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An altruistic vlogger, feeling under-appreciated by the person whose life she helped save, decides to take her blood donation back.

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during World War II. He called the FBI and the FBI charged J.P. Getty with Espionage, FBI File 100.1202, June 26, 1940. 43,000 people were killed in the UK while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin still shipping oil to Hitler five months before Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941. The mother of J.P. Getty was German. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that in Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants

When a kid starts spending time in the real world, it's up to his smartphone to bring his attention back to where it belongs.

A stopover at a roadside motel triggers a surreal and haunting psychodrama for a woman as she prepares herself and her family for a visit to her ailing her mother.

In Malartic, in Abitibi, people are driven away from their land, from the towns they built with their own hands. Then comes the gaping hole, the scar on the Earth: the open-pit mine. And the company is paying for it all with nothing more than the promise of a shining future.

A Werewolf meets a Gargoyle.

What would you do if your only child died mysteriously in another country and was buried sight unseen? Following the epic 10-year journey of an elderly Chinese couple searching for the truth behind their son’s death in Canada, this film is a rare revelation of immigration, mental health and a Kafkaesque state bureaucracy at the heart of global migration.

A young couple sings from their apartment windows about the unshared bagel that ended their relationship. Part of the Seven Sins film project.

Sol and Jed are an uninspiring pair from an uninspiring town. But when their usual day turns into a strange predicament involving drugs, embezzlement, pineapples, jalopies, and a masked psychopath, they face the great question within: Ever wanna go someplace? And anything's better than running circles in life... right?

Experience Madagascar like never before with this beautiful and enthralling documentary that takes you through the cultures and traditions of the Malagasies.

This LGBTQ+ film follows the story of two lovers trapped in an unfortunate situation as they try to comprehend the reality of these circumstances.

A stunning virtuoso turn from these two partners in life and art. A home movie where the library musings and theory shuffles are re-rooted in domestic space, in relationship. The tape insists that artmaking, and even the utopias it conjures, cannot be separated from the way we love, eat, or wash the dishes. It celebrates the hand-made, the make-shift, the provisional (no more monuments! unless they’re made of cardboard and felt and wool), and everywhere there is ingenious invention and a generous good humour, particularly when the artists don flesh suits and hoist a giant-sized sharpie to underline their fave utopia reading bits from the oversized texts that surround them.

While on tour in Canada, a Belgian band stop for gas in a quiet village but find more than they bargained for.

Punk rock, direct animation with a tip of the hat to Len Lye.

After surviving life altering brain injuries, a former NFL Cheerleader and a young boy find healing through a ground breaking method that takes their recovery above and beyond the medical system's prognosis.

The eighteen minute video recounts the ‘disremembered’ journey of the Bowen family from its earliest documented history in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia in 1815, as told by Bowen herself.

Chris Burden’s 747 re-performed in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Installation, video (3D animation, 11:53 min.), synthetic fur, porcelain, fragrances, silicone, wax, various monitor and tablet holders, printed fabric, customized treatment tables, variable dimensions, 2019.

A young man escapes his bullies by following a rabbit into a fantasy world as his drawings come to life.

Fully filmed and edited using a super-8 camera, Resistfilm moves between structure and poetry, playing a multiple game of masks and superimpositions that underline the organic character of celluloid.

Finding Fidel tells the remarkable story of war cameraman Erik Durschmied, who in 1958 journeyed to Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains to interview a little-known rebel leader named Fidel Castro. A month later, Castro's band of fighters rolled into Havana, and the world would never be the same. Finding Fidel follows Durschmied as he returns to Cuba on the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution, retracing his original route to the mountains after an ailing Fidel has handed power over to his brother Raul and the island is waiting for change.

On a deserted back road in the middle of nowhere, Blake and Reagan are setting off to start a new life in the big city. Constant fighting and car problems are just the beginning of their trouble, as they will soon discover that they are not alone on this road. Two sisters, a duo of criminals and something much worse wait for them. Their situation quickly turns from a move to trying to survive the horrors of THE HARVESTMAN. Shot on location in Hays, Alberta with a budget that gives a whole new meaning to no-budget filmmaking. The Harvestman was created by a group of people who share a love of movies. With the help and support of a dedicated group of volunteers they crafted a homage to the grindhouse films of the 60s and 70s.

This short film pays tribute to ballet dancer Anik Bissonnette as she takes the reins of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec.

After turning down a long, seemingly abandoned, road in a 1968 Ford Galaxie named Archie, Yuna encounters a philosophical hitchhiker, a girl with (almost) pink hair and an unusual Old Lady who asks her to put all of who she is in a small empty box. Embarking on a journey down this long un-named road, our trio fall into series of mis-adventures in which they discuss the appropriate assemblage of a sandwich, struggle to pee in the woods, build illegal campfires, debate what to put in empty boxes, and contemplate their own existence. This heart-felt quirky drama does not shy away from the truth, whether that be the fragility of dreams, homes and life itself, or the destructive nature of loss and mental disorders. "A Girl, A Boy, A Penny and a Very, Very, Very Long Road" is an indie-film that inspires trust, self-love and bravery.

Roughly translated terroir can mean a sense of place and coming from a place. This piece is an image/sound portrait of a personal geography as well as formal investigation of digital media. Captured entirely on a cell phone, the camera records a landscape in constant motion and disintegration. This fluctuating image is married to a sound-scape that grasps for connection that reaches over distance. It is generated from the messages left by friends and loved ones on my cellphone over the course of several years. The raw material of both image and sound come from the same place, the cell phone, which I use to record the environment around me as I move across the Canadian landscape. Rarely does one stay where one is born, we move, modern life almost necessitates it. This piece explores notions of communication and distance, technology and intimacy.

Tracking the exotic pet trade of otters across the globe, is a story of gangsters and guns, mammals and middlemen.

A romantic evening for two boyfriends leads to unexpected results.

Inuit youth speak to what their culture means to them, in this portrait of life in Kugluktuk, Nunavut.

A young girl who is fascinated by unicorns comes into conflict with her parents and her catholic school when she demands that her confirmation sponsor be her aunt, who is a transgender woman.

A young boy carries around with him a pair of red high-heeled woman's shoes. Much to the dismay of his father.

Children guide the audience through a vision of shifting digital polygons in this CGI take of the beloved NFB classic Helicopter Canada. An expression of the experience of wonder and discovery, carved from pixels and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

In Mulch, a young man named Lance (Joel Corriveau) is suffering from repressed memories relating to the violent death of his parents and then the traumatic murders of his friends. Dr. Darnell (Darren Toderick), his doctor and the world's most irresponsible psychiatrist, decides to force Lance to confront his fears by returning to the rural scene of his friends' deaths. Along for the ride on this ill-advised field trip are two other of the doctor's patients, a whimpering agoraphobic (Justin Peeler) and a busty paranoid narcissist (Lindsey Queen). But waiting for them, in the woods, are a trio of backwoods psychopaths with a gruesome passion for gardening. And these twisted green thumbs traffic in a fertilizer that's decidedly more red. Part gross-out comedy, part exploitation gore-fest, Mulch is chockablock with disgustingly over the top blood, guts, boobs, and dark comedy.

This behind the scenes documentary witnesses the making of Erin Costelo’s new album “Sweet Marie”, set for release in October 2018. The story of this new work unfolds across a series of recording sessions filled with creative flourish and collaboration that both highlight Costelo’s musical achievements and show the painstaking efforts to reach new heights. It is an intimate look at an artist’s process, in a carefully chosen environment, and offers a sneak peek at what is sure to be Costelo’s most successful album to date.

ZOOM was made from videotapes stolen from a house. The selected sequences depict an absurd relationship with others and with nature through video excerpts filmed by an unknown person in Antoine Larocque's hometown (Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada) in the 1990s. The man who filmed these images was found dead a few years ago. He lived alone, isolated, and had developed a compulsive hoarding disorder. He died of a heart attack while playing the video game DOOM on his X-BOX. The images added to this question challenge our relationship with images.

Every year, thousands of Shia Muslims meet in the village of Nabatiyyeh in Lebanon to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, assassinated in 680 A.D. It is by far the most important religious event in the Shia cult, and leads to the formation of immense mass movements all around the world. Mystic Mass describes extensively this 24h ceremony, and deconstructs its indivisible, ever united, mystic mass, since its formation early in the morning of Ashoura, up to its dissolution in the afternoon of the same day.

Will Brown, A life coach, investigates the connection of the Duppy-Man and the disappearance of two of his clients while on vacation in Jamaica.

After 18 years living in Italy, the Cuban Barbara Ramos returns to live in her homeland. In the town of Santa Clara, she discovers through the projects of family and friends what has changed in Cuba but also what has not and will likely never change. Shot over a period of three years - the time it took Barbara to build her dream house - RETURN TO CUBA chronicles her life in the wake of Raul Castro's liberal reforms and reconciliation with the United States of America. A light-hearted yet energetic movie positively demonstrating that finding happiness is possible in today's Cuba!

The Captain is the story of a young, charismatic superhero who keeps having his identity revealed at the hands of his arch nemesis, The Gigabandit!

A young talented director on a location scout in the abandoned psychiatric hospital of a rural community inadvertently awakens the ghost of a tormented soul seeking retribution.

The fictitious space-rock duo DEATH VAN tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

Five childhood friends, former top athletes, reunite after five years of college. Their one-week reunion slip into excessive alcohol, lucid self-reflection, and unconditional friendship.

Sound and visual essay showcasing the light, wind, movement, breath, and the strength of the Earth. Inspired by writings of Thich Nhat Hanh.

In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary Oliver’s iconic poem Wild Geese.

Ross Lipman's new film frames an act of self-archiving within a larger, essayistic mediation on the relationship between experimental practice and independent arthouse cinema.

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no exception, from a short that interrogates “things that mean other things before becoming a thing that means other things in itself,” and a performance piece that juxtaposes two postmodern 1994 horror films, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare to explore both the redemptive and destructive powers of storytelling.

This video follows the poignant life of discarded latex condom. After serving humanity valiantly, we see it explores self-awareness, love and eventually dissolution and death.

An experimental documentary about my mother’s increasing blindness and getting by in daily life. It mixes my visual imagination with hers.

A woman witnesses the murder of her best friend and falls into a doomed love affair to avoid her grief.

An unfaithful wife is compelled to make one sacrifice. Will she sacrifice her husband, boyfriend, or her life?

In Pain’s An Illusion, the second offering of Gallant’s Chosen series, Jodie Foster delivers a scathing monologue from her 1980 film, Foxes.

An essay on the shape of a continent from the sound transcription of its watersheds.

IS THERE A PICTURE tells the remarkable-and improbable-story of a unique group of artists who used photography to launch a far-flung city into the fine arts stratosphere. An outgrowth of our earlier production, PICTURE START, this 95-minute documentary tracks the rise of Marian Penner Bancroft, Christos Dikeakos, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall and Ian Wallace from the rich countercultural milieu of 1960s Vancouver, to their place of global prominence today. Drawing back the curtain on this extraordinary set of artists, IS THERE A PICTURE offers rare insight into their work, their relationships with one another, and how it is they emerged in a city until recently known more for its surrounding forests than its art.

Using natural elements and sounds, this experimental film explores the connection between the body and land.

Barry Doupé’s Thalé (2009) experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Doupé’s animations are inspired by the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments. His rotating electronic floras, which resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks, glow in the dark digital void. - Amy Kazymerchyk, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté