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Tom is 6 years old. With his camera, he films his mother, the dog, and the alley. Tom has difficulties with studying; he is hyperactive; he has anger issues at school; moreover, he eats crisps for supper. Tom is the son of Nathalie, a loving drug-addicted bipolar mother; the brother of Caroline, an escort who would like to go back to school; and the grandson of Madeleine, the grandmother tired of taking care of everyone. Petit Tom is a film about life and childhood in the setting of chaos, flowing time, family heritage, and motherly love.

After an extraterrestrial encounter in 1975, David Hamel embarked on a 30-year mission to build a flying saucer in his backyard, ultimately failing to do so yet leaving behind a mysterious legacy that only the residents of his small town can unravel.

Twelve young women spend 40 days canoe-tripping in the Canadian wilderness over a challenging counter-cultural summer spent exploring their physical surroundings and inner selves free from mainstream society’s expectations.

‘We Are at Home’ is exploring themes of acknowledgement, participation and the awkward intimacy that comes with being human.

To get to class on time, children from the Raymur Place social housing project were forced to jump shunting train cars that stood in their path. In 1971, after months of petitioning for a safe crossing, a group of mothers made their voices heard by blockading CN rail from delivering goods.

On the biggest day of his career, a scheming street photographer runs from debt collectors, chases an ex-girlfriend, and tries to turn his bad luck around.

A mother wolf stalks us, snarls, baring her teeth, and eventually attacks. Do not underestimate her power. The fight for survival has strengthened her to protect her young.

Stroke of Fire explores athletes' full and limited evolution within skiing and the pure joy that manifests from that process. The choice to enter this world is a spark, and with every new experience, the fire grows. With more knowledge comes more exploration, both physically and geographically, which helps to understand what those raw experiences connected with nature do for the soul.

One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator describes a post-art life that leads, inexorably, to the nature of nature.

As a young and idealistic war correspondent, Graeme Smith followed the troops into battle in Afghanistan. Now he returns to a place that gave him nightmares to see if there is hope for peace. Smith revisits old friends and acquaintances and sees the deep divisions in the country.

UNDERNEATH is a grassroots, self-financed anthology in the vein of CREEPSHOW and is comprised of five chapters, an epilogue, and several mind-bending vignettes that are all bound together by something unnatural and sinister.

Hugo, a 24-year-old man, decides to leave his home and travel around the world. His mission? To meet new people and learn new things that might help him find a solution to a condition that’s impacting his life: bipolar disorder.

From Earth to Sky explores the work of seven unique and accomplished Indigenous Architects as they design and complete extraordinary 'buildings' in cities and communities across North America and Turtle Island. Beautiful and intimate, the film sparks a vital conversation paramount to transforming perspectives on how we approach our built environment.

Lucas is a very smart young boy who spends his time tinkering alone. One day, he meets the soul of a little boy, isolated by death and flames, destined to stay far away from what he loves most: flowers.

Lysanne's mother, Chantal, is in a relationship with a toxic man. Lysanne wants to get out of the situation, but at what cost?

On the Gaspé peninsula, while his other memories fade, a septuagenarian with Alzheimer's fixates on the memory of his late wife. His 10-year-old grandson does his best to look after him.

An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell – of collaboration, cooperation, contamination – leaks into their merely human observers. Everyone is a boat. Floating on the larger dream of manufactured consent, all of my friends have become internet addicts, lacking time or sustained attention, ensuring the solitary necessary for neoliberal capital to roll over us. And yet, in the midst of the riptide, there is another calling from the onshore plants, the possibility of opening and resistance.

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city of Haifa, in the new state of Israel? There are three soldiers from the Haganah watching over a Palestinian father and his three sons. Each face has a story to tell as they take a long walk into exile, feel their homeland in moments that seem to last forever, but are never long enough. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. Every separation is a link. Simone Weil

This is a poetic and animated meditation inspired by two trips the director made to Japan. Images and sounds from daily life as well as recordings of his performances, most notably one with the dancer-choreographer Teita Iwabushi. There is no story as such, but a formal construction with sound and images. What can be seen in Japan when Mount Fuji is invisible, lost in the clouds?

After gravedigger Shelley has trouble making friends, she goes to extreme lengths to find companionship.

When a criminal gang that has existed for decades is challenged by a newly formed gang, the lives of many unrelated people change dramatically in a visual poem of violence intertwined with dark humor, pleasant love stories, and memorable conversations.

One summer, many years after his mother confided in him about her emotional difficulties with his father, a filmmaker questions his parents, curious about the state of their relationship. At first glance, their situation does not seem to have changed. Curious, he decides to inquire about it. Their activities and discussions both revive nostalgic and fearful emotions. He sees that his mother does not feel the same. From this moment that he realizes the magnitude of the subject and that some things are not accessible to him.

Firefighters in the United States and Canada form a controversial motorcycle club to cope with the crippling effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Disturbed that his hometown is typically overlooked on lists of the top pizza cities in the world, George Kalivas sets out on a road-trip exploring Windsor's most well-established pizza places. He's on a mission talking with suppliers, pizza joint owners and pizza enthusiasts about the essential characteristics that define and distinguish a true Windsor pie.

It's a hot Friday night. Dave Baker drowns his mid-life crisis in nightly cocktails. Not happy with the outcome of his life he blames his wife. Jessica Baker tries to cheer him up by offering to play scrabble. The evening gets interesting when Dave discovers the words on the board are coming alive. He decides to kill his wife.

Ready or not, society is in a process of redefinition. What goes through people’s minds in a situation like a toilet paper shortage? The term COVID-19 stands for something invisible, stoking fears strong enough to cause stock markets to melt like snow in springtime. As filmmaker Georges Hannan’s 91-year-old mother puts it, “I’ve never seen anything like this.” It has prompted him to embark on a gradual reflection over time, in a part of the world like any other: Atlantic Canada. Call it a fishing expedition with camera and microphone, into the unknown.

A man's attempt to impress his employer with a home-cooked meal goes awry.

R.E.M Burn is a visual poem addressing thematic elements of life and death cycles and traditional knowledge principles. In our initial consideration for this piece, the collective discussed examining the art and fashion world’s appropriation of Indigenous design and iconography. The film quickly became about more than acknowledging the distinction between appropriation and recontextualization, which is increasingly less distinguishable in an age of commodification. As Indigenous people, we understand that knowledge comes from our relationship with ourselves, each other, our communities, our animal relatives, and the land herself. In its truest form, this knowledge is without replication. R.E.M Burn is ultimately a reflection on the land that sustains us, the knowledge she offers, and the responsibility we carry to share those teachings for the well-being of future generations.

A video vignette marking the 50th anniversary of the artist-run centre Le Vidéographe

An animation over 45 years in the making, Wings to the Sun is an artistic depiction of a ceremony held by the people of an ancient community living on a vast plateau. During the ceremony the community offers its most precious possession to their revered Sun God.

A musical film featuring Quebec pop-punk band "Les Trois Accords".

"My mother always wanted a garden, and now she has one. A poem about family genealogy that highlights the relationship between a name and a place. *** Tatars and other non-Russian communities in the USSR were forced to go through Russification - the spread of Russian language, culture, and people into non-Russian cultures and regions. Forcing the many minority groups within Russia to accept the Russian culture was an attempt to prevent self-determination and separatism. As a result my mother, a Tatar woman born in Moscow, never properly learned her mother tongue or practiced Tatar traditions outside her family home. Composed of super 8 home movies." –Y.B.

6 months before election day, members of the « Parti du changement » behind in the poll, put together a plan to use a secret government protocol to duplicate an old Star Candidate.

Experimental film with many sections, some of which are over 20 minutes long each, of mostly mundane tasks or odd comedy sketches. The goal of the film is to see how long it takes before the viewer becomes bored or switches it off.

With its fluid arrangement of black and white scenes paired with an immersive soundscape, Je me souviens d’un temps où personne ne joggait dans ce quartier is a celebration of the many faces of Park Extension. The film provides a glimpse inside a festive cultural gathering; the workshop of a meticulous artisan; and an alley where a young cyclist is learning to ride. With her restrained approach, the filmmaker hints little by little at a seemingly inevitable transformation, while the relentless onset of gentrification threatens the social fabric of a neighbourhood. After a critically acclaimed detour into audio documentary, Jenny Cartwright returns to the evocative force of images to evoke a rich and diverse community.

Sara and Cameron, an interracial couple & pair of struggling actors, refuse to quit their shared Meisner class after they break up & deal with grief, closure & reminiscing their connection in this short that both honours and pokes fun at the experience of heartbreak.

A fly wreaks havoc on a family's dinner at a restaurant.

Aporia is an experimental short film following a girl in the near future who rents out a portion of her brain to a data startup in order to pay her hydro bill.

What would you do if you only had seven days left?

Vika is a Ukrainian student living in Toronto with a group of immigrants made of skaters, musicians and tattoo artists from Eastern Europe. As tensions rise in Eastern Ukraine and conflict affects their families and loved ones back home, the group’s sense of identity is tested. Half-documentary and half-fiction, Troika deals with fundamental questions about identity and the sense of belonging among a powerless youth.

An Inuit boy lives on the last melting igloo due to global warming. He struggles to survive by fishing empty tuna cans and plastic bottles in the polluted North Pole.

In 1926, a young couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an undiscovered mountain. A century later a group of would-be adventurers tries to retrace their steps. They soon find they've bitten off more than they can chew and it will take everything they've got to avoid disaster.

A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections: pensive, disbelieving, grieving, philosophical. We used to have movie stars and famous musicians. Now we had each other.

Created with support from Canada Council For The Arts, Conseil Des Arts Et Des Lettres Du Québec & The Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers

Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.

In Montréal, after a car crash, Martine finds herself in a world in-between life and death.

An Afghan war veteran looks to live the quiet life as a small-town police officer. That changes when a group of Russian hackers moves to the area, intending to disrupt the Canadian elections.

A lone man tries to open a door.

Taking place in an unspecified year in the early 1990s, a night of mindless television channel flipping is slowly interrupted and overtaken by a pirate television signal. A flood of colours emanating from video feedback, warring tribes displayed through a modified oscilloscope, and a flurry of gun violence repeated via luminance keying dominate stations one by one. Abstract imagery through analog video glitch techniques forewarn the passive television viewer that the far-right American political system to come will not be the result of a sudden shift. Instead we will see a rise of increasingly conservative policies followed by a moulding of public perception by broadcast television.

Last year, Kaye Adelaide and Mariel Sharp won Best Canadian short for their incisive and charming short comedy, DON’T TEXT BACK. This year they're back with the gritty and erotic monster love story MONSTER DYKE. A transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, MONSTER DYKE examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist. – Justine Smith

On April 10th, 2020, Father Fred Mazzarella died from Cancer. He was a man with a powerful heart. He touched the hearts of many, including my own. This documentary will explore a glimpse into his life and the people he inspired.

After 'Communicating Vessels' (FID 2020), the artist-filmmaker duo Annie McDonell and Maïder Fortuné are back. Once again, the question is that of art, its teaching, the painful articulation between thought, practice and the living shell that embraces and brings it to life. An affair as ancient as the first Romantic period, its complexity fully intact, the challenge here is multiplied by the study of an extremely singular and insufficiently known figure of 20th century history: Lee Lozano. Painter, particularly radical conceptual artist and then recluse, for many years this woman filled similar small coloured spiral notebooks with her thoughts and plans for her work.