Cutouts and found objects come to life, flying across the screen in an abstract choreography.
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Cutouts and found objects come to life, flying across the screen in an abstract choreography.
Fourteen-year-old Jean has always been taught that truth leads to liberation—but after an unsettling encounter with her Buddhist mentor, she is confronted with a devastating choice: carry the weight of a painful secret, or confess to her deeply devout mother. Inspired by the filmmaker’s own experience, this deeply personal story explores the weight of unspoken truths and the courage it takes to break the silence.
Strange auditory anomalies lead a sound artist through landscapes of the Bas-Saint-Laurent that blur the line between reality and imagination.
Thomas, a young illustrator, learns that he has got his dream job while cycling through the streets of Montreal. As he pedals along, he phones his boyfriend to tell him the good news. Unfortunately, Thomas hits a pothole, falls off his bike and breaks his arm. Plastered and depressed, he can no longer draw. His encounter with a little girl changes his perspective on life.
A short, romantic story about thoughts, and how we remember.
An old 8mm reel of a Hollywood western flickers to life once more. As the first call of the bugle rings out, the cavalry charges—swift and chaotic—while the film strains to keep pace. It ripples, trembles and tangles, caught in the chaos of gunfire and the thunder of galloping hooves.
Élisabeth, a young painter who, after becoming quadriplegic due to an accident, tries to rebuild her life and identity through art. As her career begins to take off, an unexpected pregnancy with her best friend, Alexandre, forces her to confront her physical and emotional fragility, as well as the conflict between her desire for creative freedom and the new responsibilities life has placed upon her. Through painting, Élisabeth seeks to reconcile her traumatic past with an uncertain future, in an introspective story about resilience, the body, and personal transformation.
Zero bodies have been found. If you see fog during the day, go indoors immediately. Do not breathe in the mist under any circumstances.
This short documentary follows land defenders and their allies in their fight against Law 97, a forestry reform that would have handed over the province’s remaining forests to industry. Through footage shot across multiple blockades and camps, the film shows how Indigenous resistance forced the government to withdraw the bill — a victory that mainstream media largely ignored.
Angelic cold pearl winters and the brutality of war running simultaneously.
Made as part of the Winnipeg Film Group's "Super 8 Special" film incubator. This picture was captured on super 8 film, drip dyed with a mixture of india ink and water collected from Lake Winnipeg, then digitized and captured on VHS.
A documentary created from a camera glitch that follows one year of a young girl's life.
On the run and wounded, a young man pushes forward, burdened by pain and two heavy leather bags. As he navagates the unforgiving landscape, each step becomes a test of endurance, secrecy, and survival. Official selection of the 2025 Wild Bunch Film Festival and the 2026 Wild Gorge Film Festival
Made from a reconstruction of the memories of his uncle's empty apartment, this film transports us to a nephew’s reflections on absence and the regrets of his vague memories.
Cacai, a Chinese farmer-turned-internet influencer, has dedicated his life to building innovative passive solar greenhouses to withstand Alberta’s unforgiving climate. Inspired by his vision, a group of Chinese fathers joins him in pursuing sustainable farming, each bringing their hopes for the future. Over the course of a year, we meet their families, who are each as distinct as the vegetables they grow, with relationships that require just as much care and attention.
Amid a mysterious outbreak affecting the newly formed Republic of the Pampas, Rosário, a Brazilian woman living in Newfoundland, embarks on an absurdist journey of identity, belonging, and displacement.
A strange figure wanders inside a building: he presses elevator buttons, but each floor always promises the same landscapes of hallways, dark rooms, and a portrait of a woman with a cathedral background. The images intertwine until space becomes a mere illusion.
Five autistic food critics offer unfiltered feedback on three-course meals prepared by renowned chefs. Interactions with guest celebrities, in this case renowned chefs, allow viewers to see stars in a new light, caught off guard by completely unexpected questions.
Created with handmade and manufactured emulsions, Tuktuit explores the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichen, and land use. Lichen developers help process the images of a caribou hide being fleshed down to rawhide to make gelatin for handmade emulsion that is subsequently used to shoot the film.
A father reflects upon the cycles of life and parenthood, upon the birth of his son. Memories and reflections of his own father come to mind as he dissects the meaning of growth and acceptance. Will history repeat? Or may he will the seasons to change?
Sydney is a directionless 32-year-old living with his overworked mother in a rental home marked for demolition. After a string of small humiliations, he stumbles upon a broken TV left on the curb and decides to sell it online.
A day in the life of two teenagers as they spend their last time together discovering their hometown.
In this remarkable observation of faith and ritual, families in a borough of Mexico City are overcome with emotion upon being chosen to care for Baby Jesus figurines—some of them dating to the 16th century—for a year.
With a career in the music industry spanning over six decades, it’s no surprise that Bob Ezrin is finding it difficult to write his memoir.
Take a look back at all the highs and lows of the 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens season, complete with exclusive, never-before-seen footage.
Xavier insists they’re fine–but, as they struggle to confront buried emotions, the weight of honesty becomes both a burden and a breakthrough.
A young woman attends a healer’s book-signing event with her sick mom.
A cake becomes the source of all kinds of envy: which of the brothers, professional robbers, or the father-to-be, ready to do anything for his pregnant wife, will get the last slice?
A child stumbles upon a video, leading them into a blurred state of reality and into the unknown.
Shot on 8mm Kodachrome film in West Berlin in 1988, this dream-like hallucinogenic film is dedicated to the memory of our friend, filmmaker and musician, Lysanne Thibodeau, who brought us to Germany to screen Canadian experimental films. We shot additional black and white Super 8 film in Victoria in 2023, and edited in 2024 at FLUX media gallery.
Kevin finally takes a chance to connect with James, the lifeguard he's admired from afar, leading to an extremely expected first kiss and a summer of love and laughter.
Rae has a deep connection to their garden of puppets, so much so that when Rae flourishes, so do their flowers. When Rae becomes overwhelmed by the demands of adult life - working, cleaning, keeping up with their loved ones - a neglected sprout of bindweed overwhelms their flowers too. Rae has to slow down and make time for their garden and for themself before losing their puppet plants forever. Bindweed is a story about the value of playfulness and of mindfulness.
In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster embarked on a global expedition in a Land Rover they called “The Grizzly Torque” – a journey that ignited a deep love of our planet and set in motion a powerful story of environmental activism though art and science.
Charlie and Mere navigate co-parenting their dog, Archie, after their relationship falls apart.
Blending memories, fiction, and confessions, Silk Spun tells the history of three generations of women from a Vietnamese family since their arrival in Quebec in 1975. In the intimacy and vulnerability of her intergenerational relationships, the director exposes the contextual disparities transforming the relationship to individual identity among the women of her family.
The strange but intense dream of a musician the night after a tiring performance.
After a night out, Olivia (Gillian Garvie) calls Stephen (Benjamin Jorgensen) for a ride home and to reconnect after an accident.
A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke in Toronto, Canada) both reflects and contributes to the overall rise in the cost of living in the area by exploring children's relationships to the community spaces around them. The film includes footage from four local parks and playgrounds, personal archival materials, interviews with five South Etobicoke locals, and an art-based workshop at a local junior middle school.
Separated from his wife and unborn child by the outbreak, Matt struggles to escape the military and evade growing throngs of the undead. When he finally manages to escape, he flees to a remote family cottage - one where his wife told him she would be - only to find the cabin deserted.
Amid the rise of the far-right in Germany, as the spoils of post-WW2 collections hit the world art market afresh, lawyers, curators, politicians, and Jewish groups the world round are duking it out, painting by painting, sketch by sketch, over questions of ownership, history, and morality.
Jordan gets hired as a temp for an unexplained job at a firm called Kaufman & Richter. She is given a pill, and told to watch a training video, but each day wakes up a moment later, having missed the whole day.
A woman, once captured in a 35mm image, waits to be seen. Light shapes the image and creates a new life form in this dance of pixels on analog skin. By working with different facets of the cinematic apparatus, this film is a transfeminist analysis of a single film frame.
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house's walls to transform it into a museum.
In Fairy Creek, director Jen Muranetz documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, creating a searing portrait of contemporary environmental activism, bearing witness to the lengths activists are willing to take to protect British Columbia’s last old growth forests.
Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.
A phallic structure sets in motion a burgeoning romance.
The nocturnal walk of a man obsessed with his imagination.
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way ,through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she awaken her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, Orbit journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, pondering the very essence of love and legacy.
When young and carefree stoner, Julien, loses his prized lighter on a drunken night out, he is forced to embark on an odyssey through Toronto to recover it in time to make it to dinner with his estranged mother.
Upon discovering that her lifelong next-door neighbour of over twenty years, Taybah, has never explored what the 6ix has to offer, our director launches a two-day adventure with her to show her what she’s been missing.
When the lights go out at a seedy little motel bar at the crossroads of a seedy little town, nefarious happenings take place, and three predators enact their evil deeds. Enter Vicky, a drifter who quickly realizes what’s happening right under everyone’s nose. After midnight, In the shadows of this dim establishment, evil begets evil, and the predator becomes the prey.
By visiting three animal shelters and learning about their stories, we discover that animals are not so different from us: intelligent, sensitive, supportive, stubborn, and even deceitful, etc. However, we treat them as inferior and, to satisfy our needs, we force them to live lives of misery. What if we imagined another way of living with animals?
After a violent blow to the head, a lonely office worker wishing to be noticed suddenly finds himself the center of attention, which makes him question his reality as he slowly unravels
Closeted pretty-boy, Randy, tries to win his secret ex-boyfriend Lorenzo back, by contriving a Gogo Dancing shift at a Pride event.
In the vastness of the Laurentides territory, Laurent tries to fulfill his father's will to spread his ashes in his favorite river : the Hare, 137 miles deep in the heart of the forest.
Two separate revenge missions go completely awry, leaving Sam and Lucas in the garage of the girl they hate on Christmas Eve. The target of their theft: a signed Home Alone DVD. The only thing stopping them is a locked door. And each other, of course.
In 1998 Indonesia, two girls promised to be friends forever. Twenty-five years later, a traumatic event resurfaces memories of their shared childhood.