Is Money Everything?

Haunted by his devilish obsession for success, Damiano embarks on a daring quest to conquer his inspiration.

A stressed film student waiting for his exam results shares an unexpected conversation with an older woman on a park bench that helps him see his future with a little more kindness.

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car—but no matter, they still think he's a drip—as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up—and loses face once again with his family.

In an apartment after a party, an upset young man and his friends have to find a way to escape after the owner of the place locks them inside.

Invernadero

Regina, 75, takes every opportunity to line up in the government's arduous medical assistance dole out program just to secure mitigating financial help for her sick husband's increasing hospital bill. In the last two hours before she reaches the end of the line and receive help, Regina bears with her own debilitating illness due to old age, confronts a fixer condoning corruption, and temporarily leaves the line to look for her missing granddaughter who wanders off.

Além

Utilizing backdrops from Simon Fraser University with words from the poet Chantal Gibson's Ad Hominem, the film reflects on colonization in Canada, especially in the ways their influence permeates in formative institutions like colleges. Done through the lens of a photographer, it encroaches on the frustration between colonial erasure and gauging one's participation in that erasure, whether by complicit involvement, ignorance, or inaction

Fantasia no Escuro

A young superhero faces his greatest moral test. His former best friend, now a malicious and dangerous criminal, is bound in chains. The hero is forced to reckon with a painful decision, one that challenges him beyond any physical confrontation.

Estrada, Lua e Noite

A young wrestler’s only way out of his dead end town and the trauma tied to it is to fight his way onto the Australian team. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, his fight to escape turns inward, trapping him alongside the very trauma he cannot outrun.

Gasolina

Abused by his human owner, an AI companion experiences emotions he was never programmed to feel.

What is love? A Swiftie tries to find out by kidnapping her ex and forcing him to listen to her definition.

Ben, an Iranian refugee and rideshare driver in Los Angeles, becomes entangled in a criminal underground when a passenger asks him to help save her twin sister from a human trafficking ring run by Russian mobsters.

David, a gay high school senior, embarks on an end-of-summer road trip with his best friend Annie. Along the way, he begins to question what he thought he understood about his identity.