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How does design activate a space? What motivates people to make it their own? The rejuvenation of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa preserves yet transforms a Brutalist performing arts complex from insular fortress for the arts to an engaging, connected centre.

An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mountains.

Four Punjabi-Canadians take a road trip from British Columbia to Mexico, and come to some realizations about their lives.

Cycling Utrecht is number seven in the «Places and Monuments» series. As with all the other opus of this series, the live action images have been submitted to a process of digital processing in order to give them a greater temporal and spatial density and animation inserts were added to create points of intensity that tell you were to look. In this case, the inseted images of Tour de France are disputing the monumental pole with images of statue that are along the route of the race, and are put in tension with the normal day to day use of the bike that is a very important characteristic of this city.

"This film was made for an exhibition with the theme of magic. At the time, my son was 4 months old and I was spending a significant amount of time at home. Working under this circumstance, which I viewed as a convenience and a constraint, I made work that utilized and reconsidered the manufactured purpose of objects that I found in or near our apartment. In this case: a light bulb, microwave, mason jar, and a bath towel. I brought these objects together in an attempt to create a sense of self-entertainment through the production of a homemade magic show or no-frills special effect."

In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing and a series of escalating actions, working-class people took on the biggest corporate landlord in their neighbourhood… and won. In an age where gentrification is rapidly transforming the nature and demographics of working-class neighbourhoods in cities across the world, pushing out poorer tenants, people on fixed incomes, immigrant communities and other long-term residents, the story of the Parkdale rent strike offers an important and practical lesson on how we can organize with our neighbours to fight back.

Julien Robichaud works with newcomers who move to Canada. His clients often question the name of his hometown, Moncton, named after General Monckton, a British colonel responsible for several hateful acts against Acadians including the Deportation. Julien digs to find who is this character of Monckton and the symbolic place he occupies today in his community.

A girl tells the story of the mother she never knew.

A short, playful, sexy video about a butch dyke/trans professor in teacher education.

In the fall of 2007, Vancouver's Bend Sinister set out to answer the question: is it worth it to tour Canada? The answer came back with mixed results. Along the way, the group loses its bass player, van and sanity.

A comedic short film.

Tiffany Haddish graces the Just For Laughs stages to host one night of hysterical stand-up comedy. Featuring Fortune Feimster, Gina Yashere, Ruben Paul, and more.

Two beings from another dimension arrive on planet Earth when a rift in reality breaks open. Dazed and confused, they attack people who are struggling to prove their friendship.

The Land of Shipwrecks is both an author's documentary and a historical documentary. It presents a different and authentic vision of Gaspésie, too often enslaved to tourist imagery, by carrying the voice of those who live there and are rooted there. The history of Gaspé is inseparable from its topography, its proximity to the sea, its reefs, its mist and its immense bay set with mountains which constitutes a natural refuge.

Joanne finds a way to be another woman - and so do all the others.

Boredom is a depiction of the physical and temporal experience of being bored. A subject is trapped in a timeless and unchanging environment. She is accompanied by a mysterious presence. A neglectful onlooker. This presence, another woman, interacts with the subject while still existing in another temporal dimension. The subject and onlooker come together to achieve temporal synchronicity, and through it a certain resolution with regard to the subject's battle against her boredom.

For the first time, this documentary reveals the unknown true stories of survivors and the working dogs who saved lives at Ground Zero during the September 11, 2001 crisis and aftermath. More than three hundred dogs were part of the rescue and recovery operation, going where it was impossible for humans to follow. The occasional dog collapsed from exhaustion but none of them gave up. Most of these four-legged heroes are now retired but they leave behind a story that must be told. Blind office worker Michael Hingson had to trust his seeing-eye dog Roselle on a treacherous descent of 78 flights of stairs to escape only moments before the towers collapsed. Lt. David Lim of the NY Port Authority Police was called to duty with his explosive detector dog Sirius. Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last remaining survivor of 9/11, was pinned under the rubble for 27 hours after the buildings collapsed before being found by recovery dogs.

“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There’s smoke, and there’s flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here! . . . I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk . . . Honest, I can hardly breathe. I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. . . .”

The Lesbian Almanac is a Situationist calendar of dyke objects. This video features 12 paintings from the dyke community, examples of word play and literal interpretation through political claims and personal visions that become a lesbian collective unconscious.

A documentary that reveals the history of the LGBT Pride movement in Ukraine. The film tells the story of KyivPride, the first attempt by the Ukrainian LGBT community to rise up and make their voice be heard by the government. The documentary also includes interviews with activists and allies from Ukraine, Canada, and Germany, as well as footage from KyivPride events in 2012, the successful march in 2013, and the cancellation of the 2014 march.

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.

Dragonmasters is the untold story of the Chinese dragon in America. When this symbol of good fortune and benevolence first arrived, it found communities in trouble and was soon employed by its handlers to battle prejudice, violence, and exclusion. Utilizing a mix of documentary interviews, archival material, vérité footage and filmed in six locations in New York, California, Canada, and China, this 67-minute “authored-documentary” film with multiple storylines is the story of the evolution and cultural impact of the Chinese dragon and its Masters in America.

Christmas dinners can often turn into hostile environments, particularly after a few drinks.

The 1st part of the 2nd half is a visual poem wrestling with ideas about love and resurrection.In the artwork’s initial incarnation all of the oversized frames were installed as filmstrips in a room to create the appearance of a giant trim bin that the the editor/viewer entered. The conceit was casting the viewer as a Lilliputian editor of an analog film and requiring of them to piece the ‘film’ together in their minds. In 2015 all the frames were re-shot and animated. There are two versions of the piece.In addition to this version (17:31 minute) gallery version, an additional version is available. It is a 40 minute slowed down version with a soundtrack by Mary Margaret O’Hara recorded live during its inaugural viewing.

Trapped in an enclosed area, Sarah frantically looks for a way to escape, hoping not to encounter anything that may be lurking around her in the darkness.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a miracle occurs.

When I returned to 5 cité de la roquette, I found a sign on the gate announcing the reconstruction of the building. In the days that followed, I came back in early morning or evening, when crews were not working, to film the stairwells, the stones, the doors, to stand on the landings, to listen to the sounds of the empty building, to watch the light at the windows, to hear again the songs of this place.

A simple public display of affection between two men provokes a violent homophobic reaction.

Follows five Anishinaabe youth on a summer research project with their Elders, whose stories guide them on a journey back to proceeding generations that lived a healthy lifestyle off of the land. Their stories chronicle the devastating impact that environmental and cultural dispossession had on the flow of knowledge from Elders to youth, and ultimately on the health of their people. As their summer comes to an end, the youth emerge with "gifts" of knowledge and teachings from their Elders, inspiring a renewed determination to forge a hopeful and healthy future for the next generation.

TimeTraveller™ follows Hunter, a Mohawk man living in the future. Bored by his day job as a bounty hunter, he acquires a pair of TimeTravellers—a simulation- immersion program that allows him to tour and participate in key historical moments. Across 9 episodes, TimeTraveller™ presents Indigenous life across different timelines.

"Missing Teeth" visualizes the introspective self-loathing one experiences while standing in the shower.

The studio workings behind door 11a in the Ortona Armoury. An ode to a practice and place that should not be forgotten.

A birthday boy's obsessive adherence to a zombie apocalypse survival code lands him in trouble that forces him to face a darker reality.

In this surrealist stop-motion animation, two disembodied wigs give in to their desires and grow themselves into something a little more whole. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, decadently delicious, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Temps de glace (Ice Time) is a poetic hand-drawn reflexion about a little girl daydreaming on the sidelines of a hockey rink.

A metaphorical story about the constant struggle of the artist to reach those five minutes of limelight. A tale about an upswing and downfall, with the climax appearing concurrently and unexpectedly. The hermetical life of artists, who are enclosed into their own world of ideas, striving to create the epochal masterpiece. Even if they succeed, the image they create is the reflection of themselves. And with the same fervor, they repeat the process in endless cycles.

A design expression of the alphabet. An experimental animation by Barth Coelho. This edition was done in 2018

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.

A coming-of-age story about a girl, Winona (14), on the last day of summer before entering high school.

From the days of illegal raves to the dark club sounds of Optical and Ed Rush. The Rest Is History is a look back at the early years of Jungle/Drum and bass music, how it developed, and the culture that surrounded it.

This film chronicles the amazing Scotsman who adopted Canada as a young man and then carved out an international career as saxophonist and jazz impresario.

Filmed over 10 years in 30 cities, the film shows the interactive works on a large scale by the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work of the Mexican creator has been exposed, among other places, in Trafalgar Square in London, the Park Avenue tunnel in New York and the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

The Japanese matsutake mushroom flourishes in formerly logged, second-growth forests, creating a unique human and non-human ecosystem and economy in northern British Columbia.

Accented by collaged radio audio fog of alien invasion paranoia, oneiric images from Serbia fuse with the Canadian Shield of northern Quebec. Dreamland is a conjuring of spectres through hypnotic frequencies; a journey through alien landscapes and brutalist dreams.

In the surreal dystopian present, two queer feminist crews cohabit the shells of an abandoned malt factory. As a troubling pattern begins to emerge from their mouths in the form of shattered glass, all are shaken, but some are hit harder than others. Through dance, visual work, and anti-work, they merge forces to try to care for one another and combat the insidious violent process which seems to increasingly come from within.

Duane Stewart-Grant, who is from X̌àʼislakʼala (Haisla) and nuučaan̓uł (Nuu-chah- nulth) First Nations in Canada, explores his identity as someone who is Two-Spirited - a queer, indigenous identity.

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.

Before the Plate follows each ingredient from a single plate of food backwards to the farms they came from, revealing modern farming practices and the challenges the industry faces as it does so.

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.

With honesty, intelligence and humour, Nancy, Simone and Gloria reflect on their experiences of balancing single parenthood, working life, relationships and the fulfillment of their own goals in the context of society.

Like notes written in a diary, Rhythm Trail is an open-ended film composed of a series of Super 8mm sketches edited in-camera. These collected notes are traces of moments and places that reflect on the immediacy of sight.