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'Set Apart' is a documentary about monasticism, a portrait of four men who have made a radical choice in response to a beautiful calling. Brother Joseph Bruneau, Frater Caesarius Marple, Father Anthony Nguyen, and Abbot John Braganza, all live in Westminster Abbey, a community of Benedictine monks situated in Mission, BC. The film documents their daily life of prayer, work, and community life, and seeks to explore their own personal journeys in becoming monks. The monks discuss not only what it was like to feel a calling, to leave their families behind, and to embrace a celibate lifestyle, but also the deep joy and peace they have found since they followed that calling and became members of the monastic community.

Three freestanding grids placed along the Credit River in rural Ontario (reminiscent of the Dürer Grid used by Renaissance draughtsmen to achieve accurate proportions) become devices through which the stationary camera frames the landscape and creates perspective.

A man makes a career change into the fashion industry.

These steps greet the paths traveled to the pixels. The stairs are a kind of common denominator of outstanding works from several mediums that have marked the hybrid genre.

A slow, meditative, artistic film about a healing journey confronting, embracing and releasing illness with love.

A small group of American soldiers battle their way through the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.

Howie Mandel hosts a stand-up-comedy showcase at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Performers include Jay Pharoah; Iliza Shlesinger; Russell Brand; JB Smoove; Alonzo Bodden; Jo Koy; Matt Donaher; Ryan Hamilton; Gina Brillon; and Tom Papa.

As the most politicized of the three marches during Pride week in San Francisco, trans*march, which had been running for ten years at the time this film was made, has a tradition of raising visibility of a marginalised group within queer culture. This documentary records queer voices during the 2013 march and reflects political discussions concerning trans* and LGBT movements.

Everyone needs to reach Carrot, but he doesn't seem to carrot all.

An experimental animation and documentary about diasporic desires for foundational myths. Seeking a home in reclaiming ones' ancestry and seeking a self in reappropriated narratives. What is found is an identity, one that is fragmented, but open. Features a soundtrack by Julie Matson.

Jacob walks here and there, roaming around, trying to escape his own inertia.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

They say it's your birthday ... and there's no one better than the Beat Bugs to serenade you with a festive Beatles tune!

Dancing escalates through simple rotoscoped sequences through increasingly abstract variations, non-narrative progression.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm. https://vimeo.com/71327099

A visual poem on the theme of depression. Poetry superimposed with hand processed 16mm film collected on the Film for Artists and Film Farm Residency. Footage includes found footage, and non-camera hand techniques including but not limited to tinting, toning, varnish, bleach and painting.

An examination of the natural textures of the world and their changes over the course of one year.

Video Painting

When a mysterious box drops from the sky, a calm world is turned upside down. The residents of this world flow rapidly through the seasons, forced to embrace a flurry of movement. An animated celebration of the wild power of the imagination and the silver screen, The Devil's Due is a beautiful cacophony and a stunning factory of images.

Bryant spends most of his time taking care of his daughter, and working as an exec at an ad agency. But when he comes across the online profile for a woman in Los Angeles, he becomes intrigued. She’s beautiful, fun, quirky, and successful. They strike up a long-distance relationship traveling back and forth for several months before Bryant decides that she is the perfect woman for him. He proposes, she moves across the country, and within two more months, the couple is married. But this union is a far cry from newlywed bliss.

An irate horror film director squabbles with an audacious extra who has a hard time finding his muse as a corpse.

2017 documentary short directed by Andrew Muir, profiling the Patricia Theatre in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, featuring the cinema’s then-owner/operator Ann Nelson.

A one-sided conversation speculating on interspecies cohabitation, gentrification, pluralism, civilization, negotiation, culture, ‘inoperative communities’, ‘Hostipitality’, integration, communication, difference, care, intent, and empathy.

A serenade to life and virtue with the luscious tune of the alto saxophone. They said he couldn't do it, they said he wouldn't... He did. They didn't know what to say.

Shafiq Hoque works at a store in Toronto's neighbourhood of Regent Park by day and drives an Uber at night. Trying to make ends meet while juggling two precarious jobs, he finds solace and strength in community.

Meet Beau Dick gives an intimate look into the life of one of Canada's greatest artists. Beau Dick worked within an ancient tradition and rose to the ranks of international success within the white cube world of contemporary art.

Views from the sea.

A little eagle dances as his brother films him. An encounter between two artists, filmmaker-composer Christopher and powwow dancer John-Philip.

This documentary reveals an intimate portrait of Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall who is world renowned for his realistic paintings and ability to capture Atlantic Canada landscapes. In this program, Forrestall speaks candidly about suffering with epilepsy and how the condition influences his art.

A Thousand Cuts is an in-progress found-footage video compilation of cisgender actors playing transgender roles in film and television.

Inspired by a woodcut from a university art collection, this animation explores issues of myth, art, history, education and sexual violence.

Without hesitation, Cynthia Estimable, a student of 17, immersed in an intimate relationship with her best friend. When Cynthia faces the hostility of her family, the young woman discovers that her main ally lives within her like blood lives in the veins, unconditionally and independently of human beliefs.

A high school student gets into a lot of trouble when he pranks a classmate he has a crush on.

A closeted gay student navigates the social aspects of campus life. His choice of book for an English project may help guide how he fits in.

Inspired by early forms of visual music, Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other engages in the un-rational, unsystematic, and randomness as a form of poetry. The material used in this motion picture stem from a blend of direct animation and computer generated techniques. The final result is a non-representational film that celebrates dissonant colour arrangements of movement and sound.

Take a journey into VHS madness. Watch as the Violent Homicidal Serial Killer Tape commits an orgy of killing. No one is safe from his atrocities as he brutally murders over 50 people in 23 chaotic skits of depravity.

"Created as a silent, large-scale installation for public spaces, National Tapestry draws our focus to the weft and the warp of the woven image. The materiality of a distressed patriotic symbol echoes the struggles and ambitions of a culture, land and history that are both loved and despised by many. This is Steven Woloshen’s first film exploring ethnology and politics in film."

Contemplating suicide: a biography

How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian, queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate our world? This short film documentary explores how six queer Asian Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept of intimacy. Various types of intimacy that defy heteronormative values suggest that seemingly “concrete” notions of closeness and identity are not so straightforward after all.

Last Song to Xenitia is a story familiar to millions of immigrants. Folk-poet, Vasiliki Scotes left Greece in 1931 during the Great Depression seeking to fulfill her dreams in America! The Greeks call this "xenitia," which means: living as a stranger on foreign shores. Part of an ancient oral musical tradition, Vasiliki recites 350 ancient songs from memory in the last years of her life. These songs are published in a book and at the age of 103 she journeys to Greece for the last time with her book of songs and a message of courage for the youth... who face xenitia once again.

A smooth blend of juicy videos from subMedia.tv’s riotous first decade of anarchist video making.

For over a month, the hearts and minds of Chileans have been ablaze. Too long have people suffered from extreme inequalities instituted by the Pinochet dictatorship 30 years ago. Now, under the Piñera’s government, people young and old have taken to the streets. Enough is enough. It’s been bad for too long.

‘Prey’ tells the intriguing and uncomfortable story about a man who is out for a jog but attracts a very uncanny visitor.

Mathieu Favreau offers this tribute to Canadian rapper Daybi and his community, the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve on the outskirts of Montreal. There, nature and tranquility have given him creative breathing space and, more important, a solid, positive, nurturing environment for his twelve-year-old son.

A tragedy causes an elderly woman to journey deep into her subconscious and ponder the afterlife. What do black women’s dreams look like? In Mount Misery we journey deep into the subconscious of a woman who has just suffered a great loss. Inspired by early avant-grade cinema, the film is a response and a critique of the lack of realistic representation and diversity in the mainstream media.

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.

In order to be in her older brother's music video, Clara, a 13-year-old tomboy, agrees to undergo a radical change of style. She soon notices that this transformation changes her brother's friend's behaviour towards her.

A work about collaboration and process, "The Shouting Flower" approaches political resistance from multiple subject positions--plant, child, filmmaker--in an attempt to model what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing calls "work across difference." Using images processed in plant material that was gathered at key locations throughout the city, as well as direct animation and audio recorded on a child's toy, the film documents its own creation within a landscape of hostility and neglect.

Two drag queens move through the city on a night of debauchery, insight, and revenge.

Two frogs are stuck together. One of them will experience hell.

A hungry rabbit tries everything, to pull a big carrot out of the ground.

Bill Pusztai is a photographer who does portraiture and plants. He talks about his interest in botany, the relationship between his photography and feminism and his process of portraiture.

Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops. Serial portraits in black and white.

Dr. Konrad Steffan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, has witnessed firsthand the steady march of climate change — he’s been monitoring the melting of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for over 25 years. His story, told in this short film, serves as a powerful message for change.

A Québec barber who volunteers for the homeless every Tuesday on her day off gives us a glimpse of the lives of several homeless , all with striking and distinct personalities.

Birthday is the debut short film from Aidan Wagland, Jake Zidel, Joseph Boivin, and Chance Delorme. Created on a limited budget, Birthday is the story of a man preparing to celebrate his daughter's birthday but during his preparation, the unexpected happens.