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In 2041, Whitney, a young biracial woman, studies a volcano weakened by climate change in the cold Yukon, while the climate crisis has brought a flood of Caribbean refugees to Canada. She returns to Montreal to retrieve a scientific sample from a Caribbean island engulfed by the ocean. The theft of the sample and the supernatural appearance of her Caribbean ancestors resurface her repressed questions about her origins and plunge her into the heart of Montreal's Caribbean community, ultimately leading her to follow in the footsteps of her unknown biological father.

A divorced mother who deals with an absentee baby father loses her daughter to the hands of kidnappers. Now she has to depend on her boyfriend and ex-husband for support while trusting the police to help find her daughter.

A young man returns to a traditional life in rural Newfoundland after tragedy strikes.

After causing a fatal accident, a musician loses his hearing - except the sounds he hates the most.

Terrific turns by Jessica Allen, Emma Hunter, and Daniel Chae Jun help fuel the funny and the feels in Marni Van Dyk’s story of a woman taking a chance to change her life.

One summer morning, Abel decides to solve his parents' financial problems by taking matters into his own hands. Helped by his best friend Edwin, he roams the neighborhood in search of easy money and soon finds himself unable to resist the call of crime.

A woman is caught up by what she cannot ignore anymore.

Jerome's world turns upside down when his son disappears. This new ordeal rapidly sets aside an important business deadline he had the same morning. A race against the clock begins to find the lost child.

A pillow runs away from home to discover the outside world.

After a series of bizarre dreams, a man turns to a computer program to decipher them.

A room and a man, standing in front of a mirror, facing his wounds and his loneliness.

12 year old Jason lives alone with his mother Marie. When he tells her that he has been accepted into a sports education program, the boy does not expect his life to change forever.

Beatrice's mental breakdown forces her to rediscover her immortal soul.

Four friends go wild camping to make magic mushrooms on an island only accessible at low tide. The wind is turning, blood is flowing, the tide is rising and time is running out.

A high-school theatre student fears she won't measure up to castmates expectations and learns all teens have the fear of not fitting in.

Alone in his college dorm room, a young man struggles with his family's reaction when he is pressured into coming out to them over the telephone. Damian sinks into depression as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and accept his sexuality. Coming to Terms demonstrates how denial and blame can damage relationships and is an excellent video for youth, counselors and families.

A casual hook-up is waylaid by unusual circumstances - a nostalgic collection of Byzantine icons. As two irreligious souls navigate the space between the door and the bedroom, a desire for flesh betrays a longing of spirit.

Waverly is a modern love story set in 2024, exploring the emotional journey of a barmaid and a doorman as they navigate their growing romance in a world where financial struggles and ambition threaten to pull them apart. The film asks: Can love truly endure, or will the pursuit of wealth and status ultimately prevail?

While awaiting Christ’s return, a lone prophet ascends a black hill to confront a cult and their new god.

On a first date, a man is unable to remember who he is.

To fulfill her father's dying wish, a woman seeks to find her father's long lost sisters from Argentina.

Lucy Kim, prom committee president, seeks to establish Gay Prom Royalty in order to pursue a crush on her out lesbian best friend.

Ha, an overworked Vietnamese nail salon proprietor, reevaluates her life and marriage in an unexpected mid-life crisis prompted by a new customer.

After her fall, Sophie is aiming to the surface, but she's unable to trust her entourage anymore.

For several years, Zoe has suffered terrible abuse. She's been locked in a basement like an animal and now she's bleeding out. She should have died... several times. But she doesn't die. Zoe wants to survive. She wants to live. Mostly, Zoe wants to escape the cage her captors have trapped her in.

After connecting with a stranger of similar interests online, family man Gordon and his young son Paul embark on an ill fated road trip in which Gordon aims to indulge in a secret passion. Before the day ends a horrible truth will be uncovered and a harsh lesson will be learned.

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

A young boy raised by his grandmother finds her dead one morning.

A young man, obsessed with improving his guitar playing, goes to disturbing lengths to achieve his dreams once he starts to suspect that his music Instructor is hiding a magical secret.

Still living in the hoarder's house she grew up in, young adult Dara contemplates moving forward in life.

On a cold fall evening, Leila is left alone to tend the family convenience store. A series of strange clients keep her in a constant state of apprehension. Language and cultural barriers also contribute to the making of a nerve-racking evening.

When a vintage bassinet appears at filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung and long-time fiancée Victoria Mata’s home, it sets off a chain reaction of emotions. "The Bassinet" is a gentle and affecting story about Tiffany’s personal struggle with the intersection of her sexual orientation and cultural identity, and the cross-generational burden of having a baby in the context of rigid social constructs of marriage and family.

The film follows two sisters for whom past events have torn their close relationship apart. Many years after being separated through tragic events, they journey to find answers as a mysterious being influences their path.

"ISO is a short film about diabetes— showing one of my near-daily routines that seems dull and repetitive to me, yet weird and unordinary to others un-touched by type 1 diabetes. The term “iso” is known as a prefix meaning equal- I see it as a nod to this process being my regular despite it not being the equal or same as others’. “ISO” can also be read as “in search of”…consider this piece a posting “in search of” belonging and of people who share similar challenges. I have found that many times our differences and struggles can isolate us, but I have also found that it is these differences that draw us closest together when we find individuals who share similar ones." - Samuel Letnik

A woman (Lois Brown) who thinks money will solve her problems enlists the help of a homeless friend (Barry Newhook) to rob a bingo hall.

Torn from her family at the age of 4, Eugenea, a Métis girl living in foster care, fights to reconnect.

A collection of unused visual and audio concepts from Patrick Richardson presented in the rough state they were abandoned in before becoming fully realized.

Hector and Camille live a routine life in Montreal. Their life will be turned upside down when a strange bomb explodes over the city. They realize a couple of days later than no one in the city has managed to sleep since the incident.

A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.

A weary paramedic arrives home after an exhausting night shift.

Three friends face love, career struggles, and chaotic relationships that test their friendship and self-worth in their late twenties.

Twenty-seven year old musician Jane's phone won't stop ringing on the eve of her birthday. Uninterested in distractions from the world around her, Jane pores over books and analyzes notes in a frantic search for her way out of the curse she believes herself to be under: an untimely death at twenty-seven years old just like many of her artistic idols. Jane ignores repeated phone calls and angrily throws her phone away, working into the night and passing out from exhaustion. After waking up alive, Jane begins cleaning up her apartment and repairing her phone, ready to live without fear of her inevitable mortality and to appreciate life while it's happening. Screened at the Toronto Short Film Festival 2023. Nominated for best actress (Stephanie Cowan as Jane) at the Toronto Alternative Film Festival 2022 and the Couch Film Festival 2022.

Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven had trouble finding adoptive parents, most of whom look for children who are still in their infant years. This film catches up with Joey after he has found a home, and reveals some of the problems he faces in adjusting to the routines of family life.

As the only First Nations student in an all-white 1940s school, eight-year old Wato is keenly aware of the hostility towards her. She deeply misses the loving environment of the reserve she once called home, and her isolation is sharpened by her father’s serious illness. When Wato’s teacher reads from a history book describing First Nations peoples as ignorant and cruel, it aggravates her classmates’ prejudice. Shy and vulnerable Wato becomes the target of their bullying and abuse. Alone in her suffering, she finds solace and strength in the protective world of her magical dreams.

A sad apple longs to be eaten, stuck between a kitchen and a lunch bag. Will the apple's wishes be fulfilled?

Bourges documents the daily routine of a typical pharmacy in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. The architecture of the space is as much a character as the population which passes through it, with borders of glass between the street and the pharmacy and then between the pharmacist and her clients. The tension of the situation and the struggles on both sides of the glass are punctuated with moments of good humour and camaraderie.

The Man Who Sold The World’s 5th short film. A personal homage to Haruki Murakami and Terrence Malick.

Shot on black and white film, a sad drunk who works as a birthday-party clown laments what he has become.