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In the Wsanec territory, language revitalization efforts are underway. Through prayer and song, the youth demonstrates the importance of carrying on their language and culture in their community.

At an inopportune moment, a struggling actor takes a stance on her bisexuality.

A bunny travels to the big city in the hopes of becoming a successful musician, but faces the challenges of adapting to her new home. Welcome to O'town is an independent animated short film created by Euni Cho at Sheridan College in 2020.

In a cabin in the middle of the woods, Ana's having second thoughts about killing Marcy.

This is a short film about my life being a indigenous cree transgender woman. The struggles, and finding myself. Made to encourage others to never give up.

A young woman struggles to fight her anxiety, and the malevolent creature inside her, while she prepares to go out to a party.

A light sleeper struggles one night to get some rest amid his man's loud snores.

A Vampire's encounter with a rake.

A shy and bookish teenager, Nathan longs to meet a girl and one day become a great poet. A heartbroken former hockey star, Maripier just wants to be left alone. This is the story of their meeting.

Martin is a hermit overreacting to the covid-19 pandemic. He never goes outside and hoards toilet paper. Wanting to change his life, Martin breaks his prolonged quarantine by leaving his apartment to get a haircut. In this comedy, one discovers that getting a good haircut isn't that easy.

In a public toilet stall, a man experiences an existential crisis when a stranger unexpectedly addresses him.

An accident on the way to the cottage has horrifying consequences for an interracial queer couple contemplating parenthood.

The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

An animated look into a the personal experiences of someone in prolonged segregation as a young offender.

Wheels of Life is a short documentary that covers a single summer day in the lives of three long-term care residents as they enjoy a bit of freedom on an adaptive bicycle built for two.

In the age of YouTube, exhibitionism and voyeurism echo and reach a climax. The boundaries between private and public life are blurring. The intimacy becomes a spectacle. Gabrielle Marion knows this better than anyone. As a famous Quebec Youtuber, she has been documenting her life and her sexual transition for eight years.

An ogre loves sacred music. Inspired by a dream, this short animation is something of an urban fable. In the free-associative dream state, the words orgue (organ) and ogre (ogre) are fused both visually and aurally.

Josh, a young drug addict, joins a support group, where he opens up about his situation.

When a baby owl is pushed from the nest by her mother, her anxiety and self-doubt triggers an existential crisis as her hypothetical future life flashes before her eyes — all in the time it takes to travel from her branch to the forest floor.

A disillusioned early adopter and internet evangelist, feels a sense of responsibility to engage with the problems the internet has created and wants to see where we went wrong. 'The Internet of Everything' is a documentary that examines the hype and hubris hurtling towards the next frontier in the Internet's evolution.

See the ups and downs, talent and determination of the exceptional LeBlanc Family of New Brunswick. Guided by their father, three young sisters are preparing a trip to France to present their Acadian musical roots.

Whilst investigating a murder, a Detective is taken hostage by a killer who he suspects did the deed but the thing is he has the wrong killer.

Us Reborn (Ô Truie) is an experimental short movie showing human and trash organicity.

An Armenian film director location scouts for an upcoming film on the history of the movement of ideas and contagion along the ancient trade networks which connected the historic Armenian capital of Ani to the world. Along the way he encounters the complex geopolitical realities which impact the region.

As a call to the courage of the revolt in the face of the weight of our comfort, From the heart to the belly is an incisive show that confronts us in our contradictions. A look at both personal and collective on this world in crisis.

A man shaving in his bathroom , everything appears to be normal but there is something underlying with this man as he continues to shave his face.

Inspired by the land formation known as Coyote’s Canoe, located near Gloria’s home in Splatsin community, this visual story shares the legend of the coyote bringing salmon to the people of the Interior of British Columbia.

Inspired by the writings of Donna J. Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Greg Egan, the work plunges us into a speculative future, where samples of then extinct plant species are preserved and displayed in a virtual archive room. Through editing and visual strategies, this archive room is sporadically transformed under the effect of interference caused by the memory emanating from the listed plants, revealing traces of a past that continues to haunt the place. Floralia is a simulation of ecosystems born from the fusion of technology and organic matter, where past and future coexist in a perpetual tension of the present.

A New Age mother and her pragmatic daughter test the limits of their beliefs and their relationship on a quest to prove magic exists.

Trying to stay creative and deal with loneliness and isolation Vanessa builds a ghost costume, rearranges her furniture every night, and makes this film.

“Open your heart and ears,” says Niilo to Aamu as he leaves her on the other shore... That's good advice for Aamu, a little girl on a journey to discover the world. What's the world made of,” asks the little girl. Are there monsters, witches, ogres and magicians? In fact, her footsteps led her to simple people living in harmony with nature, each a magician or magician in their own way. Under her grandmother's benevolent gaze, the little girl grows up in contact with these people, each of whom holds a gentle lesson in life. A soothing film about the beauty of the world.

Obsessed with becoming internet famous, Matt ropes his friend Olivia in attempting one of the craziest trends online, the Spicy Noodle Challenge.

A young man alone in his apartment decides to get to the bottom of some paranormal activity interrupting his video gaming.

A 90 second short film drawing on the theme of 'escape' - 18 year old Louisa has known nothing but the same streets her whole life. As she finally hits her breaking point of suffocation living in this town, she takes it upon herself to pack up and go, leaving nothing behind but a letter to her mom.

After 62 years of loving marriage, Yosef and Zilli Abrahami decide to take their lives together. The memories of their love and their planned death are brought to life through the videotapes of their youngest son Doron.

Through the voices of young islanders, Vanishing Point tackles the possible disappearance of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, resulting from the frequent storms and climate change.

The twisting, neon discomfort of body parts pulsates and trembles from the depths of the deepest ocean up to the cold and unforgiving vastness of space. Bones and tendons dislocate from performer Devours’s earthly queer vessel. A hand becomes the new building block of the universe: evolving from single cell, to fish, to mammal. Devours brings the genesis of a strange new planet of beard-based lifeforms.

In a school for young actors in Shanghai, auditions take place. Who are they and why do they want to act? Through their aspirations, a role is created and a film is given.

Alberta's John Scott has appeared in seven Academy Award-winning films as the lead wrangler, stunt, and animal coordinator. Throughout his life, he has worked on around 250 television and film productions. So who is this local legend?

In this beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family’s powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School.

A remix of sounds and images from the Prelinger Archives that feature fashion trends.

France, 2012. A teenage boy tells an intimate secret to a friend, but quickly regrets it while watching the news.

Memories, identity, intergenerational trauma and diaspora become merged and confused. An exploration of a meditative respite from the human condition.

This thoughtful portrait shows Indigenous people living with HIV who are fighting the stigma of intersectional, intergenerational trauma by connecting to traditional spirituality.

A man receives a message in the middle of the night. He must act upon it.

Elder Pamiok "George" Angohiatok is known for the land he loves, the Tundra. Fluent in the language of the land, Tundra spends much of his time in nature observing, travelling, hunting and helping out others.

Rebecca (Ava Smout) recruits her siblings, Russell (Noah Herbers) & James (Jason Kinnear), to plan a heist against her estranged father (Dane Manrell), stealing money to pay for their college tuition.

Benjamin is "ghosted" by his lover.

Interplaying the metaphor of grapes, this father-daughter documentary is characterized by the labour of love it is to make wine, but also the labour of love that is love itself.

A group of four women band together to make rock climbing more accessible in Banff. Every run is a puzzle waiting to be solved, and if the Crush Collective has anything to do with it, gender norms will not be part of the equation.

Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the “Holy Land.”

After meeting his Rwandan father in Montreal for the first time at 28 years old, Québécois journalist Sébastien Desrosiers sets off on an existential quest to his ancestral land in search of answers.

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins’ hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.

A darkly comedic look at a day in the life of a struggling actor and the unique ways she deals with the pressures of the industry.

Bea and Zoe are lost in the forest when Zoe decides to go for help. She leaves Bea alone and hurt in this wood that does not inspire confidence. The girl will face a sneaky threat. Through the quest for power, Doe & She-Wolf tackles a taboo that is hard to imagine. And yet it exists.

The Covid pandemic strikes a tragically familiar chord for the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie River Delta. In the early 19th century John Franklin and his crew infected their ancestors with deadly smallpox. Other devastating epidemics would follow. Historian Randal Pokiak returns to the ancient site of Kitigaaruk, a community abandoned after the great flu epidemic of 1918, to deliver a vivid cautionary tale.