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Clowns are only scary when you find one at night.

Bogart & Ivan is a film Written and Directed by Charlie Steele - an independent Canadian filmmaker from Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Shot entirely in Summerside, Bogart & Ivan follows best friends Bogart and Ivan on Ivan’s last day on the Island. The pair get separated early on, and are forced to try and figure out how exactly they are meant to go on without the other.

A conversation between two women about the desires and banalities of life. Both women share the same homeland, one stayed there while the other emigrated, but the distance hasn't severed their friendship nor the similarities in their perspectives.

An unconventional, tone-shifting travelogue that stitches together nations of the former Yugoslavia through chance encounters, 1970s rock music, architecture, and inventive editing, Ryan Ferko’s Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower locates traces of the past in an increasingly fractured present.

Deep down in the dark ocean not all the fish like bright lights but there’s a friend for everyone in this world, you just have to find them.

Through the creative and philosophical journey of three steamers, this film offers a fascinating incursion into the heart of an international artistic community, inspired by science fiction and the Industrial Revolution. More than just a portrait, it invites us to reflect on our own modern life and relationship to technology.

A young carpet seller is blackmailed over his sex tapes.

Three sisters have spent years bracing themselves for the pivotal moment that opens this film: the final verdict in their trial against their cousin, their childhood sexual abuser. From there, the story returns to their memories of growing up in a large and insular Punjabi-Canadian family in the small mill town of Williams Lake, British Columbia. With unflinching candour, the sisters discuss their family's dark secrets and expose a toxic family culture that relied on female subservience and obedience. These roles, they acknowledge, have deeper roots and have in part been reinforced by the Bollywood films that have structured their fantasies of romantic relationships. While the film tells a difficult and confrontational story of abuse, it is also a celebration of the loving sisterhood that allows these women to demand justice for the wrongs of their childhood years.

A boy gets a fish for his birthday.

Welcome to the Clubhouse of Terror, a collection of short horror films about ghosts, ghouls and monster, whom supernaturally enact violence and revenge on troubled characters, in Northern County.

A tale of the wind, a camera is travelling across an ocean to reach turbulent landscapes. Wind instruments, rustles, waves of every form, on the land and into the images, the wind modulates time and space.

An experimental documentary that explores the complicated process of decolonization and reveals how our memory and history are ingrained in our sense of identification.

two men and a duck as they rescue Henrietta Horvitz from Dirty Dick Avery.

A music video about fighting for our rights to live and love as gay women. The music was written and performed by Anna Gutmanis, a musician and songwriter in our LGBTQ community.

A father fears his son is losing his religious and cultural identity. The son worries that his father has lost touch with the modern world and desperately wants him to adapt.

At dawn, in a mismatched architectural megalopolis, we enter into the intimacy of three people: A tormented YOUNG WOMAN, a STREET MAN and an OLD LADY. We go through with them what we experience on a daily basis: Waking. Within this moment of solitude and small daily gestures, we discover the simple pleasures of awakening the senses that pushes them out of bed.

A portrait of Lynda Hamilton, dedicated and tireless supporter of Canadian performing arts.

Written, shot, and edited in 24 hours. Filmed on location in Toronto, Canada.

Above the Bar is a queer coming of age story that takes place in a motel “above the bar.”

From the beginnings of time, in times of crisis and when nothing else is on offer, there has always been ChickenFish to depend on.

"The Quoddy Fold" is an intimate interaction between a woman and a derelict coastal house. In this one-hour film Phillips dismantles and studies the movement from wood to dust, damp paper to mold, and ponders the house folding back into the land and sea. Phillips' performance constantly seeks evidence of dissolving boundaries, thingness, history and intersubjectivity of space, place and species. Through the poetics of the ruin "The Quoddy Fold" is an interrogation of dwelling and landscape giving space to entertain the ecological, cultural and societal anxieties surrounding impermanence.

Gaia is a non narrative film documentary exploring our relationship with earth, religion our habitats around the world and the environment. It took 3 years to make the movie and the producers traveled to Greenland, Jerusalem, Jordan, Canada, NYC, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other places to capture our societies and nature. —Jennifer Athena Gaatis

"In another virtuoso turn, the artist brings her exemplary camera eye to Moldova, home of her grandparents, before they were driven out along with their Jewish comrades, thousands of them killed. Fragments of survivor testimonials mix with archival photographs and objects, along with present-day city celebrations (what is being forgotten in these civic rites of memory?). Haunted natural scapes grow over the dead, the abandoned graveyards and stones mark the places where culture and community used to be performed. This is a synoptic act of grieving, but also: a summoning of the present, a conjuring of the thousand ways that the betrayals of neighbours and friends marked out the Jews who had lived peaceably amongst them for generations, newly caught now in a terror of state oppression and greed."- Mike Hoolboom

The 589,399th best Dad in the world reaches his breaking point in a one-sided feud with his neighbour, Dad #3.

A dog and his owner are strolling in the park when the latter whips out his phone and begins texting. Desperate for attention, the quick-thinking pup uses all means available to steer his beloved owner’s mind back out of the digital world.

Patkau Architects is a design research studio based in Vancouver, Canada. The practice was founded in 1978 by Patricia and John Patkau. They deliver a wide variety of project types, ranging in scale from art installations, to custom homes and major urban buildings. Over the years, the office has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in design.

When you think of ice climbing, the sunny Okanagan Valley in the Canadian British Columbia is probably one of the last places you would consider. Ice climbs have a dichotomous strength and delicacy, and the people that attempt to ascend them are resilient and determined. Though the ice climbing is unreliable, scarce, and fleeting due to the mild winters in the Okanagan, it does exist… it all depends on how badly you want to find it.

Blackfoot and Dene artist Lauren Crazybull describes her personal story of resilience and empowerment through her illustrations and painted murals.

In the wake of the final report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, Ulivia recounts witnessing her mother’s death as a child. More than just a statistic, these lives, disappearances and murders of women have a real impact on family members and friends who loved them dearly.

A miniature wrecking ball and accompanying mini brick wall to be destroyed; an incomplete puzzle of the Parthenon; homemade fake latex vomit containing plastic novelties, pieces of candy, knick knacks, and detritus from the artist’s studio; pennants made from packets and designer ziplock bags; and a mesh veil adorned with chewing gums. —Western Front

My Favorite Food is Indian Tacos, my Favorite Drink is Iced Tea and my Favorite Thing is Drumming is about the passion for drumming and traditionnal singing that Derius share with his friends. This film is the affirmation of Derius' courage.

"Same shot of my house, Double 8mm film variously hand-processed, over months of thinking about moving. Sound on a cassette pulled from a box I was going to purge; tape from 1986 (the year I moved here), now chance overdubbing my thoughts on to a radio program about the power of women." —Sandy McLennan

This short ecological fable is a tribute to the Arctic ecosystem and its people who are seriously injured by global warming.

Yen-Chao Lin travelled along the east coast of Taiwan – an area characterized by its wild nature, colonization and population exodus. The Amis is the largest of many ethnic minorities in Taiwan officially recognised as indigenous peoples. In search of different spiritual practices belonging to the indigenous people of Makuta’ay, Yen-Chao Lin places the memories of the old Amis spirit keepers on an equal footing with the practices of Daoist rituals and Presbyterian burials, allowing personal prayers to resound and collective resistance to emerge. The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay was shot on Super 8 film and developed by the director by hand. The effects created during the development process add an additional layer of spiritual interpretation. A miniature, an essay, an impressionistic painting.

Study on one of the stages of film production. Most of the animals at the Warren Livestock Auction will be sold for industrial meat production. The bodies will be quartered and processed and bones prepared to make gelatin which may one day have silver halide suspended in an acetate strip.

A wanderer discovers a stone structure deep in the woods.

A subtle-spherical text-image composition about South Georgia, an island group of the Antarctic—a stretch of coast into which humanity’s devastating overexploitation has been inscribed.

Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.

Unceded Territories is a provocative VR experience created from indigenous artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s iconic work, engaging viewers in an interactive landscape grappling with colonialism, climate change and indigenous civil rights.

In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the region’s fraught political and social climate through boisterous serenades and excitable outbursts.

Another spectacular output from Montreal’s DJ Frigid.

An Experimental exploration of menstrual cycles. A collaboration with Naomi Dawn Mansfield and Lisa Bounouh.

When Mavis Staines took the helm of Canada’s National Ballet School in 1989, the pedagogy of ballet was due for an evolution.

A woman wraps herself up in a large green mountain.

You shouldn't swear lightly.

‘Berta Boys is a short film and exhibition that contemplates the teetering instability of Alberta’s hyper masculine identity. For Terrence, this exaggerated posturing has fused Alberta’s aesthetic and economic identities into a petrol-philic culture that is put on display via hyper-masculine regionalisms; roof-racks, lift-kits, oil-slogans and truck nuts, these are the accessories of the twenty-first century petrol cowboy. Driving forward with a self-assured camp, Berta Boys looks to open up this imagery by creating an isolated world where men turn their violent gaze on each other. Terrence is joined in the film by fellow Albertan artists Aaron Brown and Gabriel Esteban Molina as co-writers and co-performers. In an effort to explore the masculine archetypes found within themselves, the trio meditate on the unrestricted behaviours that blend tragedy with absurdity.

Holding on to reflections and surfaces. Love for Film farm, Mount Forest.

Artists who use their bodies as their medium or canvas while existing in their natural environments. Are they performing? Do their performances end after the makeup is removed? Can a performance continue in an empty apartment instead of in front of an audience?

Lyle Reimer is about to put the finishing touch on his latest art piece, taking recycled trash and glueing it all to his face, revealing Lyle XOX. While in Vancouver, he's preparing for a big shoot in Tokyo, that will set in motion the launch of his book and window display at Bergdorf-Goodman in New York City. Throughout this journey to fame, Lyle is reminded of the past, and needs to connect with it, his family, his friends, and his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in order to make peace and move on.

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.