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Canada’s longest running showcase of independent short film. For over thirty years, we have given Canada’s best and brightest filmmakers a national audience.

Drama | 155 episodes

Canadian Reflections

A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.

Drama | 110 min

The Lighthouse

A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother, and reclaim his Mi’kmaw heritage.

Teen | 108 min

Wildhood

Filmed frame by frame, the landscape is deconstructed in a way that makes us lose our sense of reality and continuity. The horizon line becomes our only reference point to create a new motif that is both irrational and contemplative.

Drama | 7 min

Horizons

How to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films’ stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.

Biography | 1 season

How to Lose Everything

Dreams In Vantablack is an animated poetry series featuring the work of 12 Black youth, revealing their truths through evocative poetry with rotoscope and 2D animation styles.

Animation | 1 season

Dreams in Vantablack

A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge.

Drama | 5 min

Don't Forget the Water

A graffiti-animated story of a modern-day warrior’s journey through the justice system to return to his son.

Johnny Crow

Tommy (a.k.a. 張麟發, Jason, Timmy, Tammy, Tim Tam, Lan Phat and T Truong)  reveals the story of his many names.

Biography | 11 min

My Name is 張麟發 Tommy Lan Phat Truong

First love is an intoxicating experience, but with it can come excruciating awkwardness, unrequited emotions, and confusing issues of identity. In her trademark playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, adapts her latest graphic novel for the screen, using endearing anthropomorphic figures to tell poignant real-life stories of love.

Documentary | 8 min

I Like Girls (J'aime les filles)

A young Romanian woman moves to the United States with her son after she marries an American man she hardly knows.

Drama | 88 min

Lemonade

Filmmaker Anne Koizumi explores the childhood shame she felt about her Japanese immigrant father, who worked as a janitor at her school.

In the Shadow of the Pines

The hues of life swirl around us every day, but it takes an artist's eye to decode them. In this evocative short film, writers Charles Demers, Chelene Knight, and Shazia Hafiz Ramji take us on a dreamy journey through ROYGBIV, sorting memories into the spectrum.

Specials | 13 min

Colour Study

The Athenian nobleman Timon is renowned for his lavish gifts and extravagant hospitality. His loyal steward, Flavius, and the cynical philosopher Apemantus warn him that his reckless generosity can only lead to ruin and disillusionment, but Timon, espousing an almost fanatical belief in human goodness, ignores their advice. When his money runs out and his creditors demand payment, Timon sends confidently to his “friends” for help. When all refuse him, he throws one last party, at which he curses all the guests before retreating to the woods outside the city to nurse his newfound hatred of humanity. His anger remains unabated even when, digging for roots to keep himself alive, he comes upon a buried cache of gold. Cursing it as an evil, he gives some to Alcibiades, a former Athenian general who is about to attack the city in revenge for his unjustified exile, and some to Flavius, his former steward. Refusing an offer of friendship from Apemantus, Timon also rejects a desperate plea from the Athenian senate for help in defending the city against Alcibiades’s army. His last act is to compose his own epitaph, which bitterly reaffirms his misanthropy. News of Timon’s death, however, has a sobering effect on Alcibiades, who vows to enter Athens in a spirit of forgiveness rather than revenge.

Drama | 116 min

Timon of Athens

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