Program Overview
3rd Year Student Films
Friendly Visitor
16 min/2025/1.85:1/4K/Colour
In English and Hindi with English subtitles
Hema, an Indian mother regularly visits Samira, a young woman, as they chat over home cooked Indian food.
Dustheads
12 min/2025/1.66:1/4K/Colour
In English
Two brothers, a clown duo, pursue a spot on their favourite TV show. As desperation takes hold, their act spirals into a surreal battle of self-sabotage, pushing the limits of laughter by any means necessary.
Fine, Art
14 min/2025/1.85:1/4K/Colour
In English
Arturo, a seasoned restoration artist, encounters his wife, Terra’s forgotten self-portrait as his latest project.
After Life, After Death
18 min/2025/1.85:1/4K/Colour
In Mandarin Chinese and Chinese Dialect with English subtitles
Haunted by a masked opera ghost, a troubled young woman navigates the eerie intersections of life and death in a small, decaying town.
Winter Tamarind
15 min/2025/1.85:1/4K/Colour
In Thai and English with English subtitles
During her mother’s rare visit from Bangkok for New Year celebration in Vancouver, Cher, is unexpectedly stuck working the holiday shift at a local cinema.
Break
11 min/2025/1.85:1/4K/Colour
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
When three protesters establish an encampment outside of a controversial mining corporation, one of them begins harming themselves in their desperation to move the encampment onto the front entrance to the horror of her other partners.
4TH Year Student Films
The Ballad of A Native Man
12 min/2025/Colour
In English
a young cree man starts a job at a rural alberta gas station to save money for his goal university but he first must confront what it means to be a ‘cowboy’ in a gunslinging confrontation with the rude regular customers
Amor Eterno
16 min/2025/Colour
In English
Amidst a solar flare phenomenon, two recently separated lovers seek to reconcile their relationship by revisiting their favourite pastime of karaoke.
E for Effort, Never Excellence
15 min/2025/Colour
In English
Lotus, an ambitious journalist, returns to her childhood neighbourhood after 10 years to tell its story truthfully, only to be confronted by her estranged best friend, who questions her motives and the impact of her work.
Sinking
15 min/2025/Colour
In Chinese and English with English subtitles
A hopeless young man struggles to find a place in the foreign country before his work permit expires, while reuniting with his first love.
Unspoken
18 min/2025/Colour
In Chinese and English with English subtitles
A middle-aged Chinese woman, sexually assaulted and struggling with limited English, confronts her massive trauma and isolation in a foreign land as she interacts with the police and conceals the truth from her loved ones.