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A journalist interviews four ex-employees of The Milton Family Group, a large corporation that seemingly vanished overnight. What begins as an investigation to uncover the truth behind a corporate mystery slowly devolves into a farce of absurd conspiracies and personal confessions.
Articulated through sign language, Clay Nesting Dolls speaks to the space where mothers and daughters merge, powerful and vulnerable, like the earth.
Commander Eric West was born to fly — but the sky never agreed. After a sudden and humiliating dismissal from NASA, a once-promising astronaut retreats deep into denial, constructing an elaborate fantasy in which he is still preparing for a crucial launch. As his fractured mind tries to reconcile failure with purpose, Eric becomes the hero of his own delusion: kidnapped by foreign operatives, racing through back-channel launch sites, and ultimately blasting off on a mission only he can complete. But the truth is far simpler — and far more devastating. Eric never left the ground. Directed by Matthew Hoge and starring Jack Luger and Min. H.
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An artist’s attempt to recreate experimental filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil from memory. Working from fragments, the film weaves together into an engrossing narrative. It follows patterns of thought through material such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, WG Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and combines it with personal, intimate footage, images of the Welsh landscape, San Francisco, and of course, Chris Marker’s favourite animal.
A compassionate Black immigrant physician shares his personal experience of systemic barriers and resilience required to overcome racial disparities and address critical gaps. The documentary highlights the intersectional challenges of race, immigration, and inequities in Canada's healthcare landscape and how this impacts his mental wellbeing.
An office worker unravels as he struggles to deal with bullying, psychological violence and harassment at work. At work, psychological health can sometimes be so fragile that it "hangs by a thread." To represent this reality with both accuracy and sensitivity, the team created crochet characters representing the various faces of workplace psychosocial risks, from harassment to violence. By capturing the public’s attention through emotion, the ad encourages open discussion and proactive management of such risks in the workplace, just like any other risk.
Reveals Mathieu David Gagnon's musical project through a hypnotic concert filmed in the Saint-Pacôme church in Kamouraska. Neither entirely documentary nor pure performance, the film reveals a discreet artist and music played in all its fragility, carried by a dozen classical musicians. Between live sequences and stolen moments, the river becomes a mirror, and the landscapes, visual echoes of a music deeply rooted in its territory. A sober immersion in a work that slows down time.
A modern and contemplative retelling of the myth of Clytie and Helios, through Lee's transformation and encounter with death.
"Little Robot Stories" is an animated short film about ROE, a small robot stuck in a rut.
"My film shows queer poetry by non-binary poet Mo Bolduc, in French language, interpreted in Quebec Sign Language by 4 deaf people, among them, Karl who is gay and who’s got two fights. The poetry permitted for hearing and deaf people to meet around the feeling of not being included and the importance of the acceptance of oneself." –E.P.
A very short story about nature, wildlife and woodpeckers
In SHY WOMAN, Lizzie Derksen investigates why her relationships with other women feel so strained—interviewing the very friends, ex-friends, relatives, teachers, nemeses, and former lovers that she has struggled to connect with.
Following his little sister's disappearance, a grieving man realizes faceless entities have been following him.
Anxious about starting her first day at Cégep de Sainte-Foy, a giraffe feels out of place among human students. When she locks eyes with a crocodile facing the same struggle—being an animal in a human world—an unexpected love story begins.
Heavy rain is expected tonight. In the bustling Xiaobei Road in Guangzhou, people run into each other only for a moment. A beauty salon worker who’s just been left by her husband, a dancer who wants to become a woman, and a migrant boy trying to change his life. The socially outcast strangers are brought together by a fireworks show.
Recorded on location in Finland and Japan—the respective ancestral homelands of Canadian choreographic duo Mardon + Mitsuhashi—this docu-poem intertwines visits with relatives, folk and contemporary dancing, and playful noticings of rupture with a focus on gesture, movement, and impulse. whereverever is a spell to visit with ancestors past and future through the technologies of dreaming, dancing, and fabulating what isn’t and cannot be known—treating the gaps, tears and absences as valuable knowledges, too.
When adoptive brothers Chirich and Henry attempt to rob a bank together, their relationship begins to splinter apart at the seams.
A stationary camera observes an active downtown Toronto park through multiple seasons, capturing the bustling and ever-changing outside world—a reflection of the filmmaker’s internal world, where endearing conversations with loved ones reveal the ups and downs of settling into a new place and making it a home
Through an immersive storytelling approach, King’s Court unfolds like a symphony, capturing the raw emotions and struggles of two friends in a fast-paced, one-on-one basketball game.
In a dystopian future where a powerful elite class prolongs their lives by exploiting young women for their babies’ organs, two women, find themselves on the run from their oppressors. Desperate to escape a fate of forced impregnation and organ extraction, they flee to a remote cabin. Their refuge becomes a sanctuary where they share their dreams and fears, finding solace in each other’s company. However, their fleeting happiness is overshadowed by the ever-looming threat of capture. Their love story, which began in desperation and hope, culminates in a tragic and devastating finale. ATLS is a powerful exploration of love, freedom, and the inescapable shadows of a world that seeks to tear them apart.
Two friends embark on the most excellent adventure (to fulfill a shipment to a mob boss). Will they survive?
The ecstasy of nature through the beauty of simplicity, solitude, and silence as birds soar and suns beam all throughout.
Follow artist and musician Phranc as she reflects on her recent exhibition, The Butch Closet, a memoir in the form of an art installation featuring painted paper and cardboard sculptures.
A disillusioned man makes the very normal and logical choice to abandon human society and become a bear.
In a vast forest, a girl is lost and screams for help. When she finally finds a small, deserted path, she notices a human figure chasing her. She tries to lose him in the forest, but the man manages to find her hiding behind a rock. The girl is trapped and must accept her assailant's sinister invitation.
Animated short featuring pixel art and 2D "marker style" animation.
While working with an animal rescue charity, a former Correctional Officer learns to deal with her trauma when she sees parallels between her own struggles and those of the beagles used in research and testing facilities.
A man loses his mind for pussy.
Angelic cold pearl winters and the brutality of war running simultaneously.
Canada for the Masses is a reflective, found-footage experimental documentary that critiques the federal branding of Canada for its persistent efforts to mask the country’s deep-rooted issues. By deconstructing Canada’s carefully curated self-image and juxtaposing archival footage from World War II Canadian propaganda films, Canada for the Masses analyzes the underlying nefarious nature of Canadian identity.
The film examines the temporalities through which the body forms, stores, and creates what we translate as the real. Focusing on longing, distance, and language, this text-based project explores the breadth of both language and landscape, installing spaciousness in dialogue and considering landscapes as bodies.
As division and hate rise, a street artist uses spray paint to bring about love, inclusion, and unity.
This is a documentation of Montreal's favourite electronic pop duo Hot House's full set performed at Turbo Haus on March 22nd 2025
On the last night in her family home, a young woman is stirred by a dream of her childhood. Reflecting on her youth and her mother’s influence, she writes a heartfelt letter to the daughter she dreams of one day having.
Kyla sits through the quiet funeral of her late roommate, Elmo, with only three of her friends in attendance. She attempts to open up about his cause of death, but her well-meaning but nosy companions interrupt with elaborate and hilarious scenarios: Elmo as a mobster caught in a deadly game, a heartbroken lover killed in a telenovela-style betrayal, and even a secret superhero who perished saving an innocent. But when her friends' self-absorbed chatter leaves her alone again, the tragically absurd truth behind Elmo's... dirty demise is revealed.
The drummer of underground band Oddballs finds his album in the washroom, but as he steps out of the washroom, things take a turn.
Eschewing music documentary conventions in favor of playful, ‘Varda-esque’ experimentation, this short, multi-media portrait celebrates the rituals and routines of reclusive British songwriter and painter, Mark Fry. What unfolds is a pensive amble through the landscapes of Fry’s life and present circumstances in the Norman countryside.
A young filmmaker tries to make a birthday video for his friend while fighting in an unforgivable love triangle. However, someone want way more than just stop him in his quest for love.
Vancouver Island, supernatural by construct and memory, is experienced though landscapes represented by colonial icons, mysterious brilliant fountains, and a curious peacock. A tableaux of sorts, each encounter is singular yet united by stunning and devastated beauty.
A shape leaves the void.
A novice priest must get from his apartment to the church during the last hour of Mardi Gras.
"The Holiday Reaper" is out lurking on the night before Halloween, waiting to strike again to make his mark on his next prey.
After the death of his sister, Harry Moore gets revenge on the man responsible for ending her life.
A behind-the-scenes look into the elite force securing the perimeter of Salah Tebessi's restaurant show.
Death is a stalker– a man who idles in a sinister black car across the street, forever. A psychological car chase, a moment of near violence, and finally, a face.
Cacai, a Chinese farmer-turned-internet influencer, has dedicated his life to building innovative passive solar greenhouses to withstand Alberta’s unforgiving climate. Inspired by his vision, a group of Chinese fathers joins him in pursuing sustainable farming, each bringing their hopes for the future. Over the course of a year, we meet their families, who are each as distinct as the vegetables they grow, with relationships that require just as much care and attention.
A mutated patch of pimples manifests on Nathan's face right before an audition. Now, he must decide whether to make a bloody sacrifice to book the role.
The story follows the journey of an artist, with whom many of us can identify in different ways.
In 2024, a deteriorated 16mm print of a film about Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus dances resurfaced, now awash in vibrant pink from chemical aging. Oliver Husain and collaborators use this flamboyant tint to reimagine the 1925 choreographies.
After crossing Canada from North to South in 2021, the adventurers of AKOR expeditions set out on a new challenge: a crossing of the Canadian Far North from West to East, from the Yukon to Baffin Island. A 6,900-kilometre journey by bike, canoe, sailboat and on foot.
In Gaspésie in rural Quebec, a quirky Chinese motel owner navigates his quiet routine between fixing rooms and casting lines into the sea — until his filmmaker son visits for a week.
A distraught teddy bear searches a carnival for someone he misses but can’t quite remember, guided by the helpful moon and a deceitful star. Adapted from Robert. W. Chambers’ “The Prophets’ Paradise.”
Being mixed-race can be challenging, navigating the world often feels complicated. Aesha shares her journey from childhood to adulthood. Facing toxic environments but finding strength in the right people and embracing who you are is the key to making it easier.
A writer decides to stay in Montreal over Christmas to work on her book, despite her parents' wishes she come home to Halifax. Alone in her apartment on Christmas Eve, she orders oysters from a dubious online delivery service and soon begins to suffer from more than just homesickness.
The Manyoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, was compiled over twelve centuries ago. This film portrays the elegant world of these poems as visual art using court music, traditional pictorial scrolls, Ukiyo-e, Nishiki-e, and animation.
When their father dies, three sisters do everything they can to give their mother a new lease on life.