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An Alzheimer's patient comes home calling out for his wife. As he walks through the house visions of his past surround him, until his caretaker, Sam, brings him back to reality and reveals the truth behind his life.

A first-year film student is invited to document an eccentric audio engineer's historic discovery but finds himself more enraptured by the idiosyncratic inventor than the discovery.

Bloodcurdling screeches. Objects moving on their own. Rancid smells coming from your air ducts. These signs can only mean one of two things: radon or ghosts. Both have the same solution: Spirit Phantom Exorcizing Removal Materials – SPERM for short. In under five (5) minutes, renowned ghost hunter and pardoned tax evader Hugh Jass demonstrates his most legal invention yet. This product can effectively enslave ghosts and impregnate fertile calves. Waste no time, if you’re haunted or not – everyone must try his SPERM!

Offering a front row seat on one of Ontario's most beautiful and unique rail lines, TRIPPING Train 185 takes viewers on a mesmerizing 480 km train journey northwest from Sudbury to White River. For some northern Ontario communities, the "Budd" train is their main connection to the outside world. These vintage rail cars are the only ones still working a regular route in North America. For over 100 years, Train 185 has ferried both people and their goods along this storied "flag stop" route.

Filmed in rural Central Quebec, "born to be a star" is halfway between an artist's (self-)portrait and a family portrait. Artist Antoine Larocque gives us access to his workspace and the environment that surrounds him.

A filmic conversation about death, animals, and home movies.

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making. *Please be advised that this film deals with themes of trauma and suicide.

On January 3, 2009, a secretive software engineer with the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" launched the world's newest monetary invention: a cryptocurrency called bitcoin. Just over two years after bitcoin was introduced, Nakamoto vanished, with over one million bitcoin to his name. The mystery inventor's worth has reached as high as $70 billion, but not a single one of those bitcoins has ever traded hands or moved from Nakamoto's online wallet. After sending a few cryptic emails stating he "may not be around," Nakamoto went silent and has not been heard from since early 2011. Why did Nakamoto disappear? Some have speculated that he may have taken his own life. Or maybe he wanted to wash his hands of his bitcoin project, walking away from it all and maintaining his anonymity. In this film, director and producer Paul Kemp goes on a worldwide journey to piece together the most compelling case yet for who Satoshi Nakamoto was and why he disappeared.

It's just another [excruciating] meal for Vienna - until an offer to conquer her greatest fear in 'three simple steps' arrives. Desperate for freedom from her fear of eating, Vienna takes the offer up - only to realize she bit off far more than she can chew... As Vienna is taken through these three escalating steps to conquer her fear, she also discovers just how resilient she is, ultimately fighting anorexia back in the most defiant way possible: by reclaiming her autonomy in eating.

Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan, where the stories of oil and war originate, Meezan is a documentary encounter in three parts. Rejecting a historicizing or theoretical gaze, Meezan is attentive to the immediacy and embodied experience of those most intimately connected to these embattled landscapes.

After their physical education class, the guys can't manage anything more than tugging at each other and calling each other names. Lou, watching from afar, waits for them to leave before taking his turn in the shower. When he returns, he's surprised by Manu, where they use this intimate moment to redefine their relationship.

A short film by Guillaume Vallée, Dérapage 2023, selected in the Subjects To Defend program concocted by La Bande Vidéo. "This experimental animation is a metaphor for my anxiety about a world that is changing drastically and becoming more and more unstable. The film was made without a camera on 16mm film."

After being cancelled, British comedian James Mullinger relocates his family to rural New Brunswick for a fresh start.

"Body Language" is a gripping silent film that explores the tumultuous dynamics of a deteriorating relationship within the confines of a stark, white room. The absence of dialogue heightens the intensity of the emotional turmoil as a couple sits across from each other, their faces etched with resentment and pain.

Through a whirlwind of images, Today I Did Nothing proposes a hybrid essay narrative that weaves together quotes and ideas using a collection of objects. The work creates a personal archive, repeating its imagery to entice the viewer into its visual universe while at the same time presenting difficult contradictions.

Between day and night, rave culture creates a suspended moment in which bodies come together, moving intuitively to the pulse of music and strobe lights.

With each recollection, our memories become increasingly hazy until they fade away or distort. This short film explores the process of recalling memories through fragments of personal archives juxtaposed with 3D scans of my childhood home.

Lou will be moving soon. With her friends, she creates a plan in order not to leave her small town, but soon enough reality catches the group up. The 12 years old girl is then forced to face her first friendship heartbreak.

GO FISH takes an abstract dive into the beauty and chaos of the annual Pacific herring migration, when millions of herring return to the Salish Sea to spawn.

La routine presents the daily life as banal as it is overwhelming of a character. As the days go by, he is gradually buried, literally and figuratively, by his various tasks and responsibilities. Anxious to maintain control over the course of his life, the character repeats his routine relentlessly until it becomes physically impossible for him to achieve.

Tundra follows Sarah, a young woman surviving alone after the recent loss of her mother, in Earth's frozen post-apocalyptic future. Sarah must withstand the elements, a scarce food supply, and her own sense of despair and loneliness if she is to keep living.

Two highschoolers Mark and Wheaton go on a delightful mission to prank Joe, the "unprankable" as vengeance for all his years of pranking. Along the way, Wheaton meets the love of his life, Charline. The debut film of Handfull of Homies Pictures, this gripping film is truly "pretty good"

Indulging in excess and debauchery, Francis is fascinated by his image to the point of becoming autosexual. Without his partners' knowledge, he takes a perverse pleasure in filming their pieces of carnal art. When his doctor prescribes a battery of tests for STIs, he is convinced he has contracted a disease.

Twenty-seven year old musician Jane's phone won't stop ringing on the eve of her birthday. Uninterested in distractions from the world around her, Jane pores over books and analyzes notes in a frantic search for her way out of the curse she believes herself to be under: an untimely death at twenty-seven years old just like many of her artistic idols. Jane ignores repeated phone calls and angrily throws her phone away, working into the night and passing out from exhaustion. After waking up alive, Jane begins cleaning up her apartment and repairing her phone, ready to live without fear of her inevitable mortality and to appreciate life while it's happening. Screened at the Toronto Short Film Festival 2023. Nominated for best actress (Stephanie Cowan as Jane) at the Toronto Alternative Film Festival 2022 and the Couch Film Festival 2022.

Experimental Stop-motion movie.

In 2120, flowers are the only currency. One man seeks to protect them while others hunt them down.

GAYTATORSHIP was recorded at The Royal Theatre in Toronto Canada on June 23, 2023. Released on November 1st, 2023 this special seeks to revolutionize the Canadian comedy industry and put Ben Bankas on the map.

A short film about the time-consuming process of fixing a clock.

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee shares his love of family, acting and toys.

Through an ever-shifting visual palette, the viewer is immersed in the exploration of the tumultuous emotions of heartbreak.

Alice becomes anxious when her friends arrive early to her tea party. Will Alice be able to find the coping skills to make her tea party a success?

A young boy is gifted an artifact that grants three wishes; however, each wish wreaks increasingly more destruction on his family; will he be able to make things right with his last wish before it’s too late?

We follow the journey of a neglected electronics salesman on the run with a television. His escape will bring him to cross lunar heights and free himself from his burden.

In the wake of his childhood friend’s suicide, Danny will do anything to stay out of the house. As a last ditch effort to reconnect the friend group, Danny brings "the boys" back together for one last summer night.

In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

A mysterious hum brings the filmmaker to the industrial complex of Zug Island to find its source and discover the effect on the people who live nearby.

A man who is travelling on a train finds it's difficult to take pictures of the view, so he comes up with a unique solution.

Anxious to go on a date, Chris finds the help of a wacky skeleton who shows him how to be confident in himself.

A woman knowledge keeper carries on her shoulders her most precious legacy: the liberation of her soul.

This animation was created as a series of experiments with hand-processed 16mm film, collected and collaged to the sound: photograms of hair, confetti and sand, stop-motion sand animation, bleaching, toning and paint on film.

When the rabbit has its own story, the story will no longer be written by the hunter.

Squeezed by skyrocketing real estate, a cast of unlikely activists wages war to hang on to their homes in Toronto's historic Spadina Gardens, a remarkable upscale rental building that's been purchased by Dutch developers. Charlotte Mickie, an internationally renowned doyenne of arthouse cinema and long-time tenant, rallies an eclectic mix of tenants that includes celebrated artists, playwrights, socialites and fashion models, to fight against their renovictions.

Politicians from Canada’s major political parties discuss the challenges they have faced as members of the LGBTQ community.

A Pierrot-like elf enjoys the delicate flowers of his frost garden.

Aphasia is a non-narrative short film that illustrates the language and speech disorders brought on by brain degeneration in people with Alzheimer’s disease. The film aims to reproduce the experience of aphasia for the audience. To that end, language dysfunction is represented by the changes in a portrait affected by audio and visual interferences, until it becomes completely unrecognizable.

Digging far below the surface, two gritty teams of hobbyist cavers are poised to discover the longest and deepest caves in Canada. Risking life and limb, their curiosity is matched only by their courage to chart the unknown.

After a long and arduous dust season the rain has finally returned. Atmospheric River Rats 2 is here now featuring unprecedented levels of community. We hope you enjoy and we couldn't have done it without you. Confused? Decode some of the inside jokes and lore by checking out last year's movie.

This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.

The viewer enters alone into a cabin containing images from a brain scanner, where they receive hypnotic instructions and challenge them to surrender to a state of psychic transcendence.

Portrait-documentary about William, 12 years old and passionate about mechanics. Throughout this short-film, he brings us into his own world and share his latest creation.

As a shadow passes over a neighbourhood, a man finds himself drawn to the source by dreams.

Through their notebooks and landscape sketches, a grandmother and her granddaughter discuss death, migration, memory, and expression.

A young bartender closing up after a long day of work, finds herself amid a myriad of strange events, forcing her to understand that she is not alone.

A man spends a seemingly interminable night alone in a hotel room, avoiding contact with the world outside and besieged by insomnia, boredom and a faulty air conditioner.

BASEMENT GHOSTS provides a chilling assessment of the major contributors to the recent growth of neo-fascist movements, and how young extremists can be turned away from a life of hatred in this 8mm homage to wartime propaganda videos.