The late writer and filmmaker Mike Melski muses about what it means to be a Cape Bretoner, filmed in the special place that always brought him peace and contentment.

A woman enters a nightclub where she is desired, but never truly seen.

A lonely three-year-old boy pulls out a chunk of his dad's beard, plants it in the garden, and grows a new best friend. A quirky exploration of fitting in as a child and the responsibilities of a parent.

Intertwining personal and intimate details about the life of artist and activist Billy Gauthier, this short film is rooted in his creative practice and his experience of living on the land. In it, he expresses the changes he’s witnessed through the carving of a whale skull.

Baptist sisters hatch an elaborate plan to expose a man in their close-knit community as a witch.

Three personal traumatic stories shared by people from the Mi’kmaw community - and their personal quest to find peace.

Gal Pals is a short film interested in the complications and confusions that can come with sapphic relationships. Janet is absolutely past any romantic feelings toward Anna that would make moving in as roommates a bad idea. Her childhood friends seem to need more convincing and the topic is taking up more time than it should be on her visit home.

A young lifeguard finds herself isolated from her peers as she struggles with the weight of mortality.

Exhausted and unravelling, Olivia insists she's fine, until terrifying paralysis traps her between waking and dreaming. Haunted by twisted voices and fractured memories, she must confront whether the threat is supernatural or the breaking point of her own mind.

Margot and Pete's romantic weekend at a remote cabin is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Johnny.

A new mom trains for a 5k race while navigating shifts in identity and postpartum depression.

Leah wants to be fixed, but she’d rather be buried alive in another woman’s perfect fleece skin than sit with her own feelings in therapy.

Sheitel – Beauty in the Hidden shines a light into the world of Orthodox Jewishwomen and the practice of hair covering, revealing the deeper significance of this tradition as an expression of cultural identity, faith, and female empowerment.

Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones profiles the “godfather of Newfoundland cinema”—a filmmaker whose insurgent vision helped ignite a cultural revolution on Canada’s eastern edge. With never-before-seen 16-mm footage of Jones’ unfinished documentary about legendary comedy troupe CODCO, director Justin Simms weaves together intimate interviews with friends, family and some of Canada’s most celebrated comedic voices to tell the story of the pioneering Mike Jones, and a province awakening to its own cultural power.

A psychological body horror anthology where three isolated men submit to rituals of healing - an AI cleanse, a live stream of penance, and an experimental drug trial - each descending into madness as their pain becomes performance in a world obsessed with watching.

As moonlight settles over a quiet port town, a bookstore awakens for night owls and wanderers, its shelves holding stories and the silent memory of a friend never forgotten.

The Last Days of April follows April Hubbard, a disability advocate living with a tethered spinal cord and chronic pain, who navigates the end of her life. April's courageous decision to share her Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) journey sparks an emotional and thought-provoking narrative. Through intimate interviews and personal anecdotes, this film documents the intersection of bodily autonomy and systemic barriers, ultimately advocating for a more inclusive and compassionate world.

Experimental film on dreams of flight, war, aliens, the doomsday clock. Steamboat Willie sails against a sea of troubles, philosopher Bertrand Russell talks of hope, worry, and a cold fish.

Adult film star Molly Chambers flies home to Cape Breton to visit her mom, a singer in a local band. The trip is immediately complicated by Sunshine, an embittered ex-boyfriend loitering in her childhood bedroom. As she reconnects with a parade of characters from her past, Molly is forced to examine her own attachments to home and a generational pattern that threatens to repeat itself. Cuckolds unfolds as a tapestry of memory, weaving analog home videos into a fractured digital present.

Two audio engineers create a sonic “infinity mirror” by cross‑wiring the circuitry of archaic analog gear. After years of trial and error, they finally make contact.