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A year ago, Julie’s parents died in a car crash. She moves and meets new people, argues, plays sports, goes to an amusement park… As she wanders through the sunny summer of 1996, she grows, changes and blossoms.

After a job goes wrong, a woman flees to her hometown in southern Colombia. Along the way she encounters a mysterious figure, which might be the embodied spirit of an ancient plant. A non-linear video installation uses experimental animation to tell a story about psychotropic plants, crime and Colombian society.

In the process of cooking, a man cuts himself. A lot.

It's 1982 and four boys make it their task to debunk the local ghost story.

you’re a plant whisperer and for me, it’s enough studies the materiality of the analog image and the relationship between the musicality of the image and sound, in an attempt to create an introspective atmosphere. The video consists of two monochromatic shots generated using a VHS video mixer, each combining with a figurative image shot on Super 8 film. Treating colour as a conductor of emotions, all the images evoke inaccessibility, perfection and dream, in parallel with a meditative and transcendent soundtrack.

Through the eyes of Eytan, a man who only exists in the dreams and unconscious minds of others, we question what is “real”, what isn't, and how we each perceive time differently.

A selfish young athlete is confronted by Coyote in an unexpected way.

Vancouver's esports scene is on the cusp to unstoppable growth. The local fighting games community tells all on what it took to get this far.

One bro is sick. The other… super sick. How do they connect emotionally when they have no idea how?

What happens when the largest redevelopment in North America dismantles the place where social housing began? Will the community and its residents ever be the same? Farewell Regent is a 90-minute documentary that captures the Regent Park community of downtown Toronto (the place where social housing began in Canada) in the midst of the largest housing redevelopment project in North America. With this transition, it will go from a site of 100% social housing to a mixed-income community where condo units will outnumber the social housing units 4 to 1. The documentary profiles past and current tenants, city officials, developers and housing advocates to get an inside view of the complex issues, emotions and drama that are involved in such a massive redevelopment.

A university professor is actually an intergalactic traveler and needs your help to re-shape the future. Will you lend a helping hand?

As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s death, Julia, an old countryside teacher is invited to share her historical story with the world: Giving a bowl of soup to the captured guerrilla in her classroom, while he recited a poem about flowers to her a few hours before his death. The invitation is withdrawn soon after, as other women step forward claiming the story of “the soup and the flower” as their own.

A police forensic photographer known as the exhibit man discovers the murders in his town are linked to an alien creature.

DBtH! is a silent looping video intended for screening on public surfaces in gay neighbourhoods across Canada. It beckons viewers with sensuous displays of queer public affection paired with scrolling text that both provokes and informs. This site-specific work claims public space for queer intimacy and political imagining at a time when Canadians are being encouraged by both the federal government and LGBT civil society organizations to celebrate the so-called 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality.

An aging actor is grateful to be cast in a theatrical production, but he feels lost and unwanted among his college-aged castmates.

After Alex wanted to surprise Catherine for her birthday by taking the staff of a restaurant hostage, the two unrepentant and hot-tempered women argue in an epic argument about how to use their metapsychic powers.

A virtual stroll inside the cultural center Casa do Povo (São Paulo, Brazil), ending at the basement floor of the building, where an imaginarily restored version of the Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro (TAIB) is located.

Watch his story unfold as we recount his rise as a journalist covering some of the most controversial UFO events seen across Mexico in history. Jaime Maussan started his career in journalism at some of the highest profile news agencies in Mexico, including 60 minutes and TV Azteca. His ambition and powerful desire to tell stories at a feverish pace led to the creation of his own news reporting agency Tercer Milenio which still has a growing base of over 2 million viewers a week internationally.

Short documentary featuring the small Montreal based surf-punk band No Waves.

Aliquid is a single channel video where the electronic signal is manipulated digitally to materialize into synthetic flesh. Slowly landing onto a glass architecture, this undefined substance is torn apart by sharp edges and eventually disintegrates into particules that spread into the atmosphere.

The LGBTQ2 community and our allies’ response to a controversial decision by evangelical Trinity Western University to open a School of Law came from understanding historic inequality.

A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and tunnels until the cause of liberation can be seen clearly and embraced. Why do birds suddenly appear?

TV: transformational vibrations.

"Laughing fishes gave me a lift is a meditation on the time I spent in the Yukon, Canada, this winter. Every day of the three months I lived there was marked by going out onto the ice of the Yukon River and collecting sound recordings. The images followed. The film reflects on the vastness of the white expanse, the punctual yet overarching human presence in this landscape, the dialogue between a personal, physical relationship that one is bound to have by living on this land and the unfading notion of a romantic wilderness associated with it." -Alisa Vostikalp

Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A follow-up to his award-winning film Twelve (2009), BIRTHMARK is a wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology. Soliciting fellow mark-bearers to add their testimonies to his own, Lester documents his journey to find peace and forgiveness, and to quiet the voice in his head. “It’s not only about the marks we are born with but the marks we imagine for ourselves.”

Excerpts from the director's dream diary, 2015 to 2017.

A lonely artist creates a film by himself in his backyard for his own entertainment.

We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed…

Growing up, Jesse didn’t think she was any different from her friends- until “The Change”. This is a heartfelt story of insecurity, growth, and self-acceptance told through the eyes of a young worm trying to find her place in a butterfly’s world.

Peter Mansbridge travels the country to talk to Canadians about what's on their minds on the eve of an election.

An intense and brutal evening between two long-time friends… Secrets will be revealed as they dance through the night between anger, humiliation and happiness…

In a futuristic 1999, a highly trained Vietnam veteran, now evangelical minister, goes on a mission of holy vengeance after his wife and child are brutally murdered.

Dancing escalates through simple rotoscoped sequences through increasingly abstract variations, non-narrative progression.

Incorporating rephotographed etchings and clips from Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Annie MacDonell weaves together an elegant play of gestures and patterns, in which quiet moments in a family home become a site of formal and intellectual experimentation.

Inscape is a single channel video mixing 3D animation and video synthesis. By an interplay between points of views, depth of fields and textures, new details are revealed, transforming the space into abstract compositions. Inspired by the paintings of Kay Sage, Inscape depicts a psychological landscape, where perspectives are constantly shifting.

Creative essay doc inspired by Lewis Hyde's classic bestseller The Gift. Chronicling gift-based cultures around the world and challenging the logic of global capitalism, the film inspires the question: is life about getting or giving?

Lián and her family are stowaways on a ship, hiding in one of the containers. One day, Lián heads out secretly and discovers that the vessel has docked ahead of schedule. She now has to overcome language barriers and deceit to save her family.

"Ô Criatura: Navigating (dis)location" is a documentary that captures an East Van Latinx artist’s reflections on identity and belonging, and on how social, cultural, and discursive realities influence her life.

In A Sweet and Sour Christmas, director Aram Siu Wai Collier and producer Betty Xie follow two types of holiday meals at the King Wok Restaurant: the deep-fried take-out Chinese Canadian food staples delivered to families across Kitchener and the traditional Cantonese meal for a family sharing a rare Christmas celebration.

Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students.

An historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.

Clowns are only scary when you find one at night.

A conversation between two women about the desires and banalities of life. Both women share the same homeland, one stayed there while the other emigrated, but the distance hasn't severed their friendship nor the similarities in their perspectives.

An unconventional, tone-shifting travelogue that stitches together nations of the former Yugoslavia through chance encounters, 1970s rock music, architecture, and inventive editing, Ryan Ferko’s Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower locates traces of the past in an increasingly fractured present.

Late night Winnipeg adventure

Tiffany Haddish graces the Just For Laughs stages to host one night of hysterical stand-up comedy. Featuring Fortune Feimster, Gina Yashere, Ruben Paul, and more.

In "Water Over Glass," the tension of a mind adrift and in conflict with itself is captured and bookended visually by the vast mutability of sea and sky, where water and air surfaces suggest both static and the dissolution of the individual. A doppelganger, a crime scene and the tidal erasure of what might have taken place: discomfiting moments in a bright, almost psychedelic, arc. Assembled from 16mm, Super 8, and digital video, stop motion collage and digital compositing animation, "Water Over Glass" works backwards from an original story by Jason Zumpano and its musical articulation—Vancouver outfit The Cyrillic Typewriter’s 2018 album of the same name—to suspend a visual form over a sonic narrative.

When two friends decide to open a Christmas Tree Lot to make some extra cash, they didn't know they would be re-discovering the true meaning of Christmas.

We all try to be something, to become someone. Unbecoming follows Logan's journey as he fights to "unbecome" everything he's been until now, that wasn't really him in the first place.

A vinyl fanatic becomes haunted by a lost singer's voice after discovering an incredible junk shop record. He embarks on a surreal adventure with the help of psychics, private investigators and a ghost hunter.

Committed documentary in the footsteps of three Quebec chefs who think outside the box to offer gastronomy that resembles us and brings us together. In the forests, the fields and the great St. Lawrence River, they pick surprising products and place the territory on the plate. These gourmet creators offer a change of mentality in order to participate in the development of a culinary art in harmony with nature.

The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to music, the music of Coleman Hawkins for example, is an authentic relationship, equal to human company. The movie closes with Hawkins playing one of his signature tunes, the jazz standard Lover Man, along with Cozy Cole (drums), Barry Galbrath (guitar), Johnny Guaneri (piano) and Milt Hinton (bass). The midsection is occupied by an outdoors swimming pool, along with a voice-over extolling the virtues of frustration.

"Ricecake" is a short documentary film on RICECAKE: Vancouver’s Queer and Asian Dance Party, the brainchild of Shay Dior, a QPoC, drag artist, and mother of the HOUSE OF RICE. Through interviews with Shay Dior and friends, the film explores what it means to navigate queer spaces in Vancouver as an Asian person.