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Strange auditory anomalies lead a sound artist through landscapes of the Bas-Saint-Laurent that blur the line between reality and imagination.

Donald Voltmann invents a Time Travel Helmet to turn his life around, but instead becomes embroiled in a plot by his future self to patent troll his ex-wife. Now he must fight his future self, and the Time Police, in order to save himself from financial ruin and win his daughter’s love.

In an urban backyard on Canada’s West Coast, a window salesman has created a living laboratory for investigating hummingbird behaviour. The Bird in My Backyard follows citizen scientist, Eric Pittman, as he documents the journeys of two female Anna’s hummingbirds as they attempt to raise their young in his urban garden. It’s a story about the childlike curiosity in all of us, the wonders it can reveal and the doors it can open if we just lean in a bit closer.

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.

Two astro-biologists take care of a flowering pink magnolia on the moon. A renaissance romance grows between them until they receive notice of an incoming solar storm that threatens their secret affair with fire, lust and broken hearts. In the flames, desire and reality blend to revive the memory of the beloved.

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.

Beneath the soft glow of a theater stage, a conversation unfolds — an unraveling of stories tethered to history, shaped by places, and refracted through memory. Words echo silence as the stage becomes a mirror, reflecting what is seen, what is unseen, and what is felt. A contemplation of the liminal.

In a city where every step tells a story, can a timid pair of sneakers find the courage to break routine and walk their way into love?

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 voice of two-spirit composer, ethnomusicologist and classically trained tenor carries us through a cinematic ode to his native Wolastoqiyik.

A girl with the unique gift of making dreams visits every sleeping person at night. She creates their dreams and nightmares with the power that flows from her hair. A journey through the creation of our most common and confusing dreams leads to the beginning of her story... a road trip gone terribly wrong.

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.

Randall and Dirk, two ghost hunters, investigate the mysterious explosion of Clark Lickerman in his home. Using their ghost-hunting gear, chaos ensues as they try to summon Clark’s spirit.

A song is played in reverse as we tour sepia-drenched abandoned buildings.

After death inexplicably vanishes from the world, Baron, a drifting trans teen, is pulled into a night of disoriented desire and unraveling violence — where chosen family, fractured identity, and buried memories collide in the horror of becoming no longer human.

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.

A fraudulent advertisement leads Marie-Claude Barrette into a legal battle against Meta. We follow her in her quest for justice, on behalf of the thousands of victims who have been defrauded.

Long working hours and overwhelming capitalism don't seem to fit with Mica, who, guided by premonitory dreams, wanders the city looking for a portal to travel to other dimensions. Using mirrors as thresholds to the unconscious.

Charlotte Day Wilson Live at Red Bull Symphonic features the live show enhanced with behind the scenes making-of footage.

In 1998 Indonesia, two girls promised to be friends forever. Twenty-five years later, a traumatic event resurfaces memories of their shared childhood.

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.

After several years of absence, Vincent reappears in the life of his ten-year-old son, whose mother is terminally ill. Using play to ease their discomfort, they slowly reconnect, one step at a time.

A young woman attends a healer’s book-signing event with her sick mom.

An ambitious documentary focused on the drastic environmental and cultural changes that have occurred over the last 100 years in the Inuit village of Inukjuak, the location where Robert Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North from 1920-1921. From the recording of interviews to filming daily life, much of this new documentary was produced by members of the community.

An upcoming movie by Chris Escorrega and Thomas Petahtegoose

In the heart of a war-ravaged field, a lone soldier riddled with arrows meets his end.

Starring electronic-music pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland and conceived by his wife and creative partner Elizabeth, this never-before-seen pilot for an unproduced children’s show is a joyous, colorful kaleidoscope of handmade puppets, eye-whirling archival montage, and Glenn-Copeland’s transcendent music. Though the planned series ultimately never came to fruition due to Glenn-Copeland’s subsequent dementia diagnosis, this small treasure is a testament to the radiant imagination of a singularly serene, inspirational life force who is a beacon to both underground music and the trans community.

16mm is a sensory dive into the texture of memory, suspended between truth and fabrication. Through a succession of grainy image fragments, ambient noise, burned or erased film stock, the film evokes supposed personal archives—forgotten holidays, anonymous faces, domestic scenes. But nothing is real. Everything is recreated, repurposed, falsified.

A short film about two theatre workers locked in a standoff over who has to sweep up the popcorn.

Maxence, 18, suffers from Cushing's syndrome. This growth disorder has prevented him from reaching puberty, leaving him trapped in a foreign body: that of a 15-year-old. Frozen, unchanging. This is the story of a slow and imperceptible melt. It is the search for a body that belongs to him.

A documentary created from a camera glitch that follows one year of a young girl's life.

A young and determined basketball player has an unyielding ambition to become the best. Through his quest to greatness, he faces a strange ecounter.

The strange but intense dream of a musician the night after a tiring performance.

Wake-Up Call follows a student that puts off studying for his upcoming exam until it is far too late.

Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines travels back to the Philippines to reconnect with his roots. In a nation with over 134,000 years of history and centuries of colonization — under Spanish, American, and Japanese rule — Donguines notes a shared feeling of weakened traditional identity among many Filipinos he knows and meets. A vital part of their heritage, the centuries-old practice of tattooing, was banned by colonizers and even shunned by Filipinos. Donguines travels to Buscalan, a secluded mountain community, to discover more about the revival of Indigenous Kalinga tattoos. Guided by 107-year-old master artist Apo Whang-od, Donguines learns the deep history and symbolism behind the tattoos. The revival of this Indigenous body art tradition offers a powerful way to preserve culture, spark pride, and strengthen identity, and Treasure of the Rice Terraces shows how traditions can survive, evolve, and inspire both local communities and cultural identity worldwide.

A young couple out on their first date are confronted with the horrors of online dating as their evening takes a turn for the worse.

At nightfall, a lost young hiker spots an isolated house in the heart of a Québécois forest. An unexpected refuge… or so he believes. For within this home lives a hostile being, and it’s almost seven o’clock.

A man working in an office stumbles upon a truth he may not be ready for.

As the deadline for student short film submissions arrives, two film students, in over their heads, must make the best of an unraveling situation as they attempt to finish their final day of shooting.

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.

A short film about a man who hires a professional to provide industry-level compliments.

Following a first position on the podium, racing driver Jean-Philippe Bergeron and his team Prolon attempt to win the last race of the season.

A collection of visual poems, each tracing a soul’s struggle with love, fear, and abandonment while navigating the fragile beauty of the human spirit.

Elise is changing. Something is stirring beneath her skin, aching, shifting, growing. She can’t explain it. No one can. Except, perhaps, Viktor, a stranger who watches from the shadows, offering guidance without answers. As her body and mind unravel, Elise is forced to choose: fight the transformation or surrender to it.

Set in a speculative future on Turtle Island, where ancestral dreams and visions shape reality, the film follows the poetic journey of the Welcomer, a vessel of First Nations resilience, and the Arrivant, a traveller from the African diaspora. The Welcomer, reflecting on the echoes of a past reshaped by colonization, envisions a future liberated from its violence. The Arrivant, seeking a place to anchor their journey through time and space, is drawn to the Welcomer’s vision.

A new film from Julianna Notten & Hayley Wong

We encounter the story of Leigh and Dan, facing an unplanned pregnancy, and Makayla, who speaks about two abortions. It is an intimate account of choice, partnership, and access to reproductive healthcare in a changing reality.

The Russian occupiers came and took almost everything from Svitlana, but they could not rob her of her memories of places and moments from her previous life. This tragic portrait of war losses thereby becomes a meditation on values that are enduring, precisely because no brute force can tear them from individual consciousness, violate them, or bury them.

A famous surgeon comes back from vacation and learns that his hospital's administration has changed and taken a turn for the worse.

Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant father and sexual assaults that have gone unreported. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had raped her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform this awkward exchange into a moment of communion, thanks to actors, a set and Audrey's desire to do herself justice.

The circle of life for a shooting star.

Weaving animation and live action, Northlore delves into the transformational stories of people living in Canada’s North and their deep connection to the land and its wildlife.

A documentary that tells a remarkable story of George Mansour, one of the pre-eminent independent film bookers in the US history. He is - after all - the man who gave us John Waters, Sean Cunningham and Wes Craven. He is the man who for many years championed independent cinema, showing films we would never had a chance to see without him. He is also the founder of the prestigious Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, fourth oldest in the country. The film chronicles his humble beginnings, early clashes with an antigay policies of the USA government, up to the time he became a scion of an independent film movement.

Through a simple juxtaposition of words and images, Charles-Émile Lafrance and Romy Bélisle give us a coming-of-age story distilled to its purest components, emphasizing the essence of being aware of the passing of time. Romy Bélisle’s writing grants us access to her inner self, to the universal significance of the end of adolescence, to one world dying so that another can be born. Her words are paired with images of her last summer before heading toward adulthood, captured by a warm and discreet camera. These seemingly mundane fragments contrast with the breadth of emotions conveyed by her entries, and from this tension crystallizes the underlying goal of immortalizing what is about to disappear with the maturity and clarity we all wish we had.

23-Year Old Brynn hunts down an elusive mouse while trying to convince her annoying roommates that the thing exists in the first place.

Revisit the pivotal moments and courageous actions that ignited Canada’s 2SLGBTQ+ movement. From early struggles to landmark victories, this powerful reminder of how quickly rights can be taken away highlights the ongoing fight for justice and equality.

Seàn-Liqué Bleùharde's latest New-New Wave experiment invites the audience to question not just what they’re watching — but when. Shot on stark black & white 16mm film, this is post-silence cinema at its most profound.

A detective bored with the monotony of his everyday life finally gets an exciting case to solve. In the process of solving the case he discovers that people aren’t always what they seem.