NSCAD University Film Academy

A man spots an acquaintance while grabbing late night food from a diner. He offers a convoluted tale of deceit, cheating and crime he recently observed. Things go sour when the man suspects his acquaintance may have been involved.

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.

A student struggling on his essay mistakenly stumbles across an otherworldly phenomenon that threatens his very concept of reality, sending him spiralling down an existential rabbit hole from which there may be no return.

Crossing Over is a film about Vanessa, a young adult whose life rapidly comes to a collapse with an aimless career, professional failure, and unrequited love. Vanessa finds herself failing at her job and as an actress. She discovers she was deceived when she proposes to a man who she thought loves her, only to find out later he has a wife and is starting a family. Through a new friend, Christine, and through a newly reinvented identity as Ivy, she finds herself entering a new lifestyle unknown to her.

Mara, a girl recovering from a near-fatal bicycle accident, struggles to admit to herself and her family that the chronic pain left from the accident may never go away.

Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape.

To spare her grieving mother, a young woman ventures across the border to collect her grandmother's ashes, embarking on a journey that unearths long- buried childhood memories, and forces her to confront the bonds she never got to form.

An old woman searches for a priceless item. An intruder arrives. What will they find together?

Gutted after a breakup, Ella joins a dating program; "ResusciDATE: Bringing love back to life." Orchestrated by an overly enthusiastic Matchmaker, Ella is met with a range of CandiDATES, from bad to worse. As rejection piles up, Ella spirals down a path of self-confrontation, unsure if she is capable of love at all.

Five deals with questions of identity and self-perception, highlighting the inherent difficulties (impossibility?) of expressing or communicating such. Four individuals appear alternatively : although they seem to be describing someone, it is not always clear to whom each is referring.