It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years later.
Every coming outs are hard. Especially coming out to the family is the hardest one. Can love make coming out to the family?
This short story of immigration and forbidden love follows Lucy as she discovers her pregnancy and decides to visit her alcoholic mother for advice.
Billy believes his friends and family have been replaced by doubles. His psychiatrist believes this is a delusion. Meanwhile, Billy's carrying out an experiment to prove it's no delusion.
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.
Mia and Tim have been together forever. At least it feels like that. Seeking that which has become lost over the years, they invent a game - they each have to help the other one fulfill their dearest desire. No matter what it is.
Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.
You Take Care Now, an early student film, is a perfect exemplar of Ann Marie Fleming's idiosyncratic vision and stands as one of her signature works. Made on 16mm, and incorporating found footage, original material, animation, and processed images (Vancouver's groundbreaking avant-garde cinema of the 1970s is a decided influence here), Fleming's film offers a visually dazzling, emotionally wrenching, oddly humorous account of two profound personal traumas.
Mildred's parents run a dying parlor out of their home. Today's client is not who she expects.
Two men sit next to each other on an autumn day in Central Park. They make small talk about the weather and the joys of summer. When the conversation turns personal, however, it becomes clear that this is no random encounter...
The camera lingers over the back of a lonely New Yorker who ponders his own existence, his fears and fear of fears. Shot with an Olympus E-M5 Mark II as part of a film series to promote the camera system.
The Palisades is a short film that explores the subtleties of female friendship.
The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?
In a future world where memories are handled like computer files, two lovers decide to undergo a procedure and have their entire relationship wiped from their brains.
Nagisa (Minami Sara), a sophomore in college, doesn't have a lover.
A young cellist has to overcome her fears in order to keep her position in an orchestra.
A short film about a birthday party you weren't invited to.
Dusty is convinced he has a terrible new ability.
After cooking a scrumptious meal for her family, Ah Ma endlessly waits for them to arrive until she realizes her innocent mistake.
Lexi, a struggling young mom, has an opportunity to reconnect with her estranged family after she's approached by her now-sober father with news of her mother's failing health.