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Between the 1970s and the 1990s, we saw the birth of a movement, believing that extraterrestrials used Mount Saint-Hilaire as a base. Between mystery and science, you'll discover what gave birth to this fascination that people of the region.

Eight-year-old Landon Moise shows us around his favorite forested spots in his home community, Clearwater River Dene Nation. He explains why the environment is important.

Far from being unique to Montreal, this kind of cycling community is spreading like wildfire in many cities around the world. All you have to do is take a stroll around the web to come across all kinds. Of course, the fixed-gear theme is a recurring theme, just as skateboarding was at one time.

A once nuclear family, the parents now separated with new partners, one being same-sex, and their transgender daughter shares their journey building a new "modern family".

A short film by TSU that documents Bradley 'Caribou Legs' Firth and his cross-country run to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

A teenage girl fights for equal treatment and care for Indigenous kids who go missing.

MIRAGES focuses on a mock Iraqi village in the middle of the Mojave desert in California. Conceived and used by the US Army for the training of the troops before being deployed in Iraq, this village was built and is operated by Hollywood professionals. The extras playing the roles of the inhabitants are hired among members of the Iraqi diaspora in the US.

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

“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 artist merges an audio recording of when he “came out” to his parents with a self-recorded sexually explicit video clip.

Using as a starting point Barthes’ notion of the Punctum, this installation investigates the relationship between the body-live, the body-object (as cinematographic body) and the lack of body.

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

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.

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.

Like Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbour, on a smaller but equally poignant scale, 3000 members of India's tiny Chinese community were incarcerated in an old POW camp for up to 4 years in the aftermath of the India-China war of 1962. Even children, expectant mothers and the elderly were not spared. Most people don't know about this tragic episode. There is no acknowledgment or apology either from the government to date. And yet, among those who suffered, the love for India and things Indian remain alongside the pain and hurt. It's a story that reminds us that history has a way of repeating itself. Again and again.

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.

The 589,399th best Dad in the world reaches his breaking point in a one-sided feud with his neighbour, Dad #3.

Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form.

This short experimental documentary follows two men in Varanasi, India, a woodcutter and a ceremonial haircutter as they go about their duties, preparing for a daily 3000-year-old Hindu cremation ceremony. Their lives exist in the shadows of processions of those passed on, cyclically making their way through the streets of Varanasi to the site where they are to be cremated. Through poetic editing and using minimal dialogue, this film offers a unique observational perspective on the Hindu experience of life and death.

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.

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

On another world, the evil General Torn is controlling the society under the domed city. Unholy soul eating monsters are in the vast alien forests outside, robots, magicians, a darkness that is coming to the planet that can't be stopped, and some people who just want freedom and to know who they are...

Jenny and her bunny, Lucky, share their adventure across the Canadian prairies as her family moves from Ontario to Vancouver.

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

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.

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.

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.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

A funny and poignant exploration of what happens when a mother and daughter show up at the queer bathhouse on the same night.

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.

In Barthes' essay, "The Grain of the Voice", the concept of the "genosong" was evoked to separate the sound of the voice from its language. Visual Music for Ten Voices distinguishes the physicality of the optical vocal track as having a unique identity from its actual resonance in sound films. Designed as a 10-foot black box projection loop, this film focuses on the rhythm and materiality of ten 35mm optical soundtracks. Each musical passage maintains its original length and linear harmony with the other tracks, collectively creating a new sense of motion and repetition.

With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals is a documentary film that follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through their connection with the environments in which they play. By enjoying and appreciating their natural surroundings, these awakened athletes introduce us to some of the worlds most dedicated activists and game-changing wilderness initiatives that can actually change the world.

animation by Sabrina Ratté

Pure Difference asks us "What is a number?" It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth and neutrality. Using the visual tropes of a tech-conference presentation, trashy YouTube video and film essay, Peters sifts the languages of science and maths, to disclose how these can buttress power and galvanise authority.

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.

A mini flamenco short.

A family from Afghanistan moves to a foreign country to live a better and happier life, but they desire to have it all.

The landscape of Lake Ontario is transformed into an ominous expanse using hand processing techniques.

A sensual and dysphoric window frames the redefining of an identity. Through the lens of an experimental film this personal piece explores gender and one’s place within or without it.

Are gay men born gay? In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker Bryce Michael Sage explores how same-sex attraction (a trait that prevents reproduction) can be compatible with evolution and how it could have survived through generations of history. A winner of multiple awards across international film festivals, Survival of Fabulous seeks to find out how you stayed on the right track if you're born this way!

CIRCLE is a haunting portrait of a rape survivor, caught in the devious ploys of her family.

In 1973, the Shah of Iran commissioned the construction of a paper factory in the lush northern province of Gilan. The arrival of heavy industry in a predominately agricultural region brought with it a series of interventions into this landscape, including the construction of modernist apartment blocks and purpose-built villas to house foreign engineers from Canada and the United States and their families. Their stay, however, came to a sudden halt in 1979 with the Iranian revolution forcing them to flee the site overnight. Chooka unfolds around the site of this factory, returning to the location 40 years after it mysteriously appeared in Jacques Madvo’s 1978 footage. Treating his archival material as a guide, the film moves through a landscape altered by industry, technology and revolution, bringing silent images from the past forward to a location caught within a perpetually uncertain present.

The Cheltenham Badlands are exposed geological formations that once lay beneath an ancient lake. The barren, rolling landscape was sculpted by the water that flowed over it.

Beth, jealous of Alex and Allie's relationship, decides to kill her friends with a poison that causes fingers to fall off.

When a rookie security guard signs in a disapproving senior executive, things take an unexpected turn.

A compilation from histories of illegal immigrants in Canada, nomadic friends who quickly disappeared into new identities or were forcibly deported. There are around approx. 200.000 illegal immigrants in Canada. This video is just a spark of their constant re-invention of freedom, endurance, and resistance. The last amnesty was in the 1980’s, and the only pathway to legal status is under a Humanitarian & Compassionate application with an estimated 5% success rate..

When her own past starts haunting, Alma runs back into where it all began.

‘Geography of the Universe’ by San Base presents a unique and spectacular 3D experience which gives you some of the most enchanted 3D parallel worlds you will ever experience, plus psychedelic coral reefs, crystal caves, and breath-taking landscapes. Canadian Artist San Base developed something totally unique that has not been produced by anyone else and is also like no other fantastic 3D produced imagery by anyone else. San Base is constantly evolving 3D worlds with stunning “Pop Out” 3D effects that has an unprecedented spatial depth and perception. With its “Real 3D” awesome effects, it takes you on a SAN BASE journey to a parallel universe of the Third Kind, which is totally optimised only for 3D Blu-ray home entertainment. The combination of art and music is carefully crafted to create one of the best examples of “Real 3D,” and an event that will draw you into a stimulating journey for the senses that is unlike anything you've seen before.

The push and pull of life continuous and unceasing.