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What begins as a casual get-together between close college friends Harry, Marty, Teddy, and Cecy quickly devolves into a chaotic, self-aware, pseudo-horror goose chase when Marty goes missing. The plot is lost when Harry begins acting less like the group's friend and more like their stage director, trying to salvage the horror short film he has cast his friends in.
Sex. Something that is part of human nature. Everyone does it and strives to have their happily ever after… Right? In a society where intimacy and romance are constantly everywhere, someone breaks from the mould after years of self-discovery. They send a letter to their past self full of their experiences and lessons learned, in the form of a short documentary. A-Okay brings attention to the hyper-sexualized and romanticized society we live in and how it’s expectations, stigmas, and stereotypes can be harmful to individuals on the aromantic and asexual spectrums.
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An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive the passage of time.
Two men meet for a first date. Things go well until they don't.
In this horror-comedy short, a remake with an original twist of Hideo Nakata's "RINGU", two drag queens, mourning the sudden death of their "Drag Mother", discover a mysterious VHS tape. When they watch it, a frightening figure appears, provoking an unexpected reaction from the duo.
Kartouche narrates the wandering of four pre-adolescents oscillating between innocence and sadism, trying to smother their boredom under a mountain of bad taste. Vulgarity, incendiary provocations and the excesses of colorful characters, Kartouche is as chaotic and vibrant as the twilights of childhood can be.
a smoke sesh takes a bit of a horrifying twist when the trust fund babies are left home alone.
In medieval Europe, Joan of Arc’s story from her capture to her sentence reimagined in a hybrid (2d and 3d) animation where we focus on staying true to themselves.
The project examines our relationship with AI and its ability to reflect human psychological projections. Its title evokes a mental landscape shaped by the interaction between humans and machines while paying homage to the cyberculture of the 1980s-1990s, a period when technology was envisioned as a means to transcend space, time, and materiality. By integrating the unpredictable transformations generated by AI while preserving the artist’s aesthetic, the work reveals visions that are both sublime and unsettling, reflecting an Anthropocene-marked future. Cyberdelia seeks to re-enchant reality by weaving connections between technology and nature, individual destiny and collective experience.
Our hands are criminals. Our hands write. Films are criminals. Films make films. Filmmakers make films. Filmmakers have hands. This is a crowdfunding campaign.
Affecting at least 1 in 10 women, transgender, and gender diverse people, Endometriosis still requires an average of 6 to 10 years for proper diagnosis. In Lora’s case, obtaining a diagnosis was a 25-year journey that robbed her of her fertility and changed the course of her future. The Wounds Within is the story of Lora’s journey, from the first signs that something was wrong through to receiving proper surgical care. It explores the physical and emotional aftermath of a disease that ravages the body and alters life plans.
Gazing from one hundred feet above the boreal forest, Fire Tower draws us into the lookouts’ world: a critical line of defense in wildfire detection; inviting us to contemplate how solitude inspires a different connection with nature, community and our creativity.
A short horror film.
Meet Gavin McInnes, the audacious Canadian who birthed two polarizing legacies: the left leaning, multi-billion-dollar VICE media empire and the notorious Proud Boys, a violent right wing militia group that was at the forefront of the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. Once celebrated as a progressive visionary, McInnes' transformation into a radical right-wing provocateur stunned the world and left many old colleagues and friends questioning how the, once, coolest man in New York City became the despised leader of the Proud boys. In a high-stakes quest for truth, his former Vice Magazine protégé embarks on a journey into the heart of darkness, determined to unravel the twisted transformation that his mentor and friend underwent. This documentary delves deep into the psyche of a man who defied expectations, exposing the raw, unfiltered journey of a counterculture icon who became the leader and figurehead of an extremist, violent movement that shook the foundations of democracy.
In 2016, Canada became one of a handful of countries in the world to offer Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) to terminally ill patients. Since 2021, the Canadian government has been planning to further extend MAiD to people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental disorder. It became one of the most toxic and contentious debates in Canadian medical and parliamentary history, and highlighted a striking lack of compassion, empathy and understanding towards people who have been suffering from profound mental anguish for decades. NO WAY TO DIE follows two deeply mentally ill individuals, Jane Hunter and Savannah Meadows, both of whom had been planning to apply for MAiD, watching in sadness, anger and torment as a phalanx of opponents launch a ferocious (and often misleading) effort to halt the government's plan to offer relief to people like them-people who are out of resiliency and out of options.
Inspired by Nan Goldin's 'Trees by the River, Munich' (1994), 'Positive Transparencies' comprises the tensions emerging from the destruction and reconstruction of 17 individual 35mm slides. This cinematic endeavor seeks to explore the methodologies employed in observing, scrutinizing, and transmuting the natural world through technological means. The pristine landscape of Hornby Island in British Columbia serves as the project's primary reference point, as it employs extensive analog deconstruction techniques to repurpose the island's scenic vistas. Live dye destructions captured on film are meticulously edited and layered to metamorphose into dynamic motion sequences and novel color palettes, thereby emulating a process of artistic disintegration.
A boy reflects on his summer break through a school assignment.
Six years after a case of sexual abuse in the family, the filmmaker seeks a conversation with her grandmother, breaking the silence - an act of personal and political liberation.
Inspired by the energetic German film, Run Lola Run, City Shocks delves into the chaos of urban life through a series of interconnected vignettes, while following a character navigating the bustling streets of a sprawling metropolis.
A story of The Map and The Territory. Shot in BC, California, and Nevada. Original music by Tashi Townley, Jack Brintnell, Luc Wiebe, and George Lee.
A drag queen recounts how they got to be here.
SING MY SONG questions where are all the Asian popstars from North America? Following Barbara "Kayee" Lee, an award-winning broadcast journalist and community advocate, on her decade-long journey to try to find an answer to this question.
Escaping from the stresses of teenage life and finding solace in the things that bring peace.
A young man travels out of town for a job interview and experiences an overnight stay at a hotel that will turn his world upside down.
The 2024 eclipse creates rampage on planet earth.
A short film about not wanting to kill yourself anymore.
In a post apocalyptic world, in which only skateboarders exist, a new synthetic drug has been quietly circulating around the globe and turning female skaters into kick-ass Killer Zombies. The planet's only hope lies with a small cohort of co-ed pro skaters-determined to take a stand and save civilization. Richie Jackson portrays the ultimate "anti-Villain", obsessed with bringing back anarchy to skateboarding culture. Who will win this retro-clash of culture and chaos?
A celestial being probes gaping wormholes on quest toward carnal pleasure and cosmic annihilation
Myrna Kostash boasts a remarkable writing career firmly rooted in Edmonton, even when her research has taken her overseas to Greece, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and beyond. This short film celebrates Myrna's extensive career and dedication to exploring the complex relationships that shape our identities and the places we call home.
The hands that dominate, that violate, that point, that blame, but also that caress, that offer tenderness, that accompany, that support. There are self-fictional and metaphorical elements, it speaks of our relationship to friendship and its power dynamics, what we become through our relationships, of this performance of virility, of this mask that we wear to fit in, of what we can do to make people proud, to rise in this toxic and horrible social hierarchy.
"Notice of This Connection" follows Peter Linklater's journey through a series of tumultuous relationships in a bustling city. From chance encounters to forbidden affairs, Peter's life spins out of control as he grapples with the consequences of his actions, ultimately learning valuable lessons about love, betrayal, and redemption. The story serves as a cautionary tale about the complexities of human connections and the profound impact they can have on our lives.
Louie Sanchez is the performance moniker of Filipinx artist Eirene Cloma. Cloma has recently completed a small collection of songs that broadly reflects on their working-class Filipinx upbringing in North Vancouver and the entanglements of diaspora, interracial relations, and queer desire that texture their everyday experiences. The video for their song One Thing I Can Afford broadly addresses queer and trans friendship in the diaspora, Filipinx masculinities, and everyday enactments of transgenerational care.
On a first date, a man is unable to remember who he is.
Radicle City is a cinematic essay which imagines a future in which Bangalore’s gardens no longer exist. Narrated as a poetic address by a voice who has grown up in a city without trees, the film’s hybrid documentary and fictional narrative recovers and reinterprets footage of an unknown walker’s journey along a park that marks an old line of colonial segregation in the city. This is an old border with new lines: today the city is India’s “silicon valley,” an IT hub at the heart of a network of global capitalism, an incubator for the apparatuses of Modi’s digital technocracy and one of India’s most unequal and divided cities. Moving restlessly back and forth between past and possible future, the film is at once an investigation into the city’s complex colonial entanglements and their afterlives, and an elegy to the city’s gardens, fragile spaces of resistance in a metropolis which threatens their destruction.
A disabled man living in Ottawa at the time of the freedom convoy protests ruminates on the concept of freedom.
Sofia, a young trumpeter, prepares herself for the reunion with her childhood friend Paula. But fearing that their bond may have faded, Sofia revisits their memories to give her a welcoming gift - a song.
An immersive VR experience taking the heroine and hero into a world where matriarchal structures have endured. It is a parallel world in which people treat each other based on a different set of societal rules. This has an effect on social, economic, and the political life. Family and love relationships function differently. This experience will attract everyone who is curious about societal change and is a first-timer in VR.
Having left their home country for almost 20 years, a mother, her son and her daughter reminisce of their days in Armenia and reflect on how radically different their life is now. They also discuss the current political state of the country in the midst of an ongoing war.
A photographic emulsion is a photosensitive chemical compound used in film to create an image when exposed to light. Agnès' artisanal emulsion drives this work, crafted with the precision of a contemporary alchemist.
Fractures Chimiques – ON/OFF is the result of an audiovisual performance combining 16mm projection and reactive electronic music. Using a sensor device attached directly to the screen, the light information escaping from the projectors is collected and transferred to modular synthesizers which generate the film’s live soundtrack.
Take a dive into the mind of An Chhay, a refugee displaced by the reign of terror brought by the Khmer Rouge. Follow his hardships and triumphs as he does his best to live by the guiding principles of a sport he has been practicing for over 60 years.
When life gives you lemon...
Two dogs. One has rabies.
Vera experiences supernatural encounters in the wake of her husband's untimely death.
Rest ritual was developed as part of the Revisioning Fitness research project which aimed to crip, queer, and thicken discourse around fitness. This short film examines how I would revision fitness- as a dream space, a utopia. The footage was recorded during my research about collective rest at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, recorded in the Szechenyi Thermal Baths.
Two up-and-coming thrift re-sellers get the business of an influencer who can take their shop to the next level but when their plans face magical interference, things get hairy.
In a powerful exploration of her Greek Canadian heritage, Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos embarks on an introspective journey through the depths of her heart, akin to traversing a black hole, in search of the gifts hidden within her wounds. Guided by the presence of the plantain, a resilient plant often referred to as "white man's footprints" due to its association with European settlers, she unravels the fragmented threads of an ancient myth and pre-Hellenic ceremony. Through this profound exploration, she seeks to rediscover the art of navigating the loss of identity and the cyclical nature of life's transitions.
Shot on Super8 film to hypnotic effect, Perennial finds poignancy and sensuality within a mundane domestic scene: dish-washing. Delicate imagery is used to explore themes of transcendence, the porous boundaries between ourselves and the world, and the natural cycles of life.
Host Marie-Claude Julien meets director Bernard Émond on the day of the launch of his latest film Une femme respectable. He chose Trois-Rivières and its historic rue Des Ursulines to set the story of his main character. The house where the filming took place belongs to Marie-Claude. She took advantage of the director's visit to conduct this interview.
A burnt-out writer uses AI to deliver a script, only to discover the true essence of human creativity.
An inspiring story about adjusting to life-altering circumstances and the saving grace of creativity and perseverance, "Hobby" is an intimate snapshot of Albino Carreira, the man and visionary behind an eccentrically decorated semi-detached house that has become a well-known and beloved Toronto landmark. The residence, which is located in the city’s Koreatown neighbourhood, captivates onlookers, evoking both bewilderment and awe with its exterior adorned in an eclectic mix of plastic bugs, seashells, coins, and other assorted knickknacks. A Portuguese immigrant, Carreira’s life was forever changed in 1993 when a workplace injury confined him to his home and left him on a permanent disability pension. He began decorating his mailbox to pass time, which eventually led him on an obsessive journey to cover every square inch of his residence with unexpected creative embellishments. This ongoing monumental project serves as a powerful expression of Carreira’s indomitable spirit.
After blaming himself for the suicide of his best friend, an art prodigy crawls out of drunk isolation to find redemption in taking custody of his best friend's defiant son.
The fisherman is the bored that he is imagining catching a whale with his fishing rod. The short film is about the imagination when we are bored.
Through the entanglement of home movies, archival footage, and cinéma vérité, "Ghost Camera" captures 116 years of Toronto history to tell the tale of a documentarian's descent into artistic madness.