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Huntingdon Mayor Stéphane Gendron wants to encourage immigration to save his town, which has been struggling ever since large-scale factory closures some years ago. Mayor Gendron’s project is a way in to a discussion about immigration and social and economic integration.

Hypnosis Highway. The effects of drinking magical ditch water near the Thompson Crystal Smelter. Shot and edited in a truck on the way to Lynn Lake, Manitoba, near Thompson. This is exactly how the passing trees look after 10 hours.

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and the staff trying to help them.

Sing along to “Here Comes The Fire Truck”, an original Super Simple Song for kids who love fire trucks!

What defines a man? With the support of her chain of command, Corporal Virginie Lamarre, veteran of Afghanistan, officially becomes a man in the Canadian army.

Actor, clown, archeologist and university researcher Alberto Musacchio took his own life in 2001. His death hurt many people who had been touched by his vitality. One of these was Stefano who, fourteen years later, goes on a journey looking for the emotional traces left by Alberto’s life and work. He visits Rome – Mostar, where together they had run theater workshops for children and youths traumatized by war – and Canada, where Alberto spent the last years of his life studying and teaching. And where he had also left a written request that his ashes should remain.

A young man is visited by the ghost of his older self in order to change his destiny.

Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university. But an ancient evil has followed her here, tormenting her with disturbing nightmares and tempting her with forbidden desires. It is a hunger that can only be satiated by sensual pleasures of the flesh...and a thirst for blood. It's a battle for her soul... and one she's losing. But Charlotte is a fighter. The chaos and torment threatens to unleash her own inner beast, and anyone even close to her may find themselves embracing their own horrific fate.

2 former high school friends drive from Canada to Mexico as they visit atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that live in the States. During the trip, they record the piece of a modern history crucially important in Japanese collective psyche while exploring their own identities and revealing the reality of psychological scars.

In a space outside of time, Indigenous playwright Yves Sioui Durand encounters the masks that have been created for his plays over a period of more than 30 years.

A homeless man's dream of being a dancer is reawakened when he befriends Jasmine, an accountant with a forgotten dream of her own.

To The Worlds follows an inspiring group of women (age 47-77) as they defy their years, gravity, and sometimes their doctors, to compete in the International Adult Figure Skating Competition in German just 6 months away.

In a future where sex kills and interaction between men and women is strictly regulated what will people risk to feel the pleasure of real intimate human contact?

Two animated male figures are drawn together and pulled away until they fall into a pit of protesters. Then, a frightened look quickly disappears into the darkness. OUT is a one minute film that touches on the rising fear of being out during a global climate of growing hatred and pushback against LBGTQ rights and freedoms.

Amidst a grotesque but slickly animated menagerie of extreme plastic surgery, a man demands an operation that will realize his inner butterfly.

The community of Nain in northern Labrador is rich with breathtaking landscapes and people with a strong storytelling history. Created through the St. John's International Women's Film Festival's FRAMED film educations series, in partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, this film explores throat singing- a special talent and traditional game for both fun and public entertainment, which was nearly destroyed but has since been revived.

Black Widow Gone Wild

This film celebrates longevity by introducing us to three colorful characters, all in their 80s, living in the North of Morocco. They share the courage and the pride of working continuously. Chehma is a former master fisherman, owner of a boat. Even though it leaks a little, he dreams of taking it back to sea. Abdesslam works as a street musician and his major objective is to arrange the marriage of his oldest son. Erradi, an innkeeper, is proud of his 30 year-old car and lives like a hermit, surrounded by an amazing collection of old clocks. Each in their own way demonstrate beautifully a strong will to live.

As the balance of the world turns upside down for the Anishinabek people, the elder Naamowin builds a healing drum to save his grandson and his people

70 minute film written and directed by Olivier Roberge and Patrick Boivin. Stripped from excessive romanticism and literary embellishment, FALL, FINALLY is an urban chronicle of ordinary beauty that tells the story of an unusual triangle between one's daily life, his quest for meaningful love and the utter importance of friendship. 70 minutes movie written and produced by Olivier Roberge and Patrick Boivin. Film de 70 minutes écrit et réalisé par Olivier Roberge et Patrick Boivin. Dépouillé de romantisme excessif et d'enjolivement littéraire, ENFIN L'AUTOMNE est une chronique urbaine de la beauté ordinaire qui raconte l'histoire d'un triangle inhabituel entre la vie quotidienne, la quête d'amour sincère et le rôle primordial de l'amitié. Film de 70 minutes écrit et réalisé par Olivier Roberge et Patrick Boivin.

An elderly Japanese man visits a strange island, where he disappears in his own memories.

In a part of the world noted for its great musicians Chris Norman is among the true masters – a virtuoso of the flute whether he is playing traditional tunes, his own compositions or baroque music by Vivaldi and Bach. But that’s not all. Chris founded the week long Boxwood Festival and Workshops. In this film we get to know Chris and his fellow musicians and teachers. Interwoven are amazing performances by a “scattering of stars”.

Composer Adrian Ellis attempts to score the strangest film with the strangest possible instruments-including power saws, hammer drills, fishing wire and crowbars. A creative documentary about the power of experimentation.

A love letter to Toronto, Chesterfield tells an important story of perseverance and personal growth through an experience many people can relate to - moving a couch. Chesterfield is about finding home in an unfamiliar place, being open minded, and appreciating the friendships we make along the way.

Art / Gonzo film about a Voodoo Revenge plot on a crowded plane

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 countdown leader spliced with found film introduces a very short painted-on-film animation. The soundtrack was made using samples of handmade 35mm optical sounds composed on a computer.

Two teen girls find a body in the woods.

13 Witches is a fantasy horror story where 13 sisters who practiced paganism, centuries ago, were wrongfully accused of being witches. They were tortured, punished and burned alive by those they loved. Only one of the sisters escaped: Nemsis A deal is struck between Nemesis and the devil can centuries later, the sisters have been reincarnated seek revenge on the ones who stole their lives.

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.

While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, The near future takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.

A final visit to their isolated cabin in northern Canada reveals the inter-generational rift between Josh and his traditional Cree father.

"Take from the rich. Keep for the poor. That's what we're here for". Ravi and Samar are two orphaned pickpocket brothers from Delhi, India. When a heist goes wrong, tragedy leaves one boy seeking retribution.

This collaborative project brings together some of the biggest names in the Québec contemporary dance scene.

In this impressionistic short documentary directed by Hubert Davis, Robin Phillips discusses the importance of expanding the realm of the imagination, seeking truth through art, and recognizing the presence of artists in all walks of life.

In their own words, eight women — leading feminist scholars, attorneys and women living with HIV — shine a light on the problems of using sexual assault law to prosecute alleged non-disclosure of HIV. Does the legal concept of consent, intended to protect women’s sexual autonomy, in fact increase their risk of violence and discrimination when used to criminalize HIV?

A university professor is actually an intergalactic traveler and needs your help to re-shape the future. Will you lend a helping hand?

Hand-painted film on 16mm by Karl Lemieux. Music by Visions.

RGBebop / Anthropology is an animated visual music improvisation in color and sound, made by hand with laser-cut stencils, pen, brush, ink, and paper.

Live performance film produced to celebrate the release of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow translates night and water into arrhythmic movements of light in a fugue of colours. Shifting impressions emerge on the surface of an agitated stillness, while darkness illuminates reflections and sight.

A documentary about an Interracial American gay couple who move to a fishing village in Cape Breton, only to find out that the community is under threat from climate change.

"Secret Path” is the award winning multi-media project that seamlessly blends Gord Downie's poetry and music with Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. It tells the wrenching and all too common story of Chanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died in 1966 after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario. Finding the Secret Path is an intimate concert film and documentary that captures Gord Downie, behind the scenes, as he prepares for an emotional and historic Secret Path performance, before the entire Wenjack family, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, interwoven with footage from the original animated film.

On the last day of packing up her home, a woman can't shake the regret she feels about her late husband.

The Needle and the Damage Undone is a gritty, provocative story that explores the impact harm reduction has on the lives of people who use injection drugs in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In this essay on desire, the narrator recounts his first romp with a trans guy. An erotic, bilingual love letter to a very special boy.

A mother moose’s journey through nature’s eternal cycles.

Canadian icon Shane Koyczan has brought his spoken word poetry to stages all over the world, including TED Talks that have gone viral and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This documentary, both an introduction to his poetry and an exploration of his relationships with those around him, highlights his journey of seeking reconciliation with his father who abandoned him at an early age, and how in order to accomplish this, Koyczan has to rely on his poetry's vulnerability like never before.

To be lost means you cannot recognize space so on the mall directory “you are here” is the first step to restoring meaning to space but that assumes that a being and space are separate entities, one containing the other. But does space exist, as we know it, when it’s unobserved or does it transmute into marvelous forms that instantly snap back to normality when observed by a conscious being. It seems that space is fixed and stationary, as we experience it, but again behind our backs it may be flowing like a liquid violating all physical assumptions. So when we open our eyes to the apparent world is our consciousness the determining factor defining space, suggesting there is no space devoid of consciousness and are we in space or is it in us. Perhaps you are here should be here is you.

300 frames of 56 photographs taken over 20 days compressed into the span of the time it takes for you to answer my call as I pull up into the driveway and wait by the phone.

Violette (60 years old) has a hoarding disorder. Barbara is a social worker. She visits Violette to help her. But what if the one who needs help isn’t the one we think of?

Following in the Extra Terrestrial's footsteps, the QT wants to go home. 'My Queer Samsara is a critical look at a constructed social identity that hides underneath it a gnawing want; a need to 'go back home' and be fully accepted into the bosom of our very first loves, the ones who were supposed to take care of us, our families.'

A loving meditation on the ugliest truck stop diner in 1960 industrial Saint-Boniface, run by Joe and Roma DeGagné and their eight children.