Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)

Short film made during the COVID-19 pandemic about two estranged former lovers spending Christmas Eve together in isolation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The year I turned nine I became pathologically afraid that my parents would die. I stopped letting them leave the house at night, even for a walk around the block. I'd call them repeatedly at restaurants if they tried to go out for dinner and once threatened to kill myself if anything happened to them. That's when they sent me to a psychiatrist. This is the story of the year I was nine.

Experimental documentary by Lulu Keating

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 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

Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it.

A documentary unlike any other, The Moody Brood explodes the myth of the idealized, normal family-a popular and pervasive post-WWII notion. The film examines issues universal to all families: the effects of community and religion, the influence of siblings, and the moral standards imposed by parents. Award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating traces the lives of her 10 siblings from their childhood in the 1940s to present day, from a small Catholic community to the world stage. Along the way, she asks some difficult questions: Can we, as adults, shed past experiences? Or do they shape our whole lives?

Madame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm.

Charlie's Prospect is a video fable set to an original music score for choir. Set in Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia, Charlie's Prospect is based on a true story in which a folk artist tries to preserve the way of life in his small fishing community by building a replica of the village on his front lawn. One day a wealthy young family drives by and wants to buy the entire model village. The artist is faced with a dilemma that is resolved later that night, as fantasy and reality merge.