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Delwin Vriend never wanted to be a human rights activist. However, in challenging his firing for being gay, he set in motion a chain of events that impacted the lives of LGBTQ+ people —not just in Alberta, not just in Canada, but around the globe. Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story delves into the riveting narrative of the Vriend v. Alberta case, where Delwin Vriend, an unlikely hero, courageously battles against discrimination from a government determined to deny his human rights. Uncover the twists and turns that unfold as Vriend's pursuit of justice challenges societal biases, culminating in a ground-breaking Canadian Supreme Court ruling in 1998 that confronts prejudice and sets a transformative precedent for LGBTQ+ rights that is cited around the world.

Leon, a young Mexican, seeks to emancipate himself and explore his bicultural identity; connected to nature, he finds freedom and happiness in the simple and everyday life.

Using found footage from the colonial archives of British Mandate Palestine (1917 – 1948) and audio recordings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Partition brings forth histories that have long existed at the margins. Co-director of the Nakba Archive, Diana Allan, re-photographs colonial found footage on 16mm to powerfully resituate Palestinian presence through story, voice and song.

“Eid” follows two Palestinian women who are unable to visit their son’s graves Eid explores the impact of borders and restrictive laws on fundamental human rights, focusing on the right to grieve. The film is inspired by the true story of Abdelaziz Ibrahim, an artist for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Tunisia.

A young man searches for life’s answers in the self-help section of an old bookstore.

As she tries to close down the shop she works at, Anna is face with an increasing number of clients forcing their way in and wreaking havoc in the shop.

A west-coast bible camp staff is documented as they host hundreds of campers in the summer of 2023, taking on every obstacle that comes their way.

Within the endless possibilities of the future, a romantic, indecisive boy tried to find the conclusion to his story.

A dark comedy short film.

On the evening of an unseasonably warm Moon Festival, a Chinese immigrant mother goes about her ordinary routine of cooking dinner while controlling her daughter’s every move with a sharp tongue. But what is brewing beneath the surface? As night falls, a sinister figure emerges to threaten this small household.

Amélia, an emerging non-binary filmmaker, has been given 2 months given and a research grant to find out more about francophone queer life in western Canada. As the only participant from (what is colonially known as) British-Columbia and with only 3 weeks left, the pressure is on: Amélia rushes to find any traces of francophone queer people in Vancouver before the year 2000, the year they were born. Amidst this chaotic research effort, they find André, an older French-Canadian gay man that lived in Vancouver for 25 years. Through their conversations, Amélia unlocks André's hidden personal visual archive, that proves that, indeed, francophone queers were alive and thriving years before they were born. This documentary shows how Amélia put together a presentation about their own queer ancestors through screen capture, archival footage, interviews and narration that ends up changing their own view of themself as a queer french-canadian in the west.

Two brothers enter a 24 hour film challenge unprepared for the chaotic production.

13 is an experimental film that explores the concepts of death, the afterlife, life, and interpretations of death in 13 parts.

Two men escape from prison in order to attend their daughter’s wedding, and as the Warden tries to stop them, wacky hijinks ensue along the way.

Albert, the botanist, is taking great care of his new plant when it wilts for no apparent reason. The plant then releases a hallucinogenic smoke into his face, transporting him into a metamorphic delirium. This psychotropic journey takes him to new horizons. The plant takes advantage of Albert's lethargy to embed its roots in him and feed on him.

A father struggles to enjoy his young daughter's birthday despite a series of strange and disturbing disruptions.

Two young girls embark on a journey, strengthening their bond as they set out to experience the world, guided by nothing but the strength of their companionship.

Through sampling, glitch editing and pitch play, Malfunctions combines early newsreels and Harvard University science footage of actual, imminent hazards: past disasters that foreshadow present current environmental and infrastructural crises. Connecting this cinematic collage is a remix of Mae West’s intensely sexualized version of a 1913 song by Black Canadian composer Shelton Brooks, from the film She Done Him Wrong (1933). Radically slowed, West’s mournful, sensual voice transforms loss and longing into a haunting stillness played out over oddities in the news.

Guy is a lost 20 something who is struggling to connect with his art and others. Burdened by his thoughts he decides to go for a walk on a bleak cold winter's night.

Late at night, a cook prepares food for a hungry demon. As he brings the main course, things get tense.

In an age when Hip-Hop culture is captivating the minds and hearts of millions globally, Canada's capital is generally left out of the conversation. City Limits explores the sounds, stories, history, and future of Hip-Hop within Ottawa.

In a unknown world where a snowstorm is raging, a supernatural being seems to be invoking strange forces.

An influencer's work never stops... even with a masked killer right behind.

Jasper plays the guitar to deal with the surronding loneliness and anxieties of his world.

Sinzere is a rap/funk artist who is Black and Lesbian. Based in Calgary, Canada, she shares about her path growing up, finding music and becoming a mother.

After battling double pneumonia and being declared dead for a moment, the filmmaker’s uncle emerges with vivid, detailed visions. Uncle Bardo animates these memories via an inventive mix of documentary and experimental stop-motion animation, offering a mesmerizing glimpse into Bardo’s altered consciousness, blending reality and imagination in a narrative that’s both simple and intricately visualized.

Exploring beauty in the everyday and making through procrastination, flakes of flesh chafe away and dance in the warm airstream of the afternoon sun to elicit a sense of our fragile temporal nature and all that we collectively share.

Two detectives sit down to discuss a series of creative and first-aid-approved murders, only for them to learn more about each other than they ever anticipated.

Are we flying through the perspective of mutated drones/bees, sounding like motors, and being attracted to the flowers growing on that strange, fleshy, breathing motorcycle? Is it a breathing motorcycle, or is it the ghostly sound of its long-gone driver’s breath that still echoes in the wind?

Migrations We Are is one of the chapters in a series of twelve poetic essays titled Si, Dodecalogue, which is dedicated to timeless heroes. If the stories of the cities become those of everyone inhabiting them, the only way to build one’s identity remains the Imaginary. Therefore, revealing in filigree her socio-cultural fabric, an Argentinian-Montrealer artist reacts to the brilliance of her time through what she paints, films, and writes in different languages. This chapter is dedicated to Pierre Allard, visual artist, and Marcelin François, beneficiary attendant.

To free their poetic minds, Guillaume Marin and Ariane Caron-Lacoste have created, through an audio testimony, a video poem where verses on the screen act as counterpoints, initiations, and endings. The rich visuals answer the speech to constitute its body.

Eva, an early-thirties hacker, wakes up in a deserted world where a dull threat is terrorizing and stalking her. She crosses paths with Matt, dropped there a few weeks earlier and just as disoriented as she is. There, weapons are at hand, self-service. Even more accessible than a pizza. There, Eva and Matt seem to be in the grip of an external force. A force that controls them and from which they cannot escape. In this chaos, has their good old technology remained a friend or turned into an enemy? While breathing spaces are rare moments, together they need to fight back for their freedom.

The Moon Goddess falls in love with a human farmer. Even though they’re a world apart, she longs to meet her and uses her powers to bring them both together.

A short film about friendship.

This Vietnamese-language documentary explores the dramatic journey of Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland after the Vietnam War and found a new life in Canada. Five Vietnamese Canadian families reveal the hardships they endured—facing storms, starvation, and pirates on their perilous sea voyages. Featuring historians, journalists, and eyewitnesses, the film commemorates the 50th anniversary of Canada-Vietnam diplomatic relations and the end of the Vietnam War.

The filmmaker aka Tranie Tronic tells the tale of the incident that inspired their latest album Transgression and brings awareness to the potential dangers of dating men online via sharing their experience of assault and theft.

A Japanese Canadian recalls his life in Vancouver, captivity in Lemon Creek and bomb-ravaged Hiroshima.

A humble farmer crosses paths with a man having car troubles.

After the death of her work partner, Detective Jamie is terrorized by a series of strange and horrifying hallucinations.

A young single mother faces a major challenge in her efforts to find herself a temporary bit of freedom in this engaging and empathetic drama by Mick Robertson and Margaret Rose.

Archive of an old Russian children's program.

There are many kinds of "looks" out there, and we often forget the impact they have on us. This story tells how a human being can be tamed by the critical gaze of those around him. Under the gaze of various "wide-eyed creatures", a "small-eyed" boy grows up to become a "wide-eyed" adult.

Originally shown as three separate films, I. / II. / III. is a triptych portrait of the most intimate proportions. Simple scenes within the domicile become completely entrancing as layer after layer of exposure unfurls onto itself. The movement of the leaves, the light, his father: all become hypnotic in this silent sonata.

A group of friends go on a camping trip; after watching a horror movie, they decide to explore the woods.

In a close-knit community, imagine a teenager’s struggle with asexuality, where faith clashes with personal discovery.

After smoking weed for the first time, Daniel goes through an experience that unleashes his fears...and his most primal instincts.

A highschooler has to fight off his inner demons while attempting to finish a short film for an application.

A microbe, determined to survive, attempts to infect a new host, but the outside world is unforgiving. Slowed down by a clumsy little virus, he faces tough challenges when a young human woman cleans his living room...

Drawn directly onto 35mm motion picture film without the use of camera or musical instruments, a visual and aural feast for the senses.

At the improvised stops of a migrant camp, I film the paltry shelters of nationals from Mexico, Central America, Pakistan and China. Making campfires with a few scattered desert shrubs, caught between worry and despair, they are waiting to be picked up. Through the glimmering haze I can make out their blank gazes staring into the void, their faces burdened with fatigue, sweat and dust. The calming effect produced by the volunteers who distributed water, food and blankets a short time ago is fading fast. By dawn tomorrow, the camp will be gone, the desert deserted, the crossing already in the past. In the light of dusk it is still possible to glimpse places strewn with disparate objects and abandoned clothing, leftovers from barely touched meals and a campfire still burning. A chiaroscuro of shadows and embers. I think of such little consideration and the ruined American dream. On the icy sand I find a cushion bearing an inscription: “DREAM.”

Kizomba is a partner dance from Angola. It has lifts but we thought it could be improved by adding some lifts from Contact Improv... It was filmed at a Kizomba social and the surprising part was that, when the female dancer lifted the male, the audience went wild. Since traditionally the lead and lifter in Kizomba is male, it was very surprising for them to see a female lifting. And this shows us, how dance fusion can move all kinds of dance forward.

Rudy the horse uses his extendable telescope to see far beyond the naked eye and into distant wartorn lands.

The story of two friends on the cusp of adolescence, Rachel Samson's warm-hearted animation is an ode to those special summer days that contain major changes.

A group of ghouls get together for a house party.

A portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation becomes a visceral, sensory meditation on what it means to live in a broken world.

“Wash your hands. Turn off the lights. And don’t forget your prayers to Ganesh.” Having fun with comicbook motifs and plasticine, Akash Jones honours the no-nonsense second-generation immigrant mother who raised him, instilling habits that guide him to this day. Stop-motion animation that says, “Love ya Mom.”