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?