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When the pizza isn't delivered on time, this rookie has to take matters into his own hands. Winner for best editing at Zoomfest 2018 | Official selection for LIFF 2019

Children wait their turn for a once-in-a-lifetime roller coaster ride. A loving and poignant meditation on childhood and the passage of time. Inspired by found sound of a theme park in the distance, lyrically rendered in pencil and paper, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

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...

How does music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular time signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is music lesson, math puzzle, and spot-the-difference game.

Amidst a quest to reach an unlikely destination, a man charts his journey through a strange and wild continent with a bizarre map.

The Race2Alaska is one of adventure racing's greatest competitions - challenging mariners to navigate 750 miles of BC's most infamous waterways by human or wind power alone. The rules are simple: no motors, no outside help or support, first boat over the line wins.

A fragile minor hockey player is pushed to his physical and psychological limits by the primitive older team he's been called up to play for.

This moving-image work was shot on Super-8 film and transferred to digital video and then projected in a continuous loop onto a curtain to give the illusion of a window.

Growing up, the filmmaker, Sara Wylie, did not know her father or his family well. She recently discovered the poetry of Joe Wallace, her long lost great paternal uncle, a Canadian Communist poet and activist who was imprisoned as a political radical in World War II. Despite criticism he received from the Canadian literary community, he went on to become the most famous Canadian poet in Russia and China during the Cold War. Her journey into the archive reveals Wallace’s fascinating life and some surprising commonalities with the filmmaker.

Every four years, the residents of Campo Maior, in Portugal’s arid Alentejo region, reinvent their village: each street is lavishly decorated with paper flowers, painstakingly handmade in the months before being put on display. Rui Silveira films this tradition in his birthplace, taking us on a trip out of time. Capturing the smallest details, he conveys the patience and skill that go into a beautiful ephemeral art that brings the community’s spirit to life; meanwhile, questions related to rurality and exile keep cropping up in the conversations. The fragility of the paper flowers, threatened as much by the weather as by souvenir-hungry tourists, is a window on an ages-old world struggling to protect its integrity.

Endowed with unmistakable magnetism, boundless energy, leadership and a passion for everything he did, Roberto "Bob" Bissonnette dared to create his life according to his vision, independently. From his hockey career, where he was captain of the Hull Olympics, as well as the 10th most punished player in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), to his career as a songwriter and singer he attracted crowds everywhere in Quebec, in French Canada and in several European countries. His tragic death in a helicopter crash at the age of 35 caused a shock wave.

A space between spaces. Super 8 / Sound / 3:45

An apocalyptic explorer becomes convinced the skeletons he keeps encountering are watching him as he treks through the woods.

Ice, stones, brooms and good friends – a gently hewn look into the sport of social curling.

A black-and-white reversal film shot on 35mm.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

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.

Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.

Canada Untold is a documentary film that narrates a cross country expedition across Canada with the main aim to understand this beautiful and vast country through the voices of their people and their interesting journeys. Highlighting the differences of each province with the common theme of being Canadian

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

A poet suffers feuding psychiatrists and shifting reality while committeed to a mental institution.

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated relationship between director Lena Macdonald and her mother, who was once a filmmaker herself, but ended up homeless, crack-addicted and on the streets. For ten years Lena filmed in the cold, hard streets of Toronto’s inner city and her story is raw, honest and unforgettable. Mom and Me is about addiction, prostitution and despair but it is also a story about family, the power of hope and the tenacity of love.

Five young friends. Eight old friends. All trapped in one house, being hunted by a crazed group of people. People who provide rotting flesh as food, and infected secretions as drink, in order to weaken the masses.

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.

Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?

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

A meditative visualization of Tibetan Buddhist Monks chanting.

Julie wakes up in Quebec City. Amnesiac, she makes a phone call. On the line, Luke learns that the woman who left him has never been to India.

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!

As I began the process of swinging the door in its predetermined arc, two things occupied my thoughts. One was that, in a modest but meaningful way, the anticipation of moving from one setting to another began to register agreeably in my consciousness, as I first felt the breeze from that other world make its way around the door. However unexceptional my life, I could still visualize a different life, a better life, a life full of success, love and adventure on the other side of that door. But then a darker, more commonplace sensation replaced those pleasant reveries …

The Colour of Beauty is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?

Seven master guitar-makers create instruments inspired by Canada's art legends.

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.

AURAE was part of Phillips + Tumblr present Paddles ON! The First Digital Art Auction at Phillips, curated by Lindsay Howard.

As much about light, color, texture and sound as it is about “story,” “Beautiful Like Elsewhere” evokes a mysterious dreamscape of shimmering tableaux that seem to exist just on the edge of consciousness. Populated by human and nonhuman organisms, classical images and pure form, this allusive world, which may be a vision of the afterlife, hints at a deeper level of awareness and meanings beyond words.

2005, at the corner of St. George and Robinson Streets; the gray observatory at the corner of temptation, my new apartment, where I am about to live an intense and poetic urban experience in the district of the red light fish & chip. Between the horizontal blades of my venetian blinds, the freaky-deaky city comes alive for me, image by image.

infinite mutation cycles radiated pastures image infection ritual feedings soil rot cursed texture mysterious illness

For the first time, St. Mary's University and Pyramid Productions have partnered to create a spectacular film showcasing the history of the campus through the spirits who walked the land.

Two children wander in a dead world where degenerate echoes of the past resonate.

About a painter who rethinks the digital image.

Pierre Radisson: Fjord and Gulf presents the daily activity and environment of its eponymous Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker. Shot during the Pierre Radisson's work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec during February 2016, the film provides a window into a portion of the invisible labour underpinning the Canadian economy.

Brotherhood An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind is about "Two friends drawn apart by the most common human emotion...Love" Two best friends, Marcus and Vincent are your ideal hoodlums. On a daily routine they drink alcohol, play basketball and idolize women. Stuck in a rut the two are introduced to a young go-getter named Ariana. Through getting to know her a wedge is thrown into Marcus and Vincent's relationship and it might never be repaired. Ego gets in the way and it blinds them.

A documentary that follows artists and educators in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A city that should be full of opportunity but instead is full of dead ends and people looking for a way out.

This poetic romantic comedy takes on the cringe-worthy and hilarious trials of love and career for a struggling writer in the Montreal theater scene.

Dissatisfied with her options in the world of striving, a young deaf woman, Iris (Sophie MacLean), decides to give up on yearning to connect. Instead she floats along, working at a greenhouse, embracing her silent solitude and learning to be happy with less. Everything is going just fine until she meets a precocious musician named Celeste (Bryde MacLean). Beautifully shot on Prince Edward lsland, Singing to Myself is an intimate gaze into the complexity and ease of female friendship.

The Woman Who Came Back is based on an oral narrative shared by elders from the Tlicho region of the Northwest Territories. The story follows the historic journey of the first Tlicho to make contact with Europeans in the 18th Century. After being subjugated and forced to travel with a neighbouring tribe, the protagonist escapes to a trading post where she learns of new knowledge that she brings back to her region.

A look at the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) in Rio de Janeiro through politicized speeches by artists from some locals communities. With music and performances thematizing social exclusion and police violence, these artists discuss the rhetoric of peace and question to what extent the arrival of the UPP does not represent an intensification of the criminalization of poverty.

A mink walks into a fur store. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets The Shining in this stop-motion cautionary tale of what happens when we don’t think enough about what we buy. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, proudly animal-friendly, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

A faltering narrator attempts to recount a family holiday as memory — sparked by a found postcard, a family photo album, and footage from two distinct locations and spatio-temporalities (Toronto and Berlin) — summons forth a barrage of flickering images, creating psychic hiccups and firecrackers of recall.

Bout: 1. A short period of intense activity. 2. An attack of illness or strong emotion. 3. A wrestling or boxing match.

A solitary yet charming bartender working a wedding reception is pulled into a series of complicated family issues after befriending the bride's impulsive sister.

Black Mirror at The National Gallery is a single uninterrupted shot of a black circular mirror (designed by Martin Szekely) as it travels through the Dutch Landscape and Genre Scenes painting rooms at London’s National Gallery.

Sally: Behind the Smile gives a fly-on-the-wall insight into one of Australia's most beloved athletes as she attempts to overcome some of the biggest hurdles of her burgeoning career in pursuit of that all-encompassing goal, a surfing world title. A Red Bull Media House production realized by Milkmoney, Sally: Behind the Smile is a definitive compilation of all things Sally Fitzgibbons that every aspiring and professional athlete can take something away from.

Cutaway portrays a phase in the life of a single young man as he works as a labourer, pursues relationships with women, and comes to terms with a life changing event. Told through close details of hands and objects, this film intimately portrays uncertainty and loss.