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“Bored in Heaven” follows New Years celebrations in Putian, Fujian, Southeast China. An experiential project based on 20 years of research by Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman, this film illustrates the growing intensity of local traditions, as rural villages and their temples transition into a new century. Villages in this part of China are undergoing radical transformations. As land that was once public and agricultural is rebuilt and changes hands, the intricate temple system has responded. During the Cultural Revolution temples were torn down—now they are being built up into ritual alliances.

A talented pianist struggles with everyday life.

Maisie (14) and Kohe (6) talk about the work of their dad, Chad Baba, an artist, junk repurposer, local Edmonton treasure and awesome dad.

A teenager lives under the shadow of his controlling mother in peripheral Israel. The story takes place in the limited space of the house, where the sensitive and introvert son takes care of his mother and her needs. Beneath their day to day survival, the film explores questions of marginality and poverty in a society searching for its identity.

Inspired by Japanese experimental cinema, Ghostly is an audiovisual composition that uses traditional techniques, such as long exposure photography and stop-motion animation, and pushes them to their limits through digital media. Using the frame rate as a way to create rhythmic interconnections between sound and image, the stop-motion animation oscillates between 6 and 48 frames per seconds. The sounds of this work were created and edited in direct relation to the flow of the image.

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.

What does it take to be a fashion designer in Canada? Follow fabulous designers Jason Matlo, Som Kong and others as they take us through the process of becoming a designer and building a successful brand.

Caroline Leaf’s films are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, which evolves from the innovative hand-crafted animation techniques she invented: beach sand and painting on glass and scratching in the emulsion of film stock. The medium is always at the service of a dark and brooding storytelling touched by flashes of humour. This box set celebrating the talents of a master animator comprises all her classics: The Owl Who Married a Goose, The Street, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa and Two Sisters, as well as Interview, made with Veronika Soul. The DVD includes a student film, an animated video done for MTV, a comprehensive biofilmography and a brand-new director’s commentary on Two Sisters.

By merging hidden camera footage from a patient’s hysterectomy, with interviews of the objects used in these procedures and spaces, Stealth poignantly and humorously mobilizes ‘sousveillance’ to subvert the perspective of surveilling machinery. Through a triangulation of corporeal, medical and military technologies, Stealth provocatively points to previously unexplored histories and relationships between inanimate objects and human bodies.

In the early 1970’s, 23 year old Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, drilled a hole in her head — that is she trepanned herself. Now 74, Amanda is a leader of the renaissance in scientific psychedelic research.

A teenager, despite his good grades, has a huge need to pee.

When a student's bag is swiped out from under his nose, he has no other choice than to chase down the thief.

Totally tropical apocalypse.

"Ô Criatura: Navigating (dis)location" is a documentary that captures an East Van Latinx artist’s reflections on identity and belonging, and on how social, cultural, and discursive realities influence her life.

Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora.

Short by Mitch Doll and Kendall Latimer.

The Pilgrimage: a tale of the Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage that spans nearly a thousand kilometers across Spain. In 2010 over 300,000 people attempted the arduous walk - each individual in search for something. The Pilgrimage documentary is the story of two brothers seeking adventure, inner wisdom and peace of mind.

These images were captured during a long afternoon spent sitting in front of the Pantheon in Rome, paced by the sound of a shutter regularly opening and closing for long exposures whose duration was counted off in a whisper. At precise intervals, the photosensitive surface recorded the constant flow of tourists, people-watchers, cars and animals as they moved, stopped, gathered, and took photos. The historic building thus reveals itself as a magnet whose pull on people has lasted for centuries. "I Was Here" is a reference to the common phrase often found scratched on public walls, marks left as visible proof of a person’s visit to a place. Like that age-old practice, travel photography is an attempt to record a person’s presence in a particular place – a photographed place taken home as proof.

Abdoul Aziz Sakho fastens his rooftop sign - number 148 - to his cab and embarks on an evening of driving mostly familiar passengers to their destinations in and around Iqaluit. It's a routine night ... until Sakho picks up an unsettling fare.

Static winter forms melt in sunlight.

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.

In A Sweet and Sour Christmas, director Aram Siu Wai Collier and producer Betty Xie follow two types of holiday meals at the King Wok Restaurant: the deep-fried take-out Chinese Canadian food staples delivered to families across Kitchener and the traditional Cantonese meal for a family sharing a rare Christmas celebration.

Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students.

An historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.

Clowns are only scary when you find one at night.

A conversation between two women about the desires and banalities of life. Both women share the same homeland, one stayed there while the other emigrated, but the distance hasn't severed their friendship nor the similarities in their perspectives.

An unconventional, tone-shifting travelogue that stitches together nations of the former Yugoslavia through chance encounters, 1970s rock music, architecture, and inventive editing, Ryan Ferko’s Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower locates traces of the past in an increasingly fractured present.

It’s a quack attack! You better stand back.

A super 8mm film created for the One Take Super 8 event started by Alex Rogalski and held annually by Double Negative Collective in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Film portraits that capture a different state of mind.

Short film told from the perspective of the devil.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

To honor the memory of her late husband and get closure, Gisèle travels back to Canada. Joined by her daughter Candy, the two women embarck for an artistic trip upon the roads of Alberta. Along the way they meet Jacques, a native american actor who agrees to accompany them in their journey.

Pieck finds Barnaby's Magic Carnival of Marvels, a place where imagination and fun come hand in hand.

A gender-swapped version of the song 'Why Is A Good Girl So Hard To Find?' by Jimmy Davis.

Based on an old Iranian folktale. A man makes a devil’s bargain with some angry owls which saves his life but at what cost.

An illuminated map of Paris became a landscape through various image tranformations.

Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialise. As the women claim the public space, Stephanie Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.

Documentary on Janusz Dukszta, Canadian politician and psychiatrist, who has been a patron of the arts for decades, including commissioning dozens of portraits of himself.

Y2o navigates troubled water, between suffocation and exaltation, between consummation and relinquishment, between yes and no, from both under the ski and on its surface. This work allows us to see a love on the verge of drifting. Each of the scenes pummels emotional nodes, which are made and unmade by daily abrasions, observing the crossed polarities from which relentless loves are composed. In this elastic space-time, suspended outside the real, two inner worlds start to collide.

On a summer day, a 10 year-old girl accompanies her mother to one of the houses where she works as a cleaning lady. When she is bullied by the daughter of her mother's employers, there are tragic consequences for the victim.

"Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" explores the annual Not Dead Yet festival that takes place in Toronto. This documentary dives into what makes the festival great and the impact it makes on the city's hardcore/punk scene. "Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" also features performances from bands that played in 2015, shot up close to give the viewer the feel that they are there. Features performances by S.H.I.T., V.C.R., Power Trip, Title Fight, Career Suicide and more alongside interviews with members of Dress Code, Title Fight, I.C.E. and more.

Two strangers wake up in an unfamiliar basement, tied back to back. In their attempt to escape, they learn a bit about each other -- and maybe themselves as well.

Late night Winnipeg adventure

Amazon, Ecuador — From Sarayaku to Yasuni and Lago Agrio - a region devastated by the Chevron Texaco corporation -, several Indigenous communities are still trying to make their voices heard. Denouncing the social, cultural, environmental and human damage caused by oil extraction, these communities propose different alternatives. How does one rethink development? What solutions are to be found through education? Dialogue with those who resist and bringing forth other frameworks of society.

The 20th century was the roughest in history for the Carpatho-Rusyns of Central Europe. After World War II, when they were declared Ukrainians by the new Communist regimes in every country where they live, Carpatho-Rusyns in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere became extinct overnight -- and this was their existence for more than 50 years. But with the 1989 Velvet Revolution, led by the playwright and former dissident Václav Havel, Carpatho-Rusyn ethnicity revived in every country - including the United States. This is the story of that revival.

Adam has been passed over again so in a passive aggressive attempt to get back at his workplace he plans an erotic adventure with his boyfriend in the office. Number one rule about revenge - don't get caught.

Springhammer 2 was created based on popular demand and the reception of Springhammer. This documentary gets into the nitty-gritty of knife-making and follows the blacksmiths from start to finish as they craft high-performance kitchen knives. Each blacksmith brings different opinions and techniques to the table that form the bigger picture of modern Japanese knife-making. Springhammer II will teach you about the steels, tools, steps and finishing touches that these folks follow to make the best kitchen knives in the world.

In "Water Over Glass," the tension of a mind adrift and in conflict with itself is captured and bookended visually by the vast mutability of sea and sky, where water and air surfaces suggest both static and the dissolution of the individual. A doppelganger, a crime scene and the tidal erasure of what might have taken place: discomfiting moments in a bright, almost psychedelic, arc. Assembled from 16mm, Super 8, and digital video, stop motion collage and digital compositing animation, "Water Over Glass" works backwards from an original story by Jason Zumpano and its musical articulation—Vancouver outfit The Cyrillic Typewriter’s 2018 album of the same name—to suspend a visual form over a sonic narrative.

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.

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

A poetic and fragmented construction of images and text suggests failure and disillusion about romanticism. Intense psychedelic colours characterize images of flowers, as if they were struggling while maintaining a playful tone. Feelings of ambiguity are evoked, oscillating between the notions of the possible and the impossible, as well as attraction and repulsion. The project is an audiovisual collaboration with experimental musician Alain Lefebvre.

When two friends decide to open a Christmas Tree Lot to make some extra cash, they didn't know they would be re-discovering the true meaning of Christmas.

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