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Drama | 3 min

At Each Night

A filmmaker asks her mother, "Why have I never liked tomatoes?"

Drama | 5 min

Blue Garden

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

17 year old Anjani is still grieving the death of her father, while simultaneously trying to save his shadow puppet studio from being sold by her mother.

Drama | 9 min

Srikandi

A young Inuk woman living in Montréal reflects on the construction of her identity across different worlds she has lived in. She had to leave Nunavik at the age of 8, in the aftermath of tragic events. Today, she decides to ink on her skin an image that marks a new stage in her transformations, on her way to make peace with the past.

Drama | 18 min

Metamorphoses

In the face of uncontrollable sorrow, an emotionally-constipated father desperately suppresses a "grief flower" sprouting from his face before his big speech at his own father's funeral.

Body horror | 10 min

Til It Blooms

Odehimin is reconnecting with yourself and learning to love yourself.

Documentary | 3 min

ODEHIMIN (Heart Berry)

Edgar Lewis is in trouble. He’s a Catholic school boy, trying to understand his own budding sexuality, but he is caught masturbating in class and is promptly expelled. After a month of intense reflection, Edgar creates a multimedia presentation to prove to the school board that he’s mentally and physically fit to return to school.

Social drama | 13 min

Premium Pornography

This hand-processed 16mm film reflects on botanical animism. It is a song written for night-crawlers, compost, and shadows, inspired by human flower-lust. Water, fire, earth, and air are interwoven with the garden's creature crew. The work draws a parallel between the photographic alchemy of cinematic experiments, and the photosynthetic processes of plants.

Education | 3 min

Petal to the Metal

A young girl is left to herself while her grandfather takes a long sleep. She resolves to offer him eternal comfort in her last moment with him.

Coming of age | 9 min

Body of Light

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

Johnny Crow

Cut off from his loved ones due to the pandemic lockdown, a quadriplegic rabbi in a long-term-care facility is filmed remotely by his daughter. Offering powerful meditations on love and hope, Perfecting the Art of Longing shows us what it means to be alive in a state of profound isolation.

Documentary | 12 min

Perfecting the Art of Longing

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.

Don't Forget the Water

Years after the disappearance of her father in Scotland, a young woman recalls her childhood on a Caribbean island.

Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde (Song for the New World)

A young man's unwillingness to let go of a trivial encounter leads him to seek retribution.

Comedy | 4 min

Bump

Directed by Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.

Season 1 | No Crying at the Dinner Table

The Future of Film Showcase

A stop motion film about a man who must live his life backwards through the eyes of every bug he has ever killed.

Season 1 | Deady Freddy

A roll of super 8 film slowed down to 8 frames per second, an elusive narration read by the filmmaker's maternal grandmother, who owns the truth?

Season 1 | My Ideal Family

A woman must decide between having a kid or her dream job, after a medical diagnosis gives her partner a small amount of time before he is infertile.

Season 1 | Ripe

A sci-fi comedy about falling in love with the human you're assigned to inseminate.

Season 1 | Urban Planning

“I broke my hand last summer.” A memoir of tenderness hazarded, muted ache, and a fibreglass cast.

Season 1 | Fifth Metacarpal Redux

The Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) is a not-for-profit media arts organization fostering the future of emerging Canadian filmmakers.

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All "Future of Film Showcase" content

At Each Night

Blue Garden

Horizons

Srikandi

Metamorphoses

Til It Blooms

ODEHIMIN (Heart Berry)

Premium Pornography

Petal to the Metal

Body of Light

Johnny Crow

Perfecting the Art of Longing

Don't Forget the Water

Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde (Song for the New World)

Bump

The Future of Film Showcase

The Future of Film Showcase

The Future of Film Showcase

The Future of Film Showcase

The Future of Film Showcase

The Future of Film Showcase