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Burger and McKiggan document the lives of the low-wage working class in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1970s.

From Saint-Jean Terre-Neuve, a woman leaves phone messages on the voicemail of a mysterious Sabrina… The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival whose rule main task is to shoot a single 50-foot cartridge, without post-image editing.

Comprising a network of lands, rivers, waters, and islands in the northern region of Vancouver Island, the ancestral territory of the ​‘Na̱mǥis First Nation has sustained and defined its people, in their spirit, song, and dance, for thousands of years. The existential bond between this place and its stewards is celebrated in Cranmer’s empowering short documentary.

"When Voices Rise..." tells the important, but little-known story of dismantling segregation in the polite society that was Bermuda in the 1950s. Working in secret, the Progressive Group organized the 1959 Theatre Boycott to end segregation in movie theatres in Hamilton. Context is provided by those who protested against segregation and the limited franchise earlier in Bermuda by authoring a "Secret Document" that analyzed the social problems of the island. The film also features a rare interview conducted in London, England with Kingsley Tweed-a powerful, public figure during the boycott that changed the island forever. -- Chris Campbell

Commissioned for the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative's 30th anniversary, the film explores Walton's personal history growing up in Nova Scotia.

A feature film that takes us on an intimate journey with queer, immigrant Ethiopian-Eritrean artist, Witch Prophet as she navigates newfound momentum in the music industry. After a decade of making music she is now on the heels of critical acclaim and nominations, finally getting the validation and support she needs to embark on the creation of the album of her prophecies. Canada has been known for exporting some of the biggest international names in music from Drake to Kaytranada; with growing public demand for more diverse voices, whose music will shape the next era of artists from Canada?

A documentary of Gabriel Tremblay's family told in thirteen chapters.

A look at the past, present, and future of Mexico.

Architect Stanley King involves the local Vancouver community in urban design.

An intimate look into the lives of paediatric cannabis patients and the physician who had to fight to save her own son.

On January 29, 2017, a lone gunman entered a mosque in Quebec City, took the lives of six people, injured 19 others and left an entire community in complete shock and grief. This act of hatred, fuelled by racism and Islamophobia, transformed a place of worship and community to a site of unthinkable trauma, devastating Muslim communities the world over and forcing Canadians to question how we got here in the first place.

After death, most people's lives are paid respect via a series of rites and traditions. Sadly, thousands of Canadians, from homeless youth to neglected seniors, die in dire circumstances leaving their bodies often unclaimed and rarely honoured. Believing that all people are worth of last respects, Montreal priest Abbé Claude Paradis creates a touching annual ceremony to celebrate the lives of the "unclaimed."

Through three scientists, viewers embark on a journey through the wetlands, discovering the importance of specialized wetland ecosystems, which store concentrated amounts of carbon and offer habitat for endangered wildlife. One MoorFutures expert is determined to find marketable solutions in nature conservation through the world's first carbon certificate program dedicated to rewetting the peatlands. With its meditative approach, the film explores alternatives to reforestation schemes and holistic understandings of nature.

This film presents isolated episodes of Ukrainian life, such as life under Polish occupation (pacification), the “underground“, the tragedy in Rotterdam, the uprising of Carpathian Ukraine, large national demonstrations, Polish terrorist acts in Carpathian Ukraine...

Harbin, China—a place so cold it’s famous for its international Ice and Snow Festival. With his camera in hand, filmmaker Xin Liu returns to his native city in China’s northernmost province to visit his childhood friends, only to find that their lives and dreams have changed. But are they really his friends? And are those their dreams? In an unpredictable mix of fact and fiction, Liu presents a city as strange as its inhabitants. He meets up with a high school friend named Zhang, who once sold newspaper advertising but now has jumped the Firewall to become a popular YouTuber, illegally infiltrating Harbin’s abandoned industrial buildings. Liu also visits an ex-girlfriend, who greets him with regrets and accusations of abandonment. Shot throughout from the filmmaker’s point of view, Liu’s camera wanders onto trains, into cars and on streets to roam a landscape of elusive characters. A unique, hybrid meditation on strange homecomings. Aisha Jamal.

Safe Haven weaves together the powerful stories of U.S. war resisters who sought safe haven in Canada during both the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

Over 2.5 million Canadians live in Toronto, and 4 out of 10 come from all over the world. An absolute record. A city where legality and safety reign, everyone behaves well and expects the same from those who frequent it.

This video attempts to resolve an ethical dilemma that has been persisting in my life for a long time: see my father after twenty years of absence or be done once and for all with this story.

Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest.

Decades before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shirley Bear was defying repressive colonial narratives with inspiring imagery of Indigenous womanhood. Catherine Martin profiles the Wolastoqiyik/Malecite artist known as Minqon Minqon (Rainbow Rainbow).

In the tradition of direct cinema, What Will I Show You is an intimate documentary in which a grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture. An important, first-person film telling the stories of Innu and their culture, their work, and the immediate impacts of environmental degradation on their lands.

Even before our ancestors banged on a tree trunk with a stick or hollowed out a bone to blow into it, they were already singing. The human voice was the very first musical instrument—and judging by Partita for 8 Voices, it’s also the most versatile.

Sixty-five years later, five Holocaust survivors tell their amazing story, about the secret journal VEDEM created by a group of teenage boys right beneath the noses of their Nazi captors in a concentration camp. Seattle's Music of Remembrance and the Northwest Boychoir have united to give new voice, through music, to those boys' inspiring lives and words. But first the boys in the choir must come to know the 'boys of Terezin,' and learn the price of those boys' courageous resistance to their oppressors. Poignant, warm-hearted and profound, the film chronicles a unique legacy's passage to a new generation, through the power of music.

The Furry community brings together people who bring to life animal characters with human characteristics, through drawing and costumes. FURSONA is an incursion into the universe of Aly, a member of this community.

Aski Masinikan is the first experiment to tell the story of the mysterious lines on the plateau of the former reservation site, near Wemotaci. We asked an elder the question: What would be the origin of these mysterious lines?

The past and present weave themselves together through documentation of family moments in and around the Netherlands. A translation of attachment and dislocation on what home means in regards to emigration and memory from one generation to the next.

Mi’kmaw Elder Dorothy Moore recounts her story as a residential school survivor, a teacher, and an Indigenous rights activist.

A historical tour of three downtown Winnipeg surface parking lots. Through clever overlapping of archival photos of downtown Winnipeg buildings with surface parking lots, Lorne Bailey offers a deadpan commentary on how we have lost many historic landmarks.

Two of Canada’s most extreme cabaret performers, Tom Comet and Christine Taylor, go on a hallucinatory journey to Burning Man 1997. Amid the raw danger of the event, Juicy Danger Meets Burning Man documents the real-life love story between the two and their personal experiences along the way.

Dragonmasters is the untold story of the Chinese dragon in America. When this symbol of good fortune and benevolence first arrived, it found communities in trouble and was soon employed by its handlers to battle prejudice, violence, and exclusion. Utilizing a mix of documentary interviews, archival material, vérité footage and filmed in six locations in New York, California, Canada, and China, this 67-minute “authored-documentary” film with multiple storylines is the story of the evolution and cultural impact of the Chinese dragon and its Masters in America.

Documentary about insect consumption made by two very talented secondary 4 students for the PGLO Douance project.

A young woman, struggling with anxiety and ADHD, reveals how she finds inner peace through the experience of cooking.

Walking In These Shoes is a documentary short that offers a glimpse into experiences of poz BIPOC people living with HIV in contemporary times. It is also an homage and tribute to the late Toronto-based BIPOC HIV/ AIDS activist Derek Yee.

When David reveals details of his past life as a ballet dancer to his son, questions immediately emerge: Why had his father never told him about being a dancer? Why had he waited until he was 70 years old, and after rejecting Jamie’s coming out as a teenager, to tell his son about about his own sexual fluidity? With words of encouragement from legendary ballet dancer Evelyn Hart, who dances a cameo in the film, David decides he wants to start dancing again, and he wants his story told.

Deep South 1990: what changes and what does not. Whites of Their Eyes focuses on four people : Richard, a student at Tulane; Mack, a resident of Selma's projects, and Charlie and Verna May who trap and skin alligators. In the free form dialogue which emerges, each addresses complex issues with candor and humour, forming a mesh that belies standard notions of race, class and consumption.

This tape focuses on the nature of urban development in Chicago, the centre of American architecture. We encounter three people who relate some of the hard realities of life in the city, through a haze of historical and cultural phenomena.

Venice along a canal at sunset. Mesmerizing water, the play of dense seaweed undulating below. Repetition, overlay, variations in opacity and speed invoke a purely visual meditative experience. – Michele Goulette

Mockumentary short music film: After leaving Berlin, French multidisciplinary artist Golden Tuna surfs Montreal's cold and dark wave to find inspiration.

To get over his Sunday boredom, a young Atikamekw spends time with friends, reminiscing about his dogs.

Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.

Springhammer is about Japanese blacksmiths who dedicate their lives to making culinary knives [it's also the actual mechanical tool used by the blacksmiths]. At the end of WWII, Japan was faced with a burdensome repurposing of many industries, and with military swords no longer in demand despite a tradition carried on since the samurai, the industry turned to the kitchen. Craftsmen, now applying ancient trade skills of the blade making to cookery, go largely unnoticed by their countrymen and have to find a new place in the world for their craft. Thankfully, the world seems to be starting to listen.

When a state phantomizes a population, another reality. When history distorts the truth. When my (her)story meets another (her)story. When women disappear without a trace. When, white and privileged, I attend a rehearsal of stories. When violence done to women’s bodies equals the violence done by words. The bodies of those we don’t want to see or hear. From my studio window, I look out and my life intersects with theirs. In Winnipeg there are those who Win, generally the whites. There are the nips, the name given to Asian immigrants (the Latinos included in the insult) And everyone walks on EGG shells.

"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new." - Viktor Shklovsky ***** This short hybrid film departs from the remediation of a low resolution .jpg file. A poor image to bring attention to a poor moment in cinema history.

Worried about the distance he maintains with his father and the resulting lack of communication, a young man tries to find the meaning of this estrangement by accompanying him to his workshop as he makes a piece of furniture.

"The Complete Book of Roses"—pages 1–114. A brief glimpse of the disconnect between digital devices and recording the "natural." Made during Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency (2019–2021) using the Apollo monitor and microscope camera.

Made during COVID-19 lockdown with limited resources, "HE SAID / SHE SAID" incorporates a series of reaction shots repurposed from the artist's collection of 16mm found footage to create a reflection on the world at large during a time of introspection, concern, and anxiety. The exchange of gazes evoke a gendered and racialized undercurrent. The footage was optically printed and hand processed into a single film print using expired hi-con film stock.

"An Event So Fast" is an experimental documentary about a family's failed invention. In Ralston, Alberta, a town for families of the military, a father works for the Defense Research Board as an explosives researcher stationed at Suffield Experimental Station. His work leads him to pursue a life as a professor researching shock waves. Soon he devises a new kind of bulletproof material and employs his grown children to assist in experiments and promotions in order to get his invention to market. Through home movies and archival film, the family recounts how a belief in ideas becomes the greatest obstacle to success.

An experimental documentary that creates an impressionistic and artistic experience cataloging the journey of a Japanese woman, Tomomi, who finds herself on a Saskatchewan elk farm during the COVID-19 pandemic.