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As its title suggests, this experimental short comprises six apparently unrelated segments that are nevertheless connected by a shared vision. A hypnotic nighttime travelling shot, filmed on a train heading toward a brightly lit city, introduces a collage alternating between shots of natural scenes and melancholy self-portraits. Displaying abdominal scars, partially concealed by a bride’s veil, the protagonist is an enigmatic and disturbed figure with multiple identities. Echoing these preoccupations, the image itself is subdivided into multiple panes, each one bearing a multiplicity of possible meanings. With an impressive sense of plasticity, this film marks the arrival of a unique, self-assured voice. (Bruno Dequen)

The Last Awakening short film was written, filmed and edited in under 24 hours.

A scientist investigates a strange noise related to his daughter’s disappearance in an abandoned village alone.

A young woman goes to visit her mysterious date and is forced to come to terms with her deepest fears.

Chronicle of a cat’s misadventures in a park.

After a family separation, a young woman failed to provide the emotional support her mother needed. The woman relives this pivotal moment, wishing she could go back and say the things she left unsaid.

A documentary exploring two LGBTQ+ Filipino immigrants' lives, and their journey in becoming the people they are today.

A short documentary that explores the relationship between female sexuality and aging, behind the backdrop of BDSM and fetish culture.

When colorful birds from all over the world land at the border crossing of a fictitious country, they get hit with a slew of insults by the two nasty vulture guards, and are denied entry. Prejudice is in the air. A comedic parody on a serious subject.

A 16mm hybrid visual poem, at the crossroad between intertextuality and documentary. This film "plays" with images in a mysterious way. In the words of Eugenio Montale, weaving a disappearing and deserted suburban landscape into the fabric of images, sounds, and textures of two far-away lovers yearning for each other.

They say the honeymoon period lasts only a short time.

"Years ago, my mother sold her house in Woodstock, Ontario. Hundreds of high dynamic range digital photos were taken to provide to the real estate agent for the online sale listing. The images were left on an SD card that was strangely stored and subject to firmware incompatibility (or some other manner of environmental degradation). Disassembling each damaged, barely-there high dynamic range photo into its light and dark component parts, I built a VHS cascade of house pieces (never quite reconstituting what was). " –C.L.L.

Door number one. Door number two... Door number three! A sentient light performs an elegy.

Weylon is looking for a hired hand and Fidelma needs the job desperately, but her duties in the dark barn might prove beyond her tolerance.

A narrative dance film that explores the fluidity of identity and self expression through fashion.

Weaving together family narratives and current thoughts on the pandemic, the ethics of representation, and the nature of the sacred, Thirza Cuthand discusses a medicine bundle which was used to heal the artist’s great-great-grandfather from a Gatling gunshot wound in 1885, and her grandfather from the Spanish flu in 1918. In this film, Cuthand reflects on the ways that the bear cub spirit contained within the since-buried bundle has continued to protect her family from the trauma and diseases brought on by colonization.

“Clutter” is a 2D stop-motion animation, utilizing paper cut out, wool, and pieces of garbage. Thematically it touches on hoarding and consumerism.

A cluster of postcard-perfect Acadian fishing villages off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada made international news in 2013 when Phillip Boudreau, a local man known for poaching lobsters, was killed by fishermen in a crime the media dubbed 'Murder for Lobster.' But as anyone from the community will tell you, it's a lot more complicated than that. People don't just go around killing each other over lobster.

Best known for his long running television series "Fred Penner's Place" and hit song "The Cat Came Back," for decades musical icon Fred Penner has been using his engaging personality and public speaking skills to excite audiences like no other. He is a constant inspiration for his fans of all ages, but what is it that Fred really does for people? Why is Fred's message and music more important than ever? How did Fred go from a struggling musician to the North American sensation dubbed the "Canadian Minister of Positivity"? How did difficult moments from Fred's youth shape his life as a performer? Take this highly engaging journey to discover how Fred Penner connects with audiences and makes sense of the world.

A woman masks her weakening sanity as she fails to recall her actions during frequent blackouts.

March 20, 1996, Palace of Westminster. Stephen Dorrell, UK Minister for Agriculture, addresses the House of Commons. He declares that the prion, the agent responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or “mad cow disease”, could be transmissible to humans. Ten new cases of young Britons suffering from the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJ) have just been detected. They are thought to have contracted the disease through food, by eating beef. These words are a bombshell. They put an end to ten years of disinformation, silence and lies of omission. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Filmed at the Centre for Marine Simulation in St. John's Newfoundland, a ship simulator floats—in its algorithmic attempt at verisimilitude—the promise of a simulated world to inhabit and control.

Explorations along a walk in the woods.

When you don't know if you're dreaming or living a beautiful moment it's called waking state (vigilia); wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to keep it, and live it again?

That hanging piece of skin. That painful chunk of tissue that won't let go. You rip and tear at it, but the flesh holds on. This common nuisance turns into a grisly nightmare in Hangnail.

Purple is a personal and thoughtful exploration of bisexuality and feeling alienated within queer community.

A young boyscout gives himself the mission to liberate his friend from her house since her dad won't let her go to the camp.

Household objects float in a digital dreamspace.

Using old photographs, Super 8mm film and FBI documents, a Japanese American filmmaker tells the story of her family’s struggle to prove their American identities during World War II. Standing in flux between the identity of “Alien” and “Citizen," Mika Yatsuhashi explores the effect of her family’s Japanese immigrant history on her American identity today.

Father and daughter bond over art and their indigenous family roots in this lovely and loving story, crafted with a range of inventive animation and photographic techniques.

Three realities unfold during a horse show.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago initiated The Cold War. 75 Years is a cinematic meditation on The Cold War and photography.

A hunter is pursued when he accidentally shoots a man he mistook for a stag.

1917. Private Pépin vowed to write the beautiful Mademoiselle Pigeon a letter daily. He will soon have to use his imagination to keep his promise.

A woman finds herself alone with the deceased after a funeral in her 1860s farmhouse.

Frustrated with a Canadian film industry that repeatedly typecasts her due to a barely-detectable accent, Ewa learns to make the most out of what makes her different… but not before she confronts an online troll.

"Originally an audio collaboration with Mitchell Stafiej, then transformed into a solo A/V performance for Télépresence II (2018, NYC), 'Carmen' is the story of a woman whose separation from her loved ones is heard through telephone wires. Dedicated to my mom." —Rob Feulner

The viewer is swallowed into a body of unrest: abstract organic forms depict tumultuous and vital transformations powered by resilience.

Witness comedy history as the first teenager to have a full stand up special delivers a highly energetic performance that highlights the struggles of being a rebellious high school-er and the pressures of growing up.

Nature is wondrous and clever. As Darwin taught us, those who improvise most effectively prevail. There are species who under threat revert to earlier forms, others who cultivate parasitic relationships with neighbouring beings, while the most inventive ones transform their bodies to mimic and seduce unsuspecting companions. The Orchid and the Bee is an expressionistic VR ode to life’s struggle for existence, explored through a chain of genetic love affairs.

Over the course of 4 months, we follow a group of teenagers around their small town in Canada.

Nightmare Foxy, Devil Bear, Shiny Gyarados, Marichu, Mario, Rush and Proto Man all compete in a red game of hide and seek.

Martha finds her imagination running away with scenarios as she gathers the courage to write down her feelings for her best friend.

Conflict and loss in the early 1970's.

A poetic animated short film illustrating the devastating realities of violence against women.

The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an increasingly militarized spectacle of children and guns and then moves to anti-capitalist gestures in Strasbourg (France) where DIY collectives create new forms of contact and resistance. With help from Simone de Beauvoir, Oscar Wilde and Celine Callot.

Criminologist and community activist Munira Abukar believes justice and equity begin in your own home and heart. Embracing the uncomfortable awakening that 2020 has brought about, she debunks the cozy narrative of social equality and puts her finger on the key issues needing change.

A documentary in which the director, a longtime precarious contract teacher, lifts the curtain on higher education's dirty little secret. He travels Canada to capture the experience of precarity and the fight against the exploitation of contract faculty in higher ed. The film tells the stories and struggles of a few compelling characters and groups, while examining the issue of precarious work. Subtitles available in English, French, Spanish.

Collage of insults in different languages said to the filmmaker and several of her LGBTQ2S friends in Montreal. A representation of homophobia/transphobia, no matter where you come from on the planet.

"Port Lands" presents Toronto's industrial waterfront as a complex landscape in which past, present and future geographies transition and converge. Using archival aerial photographs, microscopic videography and data mapping, this work documents how aquatic life has persisted despite intense industrialization. Earlier phases of development transformed the Port Lands into a human-built space for economic activity without regard for negative impacts on the existing environment. Evidence of this disregard persists in new so-called "revitalization" plans in which the water, land and inhabitants are conceived not as a living ecosystem but as data points to be optimized in a high-tech urban landscape.

"This 50D Ektachrome reel showcases some of the beauty I was grateful to experience at an indigenous surf camp in the state of Michoacán, Mexico." (Dan Smeby)

A young man wants to steal a briefcase containing money.

In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)

This short piece is an autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and memory film. It explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between past and present, between dream and reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.