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What story do the marks of time reveal? An art conservator is torn between preserving a polished ideal and an unvarnished history. Can art’s beauty be found in its scars?

While hiding a dangerous criminal, a young filmmaker makes a birthday video for his friend.

A horror drama about parental pressure

Interview with Denis B. Lapointe (formerly known as Denis Levesque) about the associative movement of the gay community in Montreal — among others, at the ADGQ — during the years leading to the establishment of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay bar sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village. The third of the documentary series L'émergence du Village gai.

Camille, at the bar, is in the process of reflecting on its identity. It feels cornered by its work, social norms and external expectations. But a dance performance combining drag artists, circassian.ne. s and other performeur.se. will shake its thinking: it is taken. By this new world that will allow it to drop its mask and discover itself personally.

A mockumentary that blends and bends archival, pornography, re-enactments, and the only existing interview with Audrey Little-breast, “the first Indigenous female pornographer,” as she refuses to be labelled or represented as anything but herself. She is interviewed about her notorious pornography that exploits settler desire of “Imaginary Indians”. The film is a comedy that playfully engages the subjects of Indigenous identity, the politics of recognition, the “playing Indian” phenomenon, and Canada’s hottest piece of tail - The Beaver. We are invited to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality.

"Run & Drive" refers to those cars that have been in accidents and are declared "total loss" by American insurances. Thousands of drivers seek these wrecks in the United States to bring them back by road to their home countries in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to sell them once they are repaired.

To get the attention of his crush, a gay man competes with a popular personality in his community. As an insidious swarm of marketing and peer pressure drives him to obsess over how he measures up, he struggles to escape thoughts of...

When friendship meets competition at a roadside fish stand, things get messy fast.

Ethan Weigelt documents five months of travel through North America, culminating in his eighteenth birthday. In a stream-of-consciousness manner, he captures his everyday experiences while stepping into adulthood.

Quiet the Sirens follows the inspiring journeys of three brave firefighters as they recover from the debilitating effects of PTSD through an innovative program. This groundbreaking initiative combines group therapy with the transformative power of psychedelic ketamine, offering new hope to those struggling with trauma.

An underachieving Vancouver actor adopts the AI-generated persona of a famous photographer to lead a workshop on staged reality.

Finding your location.

A gambling addict comes to terms with his obsession

A desperate animator tries to show his wiener to animation legend Don Hertzfeldt.

This participative documentary studies girl-girl friendships and follows two friends in the streets of Montréal, dwelling about soft, but heavy memories.

A major academic mystery nears its resolution when a mysterious man contacts Artie, the leading expert on Duchess 17, claiming to have inherited her long-lost original painting.

When a high-stakes data heist goes hilariously wrong, a crew of professional thieves realize their hard drive is too small to finish the job, forcing them to improvise their way through malfunctioning equipment, rising panic, and an absurd escape plan.

A man, a woman, one evening, and an interruption.

They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She’s spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire. But Gail’s convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.

When a strong-willed perimenopausal documentary filmmaker is told there isn't a lot of help available for her symptoms, she goes on mission to find out more about menopause, and ends up on a quest that makes her relearn everything she thought she knew about aging.

Two friends attempt to adapt their competing visions of Don Quijote

a psychic reading goes awry.

A deep dive into the otherworldly and misunderstood bog biome, drawing attention to the harm inflicted on ancient wetlands. An aerial view of a bog in its natural state suddenly sinks into the unimaginable, then appears to evaporate into ghostly images of the bog’s keystone species, Sphagnum moss.

Film by Madi Piller.

Silas journals every single morning before his daily jog. What first started as a simple form of expression has transformed into a lifeline that keeps Silas moving. This morning however, something is different. His thoughts and writings fight to occupy reality. So Silas does what he always does, he runs.

It is springtime in Nunavut. A young girl has the power to turn into a long-tailed jaeger, an Arctic seabird. She comes and goes from her human life to her animal life, but as time passes, she finds herself living as a human less and less.

A skin flick

A bounty hunter drifts through Wolf-359 looking for his target.

An ongoing project that seeks to navigate the city of Toronto psychogeographically using popular films to propel the narrative forward. Relying on films’ inherent unfaithfulness to geography, a few dialogue cues, and a great deal of coincidence, scenes from disparate films intersect and redirect each other to follow geographic patterns rather than their individual stories. Compositing closely cropped professional footage over wide-angle, contemporary video allows for the emergence of a disjointed document that captures the growth of a city over several decades; distilling a small amount of truth from a growing library of fiction.

From Bye Bye, Binary to Love, Violet, Charlene Chua, an award-winning illustrator and author, embraces the challenges of fostering inclusivity through children's books.

As detective Evelyn Dubois arrests gangster Billy “the Devil” Dwayne, he gets shot in front of her. In her office with a blood stained shirt, a knock is heard on the door... Her client Liliane Wang comes to confirm the rumours circulating in town. But did she really come only for this reason?

When a couple’s van breaks down in the middle of nowhere, the pair confront the fractures in their relationship heightened by the isolation.

Mindgame was created with over 3000 drawings made between the years 1967 and 1998. These drawings were not created with animation in mind, instead each piece was intended to capture movement within a still frame. In 2024, with the help of the Quickdraw Animation Society, the natural patterns and progressive movements in these drawings were put into sequence and animated.

An outlaw named Skaz gets dragged into a fight with a group of hunters after his bounty. In his attempt to escape, his beloved horse Jolene gets shot and killed in the crossfire. Skaz will try everything he can to bring her back, even dabble in the dark ways of necromancy.

WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journey to combat food insecurity and the industrial farm system by utilizing traditional farming techniques rooted in ancestral history. The small family farm is often perceived to be an occupation of the past that is being overtaken by large-scale industrial farming practices. Big Ag wreaks havoc on our global climate, all the while creating a GMO monoculture that contributes to an enormous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.

Using found analogue film footage combed from personal archives accompanied by an improvised soundtrack created in response to the visuals, this raw and at times chaotic live performance combines the techniques of film-scratching and direct animation with experimental sound-making.

From the depths of London England’s Barracks district amongst the derelict weapons huts, comes a public service expose from the 1970s revealing “THE HORRORS” of kids participating in the act of glue sniffing. The narrative is told in three parts: The reporter, a mother and her “addict son” David. Seeking to reveal systemic problems and stereotypes of addiction and mental health the film and its title have been appropriated from an 1970s BBC expose. In making the film the filmmaker and footage were exposed to glue through sandwiching pieces of film together before ripping them apart.

Everest is an experimental boxing documentary. The work is structured as a series of four fights. The fights are introduced by a commentator, followed by a spotlight on boxers, then three or four bouts until finally, Everest, the fight of the century.

A cinematic text. An anti-immersive experience, an inner odyssey, a world without sound. A collective experience unique to each viewer.

A photographer explores a POW camp and has a ghostly encounter

"In My Nature"/"Dans Ma Nature" follows artist Stefan Horik through the rhythms of his daily life in Charlevoix, Quebec—painting, wandering, and preparing for an exhibition—as he reflects on the landscapes, relationships, and experiences that continue to shape his art.

An autobiographical documentary short following Paula, a Palestinian-Canadian professional in Toronto, as she confronts the cost of silence in the face of anti-Palestinian racism. The film explores the systematic suppression and backlash faced by Palestinians and their allies in Canada, revealing how an environment of fear has been cultivated to silence voices, particularly in professional spaces, with the threat of lost livelihoods weaponized against Palestinians in exchange for silence and compliance.

five clowns looking for love on halloween.

Alyss runs bare, exposed to the environment and affected by its surrounding elements. Their exhausting journey becomes a pretext to reflect on a quest for personal authenticity.

A young, starving artist is on the brink of giving up - that is until he gets an offer that could change his life. But as the pressure continues to build, he must decide if chasing a dream that is slowly killing him is worth it.

After a recent break up, Bug’s ex-girlfriend June calls to come pick up the rest of her stuff from their apartment. This triggers Bug to spiral, as we follow their desperate attempt at keeping their past alive by creating a massive dungball of the items June left behind.

An experiment in found-footage and archival processes. Subkonscio Rapida was originally shot in 1988 and then... forgotten. Forty years later, the 16mm film has been rediscovered and recut. Completed by the same artist at two very different points in his life, Subkonscio Rapida is a meditation on memory, time, and rediscovery.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling Downtown Showdown was a professional wrestling event promoted by Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling. It took place on July 26, 2025, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, at the Intersection of Ouellette Ave & University Ave.

Amber and Sam are finally going to make the horror movie they dreamed about in art school. Amber is on her first getaway postpartum after birthing her second child with her long time friend and creative collaborator, Sam.

On April 8th as we sat at the lake, a whole city of there on the rocks and boardwalk, I watched a plane descend towards Billy Bishop while I could still look up. On the last day of March the heart is still and everything returns to glory. Billy wondered how some people cry heaven and it is good while death and its shadow descend from somewhere starward and cast the corpse solar, across the horizon, where there will be nothing to see.

Inmates in a Victoria BC jail are working together on a once in a lifetime project. A chance to take their minds off of their past deeds and focus on the positive. Carving a 40 ft totem is no small undertaking but with guidance from Coast Salish carver Tom LaFortune they are about to take on this epic undertaking.

A global tech company introduces a groundbreaking technology with unintended consequences.

Clara asks her girlfriend Aurora how she discovered she was gay, and Aurora tells her the story using dance as a visual metaphor. She discusses how she felt confused for many of her younger years because she didn’t feel attraction and talks about past relationships to demonstrate various aspects of her frustrations. Growing up without any exposure to queer love, she never knew that her feelings were valid, and she felt broken. Clara comforts Aurora by telling her that she experienced similar things and that a lot of lesbians go through similar thought processes in a heteronormative society. Aurora ends her story by explaining how she found herself after moving cities and seeing queer people exist around her. She then met Clara and fell in love, finally feeling safe, found and understood.