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A prisoner who can no longer bear living in the jail he's confined to decides to take action.

A different kind of bone broth. A boiling broth stewed from science fiction, competitive cooking shows and the erotic recesses of the imagination, Broth of Vigour is a tonic for the body and mind.

On 1st April 2017, China launched the Xiong’an New Area project, intending to turn the region into a new megacity. In recognition of the accelerated urbanisation that has left the rural environment in a vacuum, Daphne Xu invites workers and residents to put on a performance in these non-places, thus dealing with a taboo subject with humour. – Tom Bidou

An experimental triptych filmed in 16mm and Super 8 over a four year period, Phenomena continues the artist's evolving preoccupation with landscape and celluloid practices. Three scenes are observed: a snowstorm in downtown Ottawa, Canada, a gentle winter thaw on a bog, and the raging Ottawa river during spring run-off.

FPS is a shooter game in which only one bullet is fired and then you deal with the aftermath of actually shooting a human.

In this short documentary, three women reflect on their willingness to sustain broken bones, concussions, and organ damage as professional mountain bikers. Blending white-knuckle riding, crashes, and quiet self-examination, the film unfolds as a sensory meditation on the rush of control that comes with completely letting go.

"The Challenging Dance"—a lively short film that documents the first dancer of color in Les Grands Ballets Canadiens—tracks Vanesa G. R. Montoya as she mounts her first major solo piece. Conveying a sense of the intense work that goes into each dance production, the film also represents a new initiative highlighting filmmakers from Quebec’s immigrant community: for this first edition, the two laureates were directors Gabriela de Andrade and Alexandre Paskanoi.

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are shared; small moments. The film is full of joy, and full of uncertainty, barely holding itself together." A companion piece to 'My Heart is Walking Around Outside of my Body'.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an area where 40,000 caribou calves are born every spring. Krista Davis joins a 10-day expedition to follow the migration of the caribous and explore how we can critically examine our own relationship to the world around us with a camera. In what is ostensibly a wildlife film, she uses various artistic means to fundamentally change the format.

Dorris, a lonely peculiar girl, receives a mysterious Liz Love workout VHS tape. Dorris finds herself under the spell of Liz Love, and before long seeks the desperate escape from her possession...

Maria Amalia Mazzarello is so calm and athletic, she’s easily mistaken for a dancer. The impression is reinforced by L’inis filmmaker Carmen Rachiteanu’s soft black and white images. But Amalia is no dancer, she’s a boxer who left Argentina for Munich, where she rose to the top of the professional circuit. At the Mariposa gym, she presses onward toward new heights thanks to the support and instruction of Kai, a gruff coach with a heart of gold. The film gracefully observes her touching relationship with her coach as well as the inspiring progress of a woman determined to battle the demons of past violence in the boxing ring. “Rocky is a love story”, Kai says to his pupil, who has never seen the film. Mazzarello, it turns out, is also a love story.

A self-portrait shot in Super8 depicting the sensorial chaos of living with permanent tinnitus as infinite waves.

"Lumen" (meaning "light" in Latin) is a sensory film shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.

Timothy's severe schizophrenia causes him to experience severe hallucinations. As he describes them to his friends, terrible things start to happen around them.

The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau, and "La Voix Humaine," the 1958 chamber opera by Francis Poulenc. In a radically new production The Human Voice presents a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Now in English, Isaiah Bell sings to his male lover, and into the abyss of COVID. In a Zoom call impaired by lag and freeze and dropped signals, technology is once again enemy to intimacy. The agony of failed love is heightened by the necessity of distance, by the anaesthetic of the machine.

Rodrigo questions his belonging to Eclectic City, the small religious commune he grew up in.

SALT follows motorcycle builders Ted Hector and Gary Macdonald on the long road from Alonsa, Manitoba to Utah's iconix Bonneville Salt Flats. They bend the lines and push the limits of their big twin flathead Harley in pursuit of a vintage world speed record.

A single window frame; a portal. As the circular nature of time begins to reveal itself, a new decade begins.

"Hex Crime" is an experimental short film entering the dream logic realm of the occult, personae, sexual autonomy and a hint of death that dances behind the thinning veil.

A man in a troubled relationship with his wife finds himself in a race against time after he unknowingly hires a counterfeit mercenary.

Mo is an adult with autism spectrum disorder who spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

Two young Chinese women draw themselves into an irreconcilable relationship with each other, one in a small town of Southwestern China, and the other in an old apartment in Toronto.

The stories of four queer Asian women are presented within an immersive experience of past and present, revealing the real-lives of a different generation.

From Winnipeg to Paris, from Montreal to the Philippines, the dash between "Filipino-Canadian" becomes a minus.

"Disconnect" is a video performance centered around the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Made during quarantine, the work is about the yearning and the passing time that separates myself from natural space. The video starts on a single frame of a negative, lit from a lightbox. The negative is taken in the mountains in nature. At the time of recording, Quebec is still under lockdown and National and Provincial Parks are closed to the public. As an artist whose work is centered around nature, the environment, and the human relationship with nature, I have temporarily lost my muse. The act of layering squares of clear acetone over the negative, is the passing of time, until we lose touch with nature and natural space. The negative is barely visible under all the acetone that has been piled up.

A lonely man is saved by his love for his work.

Claire knows that something is wrong when her customer struggles with his order.

Young professional lady realizes her fiance is missing. When the day coming that the truth being discovered, all the love of the mementos's gone with the end of phone call. What will happen after the short paragraph? And what happened before the micro short film? The story will be extent to middle short film.

Do you still believe in monsters in your closet? We do.

Two dogs decide to go out of the house for an excellent time

Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands.

Depicts the incredible story of the contributions made by the Italian Canadian community of Montreal to the fashion industry and how impactful these contributions were to the design culture and labour market in Quebec.

Odysseus wants the Cyclops to stop eating his crew, but the Cyclops really, really loves eating people. Can these two contrarians somehow meet in the middle?

Short animation produced for an exhibition in Germany.

Saturday Night Live star Michael Che hosts some of the world's funniest comedians in a one-hour stand-up special from Just For Laughs.

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Dive down into the deep blue sea with Finny The Shark and friends. You’ll see a fish, an octopus, a whale, a shark, a jellyfish, and a starfish!

The story focuses on a fictional museum whose exhibits are all items from the Lost and Found boxes of the world. It’s located out in the woods and you can only visit if invited. While the story focuses on the tour guide and the exhibits, in reality, it’s an allegory about how our society treats missing person cases (specifically MMIWG2S).

Kathleen is a hairdresser who uses her talents in the most tender and gentle of ways: she primps and pampers people in palliative care, committed to creating small moments of normalcy and joy in their lives.

A short documentary following the growing up of stand up comic Joel Edmiston through the lens of his biggest fans: his family.

A short documenting the pathway to inner peace with self, the unfortunate burden of accountability, grief and growth come crashing together with the help of a worldwide pandemic. Unified struggle can create an isolating disconnect.

A documentary examining the life of civil rights organizer, Jack O'Dell, a close colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a force in his own right.

Directed by Marlene Millar.

Realizing they are in a slasher movie and attempting to escape the crime scene, John and Paul bump into a maniac and now are in a dilemma: should they kill the maniac and destroy the entire movie universe or sacrifice themselves? What will they choose?

"We wanted to tell a story with a woman we love,” say directors Cassandra Surina and David Ehrenreich. “A true outlier wherever she calls home.” Graphic designer Asami Tsukada is a Japanese expat living in Canada. She has lived half of her life in Tokyo and the other half in Vancouver, but has found “community and isolation, acceptance and discrimination in both cultures equally.

1997, Victoria, British Columbia—Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl is murdered by her peers in a case that shook the nation. A year later, fifteen-year-old Braidie becomes obsessed with this case, but not for sympathy for the victim—because she sees something in herself that resonates with the teenage killers. Horrified by this, Braidie plunges into her memories and takes us on a journey through her life—from playing ponies to afterschool smoking—and discovers the increasing ostracization and violence towards one of Braidie’s own peers at the hands of her and her friends.

An intimate insight into the life of Ilana, a single mother of three, and how her passion for pole dance has affected her young daughters and their family life.

Something astonishing is happening in the city of Vancouver. Largely unnoticed amidst vehicle traffic, industrial sites and construction, wild salmon are returning to their ancient spawning grounds. Once an important salmon bearing area, this watershed became severely degraded as the city grew… but the rewilding has begun to pay off.

Inspired by the filmmaker's life experience, Ketchup & Soya Sauce is a feature documentary highlighting how partners in mixed relationships involving a first-generation Chinese immigrant and a non-Chinese partner celebrate and manage their cultural differences. The Canadian participants range in age from 20 to 90 years old and are in either a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. The documentary depicts an 80-year evolution in culture and attitude toward mixed relationships in both China and Canada. It explores the participant's social background and how their romance began as well as food habits, language and communication, intimacy, financial management, child education, pop culture, and culture shock. The documentary's tone mixes humor with reflective and emotional moments.

A fictionalized version of the true story of our clan mothers giving COVID-19 a Mohawk name so that we are able to respect the illness, understand why it is here and then invite it to leave.

Jason Kenzie, a local pet photojournalist discovers a myriad of exotic animals living in the backyards of the lower mainland of British Columbia Canada.

A pair of friends go on on a weekend canoe trip and meet two strangers along the way. They have a fire together at night, but soon realize the strangers aren’t who they think they are, and the friends must try to escape the strangers who have sinister intentions.

Left home alone, two kids must now deal with an evil force after messing around with the Necronomicon (even though they were specifically asked not to).

As a small child, Nakuset was taken from her home in Thompson, Manitoba and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal. The story of how she reclaimed her Indigenous identity, with help from her Bubby.

Mediated under flight and wing, possible collective memories are represented through a prism of vast tundra landscapes, a wrecked 19th century paddleboat, and ancient lichen fields. Time, place and history become nostalgic remnants from the Yukon Territory.