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The film follows Sam, a falconer and naturalist living on the North Mountain of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. Through performance and documentary, Tetrault conducted interviews with Sam on the relationship a falconer has with a bird of prey, and the possibility for over-identification and projection onto the bird.

What's in a name? Filmmaker Yung Chang explores the meaning and origins of both of his names: the one given to him in Oshawa when he was born and the Chinese name that drew him back to his homeland.

Shot on Super 8 using pages from Greg Bright's "Fontana Mazes." All edits are in-camera. The score was created by using a video feed of the film recorded as an audio track.

Life in Berry Bitty City is always better when Strawberry and her friends try their berry best! Princess Berrykin decides to bring back an old tradition, and Blueberry spends so much time worrying about manners that she forgets what's really important. When a Good Citizens Club is formed, Plum learns that fitting in with others is fine, as long as she follows her heart. Lemon and Raspberry work together to clean up a playground, and soon see the berrytastic value of teamwork. Strawberry helps out the Postmaster Bee, who shows her the value of honest effort. It's friendship and helping hands to the rescue in these sweet, fun-filled adventures!

After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male. After a considerable amount of thought and discussion, Cuthand changed her mind and decided to remain a Butch Lesbian. Explaining her decision, she touches on the desire to maintain a connection to the Lesbian community, as well as the sexy genderfucking that happens when one is a masculine woman.

Three very different bands compete for the opening slot at the show of a lifetime. A study of spirit and spirits in small town Ontario.

A young woman with an intellectual disability, Hélène relies on her close friendship with a co-worker at a pastry factory. When her friend leaves to take another job, the impact is all too clear in this sometimes heartbreaking but deeply humane story about our need for connection regardless of ability.

Created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak of Virtu Media, this will be their first full length film release. Featuring up and coming riders in British Columbia; we follow them throughout the province and down into the United States. Shot on location in Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver's North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Vancouver Island, Oyama, and Green River, Utah.

In their new documentary, Mélanie Ladouceur and François "Yo" Gourd explore the 50-year history of the Rhinoceros Party, that mighty nose-thumbing at Canadian federal politics founded in 1963 by Dr. Jacques Ferron. From its auspicious beginnings to the Belgian "peace treaty" of 1980 to the recent proposal to unite Quebec and Cuba, it’s a history of irreverence and poetry, madness and pandemonium that raises the question : without its court jesters, is a democracy really worthy of the name.

A documentary about maximalist Toronto media artist and sculptor Allyson Mitchell as she preps her Ladies Sasquatch installation – a fake fur creature wonderland. The large-bodied sasquatch ladies are feminist exclamation marks and icons, celebrating their “different bodies,” as the artist explains in a winning voice-over that drives the movie. Thrift store accumulations and found handicrafts are repurposed, blurring ideas of craft and art, high and low. How to turn what is overlooked, discarded and without value, or even feared and despised, and put these bodies at the centre of a new conversation? Mitchell’s work provides a blueprint for how to love our monsters.

When a little girl finds solace in between her mother's legs. Biggest fears become reality.

The history of Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, and the modern day controversy surrounding his statue.

In his search for happiness in North America, a European man discovers the pleasures of Fantasy Baseball. Using his new appreciation for sports as a metaphor to re-imagine his life choices, he begins to find new meaning in the world around him. Numbers & Friends is a playful and amorphous cine-essay about sports fandom and cultural identity.

C’est La Vie: The Chris J. Melnychuk Story documents the award-winning animator’s (Alien, Zap Girl Makes Toast) battle with tongue cancer. Building on live footage from Chris’s last, unfinished film, C’est La Vie was created posthumously through the collaboration of 19 animators from Quickdraw Animation in Calgary, Canada.

A man goes in search of his father, who disappeared without a trace in a forest that is said to be haunted.

Jean Beaudin talks about his life and his love of cinema as he fights an invisible opponent in a boxing ring.

A suite in four movements performed with two 16mm projectors. Created with a series of film loops rendered individually with sprayed paint, scraped and abraded softened black emulsion, pin and hole punctures, india ink craquelure and meticulous frame by frame application. By manipulating the image, introducing carefully orchestrated lens interference with colour gels, frame-edge masking, vignetting and glass objects, Phosphene Induces a variation on closed-eye vision and non-light hallucination: a subtly immersive and sublime sculpting of light.

Inclinations began as a moment of “crip” play. The ramp becomes a source of creative movement. Dancers can move in ways that they cannot move on flat surfaces and the ramp itself becomes an artistic object, transformed albeit temporarily into an environment that reveals connection, trust, beauty, and desire. Choreographed, directed, and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video delves into the playful connection enabled where disability, community, and ramp meet.

Vancouver's esports scene is on the cusp to unstoppable growth. The local fighting games community tells all on what it took to get this far.

Don, a Canadian air gunner in World War II, lives through distant dreams, homesick memories and visceral fears. Based a collection of letters written to his love overseas from 1943 to 1944, this young man's inner turmoil manifests around him in dreamlike reminiscence and isolation, fighting to stay hopeful for a future.

Pepper's Ghost, by Torontonian Stephen Broomer, transforms an office formerly used for observation studies into a tunnel of performative, transfixing illusionism, creating surprising images using filters, fabric and a combination of sunlight and fluorescents. Recalling Slidelength (1969-71), Michael Snow's slideshow of plastic gels and hand gestures, Pepper's Ghost is a prolonged expression of demystified mystification, whose startling results are bolstered by a bold soundtrack.

Beerocracy is a feature documentary about the craft brewing industry in New Brunswick, Canada - a small province vying to be a national beer destination. It tells the stories of brewers both big and small, drinkers, and the regulations that shape, help and hinder the popular craft alcohol industry.

A reworking of footage featuring a witch.

At the University Hospital of Lyon, a team of doctors led by a surgeon, Dr. Morel-Journel, takes care of patients who ask to change their sex. Pier, Léo, Valérie, each in their own way reveal this necessary transition and the upheavals it has caused in their lives. At the same time, the doctors question the specificity of this identity disorder and their legitimacy to act.

Spousal abuse and chipmunks, 911 bringing us all together, and the world of fancy hats. All that and more from Canadian Comedian Mark Forward's first comedy special: Mark Forward presents...Mark Forward.

Squame explores the body's sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.

An interview with economist Bernard Maris, a.k.a. 'Oncle Bernard', who was killed during the Charlie Hebdo shooting, on January 7, 2015.

A Universal Language, documents the exciting once in a life time journey of six Canadian comedians, among them Canadian comedy icon Mark Breslin, as they explore comedy, identity and history throughout the Holy Land and use the weapons of comedy to try an

One of the world’s leading pianists and foremost interpreters of Bach’s music, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.

This short film pays tribute to Acadian actress Viola Léger.

Family members, entertainers and organizer of the Walk 4 Justice discuss the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

Our Star, the Sun presents imagery of sunlight reflected on different bodies of water. When layered over one another, the reflections become reminiscent of a starry night; the water changes from sea to sky and back again. This work combines hand processed Super 8 film and iPhone videos.

In a windswept grasslands grave yard, elementary students of the Strathcona Tweedsmuir school gather to honor First Nations children that between 1885 and 1922 died while attending the Dunbow Indian Industrial School near Calgary. Subjected to neglect, malnutrition, disease and abuse, many were buried in unmarked graves on the school grounds and largely forgotten. Struggling to come to terms with the dark history of the residential schools in Canada, the students embark on an emotional journey to give voice and an identity to those First Nations children that were buried and forgotten there long ago.

A recreational virtual reality user falls victim to the malevolent nature of her personal AI system.

Four characters from Moncton go shopping for the necessities of life, and find that expensive.

In the midst of a record drought wells on the Seventh Line are drying up. A search to locate a new well on Wingfield Farm ensues, but distractions abound: a high-tech cattle drive, a battle with yellow jackets, a feud with a red-tailed hawk, an eccentric line-up of water witches and a well driller who is only too happy to perforate the ground at forty dollars a foot. Is it the end of farming for Walt and Maggie, or can the precious liquid be found?

A documentary goes inside the out-of-time world of modern Hasidic women.

Two young boys search for their past and struggle to survive in a world gone straight to hell.

you’re a plant whisperer and for me, it’s enough studies the materiality of the analog image and the relationship between the musicality of the image and sound, in an attempt to create an introspective atmosphere. The video consists of two monochromatic shots generated using a VHS video mixer, each combining with a figurative image shot on Super 8 film. Treating colour as a conductor of emotions, all the images evoke inaccessibility, perfection and dream, in parallel with a meditative and transcendent soundtrack.

A 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.

The film focuses on Tommy Zeigler, a man convicted of killing his wife, her mother and father, and another male in his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store on Christmas eve in 1975. But did he actually do it?

Georgette, the resident fag hag, hatches a plan to get rid of a rival, but the outcome is not what she had anticipated…

A biographic look at a break-up and infidelity.

Actor/singer Brent Carver sings and performs Shakespeare.

Cave Small Cave Big is a film written by five-year-olds Madeline Harker and Adelaide Schwartz. Made to respect the gravity of the material, the film jumps from character to character as they cope with the transience of ownership, capturing that moment in a young mind when new muscles are stretched to grapple with ideas about possession and loss.

Murray McLauchlan says his battered second-hand guitar is haunted by all the musicians who ever played it.

Master. Gh.Nami is known as one of the most outstanding and important Iranian painters and visual artists who has been living his life in Toronto as an immigrant for the past 10 years. The film is a visual, musical, poetic docudrama.

Uncovering this forgotten piece of Toronto queer music history, artists Hortie and Reynolds recreate Jackie's story using original shadow puppets, overhead animation and stop motion techniques. Follow Jackie through the 1960s Toronto Yonge Street music scene, the tabloid rumours and scandals, to the mysterious disappearance.

White Noise explores the links between people and their land, and how fragile this relationship can be. Even though the film is presented under the themes of material and metaphysical loss and grief, the poetic discourse calls for hope through respect and humility.

Following her partner's funeral, a young woman and her newly-inherited greyhound explore the awkward weight of grief in a honeymoon suite, leaving the weight of another death.

Reclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on Earth after white people leave a destroyed planet behind for Mars. While seemingly dystopic, this film is filled with hope and humor and looks at potential solutions for current crises.

By teaching a teenage boy how to win over a girl, a crusty bookstore owner learns to resolve his own romantic troubles.