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Pays homage to Calgary’s Jenny Belzberg and her unwavering dedication to the power of community and creativity in people’s lives.

After feeling repulsed by a kiss with a boy, Renée is left unsure of her sexuality. Consulting an expert on the matter (her lesbian best friend) Renée goes on a hilarious, lighthearted, yet painfully relatable mission to unravel her identity and learn a lesson about love.

For a brief moment, an ant experiences a glimpse of a transcendent feeling from the magical power of the pheromones.

Does the quality of life still concern us?

One hundred years ago. Banana workers went on strike in Colombia. A US-owned fruit company refused to negotiate. A massacre ensued. This is the story of how the Company and the Colombian military used a photograph to identify workers, and how the violence of December 1928 mutated into oblivion.

Santa Nez's car runs out of fuel on the way to Ren's house. He makes it there just in time to find out they will be taking the polar trip of their lives soon.

An unsuspecting artist is moved by a visit from a seemingly banal moth. As events unfold into the final fleeting moments, a hidden marvel is revealed which the artist fights to preserve.

In 1947/48, it was not only 500,000 Palestinians who were displaced during the Israel war of Independence, but 850,000 Jews were also expelled from their ancient homes in Arab countries by Islamic regimes + their murderous mobs. This documentary tells their story.

Stop motion animation based on a story I wrote in grade 3.

ex vivo maps an experiential space that is both permeated with vitality and haunted by personal and ecological loss. It is an elegy for the deep yet precarious connections that emerge between human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems; connections that are constantly both found and severed.

The Sculptor sculpts The Stone into the world’s first Patavision. The Paravision only plays commercials.

Treature Feature - Award Winning Film

Away from the world, in his DIY cabin deep in a forest, Martin is building a new existence in the company of his pack of cats. The disappearance of one of his felines disrupts his daily life and brings back memories of his past.

In a dystopian world, a masked figure commutes to work. For him, everything is normal, but things truly aren't.

Enter into a computer program which overloads when faced with a euphoric buildup.

Explore New York City at night through the eyes of a taxi driver.

Imagine waking up and suddenly not being able to walk to the bathroom. Or opening your eyes in the morning to find you lost your vision as you slept. It’s your body shutting itself down, fighting itself. Between waking up and eventually falling asleep, you spend almost every waking moment fighting fatigue, battling brain fog, and constant physical uncertainty. This is Multiple Sclerosis. And this is the life of feisty, first-generation, Polish-Canadian Patrycia Rzechowka.

A gritty heist drama about Lucy, a young mother who is convinced by her ex-con boyfriend, Mitch, to help him with one last heist before they leave their hometown for a better life.

A portrait of Fogo Island, off the Eastern coast of Canada. Giolo approaches the unique environment of the island – human, geological, floral – proposing an indivisibility between landscapes and the bodies that inhabit them. Shot in her distinctly frontal style, a series of 16mm tableaux hint to the relationship between observation and composition, between seeing and dreaming. As someone reads, “a landscape is a state of mind”, or more accurately a “state of mind is a landscape".

It’s 10pm and Gorbe arrives home from a long, Exhausting day of work. She hears a buzzing noise. It’s an electric razor, left to charge on the counter of the washroom. But, the razor won’t turn off.

Hadi finds himself an unexpected guest at Adam's engagement party decades after they last spoke, where at last they will come face-to-face with the events that tore them apart.

A young woman and a young boy will guide us through their eyes, offering a different and more poetic view of Montcalm Street in Gatineau. They will take the time to appreciate it and ask questions about it before time completely erases it.

A mysterious briefcase changes hands amongst strangers. Who will be the first to discover what is inside?

47 is a hand-made, animated stop-motion film created not just for, but by the Down syndrome community. The film is a heartwarming tale of resilience, acceptance, and inclusion.

When the death of Maggie's rocker role model and uncle leaves her wondering about her own fate, Maggie must rediscover some shred of purpose to her life (perhaps with the help of an undead ally).

Rusty the Robot finds himself working at the local sleepy gym. While the manager steps out, Rusty takes charge of the music and turns up the tempo with thrilling results!

In a small town where opportunities are few and far between, two friends who have always felt like life has dealt them a bad hand decide to take matters into their own hands and embark on a bold and daring adventure to conquer the big city that lies beyond their borders, setting out on a quest to take down the bosses of each of the city's burrows one by one until they have finally claimed victory and established themselves as the ultimate rulers of the urban jungle.

Three pairs of single mother - daughter relationships share their bittersweet journeys, exposing the complexity of womanhood, immigration and giving a glance of their dynamics and unique emotional bonds.

Weaving shots of historical and contemporary Métis beadwork with intricate flashes of prairie landscape and native plants, this film explores relationship to the land through a place-based tactile knowledge.

Act One is an ethnography of violence reflecting on a history of conflict in Central Mexico. The video posits a decolonial approach to the visual representation of violence, transporting us beyond the realm of suffering into a space for quiet contemplation as the violent terrain of occupation enters the frame. Following the pictorial European Romantic landscape tradition with its depiction of the uncontrollable power of nature, this piece is an investigation on enforced disappearance in rural Mexico, reclaiming undermined histories of everyday violence and economic struggle.

Several years after her visit to Wonderland, Alice is no longer the same. Falling asleep at her bus stop, she is awakened by a strange character who takes her back to Wonderland where no one has aged since Alice's first visit.

In 1984 on Christmas eve, a boy wakes up to discover someone is coming down the chimney. But this visitor is far from jolly.

Henry, a lonely wooden, is hypnotized by what he believes to be a friend.

In a child's bedroom, a lost puzzle piece embarks on a journey to find its place in the correct puzzle with the help of the monkey Temtem who helps it discover itself and the power of belonging...

Follows the filmmaker's grandmother as she gives a tour of the local graveyard in the town in northern Italy where she lives.

HIV-positive bodies stage a reverse-arranging of flowers, stitched together with personal accounts of living with stigmatised illness.

A stripper dancing in a club at night flooded in blue psychedelic visuals.

A Palestinian fisherman tries to breach the naval blockade in Gaza to get treatment for his sick daughter

In the last gentle breaths of bacchanale, two lovers are told the tale of the great god Pan’s violent pursuit of the forest nymph Syrinx. The film refracts the myth through layers of song, identity, and performance: at once a ballet, a trans fantasia, and an exploration of love and power.

Semi-precious is a portrait of my mother, a retired holistic practitioner framed through her crystals, supplements, jewelry, healing instruments and household adornments. Handwritten labels populate the exteriors of these objects to recall their emotional or spiritual use and are a vital remedy to her memory loss. Geologic and mortal time become enmeshed through weathered landscapes, wrinkled hands, vibrating exercise machines, sound representations of planets, resonant quartz crystals in clock faces and the profile of the oldest earth rock identified, the moon.

Freed from the clutches of an obscurant evil, Louise makes a desperate break under the cover of night.

Shinkansen is an experimental film combining images filmed at night in a high-speed TGV (Shinkansen) between Tokyo and Sendai and the glitches of a dysfunctional LCD screen filmed in a downtown street. A hyper- technological megalopolis dotted with giant screens and lights, Tokyo reveals itself here with a disturbing face, like the omen of a future already realized. The soundtrack is composed of electromagnetic waves and radio waves captured in urban spaces and expresses the sensory and energetic density of the places.

Troubled by his tragic past, Miles is pushed to face his trauma on a chaotic night of soaring emotions.

Bravely unveils the hidden challenges stemming from the negative mosaic shaping black identity within Canada's critical spheres. It sheds light on the struggles and obstacles faced by many within ecclesiastic, healthcare, and educational realms, sparking crucial conversations about the impact of this negative narrative on the black experience in these vital aspects of Canadian life.

Outside dangers and family fears cause tensions to rise for a young woman leaving wartime Lebanon for Montreal, in Arshile Egoyan's terse and affecting drama.

The Diver is an adventure across the imagination of a boy wishing to escape the daily monotony of life.

Experimental collage film utilizing the artwork for the album In The Court of a Crimson King by the progressive-rock band King Crimson.

Reading in their hammocks, François and Ph discuss ideas for films they may or may not make.

On a sunny day, enjoying burgers and swimming seemed perfect for young Seb... until a dreadful stomach ache turned everything upside down.

The filmmaker has these images and recordings of his grandmothers, moments gleaned during visits in 2021 and 2022. Alice, his paternal grandmother and Yvette, his maternal grandmother. One day, he hopes these images and recordings could find their way in a film. Until that day, there are these fragments.

Life is like a blackboard you write on with chalk. Everything is written, everything is erased. Especially our first love in elementary school. Especially our first teacher in that school.

This fable immerses us in the peaceful life of Oto and Skippy on their planet, which is then disrupted by a spaceship collision and cosmonaut Exo emerges. Cohabitation between them proves to be tricky.

In a world in which reflections lead their own lives behind mirrors, the slightest mistake at work is unforgivable.

When a young, genderqueer, non-binary brown kid gets bullied due to their unique moustache, they find newfound confidence and pride in their facial hair after a heartwarming turn of events.

The Visitor and Red sit together and have a talk about life.

The film collects field recordings and drawing filled with artifacts, amplified noises, and live analog processing, peering into the fringes of fleeting moments.

A burglar breaks into a house to to obtain a one of a kind item.

The four big concepts of the instinct to living - Survive, Transform, Adapt, and Evolve - are seen through different chapters in the protagonist’s life, and other living creatures in relation as well.