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After his brewing license expires, a coffee vendor must escape the authorities. Will he succeed?

A young boy struggles with his widowed mother's decision to relocate the family from Jamaica to Canada.

A man drives aimlessly questioning his life only to discover that the answers he is looking for have been with him all along.

Comedy short film

"I've always wanted to be deaf," says 15-year-old Nyla. She's the only hearing person in her family going back five generations and views her ability to hear as both a gift and a curse. Itaru Matsui and Heath Cozens weave together the fascinating experiences of four children of deaf adults—also known as CODAs—and the challenges and joys they face living between these two worlds.

An exhausted 20 year old acts as a parent and translator for her mother during a visit to a doctor's office.

A woman’s connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion develops a language for Taíno filmmaking based in the earth and cosmos, and in so doing, breathes an ancestral connection into new form.

As his health rapidly deteriorates, legendary Algonquin Park fishing guide Frank Kuiack spends his last fishing season searching for someone to whom he can pass on his wisdom.

"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.

Fufu is a subjective portrait of a first-generation immigrant daughter’s recollection of her mother’s life. Through the creation of a childhood meal of Fufu. The daughter immerses herself into the role of being a vessel of tradition and remembrance. In her laborious reflection, the daughter reminisces on the struggles of continuing tradition amidst personal conflicts and the external reality of journeying, settling and creating home.

Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates how — and why — Indigenous identity, culture and art are being appropriated by those who are not First Nations.

A young photographer loves to capture the gaze of strangers on film. In his darkroom, he discovers on a celluloid the gaze of a woman he didn't photograph. Obsessed, he tries to find its origin, that of this mystical woman.

An irate customer harasses Shane, a bookstore employee for not having a copy of an obscure book in stock, demanding that they bend over backwards to find it for them. When Shane stumbles across a copy while re-stocking the shelves, he finds himself drawn into a surreal home that has no intention of letting him leave.

A talented teenage swimmer deals with navigating her life with and without the presence of her best friend.

The delightful handiwork of directors Benoit Therriault and Pierre-Hugues Dallaire with the team at Montreal’s Rodeo FX, this animation charms viewers with the story of a boy and a bird who find hope and connection in the deepest and darkest of places.

For most of her early life, filmmaker Barri Cohen knew her immediate family to consist of her parents, two brothers and half-sister. But one day, in a moment of emotional disclosure, her father revealed the existence of two more siblings. Cohen never knew her half-brothers Alfred and Louis, who were dropped off as toddlers at the Huronia Regional Centre, a now-closed hospital and home for children with developmental disabilities. In the wake of a successful class-action lawsuit, Cohen is finally able "to peel back the half-truths and secrets" around her two now-deceased siblings. Speaking to the families and survivors of the centre, she pieces together the story of her brothers' lives through shocking stories of abuse, humiliation and trauma. But these interviews also provide hope and light, as the survivors support each other in their battle for recognition and healing.

You swore never to tell...

“Abu & Mo” is an animated silent film set in 1889 Damascus, loosely inspired by real events. It is about orphans, who despite the differences in their religious backgrounds, develop an abiding friendship and inspire a divided community to come together to pray.

Chances is the first music video of who's lara? and $anteria. The film explores the thought pattern taken by the artists to escape their inner demons ; a visual metaphor of the vicious circle of addiction.

In the late 1970's, a group of teens are enjoying their time in high school. The group is having the time of their lives, when one of their friends mysteriously disappears and it's up to them to find her.

Based on diaries that detail 30 years of service abroad of a Canadian Immigration Officer, The Dependents is an intimate audiovisual exploration of transient lives. It navigates through travel, my father’s employment, and my mother’s role as a spouse. Home and belonging are reconstructed between the past and present as a direct result of displacement and globalization, marking the political complexities between East and West, North and South, and Men and Women.

On March 17, 2019, Kristian Ayoungman was fatally shot in a racially motivated murder that shocked the Siksika Nation. In two Alberta, Canada, communities, a movement arose demanding Kristian’s murderers be brought to justice.

Noreen, Flora, and Doug are three friends in their 90s who still swim in their local river everyday. With calming clarity, the friends show us that life’s magic exists in finding joy in the simple moments of everyday life.

Story of a Oregon Ufologist by the name Terry Linch who had a close encounter sighting of a large UFO craft in 2018. And now putting the story together of numerous sightings in the area. Connections with geology and geoglyphs found on top of a mountain.

Under the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives change when the Taliban returns to power.

As Susie's relationship with her partner is deteriorating, she expirences increasingly vivid and disturbing dreams in her sleep reflecting on her present day life and internal struggles.

Rookie drug dealers Bonnie (Josh Fischer) and Donnie (Cam Howard) could not have encountered more trouble than on this deal. In this comedic thriller, we see the opposite effect of Murphy's law in place, where everything that could go wrong... does. While dealing with one issue, another arises, and when the storm seems to have passed, it takes a turn for the worse

Debuted at the 2022 Calgary Underground film festival and made in under 48 hours, The Box-er is about a crime boss who hires the most innocent man he can find to lose a boxing match so he can make more money.

After suffering a panic attack in public, a young woman decides to never leave her apartment again.

A presentation of consumerism during holiday season and a dive into the mentality to pursue materialistic lifestyles

Two confused, afraid, and overwhelmed childhood friends on the cusp of adulthood, seek out the counsel of the legendary Shroom Jesus: a psychedelic suburban shaman with a reputation for resolving even the deepest existential conundrums.

Little Daisy is on her first visit to the laundromat to wash her teddy! Her fear of the big, loud machines holds her back, but with the help of her mother and an unexpected new friend, she’ll learn that everything filthy needs to get washed…

In search of an island that would resemble the island where she grew up, a filmmaker gets lost in her head, her memories and her dreams.

The Newest Olds is the second installment in Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Mazzolo’s cinematic diptych exploring the natural and urban environment within and surrounding the border region of Windsor–Detroit. Completed seven years after the release of Fish Point (2015), Mazollo’s revelatory study of light and landscape that animated the deciduous forest harbours and rare ecosystem at the southeastern tip of Pelee Island, The Newest Olds transforms Detroit’s iconic cityscapes, dislodging buildings from their foundations and collapsing the physical, political, and sensory boundaries between Canada and the United States through alchemical, in-camera, and optical printing techniques.

Akash Jones sits down with his father to talk about his life in Regent Park, his arrival to Canada, and early life in Regent and how it compares to his son's experience today.

In this fanciful and imaginative experimental video, a person struggles to figure out what is a dream and what is reality, as they dive into their fantasies of becoming a butterfly among the flowers.

Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservation and her commitment to help her community regain their culture and traditional ways.

A dance of time passing through the invisible movement of flowers, clouds and crowds.

From its shocking opening image of a bridge snapped in two, Zero Position crosses an eerie landscape fractured by dueling Russian separatist and Ukrainian forces. On this cinematic journey, there are no interviews or extensive explanations of the conflict between the opposing sides. Accompanied by an evocative soundscape, the film moves like a ghostly presence through a troubled region, pausing at heavily armed checkpoints and competing front lines. As the camera captures people scurrying past the aftermath of conflict, carrying plastic bags bulging with items gleaned from abandoned homes, we see the stark reality of a people caught in a borderland between East and West. Director Louie Palu's expressive, sparse and poetically delivered voiceover adds context to places the nightly news cameras don't take us, including an old coal mine and a family's home. Through its mood and atmosphere, Zero Position offers us an experiential look at a region on the brink of all-out war.

Follow the trail of The Darkside Killer and understand how friendships fall apart.

A girl struggles with anxiety and depression.

Constructed entirely from raw images and audio sourced from NASA's Open Data project, this short documentary digs through the Curiosity rover's nine-year history on Mars to find hidden moments of excitement, alien sunsets, shifting sands, solitude and even aging.

On Bill Bilingston jr the III's 20 1/2 birthday, he invites his friends from the multiverse over for some fun...or did he? Created in under 48 hours for the Okotoks film festival 2022.

In India, three women are pioneers of urban sustainability by addressing waste management issues. Despite working in male-dominated fields, these figures transform waste into construction materials, assemble community members to restore rivers and produce zero-waste personal care products. With their stories woven together, we see that waste is filled with potential for repurposing.

Objets-monde is interested in the traces that humans leave on the environment as well as the way in which these become an intrinsic part of our ecosystem. Abandoned objects, such as cars and computer screens, were captured with the help of photogrammetry to create a video collage composed of extracts from reality. Re-contextualized in disproportionately large proportions within landscapes seen from afar, these objects stand out like the ruins of monumental architecture. The absence of life as well as the luminous atmosphere of the work create a tension between apocalyptic feeling and nostalgia, between precious object and waste, between idealized nature and the indelible presence of human traces. These vestiges of the Anthropocene are deployed within an interactive installation in collaboration with Guillaume Arseneault, and a soundtrack composed by Roger Tellier-Craig. This is the single-channel version of the project.

Discover in all intimacy the life of the singer and actress Michèle Richard. From her first performance on film at the age of ten until the acquisition of her new residence in the Laurentian Mountains.

Britt is turning 30, and she's hitting a wall . . . she's been in a six-year relationship with her partner Tracy, and working hard for that promotion at work, but something's missing - somewhere along the way Britt lost herself. So, when her semi-estranged, Canadian-famous, rock star of a father shows up to her 30th birthday dinner, and Tracy springs a proposal on her all in one night, Britt is forced to shift her perspective inwards and think about what she wants.

Filmmaker Nate Gaffney explores his Indigenous identity.

This is a very worrying observation: 2.2 billion people, or 40% of the world's adult population, are overweight or obese. Junk food plays a major role in this public health crisis. Evidence is mounting against ultra-processed industrial foods, products that addict the most vulnerable consumers. The global food giants have known this for 20 years already.

After losing a loved one, a man decides to leave Montreal for Tokyo, but misses his connection in New York. Waiting for his next flight, he wanders the streets rehashing the past and dreaming of what might have been.

They're poodles made of popcorn!

This series of three works is part of the “household scenes” project, a corpus in development. It is a set of vignettes, cinematographic tableaux, built around the repeated gestures of my parents' daily life. I present these scenes sometimes as sequence shots, sometimes as a succession of cut-out shots. Some depict only one parent, with particular emphasis on how he/she negotiates domestic space. With these paintings, imagined in various environments and by a treatment specific to the medium, I work to reveal the singularity of the places, the movement of the figures and the relationship between the two.

Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn't forget how to fly.

Emma makes the decision to have an abortion and practice symptothermia. Through a disturbing and wacky visual plot as well as an intimate and touching auditory plot, Emma invites us to rethink freedom through a body, benevolence through choice and harmony through violence.