Program Overview

A Still Life

15 min/2025/1.33:1/4K/Color

In English

In the cozy backrooms of a local art store, a lazy and reclusive employee's boring daily routine is interrupted by an awkward, eccentric customer who DEFINITELY has no romantic intentions.

Alberta Gothic

13 min/2025/90:1/2K/Color

In English

A rancher must traverse the violent Alberta prairie, chased by the myth of his own past.

Cherry

15 min/2025/90:1/2K/Color

In English

Phoebe, a high school student, confronts the nature of her relationship with a 27-year-old man within the confines of his apartment.

Grave in The Clouds

13 minutes/2025/1.85:1/Colour

In English

Jacob Zalman, a middle-aged Jewish man married to a non-Jewish woman, is shaken when he discovers that his teenage son has written an essay denying the Holocaust.

Hiraeth

8 minutes/2025/1.33:1/Colour

In English

Eva, a young adult whose life feels heavy and repetitive finds solace in the world of their daydreams. As reality starts to bleed into their ideations, they must face their own spiralling self- neglect.

Jazeera

In the heart of a restless city, an overworked chef and a mysterious drifter forge an unlikely bond on a weathered bench. As Chinese New Year approaches, cigarettes and scraps of paper become lifelines in their quiet struggle to restart.

Orval

In English

Two friends get into a minor dispute over breakfast.

Otehimin

In English

How long would it take for an Indigenous woman to go missing?