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Immeuble-Villas is an ongoing series of abstract interior spaces where electronic textures and architectural elements are subtly animated. The series references Le Corbusier’s standardization of apartment buildings. Each video loop is meant to be displayed as tableaux on individual screens.
A series of cinematic portraits shot in domestic spaces in a former gold mining town in New Zealand expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-camera layering effects.
In a world where balloons are filled with the light of film, a father must find the time to pop one with his son before it loses its light forever.
A skateboarder witnesses his best friend get killed by a local drug lord, and is faced with paranoia wondering if he's next, all while struggling to cope with the death of his friend and tries to settle the score.
Five men have been imprisoned by the Canadian government without ever having seen the evidence against them.
Images from the past are projected onto the left-behind spaces of the present in a poetic act of haunting and resurrection as the filmmaker tries to recreate the memory of her grandmother.
Bruno bumps into his friend Sébas by chance, two weeks after abandoning him in the middle of a home theft contract. Back with his ex-girlfriend, new responsibilities weigh on Bruno. Everything suggests that he will have to stop his work as a thug to restructure his life, but nothing has been done yet.
In 2015, Jaene turned 40. This lead them to become introspective about their unusual life history. From a childhood of severe abuse, neglect, psychiatric institutionalization and being in care, they grew to become a street involved sex worker by 20. They met Elder Isaac Day from Serpent River First Nations in the early 2000's. Through his teachings and ceremonies at Thunder Mountain, Jaene was able to turn their life around. This film is a narrative driven experimental self portrait of that journey.
What happens when the largest redevelopment in North America dismantles the place where social housing began? Will the community and its residents ever be the same? Farewell Regent is a 90-minute documentary that captures the Regent Park community of downtown Toronto (the place where social housing began in Canada) in the midst of the largest housing redevelopment project in North America. With this transition, it will go from a site of 100% social housing to a mixed-income community where condo units will outnumber the social housing units 4 to 1. The documentary profiles past and current tenants, city officials, developers and housing advocates to get an inside view of the complex issues, emotions and drama that are involved in such a massive redevelopment.
A surrealist comedy about sisters living in isolation on their farmland, who harvest and smoke glitter that gives them super strength.
After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.
Le Dauphin is a popular bar. Within its walls, regulars come to soak up the lively atmosphere, defying stereotypes.
Antoine, a social worker starting in a new special needs class, face the biggest challenge of his young career: to help a pupil successfully write a T letter.
An evil omnipotent Queen. 3 spies determined to topple her regime. A magical wig that holds a secret source of power. Will the Queen meet her final hour? A surrealist and sexy queer espionage film that reimagines the Biblical Samson and Delilah fable.
The Lacosse family goes on a roadtrip to Rockglen, SK.
After a job goes wrong, a woman flees to her hometown in southern Colombia. Along the way she encounters a mysterious figure, which might be the embodied spirit of an ancient plant. A non-linear video installation uses experimental animation to tell a story about psychotropic plants, crime and Colombian society.
The Hammerstone is an atmospheric documentary about memory, artefacts, and the generations of stories that have travelled through a single farm in rural Canada.
A woman hikes to a secluded section of the Seymour River in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.
The true story of the filmmaker's great uncle Jimmy, a gay chorus dancer on Broadway who checked himself into rehab for addiction and made a surprising new friend. Fresh Start/Old Blood enacts the crucial turning point in Jimmy's life; his full story is told in the 25 minute film, The Man That Got Away.
A darkly comic film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage, loss, humour and joy. With a score that follows the span of her life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film is narrated by performers who range in age from nine to sixty-nine. Her story is illustrated with images of people, animals, and landscapes.
Biomes is a series of 4 paintings in motion inspired by the the surrealist landscapes of Tanguy and Kay Sage. Digital and analog video techniques are used to simulate painterly effects in an interplay between soft, harsh, mat and shiny surfaces, different shades of light and the illusion of depth or flatness. Biomes are portraits of post human environments where uncanny life forms materialize and slowly detach themselves from the horizon, to finally melt into their respective landscapes.
Tales of Two Who Dreamt is set in a housing block in Toronto and pivots on representation and self-representation. Here, a Roma family rehearses the stories of their past for the upcoming hearing on their residency status.
The real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life. Was later expanded into a feature length documentary.
Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an endless looking, or relooking. The mirror (phase) offers a time without end, a glassy eye that throws back the world as an endless picture. It invites its subject to become a picture as well. The mirror is already part of a loop, a cycle of seeing and seen. Though of course the mirror is the hidden watcher, it watches its watchers, endlessly. As Derrida says: The force of the image has to do less with the fact that one sees something in it than with the fact that one is seen... The image sees more than it is seen.
Jay Tanner and his crew have been getting rich off of faking demon hunts and posting them on YOUTUBE. Unfortunately for Jay and his crew this demon hunt turns real.
Fester Fish must watch his bratty nephew, on the same day he's supposed to have a date with his girlfriend!
A year ago, Julie’s parents died in a car crash. She moves and meets new people, argues, plays sports, goes to an amusement park… As she wanders through the sunny summer of 1996, she grows, changes and blossoms.
Can’t Close Your Eyes is a video series that Ethan Hib has created to show off both local and international punk/hardcore acts. Each episode features performance clips, interviews with bands, artists, and/or other people involved in the scene.
In this thrilling doc, two world champion women boxers and former friends must face each other in the ring for a chance to win gold at the 2012 Olympics.
Manitoba folk painter and sculptor tried unsuccessfully for nearly 10 years to will his land, sculptures and 500 paintings to the province of Manitoba.Folk and outsider art is universally celebrated …..except in Manitoba, where it is considered disposable, or in the case of Armand Lemiez and the assessment by the provincial Minister of Culture "to have no cultural value".
Thirteen year old Wayne is a volunteer swim instructor at the local youth centre. He discovers that helping kids is kind of like a revolving door.
“On the most basic of levels, Drive with Persephone recasts the ancient myth of Persephone's abduction in the language of YouTube 'drive with me' vlogs. On closer inspection, the work is so much more, perhaps above all in its compassionate register of the perils and exultations of adolescence, and the wisdom and cruelty of old age. A timely, potent rumination on the enduring, immutable cycle of life and death, MilleFeuille's video confronts—with a mixture of stoicism and defiant hope—the unmooring of social life in our apparently hyper-connected world.” description written by Greg Cohen, Festival of (In)Appropriation
An exploration of what happens when a small group in the remote Arctic community of Nunavut decides to hold an LGBT2Q+ pride celebration.
A group of friends travel to the supposedly haunted “Forest of Shadows”, where legends say a young girl went missing after meeting a man dressed all in black.
Juskatla weaves together perspectives of the people who live on the islands of Haida Gwaii-an archipelago on Canada's Northwest coast, and the ancestral territories of the Haida Nation. From industrial loggers who harvest trees from ancient forests, to Sphenia Jones, a Haida matriarch who bears an intimate knowledge of her People's territories, Juskatla meditates on the divergent ways of being that shape the islands and its people.
Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned the language of our masters. Though we couldn’t help wondering why so few of you bothered to learn ours. Three scenes featuring horses, remembering Jacinto. The first is a daytime forest haunting that winds up at a carousel, the second a rainy street in Portugal, the finale a nighttime vigil of fire and water.
An exploration of love and lust in nature.
A young couple lives in their old truck with a full sized alligator. When they stop to eat at a roadside cantina in rural Mexico, the Colonel who runs the town takes a threatening interest in the lady, which he comes to regret when he meets the couple’s traveling companion.
A honeymoon retreat goes south when the newlyweds find a group of rowdy friends in THEIR cottage! Apparently the cottage is double booked and neither side willing to leave they tough it out, but in the morning things go from bad to worse...
Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score by Montreal-based musician Jason Sharp, Daïchi Saïto’s Engram of Returning is an epic 35mm CinemaScope metaphysical travelogue that reveals a supernal world which pulses and flickers with formal patterns and deep hues.
The curmudgeonly bicycle maker attempts to set a cycling distance record.
Canadian Marc Emery's pot activism leads him to an American prison.
Every individual confronts fundamental questions about the nature of reality, self-identity, and elusive happiness, yet few make these their life goal. An international group of students have traveled to a monastery in a remote area of southern India with the single purpose of discovering these answers. GURUKULAM is a journey into their lives, a wisdom tradition, and the contemplative space in which it is carried.
Views from the sea.
This short documentary filmed in Pangnirtung features 2 elders reminiscing about the dances held in their community 50 years ago. One of the elders is master accordion player Simeonie Keenainak, and soon he's making toe-tapping music with his instrument. In this celebration of the pleasures of music and dance, Keenainak plays for the enjoyment of friends, family, and the community at large.
Short film by Jinny Yu, shot on 16mm colour film and transferred to HD. Sound by Jung Hun Yoo.
Has internet anonymity unleashed a 'dark demon' lurking in all of us? A film that reveals the hard truths surrounding anonymity dark instincts and freedom on the internet. Smartphones have put the internet into our pockets and billions of people around the world are now connected online.
Trapped in a nightmare world full of homophobic bullies, people who want to cure him, and a teacher who seems determined to make his life miserable, our closeted queer youth is forced to come face-to-face with his 'deviant' sexual ways.
After failed attempts to reach Europe, César, Félou, and Érik end up in Bamako, Mali, deported but determined to pursue their dreams. Amih fights to escape unfulfillment and create a better future for herself and her children. Their paths converge in Bamako, a transit city for migrants whose hopes of entering the West have been shattered. Despite struggles, they seek freedom through poetry, theatre, and song, expressing the inexpressible and standing against oppressive forces. Collateral victims of the global economic crisis, they aspire to live life on their own terms. Their dreams and words resonate with universal truths, embodying power.
Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction and providing assistance. Made during a Geneva workshop, using the archives of the Red Cross.
A group of friends throw a party on the prairies only to have it crashed by deadly gophers with no mercy. Together, they must fight to survive before they are overcome by these, thought to be, harmless rodents.
Six months following the events of her documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River, Alanis Obomsawin returns to the Cree community of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario, whose severe housing crisis in 2011 made international headlines. While the public outcry resulted in some short-term relief for the most in need, Obomsawin reveals that the crisis persists in the isolated First Nation. Relief homes sent to the community are not equipped to deal with the harsh winter, as overcrowding and homelessness remain daily realities. Despite their ordeals, the residents of Attawapiskat remain strong, united in love and a belief that a better future must be achieved.
An international team of art restorers and archaeologists begin work on the restoration of medieval frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges and systemic neglect of archaeological sites, the team encounters a community of shepherds and migrants that have used the caves for centuries and discover a living culture worth preserving most of all.
A short documentary film about provocative Israeli playwright, actress and internet celebrity Natali Cohen Vaxberg - "Sh*tting on the Israeli flag".
Traveling on an undefined territory where the illusion of a continuous tracking shot emphasizes an unreachable destination. Through the syncopated editing and multiple transitions, images of the area themselves become traveling entities, creating confusion on the level of the depicted space as much as with the level of its temporality.
An animated short film made with 6,490 photographs of spin art micro paintings.
Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members to their kidnapped loved ones—heartrending messages of grief, support, and, against all odds, hope.
Blackout is a short, animated documentary about the 2003 power failure in much of the eastern seaboard of the U.S and Canada for up to 4 days.
A comedy special featuring everyday people as they read from their embarrassing teenage journals, poems, songs, essays (and more). The wonderful intensity of of tortured poetry meets delightfully soul-baring free verse for the totally sincere musings of the teenage mind. It's comedy on growth hormones. The bold souls who take the stage to read their own youthful writings remind us that everyone has at one time gone through the trials of Teen Angst.