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Blood Pen is an original short film all done by a three man crew: William Hayes, Flynn Bellows and Derek Qiu.

Sylvie Giroux doesn’t have kids, but every year, from September to June, about 10 teenagers aged 16 to 21 add a bit of magic to her life. These youngsters suffer from autism, Down syndrome, dyspraxia, severe anxiety and intellectual handicaps.

Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The touch of language. Framing shots by luminous shooter Taravat Khalili. Commissioned by LIFT for the Jacques Madvo project.

Chloe has to leave. Arnaud is determined to make her last night one she'll never forget.

When his parents split up and he moves with his father to a new city, an introverted high school student (Nick Piovesan) has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings until he is befriended by three outsiders (Noah Brown, Katie Graham, Briony Merritt) who lure him into a dangerous game in the debut feature by Halifax-based filmmaker Chelsea Comeau.

Emily is on the hunt for the perfect spot to bury what she is carrying in her box.

The debut stand-up comedy performance of James Ritchey.

Filmed on four continents, Dan Popa's sensual and poetic film ponders human societies through the prism of the sea. Presented as a symphony and divided into "movements," SYMPHONY IN AQUAMARINE shows the sea and its swimmers, fishers, and ships as you've never seen them before.

A video and installation project produced in Agarak and Meghri. The project tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. By focusing on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, ‘A Passage’ looks at how processes of rapid militarization and neoliberalization have restructured these borders.

A woman spends her days editing the film of an absent lover.

Exploration of the internet and our current era through YouTube videos. Dominic Gagnon reconstructs the south as seen through vlogs, found footage, video games, raging storms and burning palm trees.

Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members to their kidnapped loved ones—heartrending messages of grief, support, and, against all odds, hope.

A silent flicker film that mixes digital and celluloid. Its only available description is the letters 'kd'.

After an intruder infiltrates her apartment, Allie must deal with the remnants of painful memories that she refuses to accept.

Fragment d'Absence #3 In the dark room, the red light swings and in the tubs where Daguerre once experimented with a world he did not understand, your portrait dips a chaste love, eyelid liquids, wet lashes of yesterday.

An eerie encounter between a malleable human form and a galaxy unknown.

Trace learns to see ghosts in the everyday, and what it takes to live with them.

Two skaters looking for their next big adventure help an old person with their groceries.

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.

The suicide rate among Canada's first responders has reached crisis level and continues to rise each year. What's behind this?

On the closing day of his beloved roller-rink, a retro robot does his best to survive his final shift despite his scummy boss, kinky coworker, and a whole host of eccentric new-age customers.

Two students (Audrey Rocard, Joris Masson) are apprehended following the enforcement of a college take over by three overly zealous school inspectors (Claude Madelon, Jean-Claude Eygreteau, Yannick Moreau).

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.

A film about a film about a frog, a dog, and a log.

Co-directors Michelle Shephard and David York take an intimate journey with the mother of a young Canadian woman named Amina who left home to join the war in Syria and become a member of ISIS. From Canada to Europe and Turkey and back again, they work various channels seeking what a CSIS officer calls the “exfiltration” of Amina from inside the so-called Islamic State and into the custody of Canadian officials.

This behind the scenes documentary witnesses the making of Erin Costelo’s new album “Sweet Marie”, set for release in October 2018. The story of this new work unfolds across a series of recording sessions filled with creative flourish and collaboration that both highlight Costelo’s musical achievements and show the painstaking efforts to reach new heights. It is an intimate look at an artist’s process, in a carefully chosen environment, and offers a sneak peek at what is sure to be Costelo’s most successful album to date.

Dan Buckley parts the veil on the origins and future of the universe. He investigates the disorder and delight that proliferates in between; the worlds and ideas that rub up against each other and, at times, collide.

In the aftermath of a major spring cleaning, Gabrielle and her daughter Eva learn that Madeleine, who just survived a heart attack, is coming home. Gabrielle didn't think she would have to accommodate her mother again. This return comprises her household.

This is not a pipe, it is adolescence in the feminine with its ambiguities, its whims, its desires, its impulses and above all, its very very expensive (and enormous) libido.

When a little girl blows into an old tin whistle she finds in the dirt, something follows her home.

In a post-apocalyptic forest, an explorer documenting his travels stumbles across the remains of a previous inhabitant left behind from the pre-war days. But in these woods, death takes on a new meaning.

Experimental short film about a birch log with a soul and a pair of skis.

Inheriting the family home is a chance for Jules and his partner, Alice, to write their own page in his family history. But they are thwarted by a strange force that spreads insidiously throughout the house. Is nostalgia driving Jules into madness?

Every year, the western world is introduced to a new 'superfood' that boasts extraordinary nutritional features, and year after year we buy them. The Superfood Chain is a feature documentary that explores the facts and myths behind superfoods, and reveals the ripple effect of the 'Superfood' industry on farming and fishing families around the world.

Spousal abuse and chipmunks, 911 bringing us all together, and the world of fancy hats. All that and more from Canadian Comedian Mark Forward's first comedy special: Mark Forward presents...Mark Forward.

It ain't easy singing for a black metal band...

A tale of love and obsession as told through the Domino's pizza tracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulgCWtepNw

Murray McLauchlan says his battered second-hand guitar is haunted by all the musicians who ever played it.

Following her partner's funeral, a young woman and her newly-inherited greyhound explore the awkward weight of grief in a honeymoon suite, leaving the weight of another death.

A question of daffodils, or representation as substitution, or substitution as representation: a film haunted by what remains unsaid and unseen

“Background actors” silently inhabit the roles of pedestrians or passersby. Like an exercise in walking meditation, the pedestrians trace a path that is unstable, full of distractions, thoughts, and emotions, crises of identity, anxiety, and restlessness. —Julia Feyrer

A love letter to Toronto, Chesterfield tells an important story of perseverance and personal growth through an experience many people can relate to - moving a couch. Chesterfield is about finding home in an unfamiliar place, being open minded, and appreciating the friendships we make along the way.

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions about life choices serves as a parallel to ways of watching, interpretation and experience which may even lead to forgetting one’s own body.

Louise enjoys a private moment to open her treasure box in the room she shares with her little sister. She does not know that she has been hiding under her bed to spy on her. The film deals with sensuality through a both charming and erotic experience of an involuntary interaction between two sisters.

While paranoia takes over a small town following an unsolved crime, a woman in a state of panic attempts to go on with her life after witnessing a murder.

A perverted boy looks through a peephole. He sees something he is not suppose to see, a woman farting in a bathtub.

This story is about a Hunter who gets lost in the woods, but that's only the beginning of his problems.

Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe De Liguoro’s L’inferno (1911), a Doré-inspired visualisation of the eponymous first canticle in Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia (1320), is commonly considered to be Italy’s first feature-length film – and also the first local attempt at making something that, in the eyes of a bourgeois audience, would be accepted as having artistic value. Stephen Broomer, now takes the complete film and re-works it by all means, analogue and digital, available to the modern filmmaker. But who is Tondal? A knight errant who appears in the Divina Commedia, but also an older literary character (from the 1100s) whose story was re-told till deep into the 15th century. Expect a grand, exceptional audio-visual spectacle!

An observational documentary following a Toronto based hockey team during a practice. The crew mic'd up the head coach and one player without the rest of the team knowing.

After surviving life altering brain injuries, a former NFL Cheerleader and a young boy find healing through a ground breaking method that takes their recovery above and beyond the medical system's prognosis.

An injection of Canadian crust from the Bos brothers and their crew

Pieck finds Barnaby's Magic Carnival of Marvels, a place where imagination and fun come hand in hand.

Four douchebags leave for a weekend in the countryside without suspecting that they would disturb the tranquility of the humanoid-blattoptera mutant: Termitator.

When 13 year old Samuel decides that it's about time to start asking girls out he finds out that he has no idea of how to do that.

A horror thriller that puts an intelligent spin on marriage and excess.

Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. The Song and the Sorrow follows Catherine as she journeys to understand her father and face her own struggles with mental illness. Through archival footage and intimate interviews with friends, family members, and musicians who knew and played with Gene—including Anne Murray, Lennie Gallant, and the late Ron Hynes—the film reveals a troubled and loving man who was never at ease with fame or money.

Jay Tanner and his crew have been getting rich off of faking demon hunts and posting them on YOUTUBE. Unfortunately for Jay and his crew this demon hunt turns real.