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A young woman's video call with her mother is interrupted by a series of mysterious rings at her doorbell.

Janelle Niles is a Black, Mi'kmaw, two-spirited woman from Sipekne'katik First Nation in Nova Scotia and a stand-up comedian. Despite a tumultuous upbringing, Janelle embraces her biracial experience and queer identity, using stand-up to usher in a new era of inclusive, Canadian comedy.

An experimental film exploring gender identities excluded from the binary system. By constructing a theatrical space including fabricated sets and props, invented radio interviews, vignettes of archival footage, as well as overlays, the film explores the relationship between body and self. In this in-between space, uncertainty can finally have free rein.

Trapped in a surreal loop, an artist with Alzheimer's struggles to paint.

An exploration of the challenges that individuals with dwarfism are forced to face on a day-to-day basis through the eyes of two little people.

Canadian five pin bowling champion Jim Noggins strives to score a perfect game while trying to raise his daughter who he struggles to relate to.

Recorded over 2 days in August 2023 when The Sheepdogs played The Shore Club in Hubbards, NS Canada.

A brief experience of laser engraving and cutting on 16mm film, about the first snows of autumn, mushrooms and ferns, with lively music.

As a culture, we are overwhelmed, anxious, and hungry for meaning. The ancient text of the Psalms create anchor moments for people in their day. Like a deep breath, each one is an invitation to connect with themselves and the Eternal.

Benadryl Inflectra is an experimental, non narrative animation film that is meant to be a sweet psychedelic journey. It bears this name, as several images were created while the director was receiving infusions for her crohn’s disease and was drawing to relax. The film wants to be funny and light. Because laughter is the best weapon against drama.

When he sees a girl who catches his interest, Finn decides to follow the perfect stranger in order to get to know her before she’s gone.

An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives. The discovery of a photograph unearths a story of upheaval, desolation, and ultimately, transformation.

The three female protagonists present their personal relationship with intravenous drug use, and their intimate confessions are filled with fear and insecurity but also love for the state of intoxication. Ambient music in the background and colourful textures multiplying over shots of the everyday reality of drug users create an almost dreamlike world. “I won’t feel the full effects the whole night, but it will help take my mind off things.”

It Could Only Happen Here is an underground, DIY documentarian look at the behind-the-scenes of one of Quebec's best-kept secrets: FME Festival. Nestled in the mountain town of Rouyn-Noranda, FME is an emerging music festival that mainly focuses on Canadian bands, still cutting their teeth, and a few bigger international headliners.

As a child, Cynthia could see ghosts, but being too afraid, she ended closing her special sense. Now, her 6 years old son seems to be talking to dead people... Worried and frightened, Cynthia must open herself again.

A young woman is going through metamorphosis of turning into a mother.

A feature documentary.

After washing up on the shore of a deserted coast, Loomis reunites with Kanthus — an elemental figure from his past who gifted him eternal life when he was near death, and who now makes an offer that will send him truly into the unknown.

A young woman faces her cocaine addiction through the disappointment of her brother and the appearance of a mysterious figure in the mirror.

A detached girl finds comfort in a ladybug.

Prague, 2022 - Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, two women and their young daughters face the waiting and hope of an imminent return to Ukraine. Shelved in this city, these women tell the story of their past and give access to their daily life, their present, in which they try to learn how to live again. This documentary tries to give a voice to those who live war differently.

Antoine lives by the sea. While visiting his cousin in Montreal, he meets Aurélie and develops a particular relationship with her, only for the night. They will naturally connect because of their mutual comprehension of grief and sorrow.

A man travels to Québec during Carnaval in an attempt to heal from heartbreak.

This film is my personal portal to my great-grandma Feodosia, my ancestors and time as a whole. Bridging five generations and more than a century, it created a new family archive of light and shadows on 16 mm film.

Finding community via his gay rugby league, Jamaican-born Desmond navigates life, love, and identity as an immigrant living in Munich, Germany.

After an apocalyptic event a man finds himself on the edge of hell after staying the night in an abandoned cabin along his way...

Growing up isn’t easy, and it’s no exception for 12-year-old Ashley whose well-meaning mom has her own ideas about who Ashley should be. Finding herself in an impossible situation, Ashley must decide whether to wear a gaudy dress she hates or find the courage to stand up for herself and fight the inner monster that is holding her back.

The Scrapped explores how we memorialize places of unbearable suffering, through the lens of a student dealing with her own issues of isolation and anxiety.

Rhabdomyolysis and Amebiasis performing live at the Veil, Fredericton, NB on December 8th, 2023. Bonus music video is also on the DVD.

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

A compassionate new documentary from award-winning filmmaker Millefiore Clarkes. It centers on Evelyn Christopher, a 94-year-old farmer who still wakes up at dawn to work her fields. She grows vegetables, stacks firewood and doesn’t really care for contemporary society.

Skyscraper Film is a cameraless handmade film collage created from scraps of 16mm orphan films from the 1970s. Originally produced to promote tourism in North America, these films are remediated by the filmmaker to create an abstract collage via the emulsion lifting/ emulsion grafting technique. Using this method, the filmmaker lifts by hand the emulsion layer from the film base and subsequently places it on a different film base. This way a celluloid collage is created, then re-animated.

Ollie tells the story of the daily life of a dog at the beginning of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The dog realizes that his human has stopped leaving the house for work in the morning. He feels extremely happy that his human stays in the house all day, every day with him. But one day, the human becomes very sick and suddenly is gone. The dog stays alone for many days without knowing if his human will return.

This project moves sound and image using wind movements. It shows the alteration of spectrograms with these motion vectors and applies a sound resynthesis.

For the Cree Nation of Mistissini, land and culture have always been interconnected. People’s Story aims to raise awareness on the importance of those two pillars and how it is related to the youth and their community.

Jules is bisexual. Ready to try his first experience with another man, he spends the evening with Samuel, a friend of a friend. Unfortunately, the impromptu arrival of Samuel’s roommates interferes with his plans. Jules must then overcome his shyness and personnel issues to show Samuel how he feels.

A man must play a chess match against his father to earn his inheritance, but it's also their final chance to mend their relationship.

A story about a warrior, once fought with the light, now consumed by darkness. Trying to let go of his past, only for the voices of the ones he loved to flood his head.

An audio sensory experience that follows a restless Noah and his internal monologue as he navigates a dreamscape and revisits old memories that reflect his current relationship with Connor. Someone who he cannot fix.

Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves on a scorching summer day. They will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.

Amidst the harsh realities of a displacement camp in a post-disaster dystopian world, Zamda’s search for her missing husband unveils the hidden struggles and emotional upheavals of those who have been displaced

Two young married adults with differing eating disorders share their experiences, insights, and stories of struggles, social expectations, misconceptions, and recovery.

An indefatigable citizen grabs his bootstraps and lives the dream!

After noticing too many cases of sexual violence going unreported or unpunished within their own schools, 23 teen girls decide to take matters into their own hands to make meaningful change to policy affecting school boards across Quebec.

A young girl’s experience growing up on a West Coast float house.

After being kidnapped and beaten, a dangerous criminal ventures to the house of those that attacked him.

Are there any boundaries that can prevent love? "Screen Time" is a film about the relationships between a digital and a sand characters. As they navigate the boundaries of their disparate worlds, their bond is tested by the limitations imposed by reality itself. Will their profound connection withstand the stark differences between their existences?

In the tradition of great tragedies, Cassandra follows the title character, an eccentric middle-aged artist whose family ignores her claims of clairvoyance.

When Zoe falls in love with her best friend Hannah, she recalls conflicting memories of their time together.

Two friends, John and Liam, reunite after having not seen one another for more than a year. As they catch up on a park bench, a personal tragedy is brought to light.

Under the Light of the Harvest Moon explores the story of Malcolm, a cowardly farmer who is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife as he tries to dispose of her body. This is a psychological horror film that puts the audience in Malcolm’s head space as he faces a series of increasingly stressful interruptions that threaten his dark secret. When Malcolm receives a phone call from his mother shortly after murdering his wife, he is forced to confront the ramifications of his heinous actions. After he encounters his prying neighbour, he must decide between admitting the horrible truth or trying to cover it up.

On March 18th, 2022, SplayElephant90 sued Toonman for copyright claim on the phrase "Can do buckaroo"... seriously? ...This is ridiculous... Okay, whatever. After a year of organizing and bribing, they've finally gone to court. This is their story.

A Miscellany of Places That Will Not Appear is a cataloguing of orphaned places and the unresolved, everydayness of it all. Each setting is a rumination on what it means to inhabit a place just long enough to feel a sense of regret after leaving. These places are stand ins for fragments of stories. Their meanings are left behind in the blank spaces in between.

"ISO is a short film about diabetes— showing one of my near-daily routines that seems dull and repetitive to me, yet weird and unordinary to others un-touched by type 1 diabetes. The term “iso” is known as a prefix meaning equal- I see it as a nod to this process being my regular despite it not being the equal or same as others’. “ISO” can also be read as “in search of”…consider this piece a posting “in search of” belonging and of people who share similar challenges. I have found that many times our differences and struggles can isolate us, but I have also found that it is these differences that draw us closest together when we find individuals who share similar ones." - Samuel Letnik

Two young brothers from the Lil'wat Nation set out to ski the sacred mountain they were raised beneath, pushing both themselves and their culture to evolve.