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Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2016. A bevy of speakers weigh in on the new world.

For more than a decade, Mirvish Productions operated La Cage Theatre in downtown Toronto. The theatre's resident performers, The Impostors, have earned rave reviews over the years but it's the show's final number that gives them a major standing ovation. In An Evening with The Impostors, the group prepares to bring their high-glam drag spectacle to the small town of Port Hope, Ontario. The Impostors are ready, but is Port Hope ready for The Impostors?

This short comedy follows a visitor to the prairies as he slowly discovers the cult of curling. At first, our protagonist doesn’t seem to understand why everyone is so crazy about curling, but once he studies up, buys the right gear, and gets a few lessons, he can’t be stopped. This hilarious short film records the history of a rookie's first game. Even non-curlers will feel the pull of the stones and the flick of the brooms in this choice rink-side view.

Surveys growing interest, especially among young people, in the occult, black and white magic, mysticism, and witchcraft. Interviews writer Colin Wilson, and shows a self-proclaimed New York Witch, a professor who claims that occultists are frauds and another who taught a course on witchcraft; also includes a high priestess of the New Jersey First Church of Satan.

Tinne Zenner's 'Translations' (in Greenlandic: 'Nutsigassat') reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in which the vistas of Greenland create a space for free thinking.

Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together, immersing ourselves in a selection of Red Cross shorts made over nearly a century in countries round the world. This nearly wordless feature-length ensemble has five parts/chapters: The Man Who Stopped Time (Greece), Disappearances (Switzerland), Photo Shoot Location Yemen (Yemen), Beirut Grammar (Lebanon) and Mine Clearing (Mozambique). Each chapter adopts a different formal strategy in order to open up a new conversation with these picture remains, sometimes scribbling over the pictures, or re-presenting the material as a series of friezes, fading every shot, or slowly accumulating them. The hope is time travel, to venture to the other side of the image.

Microscopic landscapes of Vancouver, Canada.

Waldorf education overview from the perspective of the Toronto Waldorf School.

Five composers have their careers cut short by the rise of the Third Reich.

A look at the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) in Rio de Janeiro through politicized speeches by artists from some locals communities. With music and performances thematizing social exclusion and police violence, these artists discuss the rhetoric of peace and question to what extent the arrival of the UPP does not represent an intensification of the criminalization of poverty.

Sick of losing, the coach of Finland's worst cheerleading team is inspired to push her team to victory after visiting the world champions in Texas, but soon discovers that adolescence has more pressing priorities for her troubled students.

We can see the children of the director playing and dancing, obviously getting told what to do while it happens, and later on his wife knitting with the children around her.

Returning to her hometown of Jerusalem with her young family after several years abroad, documentarian Danae Elon offers an intimate, ground’s-eye view of one of the most fiercely contested cities in the world.

Sally: Behind the Smile gives a fly-on-the-wall insight into one of Australia's most beloved athletes as she attempts to overcome some of the biggest hurdles of her burgeoning career in pursuit of that all-encompassing goal, a surfing world title. A Red Bull Media House production realized by Milkmoney, Sally: Behind the Smile is a definitive compilation of all things Sally Fitzgibbons that every aspiring and professional athlete can take something away from.

A "subversive engagement with documentary convention" centered on the production of Peter Greenaway's film A Zed and Two Noughts.

Feature documentary exploring the world of junior hockey and its relentless competitiveness. Portrait larger than life where young people of barely 16 years old already play their future.

'Set Apart' is a documentary about monasticism, a portrait of four men who have made a radical choice in response to a beautiful calling. Brother Joseph Bruneau, Frater Caesarius Marple, Father Anthony Nguyen, and Abbot John Braganza, all live in Westminster Abbey, a community of Benedictine monks situated in Mission, BC. The film documents their daily life of prayer, work, and community life, and seeks to explore their own personal journeys in becoming monks. The monks discuss not only what it was like to feel a calling, to leave their families behind, and to embrace a celibate lifestyle, but also the deep joy and peace they have found since they followed that calling and became members of the monastic community.

Documentary by Claudette Picard, who practices medicine in countries at war under the banner of Doctors Without Borders. She is found in Liberia, in a small town devastated by the civil war that has long ravaged this African country. Using few words of English, her comforting presence and all too rare medicines, sometimes she manages the impossible.

Parler avec quelqu'un d'aussi grand que Guy Lafleur est toujours une expérience extraordinaire. Mais lorsqu'on permet à Réjean Tremblay de mener la conversation, on entreprend un fantastique voyage d'une ampleur insoupçonnée.

From the same immaturity level that brought you Andrew Hardingham’s part in Sandbox, Flavor Country and Time well wasted now brings you the film called “Throw your Panties”. When asked why he wanted to make this film Andrew had this to say, “I like watching funny people say funny things and I also like snowboarding so why over saturate one or the other. I want to mix them both together in an overflowing martini glass and drink down that concoction and call it Throw your Panties… duh”. With riding and other bull shit from Dustin Craven, Tobias Karlsson, Andrew Hardingham, Ryan Hall, Dwain Wiebe, Ingemar Backman and Jonas Guinn. The film follows these riders for one year through Andrew’s somewhat demented and very twisted perception of snowboarding.

Sudds’s Just Poems (About Drugs) depicts long-time members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), an organization Osborn helped create in the early 2000s, as they browse the poet’s archived notebooks at Simon Fraser University. With his writings as a touchstone, they reflect on Osborn’s legacy and VANDU’s ongoing work.

Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion. Scenes of wreckage and lifesaving efforts.

In music, the return to the original movement. Reflections on the rhythm of childhood and parenthood from birth.

Using the backdrop of traditional Shuswap territory in British Columbia’s interior as both physical and symbolic landscape, Kéwku weaves the tumultuous life experiences of Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips to his relationship with the healing medicine sage.

Acadians face a dilemma: Adopt normative French in order to be better understood, or proudly continue to use their own colourful and authentic language? This short documentary links family memories to the evolution of Acadian French.

In The Mind as a Battlefield, a poignant animated documentary, David, a 45-year-old veteran, shares his inner struggle with his younger brother. A moving quest to find balance in the face of invisible wounds.

A touching, real-life exploration of one of South Africa’s most celebrated couples, showing the deep personal cost that brought South Africa to its current triumphant harmony. Through interviews with the couple, the film becomes a discovery of the beauty of love in a changing and damaged country.

Two siblings living in different cities try to make up for lost time during a week-long visit.

Designed as a playful science experiment on the human condition, this film takes the viewer on an immersive flight through the earth’s stratosphere, 30,000 meters above our planet.

Through 4 moving portraits, this short documentary sheds light on the tragedy of caregiver stress and elder abuse. The abuse takes many forms, ranging from wilful neglect and financial exploitation to physical assault. The film portrays the emotional complexity of family relationships that can lead to abuse of the elderly, the anguish and isolation of its victims, and the need for community understanding and support.

This experimental documentary traces nearly a century of Quebec history through the intimate story of Dolorès, a free-spirited and committed woman. Between fleeting images on film and intimate confidences, the film explores memory as a fragile territory where dreams, regrets, and flashes of freedom are preserved.

In Memory of Bruno Létourneau

Interview with Gilbert Higgins, one of the 146 victims of the police raid on the Truxx, a gay bar on Stanley Street in Montreal, on the night of October 22, 1977. The reaction it triggered became one of the precursor events to the creation of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay bar sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village.

Interview with Denis B. Lapointe (formerly known as Denis Levesque) about the associative movement of the gay community in Montreal — among others, at the ADGQ — during the years leading to the establishment of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay bar sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village. The third of the documentary series L'émergence du Village gai.

Interview with Gregory Rowe, who came from Western Canada to settle in Montreal in 1983. In addition to his comments on his experience in the English-speaking part of the gay movement, he gives a poignant account of his resilience in the face of the HIV crisis (which he has been carrying for 37 years), and his involvement in organizations that support HIV-positive people.

Flavie is a daring and opinianated 15-year-old teen who, in order to defend her social and environmental beliefs, is ready to practice civil disobedience even at the risk of facing justice. In a discussion with her parents on the consequences of her actions, they will go so far as to confront their respective visions of the future and what actions to take for things to change. A powerful debate between two generations.

A young filmmaker looks back on and reflects on his past by documenting his childhood home.

A television special commemorating the 15th anniversary of Toronto's Citytv.

A youth group parties all night at their summer retreat; dancing, singing and swimming (captured in three atmospheric vignettes).

On the 40th anniversary of the Air India bombing, we peel back the layers of Canada’s worst act of terrorism.

People around the world have traveled in canoes they have proudly made themselves since time began. The Survival of the Wood Canoe chronicles the adventures of one couple who, over 50 years, built a business based on teaching the art of canoe-building. Ted Moores and his partner, Joan Barrett, are trailblazers in the growing sphere of DIY craftspeople, helping people realize their dreams of building truly beautiful and functional boats.

In this poignant 18-minute documentary, viewers are taken on a journey into the dark history of the Isle a la Cross Residential School. This institution was part of the Canadian government's policy of forced assimilation of Indigenous children. Survivors of the school bravely step forward to share their harrowing stories of physical and sexual abuse, cultural suppression, and the profound loss of their language and identity.

The Unreturned is the story of five middle-class Iraqi refugees caught in an absurdist purgatory of endless bureaucracy, dwindling life savings, and forced idleness.

An old folks home made for the oldest of old fogies.

Margaret Peterson is a retired painter, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, where this production was shot. The film explores the psyche of the painter through her paintings, through interviews, through an interpretive commentary by the director of the film, and the improvised riffs of a saxophone soloist. The film is a scrapbook of ideas, memories, opinions, interpretations and paintings that render the artist eventful rather than biographical. Beyond the Sun reveals a character very much attracted to primitive religion and a painter drawn to colour abstraction, both qualities typical of the 'beat' movement of the 1940s and 50s.

Tracing Benning's Los (2001) through several Los Angeles-set software programs.

Documentary about the life of Haitian musician and song writer, Emmanuel Charlemagne. That artist was an important element of the popular Haitian socio-political movements in the 1980's and 1990's. His music had a strong presence and certainly influenced Haitian history prior to the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

A vision of small-town life and the search for meaning, seen through the lens of adolescent film and movie quotes.

A diary film comprised of archival home video footage taken in the years leading up to the filmmaker's birth, documenting their family in a foreign time and place.

In Parc de la Gatineau, Vincent, the director, discovers Michel Leclair's passion, his life's work: beaver conservation.

Harmony and dissonance. Fame and obscurity. Birds and dogs. Singer-songwriter Craig Nuttycombe has led a varied life. It's Just a Lifetime is a delightfully offbeat vérité portrait of the resilient artist, as told by two fans who lived with the musician for three autumnal weeks.