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A young man see a strange creature IN THE DARK...

A short film that follows Emma’s journey as she gets a tattoo and prepares for a photo shoot post mastectomy.

The verb "to touch" and its multiple definitions, taking into account the missing pieces from feminist and lesbian stories.

A woman and her cat celebrates their birthdays

While on duty, a janitor encounters the aftermath of utter destruction in a single-use bathroom. Cue the flashback… Produced by Quickdraw Animation Society as part of the 2024 Animation Lockdown.

A lonely woman attempts to navigate her harrowing love life.

After years of dreading Christmas due to painful childhood memories, Jack is reluctantly dragged into a festive day by his overly optimistic brother Liam. Along the way, Jack unexpectedly collides, literally, with Holly, a bubbly and cheerful stranger who loves the holiday season. As their paths keep crossing, Jack's guarded heart begins to thaw, teaching him that the magic of Christmas can bring healing, hope and even love.

The heartbroken Martin only wants one thing; a way to get out of the time loop he finds himself trapped in. He believes that the only solution, however, is to find a way to make his estranged ex-girlfriend Klara fall back in love with him- before time runs out. A touching tale of true love!

Two teenage brothers get their family inheritance cheque and start to figure out ways on how they'll blow it.

Changing Gears traces the diverse journeys of three community organizations operating in Canada (Charlie’s FreeWheels), Nicaragua (Comision de Mujer Joven) and Uganda (Union of Hope) in their efforts to use bicycles to create a more just, equitable and sustainable future.

Computer animated short film.

Kensington Market: Heart of the City” tells the story of the many generations of immigrants who have made Kensington home for over 160 years, the personalities in the market today, and the forces that are threatening the market’s survival. Today, Kensington is still a delightfully human and colourful alternative to the skyscraper-draped Toronto metropolis shooting up around it. The times are changing, and quickly. The market has managed to hold onto its unique, eclectic charm for over a century. But will Kensington be able to survive?

This short film is an introduction to dance artist and activist Frank Hull, who lives proudly with Cerebral Palsy and Madness, embraces his Mi'kmaq heritage and celebrates his gay identity. He positions "deviant" bodies as a source of aesthetic appreciation, beauty and enrichment through his dance choreography.

Learn the Arabic alphabet in 28 easy steps!

A short queer history of violent police raids on queer bars between the 70s and 2000s, and the rise of LGBTQ2S+ communities fighting back. Homage to Joe Rose.

Four friends go wild camping to make magic mushrooms on an island only accessible at low tide. The wind is turning, blood is flowing, the tide is rising and time is running out.

An animated short contrasting the experience of coming to accept your trans identity against the way the general public understands it

Filmmaker Regan Latimer takes an insightful, immersive, and deeply personal look at Queer representation in television, and the power of the media to shape how we see ourselves. Witty, fast-paced, and laced with pop culture references, Regan journeys across North America and beyond in her quest to understand the forces that influence the stories we see on our screens. Original animation and personal anecdotes are interwoven with wide-ranging conversations with television insiders, LGBTQ+ community advocates, and people who just love to watch TV. As Latimer navigates an ever-evolving media landscape, the filmmaker learns firsthand that representation done well has the power to transform.

After a nondescript handoff of high importance takes place deep in the gutters of Ottawa, one basement dweller experiences the unadulterated power of music.

What does a night of debauchery look like for the esteemed Drag, Burlesque, and Club Kids of Toronto? Let Bom Bae guide you through as the queers get ready for a night of debauchary at the club kid manor (Spadina Museum).

A Chinese-Canadian millennial discovers her recently deceased grandmother’s secret love letters.

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice: from land and from labour. Displaced from Haifa to Beirut, then again to Zirku Island, an offshore oil platform and work camp in the Arab gulf. A Stone’s Throw is a story of memories and disappearances, of trespassing borders, archives and private property to reveal the more than human relations that survive colonial space-time.

When a baseball game goes wrong.

In the parafiction film It’s Not Brakhage, an investigator-researcher in the throes of doubt delves into the archives of a mysterious foundation with links to the DuPont industrial dynasty. His search reveals a network of connections in which cinematic experimentations, image technologies, the arms lobby and family fortunes intertwine. As the narrator is gradually gripped by feverish speculation, the quest for the truth becomes suspect as well.

An embodied sound-image response to the Zen poet Ryōkan Taigu. Dance by Noriko Yamamato and music by Germaine Liu.

As a man faces his own regrets, he is forced to look at what could bring his life meaning one last time.

Prolific and inspiring, Measha Brueggergosman-Lee has sung in concert halls on every continent, and on some of the world’s biggest stages.

Marrow of My Bones is a short experimental film that has been created through a mixture of digital special effects, compositing, frame-by-frame animation, and 16mm hand-processed film. Through material-based exploration, this film plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner.

The documentary examines the relationship between psychology and poetry and how her personal experience influences her artistic practice.

Frank, a construction worker, lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. For six months, he has been searching for the person responsible for this tragedy. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, he reveals his plan and confronts his daughter's murderer, who happens to be sitting next to him.

The project examines our relationship with AI and its ability to reflect human psychological projections. Its title evokes a mental landscape shaped by the interaction between humans and machines while paying homage to the cyberculture of the 1980s-1990s, a period when technology was envisioned as a means to transcend space, time, and materiality. By integrating the unpredictable transformations generated by AI while preserving the artist’s aesthetic, the work reveals visions that are both sublime and unsettling, reflecting an Anthropocene-marked future. Cyberdelia seeks to re-enchant reality by weaving connections between technology and nature, individual destiny and collective experience.

In 2011, Steve Matthews had a bright idea. With his kids completely hooked on snowboarding, he rallied a few friends and set out to build Yellowknife’s first and only rope tow. Without city permission or permits, Steve quietly went to work on the abandoned gravel mine on the outskirts of town, inadvertently creating the epicentre of snow-sliding in the Northwest Territories. This film tells the story of Bristol Pit - and the community that it's created - from the perspective of those who hand-built the pit and keep it running today.

A selection of AI Bots dictate the purpose of existence in a world that is relying on technology at a concerning rate.

On September 20th, 2023, millions of Canadians gathered together to protest against access to transgender Healthcare. The consequences of these protests will never be forgotten.

An American and Korean soldier are forced to leave their pregnant wives to serve during the Korean war; the destinies of the four lives becoming forever intertwined.

From humble beginnings to a successful father of four, Frank Lacourciere is a perfect embodiment of what it takes to be a successful and self made man in the 21st century.

An ode to thrift stores, reusing our clothes and local communities.

A surreal multimedia short film that explores the sensations of feeling unsafe at home. Told through the lens of a child, the audience learns about the unique experience of navigating feelings of unease with a parent.

After the brutal assault of a fortune teller, three men's lives are in constant chaos. They desperatey search for Rebecca, the woman they assaulted, to beg for forgiveness and remove the curse. Rebecca sends them on a path of redemption that feels more like a path to destruction.

Two guys fishing and a lot of blood.

Individuals who live with poverty in Canada perform their stories onstage as a way to confront societal stereotypes, misconceptions and inequalities.

A janitor, alone in a vacant school encounters supernatural forces.

The true horror story that even the great Johnny Carson talked about on the Tonight Show in 1970.

Bands of the image network wrap and overlay elements in the landscape, decomposing them into a structure of panels, cut-outs and colours. Artworks in open space are transposed into systems of image and sound elements, and wandering through the place becomes an adventure through the bends of bird's eye perspectives, light compositions and 3D scans of objects protruding from uneven surfaces.

Thea is an 8-year-old Ojibwe girl who is in the process of learning how to speak her traditional language from her mother.

A non-narrative short film.

Kitschy, surreal, raunchy fun! A vintage cult classic that should be on everyone's favourite movie list.

Film by Lainie Magidsohn

Family Three is inspired by events in my family history. Through imagination and contact improvisation, the film attempts to grieve and ultimately resolve ancestral trauma in the spirit realm.

time has no place is a dance film meditation on community and shelter. Shot in the other worldly environment of Mississauga’s Art Shelter, geometric forms pervade the structure and set and are mirrored in the choreography and cinematography. Themes of searching, gathering, touch and support are woven between the polarities of lost and found. The performers are members of the York Dance Ensemble.

A young man stricken by the loss of his loved ones returns home to confront his grief, guilt, and the ghosts of those he lost.

This animated adventure follows Thumper the Cat as she explores her home and different elements of the Blackfoot culture. Directed by Blackfoot Language teacher Celestine Twigg and animated by Tank Standing Buffalo (MONSTR, Alberta Short Film Devon Bolton Memorial Award, CIFF2023).

CIRCLES is an exploration of matriarchal relationships and the intersecting, overlapping stories that shape us. Grounded in the Cree teaching of closing circles after opening them and using this concept as a practical and spiritual practice for balance and peace.

COASTAL COMMUNITY CENTRE'S FLUFFY FRIEND is an animated short student film where an adorably mysterious fluffy creature arrives at the Coastal Community Centre's doorstep. Come and join the community centre in discovering what this fluffy creature is all about.

Two performers are placed in an arena where they are left behind to begin again. Dealing with an end-of-world apocalypse, the landscape is bare and broken. As the performers struggle to survive they surrender to the sins of humanity and prevail with an innate understanding of both present and past.

An experimental short film made with surreal and abstract images.