Canada Vignettes: St. Laurent Pilgrimage

Ashes

March 2024 •French

A fire has swept everything away. Wandering among the ashes, a single human is lost in thought.

Runt

September 1999 •English

Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But who is this man ? And why does he live in the middle of nowhere ? Shane is about to learn something he won't forget.

X

November 2016 •English

Eliza (Breanne Zill) is a head-in-clouds painter struggling with her art, sexuality, and sleep paralysis. She invites cocky painter Claude (Josef Wakeman) over to shake things up but things get strange when he interprets her manic yearnings as an invitation for sex.

Tigre

January 2013 •English

Tigre is an experimental film with animation applied directly onto film.

JONES

February 2019 •English

Jones' inner demons threaten to take over her life unless she outruns the voices in her head and the ticking of time.

Private Photos

November 2020 •Portuguese

A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.

Bogland

January 2011 •Northern Sami

Why are gooseberries so much more valuable than deer trees and why did the Sami men lay naked on the marsh in the past? How do you respond to a mock execution and what is actually panic attack? Ella and Moa are two girls with more questions than answers and during a summer night they approach a little cautiously of their Sami origin. —Jonas Selberg Augustsén

Terpsícore

March 2023 •Spanish

Ballet is a difficult task, Eva discovers it at the moment when a superior ballerina puts her to the test.

Incredible Zorori: The Wizard's Apprentice/The Great Pirate Treasure Hunt

July 1993 •Japanese

"Unbelievable" Zorori is a prankster fox determined to become the Prince of Mischief, with his very own castle and beautiful bride. While is notorious for his prank-making schemes, his ill-meaning plots often backfire against him, and can usually end up even benefiting or cheering up his targets, much to his dismay. Nevertheless, Zorori has the wits and intelligence to wriggle out of the tightest of all spots, and journeys with a pair of twin boars, Ishishi and Noshishi, in order to fulfill his long wished-for goal and at last prove to his deceased mother, Mama Zorori that he truly holds the potential to achieve his dreams.

Chul-soo

November 2021 •Korean

Chul-soo is a twelve-year-old boy who attends an acting training course. One day, the teacher arranges for him to rehearse a "love confession" scene with the prettiest girl in class, Yeon-hee, but he is unable to perfectly portray the feeling of his heart pounding. However, when his acting counterpart gets replaced with Soo-hyun, a male classmate, Chul-soo realizes that some emotions don't need to be rehearsed...

WJSN The Secret of The Grand Mansion : The Missing Girls

March 2021 •Korean

"The Secret of the Grand Mansion: The Missing Girls" features ten members of WJSN - Seola, EXY, Bona, Soobin, Luda, Dawon, Eunseo, Yeoreum, Dayoung, and Yeonjung - seen drifting on an empty planet after an inexplicable horror derailed their travel to an awards ceremony. With the girls finding the Grand Mansion, the story begins as their curiosity is piqued with traces of someone in the mansion.

Children's Toys

July 2018 •English

The third installment in David James Armsby’s dystopia short film series.

Being Pretty

August 2017 •English

Hello, citizens of Autodale! You are pretty. Your neighbours, friends and family are also pretty. But sadly, not everyone is pretty. Some are ugly… We, here at Autodale, do not want “uglies”.

Port of a Prince

February 2023 •Haitian

A young Haitian boy must decide if joining a gang is the right path for him.

Hey, Taxi!

April 1925 •English

Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives

October 2016 •English

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

The Blind Squad

May 2014 •Romanian

Matthew is a 23 years old young man who likes to spend his time doing nothing else than sleeping. He has no purpose in life, being a complete ignorant to everything around him. He lives with his mother, who tries her best to persuade him to get a job and make something of his life. After one fight, he finally decides to take the interview at the military unit his mother has arranged for him.

The Short-Sighted Cyclist

June 1907 •

The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. (Picture World)

The Dream Is Alive

June 1985 •English

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while working, eating and sleeping in orbit around the Earth. Float as never before over the towering Andes, the boot of Italy, Egypt and the Nile. Witness firsthand a tension-filled satellite capture and repair and the historic first spacewalk by an American woman.

The Stained Club

November 2018 •French

Finn has stains on his body. One day, he meets a group of cool kids with different stains on their bodies. One day, he understands that these stains aren’t just pretty.