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Greg is a desperate man. Presented with an opportunity that is hard to resist. He will have to choose between old heroes, new enemies, and family.

A tired coroner is stalked by the living dead -- but only when she isn't looking!

Less than a month after Simone Rapisarda Casanova completed shooting in Juan Antonio, a village on Cuba’s North Eastern coast, the place was wiped out by a hurricane. Thus El árbol de las fresas begins with four of the now displaced former inhabitants reminiscing about their home and what they have lost. Eschewing drama and pathos, the opening sets the tone for what is an unusual documentary; the subjects often address the camera directly and even tease the filmmaker. In doing so they disrupt the usual relationship between viewer and subject in a playful way that allows both the viewer and the viewed to share equally in the filmmaking process.

UNFOLD is a poetic laboratory that visually symbolizes the unpredictable revealing of oneself to another in friendship.

Fester Fish heads down to the lake for some good old-fashioned fishing, with unforeseen consequences.

Fifteen years after a young man disowns his infant son, fate brings father and son together in a deadly street fight that'll alter their lives forever.

We are in a crisis: While Canada consistently has one of the worst organ donor rates in the Western world, its hospitals are overcrowded with patients who desperately need an organ transplant. And within Canada, Alberta is the province with the lowest donor rates. 40 per cent of patients die while waiting for an organ.

"I broke my hand last summer." A memoir of tenderness hazarded, muted ache, and a fibreglass cast.

A look at the careers of retired police officers, as described in their own words.

An aspiring actor risks a close friendship to get cast in a film.

Born and raised in the Okanagan, Dick Cannings is a biologist, birder, and book author. He has written many books on birds and the natural history of British Columbia. Like all naturalists, Dick is concerned about the plight of species at risk, and in this video, we follow him in his search for birds at risk of the Okanagan. 200 birds nest in the Okanagan, which makes it the most diverse place for breeding birds in North America. The Okanagan is also a hot spot for species at risk in Canada. British Columbia is one of only two provinces (the other being Alberta) in Canada that does not have an endangered species law. Yet the province is home to more wild plant and animal species than any other province in Canada and is also one of the last holdouts for many large mammals that once roamed much of North America. Alarmingly, 1,900 species are on the provincial species at risk list.

The film follows two sisters for whom past events have torn their close relationship apart. Many years after being separated through tragic events, they journey to find answers as a mysterious being influences their path.

Two adventurous youths explore a vacant mansion and fall in love, deep in the heart of suburban hell.

Documentary follows the come-back attempt of Canadian stunt performer Ken Carter, and his untimely demise at Westgate Speedway in the fall of 1983. The documentary made use of jump footage that sat in storage unused for thirty years.

A short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, (the BQE). The film examines the architecture and fabric of the BQE through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings, inviting the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way.

After returning to his hometown to report on an environmental protest, a journalist discovers that a series of recent murders may have links to a satanic cult.

Last Harvest follows the journey of an elderly Chinese farming couple as they are being relocated by the government's mammoth and controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

A diamond heist is pulled off utilizing information and chance.

A twisted psychopath figures that the only way to win the girl of his dreams on Valentine's Day is to eliminate the competition around him - for good.

Two students (Audrey Rocard, Joris Masson) are apprehended following the enforcement of a college take over by three overly zealous school inspectors (Claude Madelon, Jean-Claude Eygreteau, Yannick Moreau).

What do we know about childhood other than the constructions we make of it? A little girl died inside the day her father left. As an adult, she is still there, frozen, stuck in the sand, ready to dissolve in the storm of her childhood. But is he really gone? Can memory lie to us? A film where characters from the past are transformed into actors in the present. A cinematic essay, based on images that the filmmaker has filmed over the years and family archives dating from the 1940s, all shot in the same place, on the same beach in Old Orchard, Maine, USA.

In a northern valley of Cape Breton, a camera is relinquished into a remote riverbed. It travels underwater and is enveloped by current, cascading toward an 80-foot waterfall. Water pulses over its surface, forming a mass of microscopic lenses that concentrate the world around; an environment fluidly impressing its mark. In between this rush downstream and a final repose, the precipice of Martha Brook Falls is breached.

Just One Drop takes a no-holds-barred look at the most controversial form of medicine ever invented. Homeopathy treats the entire person, not just the disease. It’s a specific form of medicine that uses minute doses of a highly diluted substance that stimulates the body to cure itself. It is these tiny doses that causes the most controversy. Researchers believe there is a release of energy in water that becomes mysteriously dynamic. Others think it’s purely psychological or worse, a form of deception or quackery. Yet millions claim homeopathy cures even though there is not yet a satisfying scientific explanation. It remains a mystery.

After her fall, Sophie is aiming to the surface, but she's unable to trust her entourage anymore.

Sensitive, powerful, and eminently delicate. Drift is comprised of hundreds of press and amateur images of the sea found on the internet. In this multi-channel video, Blain has filled each screen with careful layers of these images, which lift like sails in the breeze to reveal scenes of fragile, makeshift boats floating on perilous vast waters. Drift alludes to the countless migrants who flee situation of war, poverty and violence, but become lost in the open sea as they drift away from their native country in search of freedom. As a moving collage, the video commemorates these anonymous people, hundred of whom are currently in danger and astray on the immense sea. Drift stands in resistance against the desensitizing effect of overwhelming amounts of media imagery, and refuses to allow the unknown fate of these unprotected women, men and children to fall into oblivion.

Attempts to catch demons inside clouds.

Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, becomes increasingly phantasmagorical.

Perseus risks his life for the head of Medusa.

How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s experimental documentary brings together four artists (including experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom), who speak with refreshing honesty about how thoughts of suicide have dominated their personal and creative lives. Shot on 16mm and hand-coloured, the flow of images creates a poetic visual response to the stories presented on the soundtrack and allows space for reflection.

The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which charged that the federal government's woefully inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children constituted a discriminatory practice.

John wakes up to find his girlfriend, Sara, dead on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night. Upon calling an ambulance, the 'fun' begins.

Is our reality a detailed computer simulation? Do you really care? Whateves!

Deli owner Salam Kahil is an art collector, a former male escort, an amateur musician, and a sandwich maker to the homeless in Vancouver's poorest neighbourhood but his true passion is talking about blowjobs. This is a 2015 feature film documentary, not to be mixed up with the 2012 documentary short with the same name.

The film follows Peter Oliver, ex-pat South African and one of Canada's most successful restaurateurs, as he travels to South Africa on behalf of The Stephen Leacock Foundation, an organization he founded. In the process, he finds himself on a collision course with reality (http://www.cbc.ca/revenuegroup/affiliates/pure-intentions.html).

This animation uses watercolor paintings of child-morphed creatures, poppies and dismembered legs, based on collaged photos from my animation ‘Nothing ever happened’, to produce a commentary on loss. Set to the song ‘Love is a Hunter’ by Rae Spoon reminds us that love can be transformative, but sometimes the intensity of this transformation can be threatening. The surreal imagery reflects a childhood where love is very much defined by one’s ability to hide from violence and pain.

In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way. The musings of poets (Brand, Carson, Vuong) become his conscience and reflection. Shot with a lyric intensity, as if everything was being seen for the first or final time, in Colombia, Georgia and Canada.

In a slum in Chennai, India, a young mother of two, wants to sell her kidney so she can pay off the crippling debts of her family. If she sells Hema will be the fifth member of her family to sell a kidney for an amount that represents several years' wages. Across the world in Nanaimo, Canada, forty year old single mom Sandra's kidneys are failing and she has been on a waiting list for 5 years now. Two different people. Two journeys.

It's 1982 and four boys make it their task to debunk the local ghost story.

Documentary on Atikamekw craftsmanship that switches to documentary on the challenges of transmission within the community, the preservation of traditional indigenous knowledge and especially its protection from the various assaults of the world. There will be no moccasin movie. This is how the director's grandmother, Eden Awashish, decides to respond to the granddaughter project. The film will therefore speak to us about transmission but without revealing secrets that do not belong to us.

This short film pays tribute to Toronto philanthropist Earlaine Collins.

'Dream, Scheme and Self-Esteem.' Stricken, but not struck down by a slough of mental illnesses, Jimmy Leung's drive to become an action movie star becomes something of a reality as he and director Ryan Flowers train to become healthy, stable, and make a movie together.

Follows the life of Filip Konowal, the only Ukrainian Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross, awarded for his part in the Battle of Hill 70 and Vimy Ridge. His war-time exploits are almost unbelievable, killing 22 of the enemy in 48 hours, sometimes with his bare hands.

Late night Winnipeg adventure

The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as it surprises. He tells Christmas in his own way, through his stories featuring the protagonists of the small village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. An unprecedented encounter of the symphonic world and the universe of this artist of words. Concert recorded on December 16 and 17, 2011 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.

Constructed from personal and public collections, this video is a moving back and forth in memory.

Filmed in Victoriaville, the film uses images from various sources to paint a cynical portrait of the violent boredom that reigns in rural areas. Quiet sequences of people sharing joints by the river are followed by a lone car speeding along wooded roads, as if seeking speed on the brink of accident. Thuya abandons technical mastery in favor of intimate and spontaneous filming, composing a raw self-documentation of daily stagnation. Filmed mainly in a single day of improvisation, based on chance encounters and found footage.

Looking for a place to sleep, Parker attempts to reconnect with Sydney, but his selective memory gets him in trouble when her new lover Rachita is involved.

A short documentary by David Shortt and the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition highlighting the root causes of queer and trans poverty in British Columbia.

Chandler is an emerging porn star and self-described sexual deviant trying to make it big in Toronto. Meaghan is a socially attuned empath and aspiring actor making experimental art films in LA. They both happen to have cerebral palsy, and they're sick of society's normative standards of beauty getting in the way of their dreams. A raw, intimate portrait of two people's distinct journeys on their first attempts to shift the social perceptions of sexuality and disability.

Referencing a popular fairy tale and a new source of protein, the first IMAX cinema in Indonesia—the Keong Emas Theatre—was built to resemble a golden apple snail. Moving between tiny and monumental, soft and solid, mythical and invasive, this graceful animal is making its slow-paced way through the topography of IMAX cinema itself.

Upon traveling to Budapest to meet her extended family for the first time, filmmaker Sophy Romvari attempts to document her late grandmother’s apartment through images of the past and present.

Six bikini models compete for a ten thousand dollar cash prize and a chance to get the lead role in a movie.

A young man tries to court his fellow co-worker with his charm.