Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)

A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

Alyssa and her friends make their way home from school and spend another afternoon in the suburbs, navigating the new pressures they face while teetering on the cusp of girlhood and womanhood.

Two Black Nova Scotians are pulled over by a white cop while on their way to do a CBC radio interview about police racial profiling.

A young woman leaves the comfort of her small rural community to pursue opportunities in a big Canadian city. She encounters obstacles that almost force her to return home, but she eventually picks up the skills to adjust to the city.

Regular life is still a struggle for John years after his fall from grace. If he was marvelled at by the world again, life wouldn't be so bad.

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea and worked with and around boats, fish, carnivals, and animals most of his life. While convalescing during an extended period in the Halifax infirmary in 1973, he was encouraged to paint. What began is therapy and a pastime developed into a way of representing a lifetime of images and experience

A woman deciphers a message received in her dreams, sent by a colony of bees.

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, 'boulder').

The Agnostics follows freshly-relapsed alcoholic Suzanne and her father Mark to an Easter gathering, which they hope will result in a much-needed cheque from their senile Uncle Raymond.

A portrait of Larry Loomer, the owner of an antiquarian bookstore located in a small town. Larry is a colourful and amusing character who shares his wry take on the world.

Based on the Lewis Carol nonsense poem "Jabberwocky," this three-minute animation brings to life the fearsome Jabberwock, the Jub-Jub bird, and other fanciful creatures. Hand-coloured still photographs and cell drawings lend a storybook quality to this imaginative fairy-tale

In this first of Lulu Keating's films, she animates photos she's accumulated that celebrate her extroverted spirit.

The third and final film in the Ken Fucks Up trilogy.

A depressed archaeologist is banished to work in Nova Scotia as punishment for taking too many drugs.

A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a Norman McLaren short, a light attached to a fiddle bow traces a dancing dot of light in darkness. The music was composed and is performed by Gordon Stobbe on fiddle and accompanied by Bill Doucette on guitar.

When an older woman begins to experience anxiety and depression she isolates herself inside her small apartment. Embarrassed and alone, she relies on the constant companionship of her chihuahua for her comfort and social outlet.