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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.

Every year, around 1,000 people in Quebec are waiting for an organ transplant. But less than half of them will receive the precious gift that could save them from a predicted death. Why is this so? A number of ethical, bureaucratic, medical and human obstacles stand in the way of organ donation. The documentary aims to illustrate them, and to take us right to the beginning of the chain, with the donors, their families and the hospital staff who accompany them through these painful moments.

By using simple pictographs, François Mercier (a regular at DJ XL5?s Zappin? parties) evokes, with both humour and intelligence, a series of cinema classics entrenched in popular culture.

A delirious, although terrifying, evocation of an America where everyone wears a gun.

Animation of 53 references of films in cubism graphics.

Space and time become meshed together to form the fragments we create our stories from. In those pieces of images, memories arise and stories retell themselves. Through mutual time, words, explorations and spaces Yaffa realizes a grandfather’s gift: a home.

« We thought it was Tanderrum, » they are reported to have said.

A sudden change in street lighting leads to an unexpected obsession. Satellite examines the reality of a nocturnal queer existence in the leper colony of the suburbs.

Bella is the only woman playing chess at the local chess club. She earns money by beating senior men, but doesn't earn their recognition. Tired of being insulted and not taken seriously she decides to quit.

Work and life of the industrial hunters in Kazakhstan. Follow Nikolai and his team on the annual marmot hunting season where they have to hunt 600 marmots for the period of one month. And learn why this massive killing is essential for marmots' survival.

150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community who survived climate change and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.

Deep in the Great Bear Rainforest, against the backdrop of British Columbia’s breathtaking wilderness, a former hunter comes to terms with his past and looks with hope towards the future. Exploring one man’s evolving relationship with the natural world, Way of the Hunter tells the compelling story of Robert Moberg, a hunter who ultimately traded his gun for a camera.

The infamous Billy Mays has arisen once again to sell and take names but he is not the only one who is back not so famous detective Jills Hallway is back as well and doesn't know why. Will Jills be able to put a stop to The Billy Mays Killer once and for all?

Views from the sea.

Views from the sea.

This documentary follows Huang Yuechuang, a 77 year-old cormorant fisherman who is the last of his generation to carry on the traditional type of fishing in rural China. Yuechuang has recently become a well known personality online since a photo of him won a Sony Award in 2012 and he is determined to show the world why it is important to keep his family tradition alive.

For this small action movie I hired two hundred extras to dance with me in Paris. I'm not a dancer but dancing in Paris is easy.

Quid: Term used in Ancient Greece to explain the phenomena of vision. Starting from Man, the fire of the soul hits the matter, then bounces towards the eye.

Images drawn from the New York Public Library are used to resurrect the visual aura of a lost time based on the documents that were once deemed worthy of archiving.

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.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans gender students explore issues they face at their small town high school. Together with their allies they work towards a policy in support of the LGBTQ youth at their school.

Four absurd humorous sketches featuring young teenagers.

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

Four absurd comedy sketches featuring teenagers. Take 2.

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.

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.

A 2011 film by Jon Claude Bieschke.

Is an inter generational relationship between two men about sex and money? Or is there more to it? Fountain of Age explores this notion, while shedding a light on love regardless of age.

A biography of a prominent world-class concert pianist who is a member of the LGBT community, the woman who cost her her career, and the story of how she got it back. Through it all, the same two hands tickle the ivories.

A dark and outlandish no-budget comedy, about a gawky teenager's inheritance of $100 million from a near-complete stranger.

Scenic Medford, OR is conveniently located between Portland and San Francisco.

A modern fairy tale of sorts. Presented as intriguing puppet animation with a sweeping sound scape, it conveys the universal story of how easy it is to become a prisoner of one’s own illusion.

All our Father’s Relations tells the story of the Grant siblings who journey from Vancouver to China in an attempt to rediscover their father’s roots.

A quiet woman arrives at a house to focus on writing. Instead, she is confronted with a series of vivid hallucinations. To get through the night, she must learn to restrain her imagination, which more or less, is an extension of who she is.

Eddy, a psychic, nervous, little satyr and part-time on-line sex worker, makes crafts with viewers as he speaks about the pain of witnessing sexual violence.

Back to school - A queer cartoon fantasy!

A man is waiting for the end of the world.

This video attempts to resolve an ethical dilemma that has been persisting in my life for a long time: see my father after twenty years of absence or be done once and for all with this story.

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.

Inner Cabin is a short experimental documentary about a homosexual man that seems to be unable to love. Or rather that hides in his thoughts as to not have to face love. It's as if sometimes he flees into a closet in his mind, even if he's been out of the closet for a decade.

I manipulate my past. I analyze my present. I prepare myself for my future. I have long followed these steps in my art. I naively tought I would understand everything. Miraculously. I thought that after a few videos, all would be clear. Crystal clear. Clear like fresh water. I realized that I was wasting my time. I have to abdicate. And move on.

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.

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.

Two girl bunnies separated by outer space, meet on a block of ice, become romantically smitten and look for a way to cross the galaxy. It is a story of love and transition.

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.

Cell-phone video footage of exploding fireworks is processed and extended through a series of VHS feedback loops. What was once a momentary blast becomes drawn out in time, emphasizing the beauty of pyrotechnic light, while juxtaposing analog and digital video artifacts.

Fragment d'Absence #1 A sick child talks about her illness while watching strange images of a life she feels she has never lived.

Ben and Jake love each other, but they both know their love had a deadline.

Making use of a dizzying array of anti-gay protest footage captured and posted on the internet, Mead’s protagonist bears witness to the fractures, shifts and resistances that have brought us to this time in LGBTQ history.

When an awkward teen boy and his girl crush switch bodies after taking mushrooms, he discovers that attraction is more complicated than he thought. Magic Mushrooms is an unexpected, wry reflection on gender identity and coming-of-age sexuality.

In this festive one-hour holiday special, Spencer Watts serves up some of his favourite holiday meals, treats, and drinks.