Honouring the Children

A slum boy's wake and his father's efforts to give him a last moment of dignity.

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.

Egret and Turtle

Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he remedies by holding a can of frozen juice against his forehead. At home, however, Jack is consistently kind, loving, and patient with his wife and daughter. One day the child brings home a stray dog, and his life is turned upside down.

Join the ghosts of the Haunted Mansion for a swinging wake.

Enter if you dare.

Short film about the GDR state border

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he hears a strange sound coming from next door.

Chedly

Infested Ship

Judgment comes to a man who must reckon with the state of his monotonous existence. He must physically confront the commonplace cliches most of us tell ourselves instead of following our dreams. He will live a humdrum life or he will break through the walls of conformity to climb his personal mountains.

Scratches. Cross-outs. Stripes. Arnaud is tirelessly attacking ancient masters' painting reproductions with the tip of his pen. His free and living interlaces highlight shapes and figures.

When a repressed 1950s housewife is left alone by her philandering husband, she makes a horrifying discovery about the noises in the house that are coming from the walls.

Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.

A "remake" of No Time for Nuts (2006)

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life.

Portrait of my friend Marcelo Maman in black and white. Super 8 film intervened with sodium hypochlorite.

Former childhood friends Sarah Inman and Ron Johnson have drifted apart in high school. Ron hosts open parties every Friday, but Sarah never attends, preferring to stay home with her homework and dismissing her classmates—especially popular class president Bill Tyler—as shallow. Her aloofness has earned her a reputation as a snob, though she doesn’t realize it. When Ron reluctantly invites her at his mother’s urging, Sarah agrees to go, setting the stage for a clash between her world of isolation and Ron’s world of popularity.

Julian is in a dilemma. He loves the person, he is in a relationship with, less than his best friend.

On a boat at night, the secret journey of a man returning home.