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In this offbeat whodunit, Bernie Langille sets out to uncover the truth around the strange circumstances of his grandfather (and namesake) Bernie Langille's death. Fifty years after the fact and with the help of meticulous miniatures, he reconstructs the bizarre events of one fateful winter night in 1968. What exactly precipitated the shocking discovery of Grandpa Bernie, dead in his own bed? The labyrinthian task of answering this question leads Bernie to interview a range of characters, including forensic experts and family members. Along the way, Bernie entertains increasingly absurd scenarios—including the possible involvement of Agent Orange. His obsessive musings, just like the constantly changing miniature sets, never get old. Ultimately the film provides a quirky yet thoughtful look at family ties, the fault lines of memory and intergenerational trauma.

Intimate window on how united or divided Canada is between it's two languages: french and english.

A cold storage worker's job follows him around.

A film that explores the the timeline of a relationship between two women from the honeymoon stage until the goodbye.

This tribute to Bria Miller’s beloved Nan, Marion Miller, explores childhood, comfort, responsibility, nostalgia, and climate concerns. It was made with mentorship from animator Becka Marker and inspired by the late animator Helen Hill for the 2022 Halifax Animation Festival.

Based on an article by journalist Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin who questions our attitude on public transport in 2022, the film is an adaptation, in the form of a short film, of this social experiment. HI ! allows you to get inside the journalist's head. Is it normal to live so individualistically in this type of public transport? What if we gave ourselves the chance to reconnect with the humans around us...

A series of moments scattered at bay depicting the story of a young man's crumbling fantasy. Available on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/ncl5d5MssUc

A hybrid experimental short film reflecting on a Latinx immigration experience.

An unnamed human travels aboard a train full of fantastical creatures.

Filmmaker Lina Li interviews her dad to showcase a story of an immigrant family and the emotional challenges that they have experienced as intergenerational conflict remains unsolved.

Chronicle of the last days of an AIDS patient at the Maison d’Hérelle, an organization that offers palliative care for end-of-life support. The film explores the passage to death by referring to the past life and the inevitable end that is fast approaching.

A short film that explores the history of the land and its shared significance to Indigenous groups and mountain sports enthusiasts. Standing tall over the Revelstoke valley Mount Begbie has inspired an entire community. It is iconicized in the logos and names of local businesses, featured heavily in artists' works, is photographed by every visiting tourist, and most importantly of all, is explored by the outdoor enthusiast - no matter the season. Climbing Mt Begbie is a "right of passage" for every hiker, climber, sledder, and skier who chooses to make Revelstoke their home. While this peak has created an entire contemporary culture in Revelstoke, its name and story only represent colonial history, with no reference to the Indigenous heritage of this land. Is it the outdoor community's responsibility to help change this?

A binaural 360-degree sound to plunge listeners into the heart of an urgent issue, the Vancouver drug crisis from the perspective of those most severely impacted by it.

An Indian Canadian girl lights a diya while visiting her family’s home town, but the flame runs away because the girl is too ashamed of its colour to let it shine. This film explores themes of belonging, cultural identity and guilt while showing off the richness and vibrance of an Indian festival.

Third part of a series, in which the figure in the frame is Larose’s father, Jacques Larose. It was shot in Super-8mm and 16mm—later enlarged to 35mm—and alternates between colour and black and white.

Ancient cold and primordial heat converge with the immediacy of chemical and biological interactions, destabilizing and/or reordering once-familiar spatiotemporal scales. Even as the perceived urgency of this looking and measuring accelerates, our view is only ever partial.

In this short dramedy, a corrupt lawyer, an insurance firm, and a cocky pair of co-workers become entangled in a cat-and-mouse game of corruption and betrayal.

IDSN is a fictionalized account of two musical collectives, one in London featuring rappers, TrueMendous and Lady Sanity, and the other in Cairo with rappers Raptor and Joker, who are making music collaboratively using ISDN technology, communicating across phone lines from their respective makeshift studios.

Director Myriam Vaudry of New Brunswick was born with a rare genetic condition that affects her bones and weakens her skin. It also affects her self esteem. In this short film she joins forces with a visual artist to help her not only come to accept the body she has, but to celebrate its unique beauty.

One morning, GendrBendr is visited by the greatest enemy ever known to trans people: dysphoria. Dysphoria mocks and points at her in the mirror. For several years, I was unable to define myself in my head, until the day the term “non-binary” was born. Since then, my face belongs to me.

Late one evening, around the fire, a guest appears. Hearing him cry out in pain, Alexandra comes to his aid. A science-fiction movie made by good friends.

Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy Bitzer and director D.W. Griffiths. How to live in this new body, with its cuts, its fissures and fractures?

A New Brunswick horror short

A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about human cultures’ complicated relationships with other species.

Intimate window on eating disorders with members of "Outremangeurs Anonymes".

Melting Point is a queer, experimental, feminist erotic short that captures the heat between two lovers, literally. Shot with a digital thermal camera, the film records the scene using temperature instead of light, revealing new ways of seeing pleasure, play, and desire.

In a dream-like world caught between time and seasons the "Man in Many Suits" is late for his important business meeting.

A man tends to his garden and to his worries.

Inside each person are 7 tools necessary for a life in the gray time—each one to be developed.

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.

This documentary addresses the importance of music in education.

In the epic conclusion to the James (US) saga, the Doods are confronted by their mortal enemy and must do whatever it takes to stop him.

Spiritual advice found in a garage sale. The Aumakua is now with us.

A scrunchie business in Belleville, Ontario explodes in sales after going viral on Tik Tok during the pandemic.

When the sun falls from its cradle, a little desert dweller must return it, pitting his determination against its heat.

The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.

“If I wasn’t an opera singer, would I be a trans man?” asks Teiya Kasahara, a gender non-binary singer, partway through the film. It’s a dilemma facing gender non-binary and trans singers working in a field whose roles are rigidly defined along gender lines: sopranos and mezzos are cast as women (so-called “trouser roles” aside); tenors and basses as men. Teiya Kasahara (they/them) leads a new generation of trans* opera performers, activists and self-proclaimed “shit-disturbers” making their voices heard–whether the classical music world likes it or not.

Grandma’s house always smells like cookies, and she loves to talk about the aunts and uncles in the portraits on the wall. The house is a bedrock of family life, a place where nothing ever changes—its predictability feels like a comforting hug. But then grandma starts getting forgetful, mixes things up, and loses her grip on reality.

“This is the story about a ghost people who live in a ghost territory.” Thus begins this richly documented history of the struggle for recognition of the Sinixt, one of Canada’s indigenous peoples. While other indigenous peoples have legal rights, the Sinixt have none, because they are officially extinct. But the fact is they’re still there.

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.

A BC horror short

A young woman falls in love with a waitress in a greasy-yet-nostalgic Hong Kong-style cafe, but a language gap divides the two - or is there something more?

In a world where a photograph is worth a thousand words, we rely on photojournalists to bring us closer to the human side of wars and conflict. It's a job that has serious physical and psychological risks. In an effort to share their stories, the Globe and Mail has brought together several of the world's most renowned war photographers, including four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Guzy and renowned Reuters photojournalist Goran Tomaševic. One by one, they tell of the moments that have shaped their work. But what happens when they leave their jobs to return home? With confronting honesty, the photographers describe their struggles to disengage from an all-consuming profession. Full of haunting and sometimes disturbing images, Shooting War pays homage to the people who sustain themselves through traumatic experiences to provide us with deeper insights into the agonies of the human race.

Yes, I contemplate the sea, what else is there to do?…to look at the sea is to become what one is. – Etel Adnan, “Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)”

From the imagination of Kikino youth comes the story of rebellious friends, star-crossed lovers, and brave explorers coming together to discover how connected they truly are.

A young man discovers a statue in the woods, on the outskirts of a medieval village. If given a rose, the statue will come to life and dance, before turning back to stone. An original queer fairy tale about love, desperation and consequences.

The sounds and images of Sonya Stefan and Stephanie Castonguay blend together in a common quest to transmit a sense of awareness of the interconnectedness between all beings. Stefan’s images zoom into miniature worlds as well as grandiose natural wonders in which manifest elements of the Earth. During a daily walking practice, she collects her images with both digital and 16mm apparatus, which are then composited to create meditative loops. Echoing Stefan’s universe, Castonguay’s disruptive sound seeks to play with aural textures by blending sounds of nature with electrical impulses. Working with errors, accidents, and bugs induced by her own sound machines, such as a pirated CD player and a modified scanner head, Castonguay explores the interconnection between the sonic and tactile senses.

clapped leaves society behind to go live in the woods, so clipped and clopped have to go a harrowing journey to get him back.

A short film about a family that is confronted with the daunting choice of whether to support a parent as part of the household or to move them to an old folks home. The grandmother Mum Singh thrives as part of her daughter's family, particularly bonding with her granddaughter Norah. What will happen when her daughter and daughter-in-law decide to put her in a care home?

For Linda Rabin, all is movement. That has been the guiding principle for this pioneer of modern dance in Québec.

As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the disappearance of queer spaces across Toronto, “sway / pull” offers a meditation on the erosion of Hanlan’s Point Beach in both literal and figurative senses.

A mother isn’t sure she can accept her daughter’s new paramour in this animated short originally created for last year’s Nickel Sci-Fi Challenge. St. John’s comedian Veronica Dymond made this one, so you know it’s funny and a little bit weird.