Grandpa & Me and a Helicopter to Heaven

It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.

Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

While mourning the loss of a parent, Mehru occasionally brings fake flowers to her old house. But she is compelled to deal with a tragic past when she is invited inside the house by her brother, Mir.

Through these portraits, we wish to question the model of the nuclear family and take a plural look at family realities. Focusing sometimes on the point of view of the parents, sometimes on that of the children, the seven short films of this series address family tensions, the unspoken, the implications of divorce and coming out, but also the possibilities of reconciliation. and the love that manifests, often awkwardly.

A touching portrait of the only woman who participates in the auto racing competitions of Kitigan Zibi, Anishinabe nation. Chalene McConini combines her role as a mother with her passion for speed.

Leela's mother tries to coerce her into a gender stereotype, while Leela thinks only of leaving home to study in Toronto with her lover. Taking up the codes of Bollywood, Becoming Leela is above all a quest for freedom.

This is not a pipe, it is adolescence in the feminine with its ambiguities, its whims, its desires, its impulses and above all, its very very expensive (and enormous) libido.

Ginger Côté uses the words of Heather Archibald, an activist who grew up in foster care and who died, to honor the memory of the young woman and also to advocate for a change in policies towards First Nations.

Northern Mexico - 1997. Ulises, a detective tired of the violence that his work and country present, narrates in detail his last case before retiring: The disappearance of Lucía Pardo.

At 16, Gabriel takes over the camera of his deceased older brother and films his daily life with his little sister who is growing up, his mother who is sinking into madness and a boy from his neighborhood. An unexpected encounter will lead Gabriel to film a first love.

The Assassination of Chicago’s Mayor

Two students compete in a high school presidential election, and we see how one student's vote can change everything. This short film promotes the importance of voting and educate young viewers on how to vote. This film is brought to you by young filmmakers who directed, produced, and wrote the project.

Provincial wedding. Seems like happiness is just around the corner. But when the sun sets the happiness is floating by.

Mufid, a 14-year-old boy plays football with his friends in an area guarded by a military drone. He misses a shot and makes the ball disappear behind a hill. He doesn't want to go looking for her, but there's no choice.

A teen boy's obsession with his childhood best friend reaches a peak when he discovers she's been spending time with the other member of their trio.

Fifteen-year-old Alice has always been a good Catholic, but when an innocent AOL chat turns unexpectedly racy, she finds herself suddenly obsessed with sex.

The earth shook. The sea roared. And then… There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside. A young girl has been living there alone since that fateful day. Mail is no longer delivered, but even this morning, she’s hanging out the laundry as usual. She’s unaware that all around her, the clothes pegs are quarreling, the pillow argues with the umbrella about the outside world, and the new toothbrush is unsuccessfully trying to charm the grumpy older ones. Do objects exist to be used until they are consumed or broken? Are they afraid of being thrown away once their life cycle is complete? A delicate story of hope in a cruel and gentle world after an unnamed disaster.

A girl with financial struggles who lives alone in poor neighborhood is threatened to get kicked out of her flat for late payments. Thus, considering to 'sell her body' though fear of getting her dignity stripped off is haunting her.

A lonely marijuana farmer begins having strange waking dreams and gaps in his memory.

What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban Adam prize open the coffin on a world of darkness and light, exploring its multiplicities and intersections with subcultures and the ever-present experience of queerness.