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Two college roommates travel around the city doing day-to-day activities while preparing for an audition for a part they both want.

Jay and Matt move everything out of "Stu's" garage. A road trip of memory ensues.

A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.

In this short film Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis gets to the harsh truth of why a couple broke up. Part of the mobiDOCS: Confessions in a Digital Age series.

Down and out Derek decides to rob a house one night, which he thinks is deserted, only to be out witted by Martha, an elderly widow living in loneliness. Martha see's this moment as an opportunity to accomplish something she has been wishing for for a long time now, She offers Derek money and jewels in exchange for assisting in her death

A young couple find themselves in an empty parking lot in the middle of the night with a hostage after a home invasion gone wrong.

Milo and Luca are living in perfect bliss, isolated from the world. But when a storm breaks out in the distance, Milo's fear drives them to seek refuge deep inside the house. What was meant to be their safe haven slowly turns into an oppressive prison. To save their relationship, it won’t be enough to escape the storm outside — they’ll have to face the one raging within.

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

A terrifying series of events result when a handsome stranger bets $10000 he can seduce another man's wife within 7 days.

How and why feelings of depression carry over from childhood to overshadow adulthood are explained in the case of John Murray, an industrious and conscientious businessman. As his case history unfolds we see how persisting reactions to early emotional problems render him incapable of enjoying a happy, normal life.

Contemplating suicide, a young gay man is heartbroken over his lost love.

Two strangers engaging in a tryst speak their inner monologues aloud revealing the selfish, terrible thoughts their anxiety about the situation provokes.

The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with her mini-cam, collecting testimonials on the subject of happiness. She meets a medley of characters whom she engages in engrossing, thought-provoking discussions.

After his loved ones refuse to kill him, a terminally ill young man is pushed to believe that he can distance himself from the world by hurting strangers.

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...

When Dane's older brother comes out, Dane doesn't react very well. But soon after he has to choose between siding with his homophobic classmates or fighting to support his brother.

Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. Both a custodian of the premises and a ghostly presence, she becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.

Based on the novel by Leo Perutz, a young man is handcuffed and explores spaces around a universal city.

A promising young figure skater in 1990s Turkey has to overcome the self-doubt that is jeopardizing her performance.

The red-lipped model lives in the showcase of a women's clothing boutique on a commercial street. One day, when she meets the new plastic model from the store in front, she is overcome by a dilemma.

Behind closed doors, cliques of the world's most powerful men form societies so secret and controversial that their very names spark fear in our hearts and minds: the Freemasons, the Illuminati, Skull and Bones. What are the intentions of these secret societies? Are the members of these brotherhoods the innocent victims of mudslinging conspiracy theorists or are they untouchable elitists who control the world?

In 1936, Beti, a young Ethiopian girl has escaped Mussolini's troops and found refuge in the peaceful south of Ethiopia. As the Italians march ever closer Beti has to battle hunger, thirst, and the unwelcome sexual advances of the local militia. When the situation threatens to escalate towards the unthinkable, a spaceship cracks through the clouds... its cargo... love.

The year I turned nine I became pathologically afraid that my parents would die. I stopped letting them leave the house at night, even for a walk around the block. I'd call them repeatedly at restaurants if they tried to go out for dinner and once threatened to kill myself if anything happened to them. That's when they sent me to a psychiatrist. This is the story of the year I was nine.

This film tells the tale of young Wilma's romantic escapades with Christine, a woman from the "outside" world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James, her neurotic chain-smoking Mother, and her opprobrious Father, or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.

In the wake of his childhood friend’s suicide, Danny will do anything to stay out of the house. As a last ditch effort to reconnect the friend group, Danny brings "the boys" back together for one last summer night.

Robin takes us back to that glorious time when she was seven years old and shows us how it defined her for the rest of her life.

Nea is in danger of losing her daughter: First Nations, single and poor, she places no trust in a legal system that has taken thousands of First Nations children away from their families. Morgan's erotic photographs have been seized by the cops: as a lesbian involved in the anti-censorship struggle, she is starting to feel a bit jaded. A mutual friend, Helena, introduces Nea to Morgan and their lives collide. Layered with special effects and poetic writing, this video-drama documents a historical moment in feminist and anti-racist organizing in Canada.

Joshua, a shy Filipino immigrant on the cusp of 50, has lived in the comfort of his parents’ home his entire life. With his parents now in old age, he pleads with God for a companion, terrified of being alone after they pass.

A paraplegic is determined to rebuild her life on her own.

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.

Forced to subsist on garbage and alcohol, outcasts August and Donkey nourish themselves with philosophy instead. Then their bodily sustenance disappears and the starving pair must play out an absurdist tale of morality.

A reverse-coming-of-age drama that explores themes of independence, identity and control through Walter Clark, a 78 year old on a quest to renew his driver's license.

Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?

Roommates Scott, a gay lab technician, and Gwen, a lesbian artist/waiter, are spending a typical Sunday evening at home, except it is October 31, and there’s a protest march that evening against gay bashing – and the boy from last night is calling for another date.

When a Black timid and directionless freshman discovers his love for ballet, he must learn to fight for himself in a locker room full of rowdy boys.

A fragile illusion of belonging comes to an end when a young Lebanese student living in Montreal is forced to face the incompatibility between his sexual identity and the cultural foundations of his family.

A junk dealer is trapped inside a terribly unhealthy love triangle. He sinks into a fantasy world to avoid this horrible reality and he will try to finally show who he really is.

A man loses his hearing and learns to appreciate life through silent films.

A group of criminals attempts to kidnap and murder a man who wronged their boss, but their plan unravels when the seemingly innocent target proves to be more than they bargained for.

Orphaned child Samar works at a restaurant named after his widower boss, Jason—his new paternal figure who mentors his part-time secret vigilante life as Zeitgeist, an anonymous therapist for the people of Maddenville.

A young woman’s world is changed when her bodily excretions start turning into beans.

Geoffrey Baseball is struck with tragedy at the death of his mother. He is always living in his father’s shadow, living his father’s dream. Against all odds, he combines his mothers love with his fathers hate resulting in the perfect lunch time sport: sandwich baseball

Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.

Jack is a small-time criminal who'se dream of becoming a professional athlete were shattered by a savage beating. 10 years after this aggression, his younger brother is shot dead by racist cops, he must come to terms with his life, and how to cope with police brutality.

21 Brothers tells the story of the Canadian 21st Battalion as they prepare for the battle of Courcellette in WWI. Taking place in real time, the film follows Sgt. Reid as he must get his men ready for the impending battle. Not only must he prep his battalion Sgt. Reid must also deal with the day to day difficulties of Life in the trenches, including injuries to his men, supply issues, and an underage recruit who has recently been sent into the front lines.

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The illegitimate son of an Indian woman and a French Canadian man leaves home and is attacked when he tries to return.

After seven years together, David and Margot fill their days with challenges and play like kids. One day, they lock themselves in their apartment and test their limits.

As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.

Hallea Jones (Locke & Key) stars as Lucy, a grieving rideshare driver who haunts the midnight streets, suspended between the living world and the echoes of her past. Each night, she performs a quiet ritual — a gateway to lucid dreams where lost moments breathe again, where memory blurs into longing. In dreams, she finds the warmth reality has forgotten. But when a strange passenger disturbs the fragile rhythm of her nights, Lucy is faced with a choice: awaken to the ache of the present, or vanish deeper into the comfort of illusion?

The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna struggles with an all-too-prevalent problem in this achievement-oriented age: Is it possible to balance a passion for excellence with a passion for intimacy?Are obsessions mutually exclusive?

Naaji, a young afghan boy, hides with his mother inside a moving water truck, trying to cross a border station. But they get caught by the border patrol.

Chronically online teenage boys, nerdy Sam and his cocky best friend Aaron, lock away their phones and embark on an epic quest to touch grass in an attempt to impress the intimidatingly beautiful and seemingly perfect influencer, Lila.

A father tries to save the soul of his daughter, lost in darkness.

A short film based on the Eminem song "Stan". After witnessing a car crash on his walk home, Marshal slowly uncovers the reason for the crash, and who is at fault.

A lovelorn and destitute soccer player accepts a job as a hitman in Montreal.