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In this poetic home movie, an unrelated family of four are connected by themes of loneliness and isolation

Drag was at the forefront of gay and cabaret culture for decades before it became mainstream. This is a celebration of Canada’s drag stars and an homage to the queens who paved the way.

Montreal, 2013. Dina Mendes, artist and the daughter French criminal superstar Jacques Mesrine had from an affair in 1970, returns to Montreal and looks for her father's traces. She embarks on this search with both personal quest and artistic project in mind. The film shifts from fiction conventions to cinema-vérité, particularly in Percé, where the project reaches its momentum. In the end, Dina Mendes ends up achieving neither the personal quest nor a meaningful artistic project, caught between over-exposed facts and an impossible identification. Nonetheless, what this odd film - in which you will never see or hear Mesrine once - does achieve is to provide a Québec perspective onto a history that is so central to French popular culture.

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.

This story follows the life of Amber a transgender teen that is trying to become her true self while dealing with the pressure of society.

Clowns are only scary when you find one at night.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

One day, an alien crashes in the yard of Amanda, a teenage loner who loves sci-fi and aliens. The two make friends, but the alien leaves in anger when he sees how aliens are portrayed in movies. He eventually returns when earth faces a great threat.

An illuminated map of Paris became a landscape through various image tranformations.

On Hold, by choreographer and visual artist Nicola Hawkins of Admiral's Cove, Newfoundland is a striking movement piece that distills tenderness, honesty, and grief. The performers, actor John Moyes and his daughter, dancer-storyteller Louise Moyes, commissioned the film in their 80th and 52nd years. Cinematographer and editor Lisa Porter. Composer Adam Foran. Shot at the Ferryland lighthouse, Newfoundland.

In 1990 Barry J. Gillis began shooting wicked world on 16mm film. Eddie Platt, took his video camera along to many of the locations, capturing footage of the insane Movie Shoot.

A door-to-door internet salesman refuses to leave a house until he’s made his sale.

Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade. In 1823, the Governor of the largest fur-trading company in the world travels across his Dominion, extracting ever-greater riches from the winter bounty of animal furs. In his brutal world of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the brink of extinction until the balance of power shifts, and the forces of nature exact their own terrible price. With nods to Melville and Coleridge, directors Carol Beecher & Kevin Kurytnik have created a visually stunning contemporary myth about the cost of arrogance and greed.

Hand processed cameraless film subjected to different homeade light sources. This is an obsessive exploration of a short scene that demonstrates a group of Roman soldiers who constantly cross the frame, accentuating the horizontal flow of movement.

A young girl wears her afro to school on picture day and must deal with the unexpected consequences.

Resource-rich Africa has been a feeding hand for many successful countries and businesses that have never really benefited the continent itself nor the majority of its people. First of a 3-film series, Congo: A Political Tragedy is a feature-length documentary chronicling the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the arrival of the first European settlers to the nation’s struggle for independence. It offers the unique perspective of Congolese co-writers Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu, as they document the history of a country that has so far mostly been told through the eyes of foreigners.

Three roommates try to find money to pay their rent in a rather unexpected way.

A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community.

When all the voices have been silenced, only one will remain. And when this last voice is no longer heard...

What happens when what you believe doesn't match up with the facts? This thought-provoking doc is about gossip, false news, and the untimely death of a jazz singer.

A medium welcomes three different customers. They all seek guidance and comfort.

Light breaks the darkness in playful rapture.

A tale of love and obsession as told through the Domino's pizza tracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulgCWtepNw

The Splits combines documentary and narrative in a montage of motion and sound. The camera documents a group of 20 people gathered in a hall to perform. The cast includes real-life performers whose skills range from the mundane to the extraordinary: a hula hooper, a singer, a pizza dough thrower, speed skippers, tap dancers, gymnasts and dog trainers. Two men make salami, a woman gets a haircut and someone eats too many hotdogs. Hrabluik’s editing creates an exquisite corpse, connecting the performers as their bodies tap out a spellbinding rhythm.

A single father struggles to raise his five-year-old son while coming to terms with a trauma from his childhood.

Atchoum is happy to be home after being on the road with her show, but is horrified when she sees the chaotic and dusty state or her room. Despite her parents request to clean her mess, Atchoum embarks on a series of adventures that take her on a colourful and musical adventure to a universe that is full of lively songs from her recent musical album 'Le grand menage'.

A young woman volunteering in a malaria plagued region of Kenya believes she is being terrorized by the witches known in local folklore as Nightrunners.

This is a found footage video where the artist, then 13 years old filmed and reenacted a tv talk show that he had seen where man afflicted with AIDS tells the grizzly details of his life. Becoming some sort of parody of the afternoon chat shows and the exploitation of people living with AIDS as a casual subject of talk on those type of shows in the early 1990,S, the film strikes by the vocabulary used by the teenagers that seem to know enough about HIV/AIDS to be able to subvert the conversation and actually make it funny.

Ralph is overdue for a date, but will it cost him his only friend?

Installation featuring flowing, erupting, bubbling lava projected on water, rocks and Koi fish.

On Declan's sixth birthday, his baby brother Michael dies in his crib from sudden infant death syndrome. His birthday forgotten, and not understanding what "dead" is, Declan experience's the death of his brother only through his parents' grief, frozen in their pain. Declan seeks refuge in his baby brother's room. His birthday now intrinsically linked with Michael's death, he tries to understand what has happened to his family, and if he too will stop breathing in the night. Based on a true story, SOUND ASLEEP is an intimate drama about death from the perspective of six-year-old boy.

"Project Power” is an observational documentary that follows a group of everyday citizens as they take on the provincial government of New Brunswick over a historical attempt to privatize the publicly owned crown corporation, New Brunswick Power.

Seated in the middle of a square room, choreographer Ginette Laurin looks back at revealing key aspects of her artistic process.

Through an intimate conversation, Steph Jane, age 28, shares the struggles and lessons her second diagnosis of stage-4 cancer has taught her. From being genuinely present and savouring simple moments to thoughts of the future and what really matters, Steph reveals beauty and wisdom which transcend appearance and years.

A dark comedy about gay-bashing...sort of. Three friends kick out a member of their coffee claque for a surprising reason.

Silk Road Ghosts takes the viewer off the beaten path as I ply a circuit, following in the footsteps of the ancient conquerors, passing through some of the more remarkable parts of Central Asia's Silk Road. From Almaty in Kazakhstan, I set out towards a daunting rendezvous with the Darvasa Gas Crater in Turkmenistan. Along the way I dot many of the road's pivotal locations, bearing witness to its myriad ghosts which served to glorify the annals of our planet's history.

From some of Winnipeg’s weirdest minds comes a nightmarish vision that seems to have leaked out from the darkest recesses of Matt Groening’s subconscious and then been somehow preserved on the world’s last VHS cassette. Just who is this clown behind the microphone stand and what does he want?

YOU&i is a film version of a 'pas de deux for one' choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre's 'Singular Bodies' program. In collaboration with dancer, Jarrett Siddall, the intent is to translate the various interpretations this image into movement. Some of the movement is determined by the autonomic nervous system response to exertion. It is the system that controls our heart and respiratory rates so the movement is driven both mind and body.

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A young man obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger navigates his conservative family to get the one thing he loves the most.

Orgasm is the body's natural call to feminist politics' - Naomi Wolf Can you be a feminist and enjoy porn? Does the answer change depending on who is behind the camera, directing the action and responsible for the representation? Is there a need in the market place for female directed porn? How is different from the mainstream? 'Women Will Come' is a sexy, brazen documentary film that explores sex positive feminism through the eyes of some of the leading female porn directors, producer and performers of our time.

In this short film, Toronto artist Petra Tolley, who has Down syndrome, performs a soliloquy that encapsulates her distinctive take on the social self. Drawing from her emotional experiences, she illustrates what it feels like to be “in the middle.” Employing rotoscopy, hand-drawn animation techniques and subtle stereoscopic 3D, the film captures Petra as she engages the camera with unflinching directness and dignity.

The more they spit, the more they enjoy themselves. But when the teacher arrives, Xavier and Liam are moulded by their actions.

Two families, similar identities. Fleeing violence, they sought refuge in Canada and began a new life. This is the experience of thousands of people in our great country and yet these stories go mostly untold. Arrival Archives is an artful exploration of newcomer arrival stories, told through a multi-generational viewpoint. The stories intertwine as one, illustrating that Canada’s cultural landscape is a communal experience shared by many different faces.

An artist attempts to finish his final major painting before his death.

Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig, the site-specific mash-up used appropriated material from popular culture related to strangulation, suffocation, hanging and auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Cool Black North explores the unique and vibrant Canadian Black Community and its role in our country’s contemporary identity. Through a series of intimate profiles, we are witness to a wide spectrum of life experiences, including the arts, entertainment, law, business, science and social activism. Though each person’s pathway to success is unique, they all share a common purpose and strength in overcoming often racially-based obstacles to succeed at the highest levels in their respective fields.

In this evocative short documentary, Inuk singer-songwriter and humanitarian Susan Aglukark weaves together stories of artistry, family, and belonging as she explores the complex cultural shifts of the last 50 years of Inuit life. Turning her lens on the turbulence of colonial transition, director Nyla Innuksuk examines the forces that shaped Aglukark's voice and how that voice is now being translated for a new generation of Inuit artists.

A subtle combination of documentary and fiction filmmaking, Luo Li’s remarkable Rivers and My Father was inspired by stories from his father’s childhood. Li inventively structures sound, image and narration, evoking the ways in which memory operates.

In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey is a documentary film about the legendary American guitarist, composer and provocateur John Fahey, 1939-2001. Fahey is often considered the godfather of 'American primitive guitar'. This cinematic exploration features Pete Townshend, Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Joey Burns of Calexico. These stellar musicians, along with Fahey associates and friends such as the famous 'Dr. Demento', radio broadcaster Barry Hansen, explore the legacy of this profoundly influential artist. The film was recorded in the Washington D.C. area where John Fahey was born, along the Mississippi Delta from Memphis to New Orleans, in Los Angeles, Toronto, Austin, New York and in Oregon where Fahey spent his last two decades.

In Phantom Ride, Stephen Broomer permutates the home films of Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885 – 1966), a self-made hosiery mill owner from Philadelphia, into a road movie.

A priest attempts to drive out the evil from himself.