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When a man starts a new job as a college janitor, he is reminded of all that he has lost.

Welcome aboard the roller coaster ride that is Mathos' twisted mind on another adventure on his bike. Crazy or not crazy? Your turn to judge.

Daniel, an HIV-positive man, weaves his new identity in his Acadian village. Documentary about an Acadian weaver and AIDS survivor who, despite fatigue and dexterity difficulties, retreats to his loom as a form of therapy — and as a new identity. ~~ Nominations & awards ~~ Image + Nation Festival, Montreal, 2023, Best Short Film Award ~~ Image + Nation Festival, Montreal, 2023, Emerging Voices Award ~~ Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton, N.B., 2023, Best Short Acadian Film Award ~~ Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2024, Telefilm Canada Selection

We talked, in our limited way, about the cosmos. Our childhood and other vulnerable periods popped up. We were fine with not knowing our true meaning if we were only a speck at the intersection of coping and pure suffering, we would try our best to make that speck twinkle.

Meditation on the passage of time, the territory we live in and the ties that bind us. This short film was shot in Quebec in December 2018 between the 48th and 50th parallels.

Heading north to avoid the US draft in the summer of 1971, Monty meets the beautiful, enigmatic Marianne. They share an unexpected connection yet when he awakes, she is gone. He spends the rest of the heady summer thinking of her, as he begins to realize the land to which he ran is not as benign as imagined.

Isolated at a long-term care home, an old man does everything in his power to see the woman he loves one last time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amidst the devastating aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, this poignant documentary follows brave Ukrainian mothers who seek refuge in Canada, striving to rebuild their shattered lives and provide a new beginning for their children. The film also highlights the compassionate Canadian families who lend a helping hand to these war refugees, echoing their ancestors' past act of kindness. Through intimate storytelling, the series showcases the resilience of the human spirit as these families find hope and restoration in their shared journey towards a better future.

Dale—a lost clown—traverses through an unfamiliar landscape, collecting seemingly mundane items until they eventually find their way back home.

In the 1960s, an anthropologist thinks he has discovered the existence of a vampire woman in a Kashub community in Wilno, Ontario. Kinga Michalska returns to the village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage, using a skilful blend of archival footage and performance to question the relationship between lived reality and scientific "truth".

In June 1970, Acadian prog-rock group L’Empremier did not shoot a live recording session within the ruins of Fort Beauséjour, Acadisco did not produce and release the album, and the original songs did not become emblematic militant anthems for the Acadian people.

An intimate encounter with Marie-Lise through a wishlist of activities of her own.

A young woman with feminist ideals finds herself disturbed by her pent-up desires and impulses for a misogynistic man.

With the Google Maps app leading him in circles, a man suspects his phone is purposely lying to him.

Might a genetic mutation be the very thing that allows this nice Jewish butch lesbian to be fully seen at last? Meet Sarah, 57. Lesbian? For sure. Jewish? Yes and no. Mother? In all but one sense. Trans? No, just often mistaken as such. Breast cancer survivor? Well, that’s the plan, the survival bit, but without the cancer or the breasts. Not Quite That is an intimate and insightful exploration of how we are seen, how we see ourselves, and why it matters.

The McKenna Academy’s BioGnosis project aims to renovate and digitize an immensely important collection of 150,000 biological specimens currently housed at the Herbarium of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. The herbarium includes vital knowledge on how the indigenous people use the plants for healing.

In what ways can videography itself embody a heterotopia?

We don't see much of Huguette in our family home movies. This is the story of a woman, a mother, a grandmother who has been worried all her life.

Inflorescences unfolds in an hypothetical future, where plants, mushrooms, and unfamiliar critters have undergone mutations to exist in symbiosis with electronic waste. These life forms emerge from what we perceive as inert and forgotten remnants, and continue to evolve and foster new relationships with the ecosystem. Inflorescences portrays a world devoid of humans, yet its evolution is shaped by the remains they left behind. As part of the project, four sculptures are crafted from electronic waste, incorporating screens and lights that evoke the entities depicted in the videos, offering a glimpse into the future of these discarded objects.

Inflorescences takes place in a hypothetical future, where plants, mushrooms and unknown critters will have mutated to live in symbiosis with abandoned objects. Questioning the definition of the living, this project explores forms of life that emerge from what we consider inert, forgotten scraps that continue to evolve and generate new relationships with the ecosystem. Inflorescences portrays a world without humans, but whose evolution is shaped by their remains. As part of the project, 3 sculptures are created from electronic waste, where a screen and lights come to suggest the entities present in the videos, a vision of the future of these objects left behind.

On the menu, a society coming out of the closet.

Ouroboros spins a loose narrative of joy, grief, death and rebirth, all told through looping images printed on physical animation devices known as phonotropes. Like the ouroboros, a symbolic snake that devours its own tail, everything in life is a loop.

After losing friends, Dany Turcotte began to wonder about the aging of members of the LGBTQ+ community in our society.

Through the memories of three Scarborough residents, unhome explores the cultural identity of home and the impact of gentrification

John Sabraw is a renowned artist who goes caving in waders to extract pollution from rivers and turn chemicals into pigments in a former coal town. Not only does he create artworks exploding with colour, he's building a multi-million dollar, carbon-neutral factory that will expand this process to create paint for industrial use, restoring miles of waterways and cutting carbon in one stroke.

Sent against their will on a team building weekend, four cynical colleagues who don’t care at all about team playing are forced to pool their efforts to deal with an unexpected incident.

BFL 76: Canada vs. The World was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at the Harbour Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal's queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. EVICTION is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation.

Everyone deals with loss in their own way. Tristan is a bio-artist who processes his mothers death by preserving her in a unique painting.

A short film.

An ethereal trip, created using archival footage, subverts past expectations and defines the road ahead for two adventurous sisters. A tender reminder of how our desires can manifest as a confusing and never-ending quest and how our loved ones can anchor us in the world despite all of the momentum and commotion. – Leonie Woodfin

Two girls plant flowers

During one of his trips into the wilderness, a lone hiker will make a macabre discovery. What started as a tranquil weekend getaway will soon transform into a fight for survival.

A disembodied narration guides you on a sinister tour of the psyche.

Time passes but nothing changes. Opportunities are missed one after the other. Until finally there's a way out.

Nicole pays a visit to her mother, camera in tow. With great warmth and intimacy, she shares a look into a home inhabited by the memories of a resilient woman.

Emma, ​​a young actress, is stuck working odd jobs to make ends meet while waiting for her career to take off. For the next few weeks, she is housesitting for a rich couple, in the suburbs of Geneva, who are gone on a ski trip. Her days are far from full. Little by little, the house seems to take an unexpected effect on her.

Two sisters come together after their father passing to sort out his affairs.

Several individuals who all inhabit the same street find themselves in an inner locking story as their effects and views of each other spiral out of hand.

The period from 2020 to 2022 has increased social inequalities, anger and popular revolts. Under lockdown in Montreal, the director had to cancel her projects. In the need for moviemaking, she asked 50 of her friends and acquaintances for sending her footages and sounds.

Your Cinema Needs You traces the origins of the Monarch Theatre, the rise and fall of its direct competitors, and its evolution in becoming Canada's oldest, surviving cinema since it first opened its doors on December 21, 1911.

Inflorescences takes place in a hypothetical future, where plants, mushrooms and unknown critters will have mutated to live in symbiosis with abandoned objects. Questioning the definition of the living, this project explores forms of life that emerge from what we consider inert, forgotten scraps that continue to evolve and generate new relationships with the ecosystem. Inflorescences portrays a world without humans, but whose evolution is shaped by their remains. As part of the project, 3 sculptures are created from electronic waste, where a screen and lights come to suggest the entities present in the videos, a vision of the future of these objects left behind.

Two keys take a break from the keyboard as they discuss the nature of their existence, as well as the sparse dispositions of the other keys.

When his father has to work on Ferragosto (Italy's national holiday) instead of going to the sea, a boy has the adventure of his lifetime in the city of Florence with an unexpected friend.

A doomed warrior, offered a path to redemption, journeys to the heart of the black forest on an execution mission.

A teen in a queer hockey league keeps a secret that threatens her future.

Reflecting on the relationship between native plants and people, the film looks at the sumac plant (from staghorn sumac), which is native to parts of Turtle Island, as well as Tanner’s sumac, native to the eastern Mediterranean, which is a dire medicine, a powdered spice, a dye, and more. The film weaves together the voices of two women, one from the Mohawk community of Kahnawá:ke and the other an internally displaced refugee in Ramallah. Mimicking the progression of the plant’s flowers from yellow to green to red, the short film is a cyclical reflection on the connections between land, sustainability, and wild plants.

Confronted with a devastating diagnosis, stigmatized and shrouded in despair, a young man desperately grapples with the dark specter of mortality and societal rejection in his tender teenage years. Thirty years on, he reflects on his extraordinary odyssey in search of solace through self-acceptance, love, and a sense of belonging, captivatingly narrated through the expressive form of dance.

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An improvised performance piece for visuals and sound. Candlelight flickers from Hallé’s breathing and gets focused with handheld pieces of broken crystal onto a video camera sensor, which becomes the light source that illuminates a 16mm film of an abstracted ocean landscape. The live music and visuals play off each other. Hallé’s barely perceptible hand gestures and his intentional breathing spontaneously adapt and create the projected world of light and shadow, color and movement.

An old man reflects on his past, having spent his entire life within the confines of a spacecraft. He wonders when the time will come for him to find the true purpose of his life.

A once renowned actor sits as an interviewee for his upcoming film 'The T-Shirt Movie'.

Herbert the herbalist decides to create an attraction potion, but nothing will go to plan.

Made in under 24hrs for the Okotoks Horror Film Festival.

A short story about two very different dancers that get the inspiration from each other and find a courage in themselves to admit the adoration in the cutest way possible. No words needed.

A Black woman journeys through a guided meditation in an effort to connect with herself and decide whether she will go towards the light of hope or remain in the darkness of a constructed reality.