

This tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale by Croatian director Zlatko Grgic traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness in the form of overloaded sockets, smoldering cigarettes and other fire hazards can have highly undesirable consequences.

Poor hedgehogs! In cold weather they huddle together for warmth but their pointy spines prevent them from getting too close. A quick animated collage music video from talented local animator and musician Shan Pomeroy.

On the eve of the signing of Treaty 6, a Cree Elder has a premonition about the future.

We illustrated "Envoions d'l'avant nos gens" with a set of puppets dressed in local fabric and "Auprès de ma blonde" with gouache drawings.

The competition for tourist dollars is desperate! There has to be a new spin on how to entice tourists to our poverty stricken province of Nova Scotia. This film animation develops a landscape that any death wish would appreciate.

Experimental computer animation that also use ink on paper made by the collective Insertsilence. Peterson and Pitaru are respected names in the field of media design and their work has been exhibited in galleries from Seoul, New York to London

Canadian animated short film by George Geertsen.

An enjoyable animated film done by drawing directly on the film in the tradition of Norman McLaren. Two circles, one male and one female, bounce, spin and stretch to lively music.

A slice of life among the creatures of the earth. The word microbe comes from the Greek “mikrobios”, which means “ whose life is short”.

Memories of a loved one: The camera explores the dark confines of a flat. Light is still burning in the kitchen; objects are scattered haphazardly on the living room tables. The eyes follow into the labyrinthine self, now turned into space, of a once familiar and now absent person. The narrator’s voice begins by asserting that everything in this place is true. It “shows” the places where the remembered person learned to crochet and where she shelled peas.

A pious woman confesses her sins.

An old man reflects on his past, having spent his entire life within the confines of a spacecraft. He wonders when the time will come for him to find the true purpose of his life.

A glimpse into how young lives are destroyed by war.

Mustaches have feelings too.

The macabre tale of a child trying to overcome her fear of the swing. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil. Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. "Go and find our lost son." And so Betty strikes off on her quest across the land, with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart.

Squame explores the body's sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.

Moving away from home to chase a dream, to study what I love in another country. This is the journey from the romanticized idea of life as an international student to the reality of being on your own and starting from zero. A life that feels both vulnerable and privileged in the eyes of many who never had the choice to leave.

A poetic exploration of the sea, memory, and the fleeting moments before death. Largely atmospheric, the mixed-media animated film follows a sailor who, while lost at sea, falls prey to a grieving siren’s call. While trapped between worlds, visions of dreams, memories, and traces of reality shift like crashing waves, and the sea is explored as a melancholic purgatory for the cursed.

While a telephone message plays, a strange intimacy is revealed in the flashing backgrounds of images from online dating profiles.

In one minute, the protagonist meets Marianne Faithfull and a moose child.

A brief glimpse of life with friends from the ZI atelier.

A beautiful 7-year-old girl Fuyao is devastated when her parents are arrested and thrown into prison for their faith. Bullied and humiliated, Fuyao refuses to be crushed by the gigantic repressive regime. She and her mom find extraordinary means to connect through the iron bars and grow together.

There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries to escape, and sometimes he just tries to do what he wants despite the box. In the next box, another figure is always trying to force the person in box one into whatever form that box is taking. And the last box is a television, which is cheering the other two on.

Through an ever-shifting visual palette, the viewer is immersed in the exploration of the tumultuous emotions of heartbreak.

Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Doupé’s animations are inspired by the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments. His rotating electronic floras, which resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks, glow in the dark digital void. - Amy Kazymerchyk, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

As a skipper and fisherman head out to sea, the moon shines overhead and sea monsters conduct ceremony in the depths below.

Children's animated special based on the Prince Edward Island tale of a mouse named Eckhart who sets off on a quest to discover the truth behind the annual appearance of crumbs at his farmhouse dwelling. The event coincides with the human inhabitant's celebration of the Christmas holiday.

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

Estranged from the rest of the townsfolk, an eccentric lady is haunted by ghostly whispers that grow louder with each passing day.

Beneath the Light is about a silk scarf flowing and dancing through her magical world while she attempts to flee from evil spirits represented as dark clouds. The film is animated under camera with acrylic paint on canvas and the figures are choreographed to a dramatic Mozart piece.