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Cecilia is about to turn 68 and has never been creative in her life. Spurred on by her curmudgeonly and competitive best friend, she enters a talent competition.
Jul 2026
Bruno Mars Romantic tour breaking all records
A twelve year old boy unexpectedly spends the week with his eccentric, underachieving father.
Aug 2026
When Miles finally decides to reconnect with his lost friend Skye after five years, they realize that they have to survive the day one of an apocalyptic viral outbreak.
Jun 2026
A documentary short on the life and work of the late artist John Shearer, one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century.
The film depicts maidservants in Pune, who work ‘purdah style’ in the isolation of home. It looks at piece work home labour, with long hours and low wages, and how the women organise to fight for their rights.
Mar 2023
Charli, a runaway from a highly limiting family, must discover her true identity after meeting Emma, a dancer.
A short film about the emotions and memories we associate to our personal belongings.
Lost in a remote winter forest, a woman struggles to escape an unseen force that quietly reshapes reality, trapping her in an endless cycle where every step forward leads her back to where she began.
When a college student suddenly drops dead on a walk home from the bar, three young men must decide between reporting the body or fleeing the scene. Their choices quickly unravel undesirable consequences.
Boca Chica, Texas. Hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, the village is defined by the rhythmic sound of the waves. But this wild country is in the midst of irreversible change. For the swamps have been drained, the beaches closed and the homes bought out: the shadow looming over the beach is that of a 50-story rocket, being readied for launch into space.
Anthropopoiesis is the cultural process of “making” the human being, shaped by a biological incompleteness that only subjective experience can complete. What would happen if we were transformed by what we have always taken for granted? What if a tree were to shape our projection? Would we finally be able to overcome the dichotomy between the human and the “non-human”? Stop and observe what surrounds you, BE TREES.
A man being stalked is lead through an absurdist adventure comprising of a strange encounter and a mysterious room.
Dead Parents Club is a hybrid documentary blending observational footage, experimental performance, and cultural analysis to challenge the pervasive "orphan trope" in popular culture. While children's media like The Lion King, Frozen, and Finding Nemo frequently use parental loss as a narrative tool to spark a character's independence, the lived reality of grief is vastly more complex. The film follows real individuals who have lost parents as they collaborate on a unique theatre production. By stepping into the roles of iconic fictional orphans like Simba and Frodo, the cast members weave their personal stories of trauma into the scripted scenes. The resulting performance offers a poignant, absurd, and unexpectedly funny exploration of identity and healing. Moving between fantasy and lived experience, this documentary examines how we navigate profound loss, build deep connections, and ultimately learn to parent ourselves.
On a secluded beach, Dylan and Malachi find a temporary escape from a world that refuses to understand them. But as the tide shifts, a raw confrontation about love, identity, and family rejection threatens to change everything between them forever.
In what sounds like a dystopia but is in fact all too real, our human suffering is flattened and repackaged as a “mental health crisis” by naive professionals and buzzword-shilling experts. By unraveling the heretofore ignored history of our mental health culture, two Canadian filmmakers reveal the darker side of our humanitarian impulses, and dare to ask whether they could actually be fuelling the mental health crisis machine.