An ordinary guy finds his life upended by one mysterious egg timer.
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An ordinary guy finds his life upended by one mysterious egg timer.
A group of partygoers gather and listen to a grandmother’s strange tale.
1980 Canadian film.
After losing her customers due to a competing fraud, a down on her luck medium resorts to murder in order to save her business.
An unseen presence traverses a snowy landscape and enters a series of winter homes, in which slumbering occupants go eerily undisturbed.
A wretched man wanders the streets of Cap-Haitien, dreaming of his imaginary kingdom. He thinks he's the King Christophe, the first ruler of the New World, a former slave and liberator of Haiti in 1804. Out of town, "King Chacha," as he is known, took refuge in the imposing ruins of the castle of Sans Souci along with Timothy, a street urchin he took under his wing. Here he reconstructs a junk yard where reigns absurdly.
The nocturnal walk of a man obsessed with his imagination.
Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.
Carefree Ivy and dreamer June meet at the park and become fast friends and fellow adventurers who discover a hidden gem in the river- a seemingly untouched island they've never seen before, from which they might never return.
Long working hours and overwhelming capitalism don't seem to fit with Mica, who, guided by premonitory dreams, wanders the city looking for a portal to travel to other dimensions. Using mirrors as thresholds to the unconscious.
The now deceased Stupid Magician travels through Heaven and Hell. After making a deal with the Devil, the Magician returns to the world of the living only to encounter an unexpected adversary.
Have you ever wondered what a movie mixing Twilight and Challengers would look like? Here it is.
As her cellphone abruptly powers off, what was supposed to be a routine subway journey turns into a nightmare for Ursula. Caught in the grip of an anxiety attack between two stations, Ursula finds herself disoriented, frightened, and suffocated. To overcome this terrifying ordeal, she must delve deep into her subconscious and reclaim control by mastering her breath.
Sundays a short film disguised as a music video about one man's quest for knowledge and the extreme lengths he will go to find it.
The story goes that girls fleeing abuse and despair can find refuge in the Maidenswood at the edge of town, where they transform into the forest. Reeling from the return of her abusive father, Diana begins to hear the Maidenswood's call.
Cruising an enchanted forest, a mirror-masked flâneur encounters a series of oracles, each with forgotten wisdom to impart to him through song. Borrowing the words and voices of gay elders from religious and mystical scholar Andrew Harvey to British essayist Quentin Crisp to founding Radical Faerie Harry Hay, The Legacy weaves together a spiritual manifesto for queer men, reigniting a battle cry for personal and collective metamorphosis.
TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.
A thief, a seamstress, a miser and his abacus all suddenly find themselves the subject of a bilingual play.
A small room experiences paranormal occurrences when three spirits use electricity to return to the world and partake in their favourite activities.
After Alex wanted to surprise Catherine for her birthday by taking the staff of a restaurant hostage, the two unrepentant and hot-tempered women argue in an epic argument about how to use their metapsychic powers.
In today's Montreal, the devil, through discreet manners of seduction, takes liberty upon death. A brave trumpet player in love with a damned soul must fight him.
An Arctic inhabitant is fascinated by the sudden appearance of a mysterious box.
Two confused, afraid, and overwhelmed childhood friends on the cusp of adulthood, seek out the counsel of the legendary Shroom Jesus: a psychedelic suburban shaman with a reputation for resolving even the deepest existential conundrums.
Set in the aftermath of a large-scale disaster, a small group of people remain behind in search of lost sons and new worlds. Two lovers, River and Lill, fend for the future of their bond whilst mysterious entities stalk the countryside, hungry for humanity’s lifeforce.
disobedience is the visually lush journey of a mother on the lam. Warned by her three-year old son to "never go down to the end of the town", she nonetheless ventures far beyond the confines of home, heterosexuality, and the physical world. In punishment for her infatuation with an operatic Valkyrie, she is arrested, interned, stolen by pirates, and x-rayed by a book-eating bull-dyke. She loses her eye (and her way home), but in the end receives the gift of self.
The ancient myth of the phoenix, the legendary bird with the amazing power of self-regeneration, is reborn with a modern twist. In this animated adaptation of a story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, we follow Lord Strawberry's search for the fabled bird. He finds it in the deserts of Arabia and brings it home to his aviary. Upon Lord Stawberry's death, however, the phoenix ends up as a sideshow in a fairground. This spirited satire of human foibles, with its timely message about our treatment of nature's creatures, will appeal to young people and adults alike.
Glenn Gould tells the tale of a student's winter journey from Toronto to distant Winnipeg with images and music reflecting the majesty of the North. Based on Gould's radio documentary of the same name.
Last year, Kaye Adelaide and Mariel Sharp won Best Canadian short for their incisive and charming short comedy, DON’T TEXT BACK. This year they're back with the gritty and erotic monster love story MONSTER DYKE. A transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, MONSTER DYKE examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist. – Justine Smith
Mantis Boy is a short film that serves as a prelude to Boy Soul Man Heart. It follows 14-year-old Mathias, who, struggling with trauma, retreats into a childhood memory of learning to ride a bicycle with his mother, Belinda. As she removes his training wheels, she teaches him resilience and hope, reassuring him that falling isn't failure. The film contrasts Mathias's painful present with the warmth of his past, using vibrant animation to show his joy and the symbolic mantis of encouragement. Mantis Boy explores love, resilience, and the lasting impact of memories, highlighting how embracing both light and darkness can heal and empower.
A young man has an appointment with a blood donation... it sucks.
About the 1914 soccer game when the English played the Germans in No Mans Land on Christmas Day. Only in this fable the game was brokered by Santa Claus and The Krampus. Both men later find you cannot bring Christmas magic to a war zone.
A meeting on the moon will brighten up Luna's life and make her discover herself more deeply in a breathtaking world.
An air travel romance.
When Ryan and his imaginary friend JO embark on their ultimate adventure together, Ryan is forced to confront his worst fear.
As Susie's relationship with her partner is deteriorating, she expirences increasingly vivid and disturbing dreams in her sleep reflecting on her present day life and internal struggles.
One starry night, a little girl chases a star streaking across the sky in the hopes of capturing it in her jar so that she may make one more wish.
Impressions of the lights of Christmas as they transform a winter's night. The myriad lights of a city seen through frost-sparkling air, the wonder on children's faces, the lyrical music of harp, celesta and flute--all combine to create the nostalgic mood of Christmas.
A young boy with his "Star Wars" comic book runs to the front window of a subway train and pretends to pilot a spaceship out of the station and into the black of space. He soon encounters Darth Vader.
A walking sign, fed up with his job, dreams to dance.
Mystery film about a man who finds out that his job processing obituaries isn't what he thought it was.
Clear Blue tells the haunting story of Simon, A young lifeguard working his first few days at a community pool. The mundane quickly becomes mysterious, when Simon notices Flova, an older woman with an exceptional capacity to stay submerged under water. As Simon follows Flova into the pool he makes a startling discovery. What follows is a story of temptation and pursuit. Clear Blue is a tale of impossible love and ultimately, its harrowing consequences.
An unnamed human travels aboard a train full of fantastical creatures.
Reconstruction of the 14 Stations of the Cross on film, with transitions generated by artificial intelligence.
Larry goes door-to-door, convinced he's selling happiness through the images broadcast by a revolutionary retro portable TV.
The cougar once roamed the woodlands of Eastern North America, but today, industrial forestry practice has nearly destroyed any remaining viable cougar habitat. Now, the cougar exists only in our collective memory, except for the occasional, much debated, sighting. Like the unicorn, the creature is mythical, rare and elusive.
At the edge of the world a Child learns from her Grandmother that she is descended from the fairies. She longs to know more but her Grandmother is silent. To find the story of her past, the Child enter the land of The In-between and travels to the beginning of time when Fairies roamed the earth. But the story she finds is not the one she wants. In a fit of anger she sends her Grandmother down into the sea to find the magic story she wishes for. Filled with remorse, she plunges into the sea to bring her back. As the Child sinks, the sleeping world of fairies begins to stir and the long lost secrets are awakened. The Water’s Tale is a story of the interconnection between a woman and the past – herself as a child and the burden of history through the ages.
When his children left home years ago, renowned storyteller Calum MacLeòid lost not only his family but his most treasured audience. One stormy night, Calum confronts the Baron of the Wind, a mystical being from his stories, and demands his children be returned. The old man promptly falls dead. From distant points the MacLeòids assemble to attend their father’s wake. But the deceased Calum has a surprise ending in store for them yet. “The Wake of Calum MacLeod (Faire Chaluim Mhic Leòid) is the first Gaelic-language short dramatic film made in the New World. Filmed in the Highlands of Cape Breton in May 2006, the film was a galvanizing community effort and a historical milestone.
Set in the same world as Archon Defender, this film follows the quest of a young woman, Desmerelle, as she confronts Lorem to free her twin sister Phaetra from the machine.
An insomniac is forced out of bed and faces a sleepless night. She explores her inner world, which both torments and amazes her. A hand-drawn absurdist dream animated by Julie-Ann Déry.
While teaching magic to a class of bored, novice wizards, an amateurish, Stupid Magician accidentally kills his teaching assistant. The Magician must use his limited magical might to resurrect his fallen co-worker.
When a mannequin mysteriously comes to life, she embarks on a whimsical journey through the world, experiencing the beauty, strangeness, and depth of human existence one outing at a time.
During an eerie Halloween season, a lonely teenage boy falls in love with a sentient leatherbound journal, who has nefarious intentions.
When Annabelle discovers that her sister Frédérique befriended an odd creature, she develops an obsessive jealousy towards the beast.