A short film for NOTODO Film Fest. In 1936, a man tries to flee his home in secret. But his daughter crosses his path before he can step through the doorway.
After being expelled from college, Owen returns home to disappointed parents and leaves in the middle of the night with his younger sister Mara, wandering the city and stumbling into unexpected encounters.
When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path.
The end and the beginning of the relationship between Jade and Caio, the first human couple in history to be brought together by an artificial intelligence.
On a road somewhere in Ukraine, Ana, an aid worker for a Spanish NGO, helps Yrina flee the bombings with her son, Yure. They want to reach the border as quickly as possible and get to safety.
With little more than a 16-mm camera and a bedrock love of place, renegade filmmaker Mike Jones broke the trail for Newfoundland’s cultural renaissance. Through never-before-seen footage of the comedic chaos that was CODCO, Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones summons this chapter of Canada’s hilarious history in a joyful journey of rediscovery featuring Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer and more.
The school’s cool, prince-like heroine has never questioned her role—until a fellow “Prince” enters her life and sees her as more than a hero, awakening feelings she’s never faced before.
In a country marked by violence, a group of incarcerated women participates in a film workshop inside a prison in Guayaquil. As they film their daily lives, stories of love, guilt, and forced separation from their children emerge. Through games and confessions, the camera creates a space for resistance, where imagination transcends the prison’s boundaries and allows them to explore other ways of being.
Riley and Lucy used to be close friends but have since grown apart over the years. While Lucy's long-term boyfriend is away at a bachelor party, she invites Riley to spend the weekend at her family's house upstate (now converted into an Airbnb), a trip they used to take together. Both live in New York, but haven't spent extended time together in years. Unspoken tensions surface as it becomes apparent how much distance there is between the two of them. Over the course of the weekend, they find small but unexpected ways to reconnect.
Umi, a singer-songwriter, has just become a mother. In her urban flat, she tries to get the hang of life as a mum. But this is disrupted by chaos: noise from her upstairs neighbour, hustle and bustle, and unsolicited advice. Amid pumping, nappies and other people's expectations, Umi briefly loses herself. Slowly, she seeks the space to reconnect with her own feelings. With her ukulele, she begins turning her emotions into music and finds her own voice again.
Based on his writings from a sleepless night in U.S. immigration detention, Mahmoud Khalil reflects on being separated from his family and the fragile promises of democracy, justice, and human dignity.
Haunted by trauma, a psychologically unstable teenager is compelled to visit his sick grandmother with his half-sister and their friends. Being back in his childhood home, his dark past resurfaces, forcing him to confront whether the true horror lies in the island - the people from his past, or within himself.
After a breakup, Matei returns Ioana's remaining belongings and discovers her new activity—swimming lessons—which she teaches at her home, undeterred by the lack of pools or other bodies of water in the city. In the middle of the lesson, Ioana tells Matei about her new life and the people in it: the three elderly students she teaches, Ina, Silvia, and Ion.
After surviving a lifetime of debilitating pain caused by sickle cell disease, Gabriel Badejo takes the greatest risk of his life by undergoing an experimental stem cell transplant in hopes of a cure. The Sickling follows Gabriel’s emotional and physical journey as he confronts systemic racism in healthcare, painful memories of medical neglect, and the global realities of living with an often invisible disease. From Toronto to Nigeria, the film explores the intersections of illness, identity, family, and survival while uncovering the historical inequities that continue to shape sickle cell care worldwide. At its heart, The Sickling is a deeply personal story about healing, resilience, and the fight to reclaim a future once thought impossible.
On a train, a novelist meets Tae-ju, a young woman who resembles the protagonist of her novel in progress. Tae-ju runs away from damaging rumors to a seaside town. There, she meets Man-hyuk, a street magician, and feels drawn to him—only to hear unsettling rumors about him. Unsure of what to believe, Tae-ju visits a fortune-teller mentioned as being remarkably accurate.
The film tells the remarkable story of Dr Anatoly Kashpirovsky, who, at the height of his career, claimed to anaesthetise three women remotely for major surgery through the sheer force of his persuasion. His televised healing séances, broadcast across the Soviet bloc, broke viewing records, reaching hundreds of millions of people. Loved by his followers and despised by his enemies, Kashpirovsky became an unlikely symbol of a world undergoing radical political transformation.
The adventures of a young girl named Providence, who is entrusted with a magic quill that makes everything she writes come true. Faced with this incredible power, she has to choose between living her dreams and saving the world.
In 1910 London, independent-minded Katharine Hilbery defies her family's expectations of marriage to pursue a career in astronomy. But when her father pressures her into an unwanted engagement, her resolve is tested. Through new friendships—including a bold suffragette and a thoughtful editor—Katharine begins to question the limits placed on her by society, love, and tradition, ultimately searching for a path that is truly her own.
