Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)

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.

A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

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

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.

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.

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

Masterpiece is a futuristic existential short film directed by one of the founding members of Nova Scotia's Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.

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.

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.

Regan's Cove (1976) is a drama shot in an improvised, documentary style. Filmed in a small Nova Scotia fishing village, it depicts a conflict between the demands of a pervasive but unknown power and the need to protect an innocent individual.

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.

Santa remembers

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.

High contrast black and white photography, a subjective camera and a quirky sense of humour contribute to this extraordinary portrait of the filmmaker’s neighbour Sophia, a working class woman from Cape Breton with opinions she’s not unwilling to (loudly) share. Clarke’s highly personal film is at once familiar and dispassionate – an innovative documentary which moves as kinetically as any action film.

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

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

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 co-production between the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and the Winnipeg Film Group, this documentary shows children and youth speaking frankly about their home communities in Manitoba and Nova Scotia.

A banana gets invited to a party