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While working in the forest, Sylvain, a sweet lumberjack, gets to discover the world of giants.

What happens when an A.I. writes a pop song? Turns out Skynet is still a bad idea, but not for the reasons you'd think...

⁣The mostly true story of Charles Darwin’s historic voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and the culinary delights that followed aboard the HMS Beagle.

an Animated Short Film about Waddles

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

From his shabby apartment in Montreal’s Centre-Sud borough, a writer finds inspiration in observing his neighbour Piton, who navigates poverty with some incredible ingenuity. Through this wildly funny pseudo-scientific allegory, graphic novelist turned filmmaker Richard Suicide draws us into the surreal, chaotic world of his book Chroniques du Centre-Sud, delivering a powerful portrait of a neighbourhood in the midst of a full-blown transformation. Produced by the NFB, this film is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.

Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.

“The Landscape is a film on moving, being held and being placed in places and in between places. There is no explanation on the story behind it. There is no deeper thought or symbolism behind it. Like driving, listening to the music and looking at the landscape. All passes by”. – KG

The small recording device named REC lives all alone in an abandoned attic when a bird appears at the window. REC is really excited and wants to talk to it. But when the bird hears REC’s “voice” it flies away in terror. Now REC tries everything to record the bird’s beautiful song. Time is running out, because its battery will soon be exhausted.

After a family separation, a young woman failed to provide the emotional support her mother needed. The woman relives this pivotal moment, wishing she could go back and say the things she left unsaid.

Charlotte Clermont’s where i don’t meet you presents a series of moving-image tableaus – interspersed with poetic intertitles evoking a breakdown in communication – that takes as much meaning from the hand-processed Super8 textures of the images themselves as it does its ongoing tension between the abstract and the specific.

Seven days in the life of Lloyd and his self-mutilating misadventures.

Through this animated film, three women share an intimate tale of their experiences with anxiety since childhood. Between fear, loneliness, and the search for healing, this film explores the reality of living with daily anxiety.

“What is needed to tell a story? When stripped down to the essentials, a successful story needs engaging characters, an arc and something worth telling. Moose Run is a stop motion romp where circles, triangles and squares come together to make characters that have personalities, motivation and adventure. Using simple tools, this animated short illustrates the possibility of creating story and life with basic materials and free (or close to free) technology. Moose Run is an exploration of how to pare down embellishments and technical complexity to tell the simple story of an elderly lady, a moose and their unlikely yet endearing friendship, and the adventure they go on through the magic of collage and animation.”

When Annette, a sweet grandma, receives a phone call from her grandchildren telling her they're on their way she swiftly starts to prepare the meal. After the preparations are done, she sits down to enjoy her bowl of soup but something is different.

In a mysterious cave, a squirrel is attracted by ancient magic.

An experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching. The haptic relationship with the pinscreen reveals forms and a primitive language that evoke a sensual relationship with the device.

This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.

Drawn to unorthodox materials and themes, Mochi Lin works with diaphanous stockings and acetate to depict courtship in the insect world. Her musical composition provides the soundtrack for a startling pas de deux. Stop-motion haiku on the themes of coupledom, confinement and decapitation!

A vine takes root in old Beijing, witnessing the passage of time in a traditional hutong—part of an urban fabric that’s fast disappearing as the city undergoes radical transformation. Making ingenious use of backlit cut-outs, Jenny Yujia Shi crafts an animated elegy to a vanishing way of life.

When the Cow Makes Ice Cream.

A music video for Rae Spoon about the violence transgender and genderqueer people face in their daily lives, and how mutual support gets us through.

Sometimes the dimmest lights burn just as bright, they’re only further away. Wish upon a star in this charming and serene animation from Nova Scotia newcomer Emma MacCabe.

A bear assaults a rabbit, beginning a chain of cruelty.

Caroline Leaf’s films are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, which evolves from the innovative hand-crafted animation techniques she invented: beach sand and painting on glass and scratching in the emulsion of film stock. The medium is always at the service of a dark and brooding storytelling touched by flashes of humour. This box set celebrating the talents of a master animator comprises all her classics: The Owl Who Married a Goose, The Street, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa and Two Sisters, as well as Interview, made with Veronika Soul. The DVD includes a student film, an animated video done for MTV, a comprehensive biofilmography and a brand-new director’s commentary on Two Sisters.

The effects of trauma can be felt in even the most mundane circumstances.

A catholic convent schoolgirl remembers her first gay crush.

A mysterious work of art examines its own existence after being abandoned in the Sahara desert, revealing the great secrets of the edges of reality.

Uses the final fragments of home movies to create a series of "endings," each one being obliterated by the white dots that appear at the end of each filmstrip.

Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, "landing" is made from hand-processed B&W 16mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. "landing" examines moments of respite in between flight and movement, where landing becomes refuge.

An indigenous child and a magic leaf are the only hope to save the Tree of Life and the forest from destruction. She takes lessons from her tribe's shaman and carries the jaguar's strength with her. With her little friend, an ocelot, she must cross a burning forest and face terrible machines to succeed. A little adventure of courage and hope.

A cast of five handcrafted puppets bring the audience through a luv story about early confused hot queer luv... with live puppet sex scenes and real broken hearts.

Fables have their relevance, particularly when dealing with such delicate topics as politics. This is the story of a retired gentleman with a distinctly British demeanor who buys nine provincial flowers to be planted in his garden. He avoids the fleur-de-lis, which, however, doesn't avoid him. Eventually their attitudes towards each other soften due to the beneficial effects of a watering can.

A group of pretentious animators are followed through the process of creating the "ultimate animated film", but do they really have the skills to back up their claims?

This compilation of short animated films shows the work that led up to the making of Transfigured. These films and interstitials are studies in making maximal use of Autodesk Animator Pro and morphing software for short 2D animation output to VHS videotape, before embarking on the three-year production of Transfigured, which animated the paintings of Jack Shadbolt, as a high-resolution 35-mm film made in Animator Pro (8-bit color). The originals are all VHS videocassettes with the soundtrack added after recording the animation because .FLC files do not contain synchronized sound. Includes: Presto Agitato #1, The Recess, Area 7, Arch Rivals, Hybrid Vigour and Mountain Pass Variation.

This short animation begins with a newspaper, discarded on a public bench, whose headlines warn of unusual phenomena. A gust of wind animates the paper's pages, conjuring strange and fantastical creatures: a bridge that becomes a caterpillar, a steeple turning into a bird, a dome transformed into an octopus. Elemental forces have been unleashed. Skilfully wielding paper cut-outs, origami, and a healthy dose of humour, filmmaker Emmanuelle Loslier plunges us into a fantastical world in which Montreal’s urban landscape has never been so alive.

The verb "to touch" and its multiple definitions, taking into account the missing pieces from feminist and lesbian stories.

Criminologist and community activist Munira Abukar believes justice and equity begin in your own home and heart. Embracing the uncomfortable awakening that 2020 has brought about, she debunks the cozy narrative of social equality and puts her finger on the key issues needing change.

A young man who can see colourful creatures invisible to everyone else has his life turned upside down when he meets a girl who can also see them.

A desperate animator tries to show his wiener to animation legend Don Hertzfeldt.

A group of aristocratic bugs gather for a peaceful afternoon of tea and chatter. When scandalous information is suddenly revealed, a smug remark escalates into a catfight... or more accurately a bugfight.

Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.

Sol, a young girl with a huge mane of orange hair that makes her insecure, is struggling to hide her hair and keep her obsessed pet fox away from it. After many awkward situations she’ll have to confront her insecurities and make a hard decision.

A scientific report about a bizarre, new creature and its life cycle, told from a child's point of view. On one level it is amusing, on another, the new creature can be seen as a symbol of healing the fragmentation of living with and within different worlds.

An unexpected catch helps a tiny ice-fisherman fix his chilly living situation

“Transported by the music of bad weather, a passer-by seeks slowness at the bend of a metro train, an ice rink or a sewer. » Kaël Mercader's project as part of his residency at La Bande Vidéo is an exploration of the possibilities offered by the pin screen. Interested in ancient animation techniques, the artist has produced a film related to his favorite subjects: observation drawing, technical drawing, the human figure and narrative figuration.

Aphasia is a non-narrative short film that illustrates the language and speech disorders brought on by brain degeneration in people with Alzheimer’s disease. The film aims to reproduce the experience of aphasia for the audience. To that end, language dysfunction is represented by the changes in a portrait affected by audio and visual interferences, until it becomes completely unrecognizable.

An Indian Canadian girl lights a diya while visiting her family’s home town, but the flame runs away because the girl is too ashamed of its colour to let it shine. This film explores themes of belonging, cultural identity and guilt while showing off the richness and vibrance of an Indian festival.

On a fridgid December night, a fire breaks out in an apartmanst building. Standing out in the cold, a young man watches as the inhabitants huddle together, plotting and scheming their revenge.

Examines the mythology in Hollywood cinema by constructing a visual poem to one of its' most mythic stars, Marilyn Monroe.

A young man discovers a statue in the woods, on the outskirts of a medieval village. If given a rose, the statue will come to life and dance, before turning back to stone. An original queer fairy tale about love, desperation and consequences.

A little girl get lost in the crowd and try to find back her sister. However, this celebration day is not what it appear to be.

"Port Lands" presents Toronto's industrial waterfront as a complex landscape in which past, present and future geographies transition and converge. Using archival aerial photographs, microscopic videography and data mapping, this work documents how aquatic life has persisted despite intense industrialization. Earlier phases of development transformed the Port Lands into a human-built space for economic activity without regard for negative impacts on the existing environment. Evidence of this disregard persists in new so-called "revitalization" plans in which the water, land and inhabitants are conceived not as a living ecosystem but as data points to be optimized in a high-tech urban landscape.

When colorful birds from all over the world land at the border crossing of a fictitious country, they get hit with a slew of insults by the two nasty vulture guards, and are denied entry. Prejudice is in the air. A comedic parody on a serious subject.

A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a miracle occurs.

Created by Nick Clarridge, a grade-six student from Toronto, Sam Digital is a 21st century computer virus detective in the year 2050. When a giant virus monster tries to destroy Internet World, everyone in the future can't do their daily activities, and Sam must go into the digital world to stop the virus once and for all.

Who is your Prince Charming?