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During a night of sleep, a young dreamer wanders, confronting the nostalgia of his memories.

An aspiring con-artist works on his craft.

This documentary follows the daily life of Annie, a trans femme skateboarder and bassist in the band Dilly Dally, as she attempts a Varial Heelflip over a six-step jump.

Two young brothers navigate the challenges of their parents’ failed marriage, their deep bond helps them support each other and their mother.

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.

A revolving door of conversations at a café table as the afternoon slips away, and the drink of choice goes from Coffee to Cocktails.

Adelaide, is overwhelmed by the chaos in her own home and turns to her friend Theo for help, but as they dig deeper into the clutter, they uncover secrets and emotional baggage that Adelaide has been struggling to deal with.

Based on based on the director’ youth, this edgy, mixed media, collage/animation serie explores intersectional narratives around mental health, body image/body dysmorphia, gender, self-harm, queer identity and social media.

This video showcases a cozy and stylish room that offers comfort and elegance. The room features a fireplace that provides warmth and ambiance, as well as a window that displays the beautiful sunset scenery. The video also includes lofi music.

A feature film that takes us on an intimate journey with queer, immigrant Ethiopian-Eritrean artist, Witch Prophet as she navigates newfound momentum in the music industry. After a decade of making music she is now on the heels of critical acclaim and nominations, finally getting the validation and support she needs to embark on the creation of the album of her prophecies. Canada has been known for exporting some of the biggest international names in music from Drake to Kaytranada; with growing public demand for more diverse voices, whose music will shape the next era of artists from Canada?

City Bird explores one of the most controversial city species out there, pigeons. Join Jenna Dodman as she investigates our feathery friends and their place in the city.

An experimental documentary that traverses a relationship that outwardly appeared loving, warm, and enviable. But inward, a secret laid in the shadows, growing wings.

Created entirely from shots filmed through the window of a moving train, two good friends make conversation as they travel through the beautiful Vietnamese countryside.

An experimental animation.

While working in the forest, Sylvain, a sweet lumberjack, gets to discover the world of giants.

Mufflers, honks and drilling: the perpetual soundscape of Toronto. Fed up with sleepless nights, a couple of activists take the fight to City Hall in the hopes of changing the outdated noise bylaws.

Harbin, China—a place so cold it’s famous for its international Ice and Snow Festival. With his camera in hand, filmmaker Xin Liu returns to his native city in China’s northernmost province to visit his childhood friends, only to find that their lives and dreams have changed. But are they really his friends? And are those their dreams? In an unpredictable mix of fact and fiction, Liu presents a city as strange as its inhabitants. He meets up with a high school friend named Zhang, who once sold newspaper advertising but now has jumped the Firewall to become a popular YouTuber, illegally infiltrating Harbin’s abandoned industrial buildings. Liu also visits an ex-girlfriend, who greets him with regrets and accusations of abandonment. Shot throughout from the filmmaker’s point of view, Liu’s camera wanders onto trains, into cars and on streets to roam a landscape of elusive characters. A unique, hybrid meditation on strange homecomings. Aisha Jamal.

Our protagonist races against time and space to deliver a cure to their partner. Created in under 48hrs for the Calgary Underground Film Festival 2023.

The Bird Branch of the Canadian United Liars Terminators (C.U.L.T.B.B) are a group of seriously intense bird watchers who believe in the mass conspiracy that birds work as surveillance drones for the government. Follow the eccentric trio as they conspire a plan to spread awareness and protest the truth to the people of Kingston.

SWEAT tells the story of a group of women working in the garment industry and sets their individual aspirations against the demands of global capitalism.

Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest.

Against the backdrop of war, Iraq's football team defies the odds, uniting a nation and achieving the impossible by becoming the Champions of Asia in 2007.

Bruce skulks through the final rave at a doomed underground venue, caught between fleeting chats and the strange hum of trash calling his name.

Tracing Benning's Los (2001) through several Los Angeles-set software programs.

Megan and Sergio are on a road trip to a wedding. What can go wrong? Little do they know, they are being followed by someone from their past.

Listed is a 13-minute documentary film that shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities.

Memories of Touch addresses the pleasure and pain of touching and being touched. It makes use of the versatile capacity of hands to move and take all kinds of shapes, highlighting their transformative potential and narrative expression, immersing the viewer in fantastic imagery that depicts sensual and violent interactions.

Dusk 106.7 is a place that fills a specific community niche. A place where monsters can have a voice and express themselves. Produced by Quickdraw Animation Society as part of the 2023 Animation Lockdown

Follows MC de Natividad, who immigrated to Winnipeg from the Philippines at four-years-old, on her journey to reclaim her lost language and identity.

Impending doom can only be thwarted by finishing a sandwich.

This short documentary follows an individual’s journey to shaving their head for the first time, exploring the complex relationship between hair and identity.

Civilian victims of Russia’s terror, Oleksandra Ikonnikova and her 6-year-old daughter Nadiia, spend three weeks at a Ukrainian field hospital for the wounded of heart. Oleksandra, who struggled to keep Nadiia alive, is suffering acute post-traumatic stress. Nadiia has stopped eating. Psychologists help them recover and build resilience for more pain still to come. The survivors learn to become warriors, not victims. Their determination to thrive is their way to fight back against Russian aggression. Oleksandra and Nadiia grow stronger in the supportive community but leave with no home to return to as the war rages on.

This film tells the story of 5 women converging on historic Hueco Tanks, Texas, to embrace and celebrate the fiery girl gang energy that naturally happens when you get a group of strong females together. Coming from 5 completely different backgrounds in the U.S. and Canada, the climbers each have a unique personality, perspective, and approach to climbing. The film celebrates those differences and show that there’s no one way to “be a climber.” With full-time jobs as a software engineer, nurse, marketing manager, dog trainer, and healthcare policy analyst, these women are not pro climbers, but they’ve dedicated their lives to getting after it outside and climbing hard boulder problems whenever they can. This film isn’t just about showcasing rad climbs, but first and foremost to show the world that women are stronger together than we are divided. But of course there will be plenty of impressive sending going on too!

Through an imagined dialogue with Jean Paul Riopelle, this experimental film updates the painter's legacy by seeking to build bridges with today's generation. Part homage, part self-portrait, this short film is above all an intimate reflection on the courage to be oneself.

A popular bingo game broadcast on a reservation radio station helps to revitalize the Mohawk language.

Using chlorophyll printing, hand-drawn and digitally assembled animation frames printed on to beds of leaves.

BLUE & ORANGE shines a tender light on the long-distance relationship of a Filipina lesbian couple, Darla and Cecilia, in the days predating Skype and legal recognition of queer partnerships.

In a hostile workplace, Riley is worked to exhaustion until she finds herself in a dream with her coworker Léon where they work to overcome their differences.

Ceci n’est pas un GIF is a film only made with GIFs. It’s a breach, a short object that questions our relationship to the real and digital world, to our physical presence on Earth.

Hand processing and tinting/toning techniques transform images of deserted streets and parks into illusory archival footage, shifting an unimaginable present into an unreal past. Photographed on 16mm black and white film and hand-developed in the filmmaker’s bathroom using a DIY developer made from timothy hay and vitamin C supplements, the film’s rich colours are created through hand-toning using concentrated drink mixes sourced from the local grocery store.

No one's safe from the old forgotten phones of the underground.

A short look into the challenges of dealing with a zombie bite.

A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude.

In a dark forest at night, Gab rides his bicycle and makes a strange encounter.

Detective Bernard Tichaud will have to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances that are occurring in the small town of Trouville.

Scribble is a non-narrative short film. Scribble brings together thoughts and images that have no connection between each other.

A two-spirit male cruises a hook-up app as he looks for companionship for the night. A welcomed familiar person invites him over as he contemplates his existence, the future and what it means to be who he is in this day in age.

A cloud accompanies a young woman through daily life.

Following a crippling motorcycle accident that killed his lover, a young man rebuilds his bike to take one last ride deep into the Canadian wilderness.