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A kitten wants to play outside.

Aesop Hand Soap, made following the end of a relationship, is about gifts - the giving and receiving of them.

In 2018, three Madelinots in love with traditions got together to make one of their dreams come true: to build for the first time in more than 25 years a wooden boat commonly called a "cul pointu", once used by the fishermen of the Îles de la Madeleine. The film follows the evolution of the boat over three years, from the beginning of construction to its launch, while capturing the rhythm of life of the islanders.

As Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, a lonely young Chinese immigrant finds comfort in a romance with a mysterious hometown queer crush who seems too good to be true.

Jay Brown heats up Toronto with a heavy switch arsenal before Ben Paterson and the rest of the crew burn the town down.

A stay at an airport hotel prompts memories of a lost summer in the country. As time passes, the memories are completely surrendered to and an escape from the grey landscape is found.

Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures. The gifts of the sky were only visible to those who honor the powers that flow through the vast taiga. To find what human desires, ritual offerings to the mountain’s guardian spirits must be properly performed. But most importantly, one must face the gods with a serene, translucent heart. An animated reinterpretation of an old Jurchen legend from the 13th century.

A short film that follows the journey of a small group of women and genderqueer artists through a facilitated 5-day retreat as they use their art to explore and question their relationship with their bodies and their sexual health. The work of the retreat was to use somatic inquiries to examine the social conditionings of shame that are built around female and genderqueer bodies and their experiences with sexual health.

A dream can send one's mind to many different places. Places that defy the rules of time and space. In this Short experimental film created by Tristan Audet, you will explore the depths of the subconscious, a place where nothing is as it seems.

Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where the border between memories and imagination is blurry, Ariane raises the possibility that the seal between life and death is more porous than we think.

The crew of a German u-boat on a mission in the North Atlantic witness strange phenomena on board. After an inexplicable explosion in the engine room, the submarine slowly sinks to the abyssal depths, while madness decimates the submariners.

When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.

2 young adults converse on a bench, but all may not be as it seems. Filmed for a student project at NSCC Ivany Campus as part of the Screen Arts program.

Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

The Time that Separates Us circles an ancient salt-rock formation overlooking the Dead Sea, near Ghor Al-Safi, Jordan. In the process, this Pillar of Salt becomes a portal through which to face the Jordan River Valley, its heavily militarized border and complex infrastructures of tourism, as well as the stigmatized realms of desire, sexuality, and gender encoded within a highly mediated political landscape and its related sites of mythology.

Contre-espace evokes horizons that transcend architecture to create contrast and tension between city walls and the poetic space they can inspire. The facade of the Museum's oldest pavilion becomes a canvas on which a landscape made of electronic and digital light is drawn. The image – or the mirage – takes shape on the wall, opening up the field of possibilities. It is the encounter between stone and light, between surface and depth, between the physical world and the virtual world.

Tennessee Valley is a place committed to being your helping hand.

An agoraphobic woman resists going with her partner to a family funeral, triggering a crisis point in their relationship.

Bingo is inspired by the real life events from "The New York Zodiac", Heriberto Seda who was active from 1990-1993. Upon his capture he was sentenced to 232 years in jail.

A baby girl stumbles across a new friend, a teddy bear. Like a dream, we are transported through moments in their relationship begins to run, play, and learn about the world until it’s time to put childish things away.

A woman, fed up with the abuses she suffers while walking on the street, takes her revenge against a catcaller.

Cynthia offers a virtual trip to her friend Damien and despite all the possibilities of thematic worlds to explore, he chooses a bloodthirsty avenue. Cynthia has no idea that she will be part of the experiment.

Elia celebrates her 19th birthday with her friends and her boyfriend. The next morning, Elia has no memory of her evening the night before. Through discussions with her psychologist, Elia will try to shed light and find peace with herself.

A backpacker takes a job as a cat sitter, but soon discovers there is something sinister about this furry feline.

After quitting hockey as an embarrassed preteen, Izzy joins a local women’s amateur league to gain confidence and to access a community she deeply values.

Texture and Soul / Not the texture of wood / Nor the Texture of steel / But the texture of you / Is what makes your soul real.

An intimate glimpse into the life of Cree author, musician, playwright, and storyteller Tomson Highway.

Widespread loneliness has become the scourge of the modern age. Could increasingly realistic artificial intelligence offer a solution?

Filmmaker Charles Wilkinson gives viewers an immersive look at that potlatch, a jubilant gathering that finds the members of many Haida clans celebrating the revitalization of their cultural traditions as caretakers of the land.

A wannabe yuppie named "Braxton Mackenzie" lurks around the financial district of Toronto awaiting a special delivery.

A personal and artistic documentary that offers a unique four-year window into the life of a gender non-conforming individual. "Nothing stays the same," says Quinn, as they strive to find a place in a society that is fixed on labels.

Homophobia is a recurring issue in Arab and Muslim societies. However, many people from these communities also identify with the LGBTQ+ community. The short documentary HARAM explores the relationship between Muslim religious identity and queer sexual identities through discussions, testimonials and performance art.

Carrie questions the institution of marriage in this feel-good, rom-com with a modern twist.

In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The restored footage of busy urban traffic is accompanied by his divergent reflection on cities built primarily for cars, not people. Especially the less privileged.

'Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?' brings us into multiple futures, where technologies have been re-routed to create a spiritual guide steeped in matrilineal knowledge. Here, we learn that Piña is a digital vessel who lives in the distant future and uploads, stores and shares the familial knowledge, dreams and desires transmitted to them from the past. Messengers from various realms and places around the world use digitally altered pineapple fabric to upload their data for the deity, who lives to receive, care for and disseminate the information for its continued preservation.

In the playful and hypnotic miniature Moonrise, avant-garde luminary Vincent Grenier sets falling rain and its sweeping pock-filled shadows to an audio collage of DIY foley mimicking the persistent pitter-patter.

After receiving news of her estranged parents' deaths, a young woman returns to the childhood home she had left behind, immersing herself in a complex and non-linear grieving process.

Risqué Business is about a group of exotic dancers charming a lonely club patron and robbing him by using their wiles.

A banana gets invited to a party

Tony is out to seek revenge for his little sister, Grace, who claims to be abused by a boy in her school. However, old demons from his past still haunt Tony, who has to face reality, as it's not what he makes it out to be. Tony's father tries to reason with his son, but it might be too late.

The Onyx Experience is an otherworldly multi-evolutionary live concert art film celebrating Black artists rocking out in Canada. Shot over a two-day weekend in a studio transformed into a multi-sensory dystopian universe, The Onyx Experience tells the story of rise, rebellion and rumination with electrifying performances from Fefe Dobson, The OBGMs and SATE. Simultaneously on the verge and on the edge. Equal parts innovator and outcast. Gathered in one space to celebrate each other, shine a light on one another, and remind each other that in this fast paced, amnesiac world, we do and have always existed.

The red house dissolves and transforms into all kinds of other things. The house re-assembles, but bigger and wider than before. Quicker than the eye can see, all kinds of brightly coloured shapes appear on the screen. What was a clown a second ago suddenly becomes a wild mix of fantastic images and figures. And right in the middle, the red house keeps turning up.

While many have migrated to new spaces during the pandemic, we've all become intimately familiar with the places we call home over the past two years. It's a basic human need, but we're increasingly transient—and in a virtual world, where is our community? Returning to her rural Ontario hometown Horning's Mills and its philosophical residents, filmmaker Tess Girard delicately ponders the spaces we choose to occupy. Conversations with a youthful gravedigger who provides locals with their final resting place contrast with an eccentric elderly couple who plan to save humanity with a bunker of buried school buses known as Ark Two. Girard seeks solace through these interactions while attempting to reconnect to her roots, questioning where she is meant to be. This deeply personal meditation embraces bucolic landscapes down to the smallest detail and grounds itself in quiet, reflective moments.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Steeve Day has been suffering from ALS for eight years and decides to call for assistance in dying. At the same time, however, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then rents a hotel room in which to spend his last days and receive his loved ones.

A Tahitian dancer tries to reclaim her identity by confronting a tourist audience with a dance of her own.

It's a medical operation, the removal of the human being's nature and the implantation of concepts imagined by him.

An epic silent film depicting the tumultuous clash between twin brothers Opus Sun and Magnum Crassus.

In a 1967 interview, a woman named Bérénice recalls her encounter with the reclusive Québécois author, Réjean Ducharme. The main character of his novel “Swallowed” is also named Bérénice.

Mikey the mouse and his friend Computy want to teach us about the internet.

They say breakfast's the most important meal of the day.

Summers over. He's different now

When navigating a labrynth, be wary of any surprise portals.