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A comedic short film.

Trapped in an enclosed area, Sarah frantically looks for a way to escape, hoping not to encounter anything that may be lurking around her in the darkness.

The studio workings behind door 11a in the Ortona Armoury. An ode to a practice and place that should not be forgotten.

Chandler is an emerging porn star and self-described sexual deviant trying to make it big in Toronto. Meaghan is a socially attuned empath and aspiring actor making experimental art films in LA. They both happen to have cerebral palsy, and they're sick of society's normative standards of beauty getting in the way of their dreams. A raw, intimate portrait of two people's distinct journeys on their first attempts to shift the social perceptions of sexuality and disability.

Based on the book, "Clearing the Way", by Major Mark Gasparotto, Tells the collective stories of the Canadian Combat Engineers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan during deployment from August 06 to February 07.

Kasha Sequoia Slavner, aka The Sunrise Storyteller, is an 18-year old filmmaker, photographer, entrepreneur, young global leader and peace advocate. As a concerned high school student, disillusioned and outraged by the negativity and powerlessness she felt as a consumer of mainstream media, Kasha was compelled to find an alternative narrative. On her 16th birthday on an ambitious mission to travel the world for six months with her mom, camera in hand and no clear road map, she finds herself intersecting with the lives of people determined to rise above adversity.

When a rookie security guard signs in a disapproving senior executive, things take an unexpected turn.

ZOOM was made from videotapes stolen from a house. The selected sequences depict an absurd relationship with others and with nature through video excerpts filmed by an unknown person in Antoine Larocque's hometown (Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada) in the 1990s. The man who filmed these images was found dead a few years ago. He lived alone, isolated, and had developed a compulsive hoarding disorder. He died of a heart attack while playing the video game DOOM on his X-BOX. The images added to this question challenge our relationship with images.

James C. Kirby is a Black Magician, Artist and Magister Templi in the Temple of Set, a left hand path occult religion. A gemstone cutter, carver and fine jewellery maker, James crafts unique works in stone, bone and metal.

When Cole's friend Adam suddenly commits suicide, he sets out to find out what really happened. Despite his friends wishes, he wanders into the haunted Kandalore Woods looking for the truth behind the death of his friend.

An exploration of the innovative self-help efforts and the radical vision of co-operation in communities across the Canada province of Ontario.

A short film depicting my mother's walk from our home to the local grocery store.

Liminals draws parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the ’70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures. It follows a group of 8 dancers as they enact ecstatic rituals in an attempt to access a new realm of consciousness with the potential to save humanity.

A women emigrates for her the sake of her daughter's future.

Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams From A Harbourtown follows two middle-aged people – a Rock Singer and a Pin Up Model – who are dreaming big, while living in a small place. How do you chase your show-biz dreams when you’re far from the shine of big city lights? Small Town Show Biz examines the world of dreams – the ones that haunt us and the ones that inspire us.

Minoritaires offers an insider perspective on the Mouvement des Insoumis and its members’ political actions from 2011 to 2016. Following the Parti Québécois’ proposed Quebec Charter of Values in 2013, the Insoumis focused their attention on issues around identity, and their concerns crystallized into a fear of the ‘Islamization’ of Quebec. The group’s ideological contradictions and confusion are slowly revealed before the camera, but so is a troubling familiarity.

Royal Canadian Air Cadets at the top of their class undergo seven weeks of training to get their pilot’s license in an intense program that normally takes six to eight months.

Video Painting Series

How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar? Let’s step inside the old scenes of love (which are also the prelude to love’s betrayal) before animal rescue can offer consolations. Shot on the closing night of the Jihlava Festival in 2016, in the Dukla Theatre, on the festival’s twentieth anniversary, where the namesake of its experimental offerings was being offered another airing, and the three of us were gathered there to bear witness, each hello already a prelude to departure.

The impossible childhood home, it cannot be reached and it is not the same.

Reports on the fight with ISIS.

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

Synopsis “I have no regrets,” says Vivianne Gauthier, sitting on her bed in the room where she has slept for over eighty years. A singular woman—strong, disciplined, and energetic—this choreographer and dance teacher lived life on her own terms, leaving her mark on the cultural history of her country, Haiti. This film offers a glimpse into her life through a visit to her home, a “Gingerbread House” where every corner is filled with memories. Here is the portrait of an endearing woman, revealing a side of Haiti that is too often overlooked.

Between the 1970s and the 1990s, we saw the birth of a movement, believing that extraterrestrials used Mount Saint-Hilaire as a base. Between mystery and science, you'll discover what gave birth to this fascination that people of the region.

Two filmmakes create a vehicle for isolated people to find connections in the world, by encouraging them to talk about their passions

A short film by TSU that documents Bradley 'Caribou Legs' Firth and his cross-country run to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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.

Ghosts haunt an abandoned ward.

And Everyone was There is an investigation into the surreality of dreams and the capricious nature of memory.

The Race2Alaska is one of adventure racing's greatest competitions - challenging mariners to navigate 750 miles of BC's most infamous waterways by human or wind power alone. The rules are simple: no motors, no outside help or support, first boat over the line wins.

A space between spaces. Super 8 / Sound / 3:45

Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.

A sensual and dysphoric window frames the redefining of an identity. Through the lens of an experimental film this personal piece explores gender and one’s place within or without it.

As I began the process of swinging the door in its predetermined arc, two things occupied my thoughts. One was that, in a modest but meaningful way, the anticipation of moving from one setting to another began to register agreeably in my consciousness, as I first felt the breeze from that other world make its way around the door. However unexceptional my life, I could still visualize a different life, a better life, a life full of success, love and adventure on the other side of that door. But then a darker, more commonplace sensation replaced those pleasant reveries …

Seven master guitar-makers create instruments inspired by Canada's art legends.

Biomes is a series of 4 paintings in motion inspired by the the surrealist landscapes of Tanguy and Kay Sage. Digital and analog video techniques are used to simulate painterly effects in an interplay between soft, harsh, mat and shiny surfaces, different shades of light and the illusion of depth or flatness. Biomes are portraits of post human environments where uncanny life forms materialize and slowly detach themselves from the horizon, to finally melt into their respective landscapes.

As much about light, color, texture and sound as it is about “story,” “Beautiful Like Elsewhere” evokes a mysterious dreamscape of shimmering tableaux that seem to exist just on the edge of consciousness. Populated by human and nonhuman organisms, classical images and pure form, this allusive world, which may be a vision of the afterlife, hints at a deeper level of awareness and meanings beyond words.

2005, at the corner of St. George and Robinson Streets; the gray observatory at the corner of temptation, my new apartment, where I am about to live an intense and poetic urban experience in the district of the red light fish & chip. Between the horizontal blades of my venetian blinds, the freaky-deaky city comes alive for me, image by image.

infinite mutation cycles radiated pastures image infection ritual feedings soil rot cursed texture mysterious illness

For the first time, St. Mary's University and Pyramid Productions have partnered to create a spectacular film showcasing the history of the campus through the spirits who walked the land.

Two children wander in a dead world where degenerate echoes of the past resonate.

Pierre Radisson: Fjord and Gulf presents the daily activity and environment of its eponymous Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker. Shot during the Pierre Radisson's work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec during February 2016, the film provides a window into a portion of the invisible labour underpinning the Canadian economy.

A documentary that follows artists and educators in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A city that should be full of opportunity but instead is full of dead ends and people looking for a way out.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Contemplating suicide: a biography

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.

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.

An utterly charming zen mix of animating and hands-on music.

Video Painting Series

A film that was written, shot, and edited within 72 hours as a part of Queen's University's student-run Focus Film Festival.

Sit down, bro: In this Kendrick Lamar parody, Canadian downhill pro Micayla Gatto and her crew show who the real queens of the bike park are.