Sophie hides her unease within the intense bond she shares with her daughter, Lila. When Lila leaves for summer camp, Sophie finds herself alone for the first time, overwhelmed by separation and emotional dependency. As the day unfolds, she drifts through encounters and small gestures, trying awkwardly to fill the void. An Excess Baggage portrays a woman whose love, though sincere, becomes too heavy to carry.

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Un Bagage en Trop

As four brewers navigate their way through the beer crafting process, BREWER juxtaposes poetic visuals of the brewing process with lived reflections. The film confronts the everyday biases that challenge underrepresented people in workplaces as unexpected as a craft brewery. The location (brewery) and the process (brewing) become a microcosmic representative of everyday discrimination. Film sponsored by Boundary Bay Brewery

Brewer

Brewer juxtaposes poetic visuals of the craft beer brewing process with reflections of bias, illustrating the physicality and grit of the underrepresented brewers in their industrial work environment.

After a devastating terminal diagnosis, a housekeeper is thrust into an emotional struggle, grappling not only with her own mortality but also the uncertainty that looms over the future of her 16-year-old daughter. Film sponsored by Kenneth Fulton

More Than Dust

After a devastating terminal diagnosis, a housekeeper is thrust into an emotional struggle, grappling not only with her own mortality but also the uncertainty that looms over the future of her 16-year-old daughter.

When Freddie Nole drives to meet a man walking out of prison, he’s not just offering a ride, he’s offering hope, dignity, and a path to permanent freedom. As this vérité road trip unfolds, we come to learn the remarkable story behind Freddie’s mission, a staggering mistake that cost him 50 years of freedom but ultimately brings him right back to the prison door. This film is sponsored by Mary and John O’Connell

The Second Life of Freddie Nole

An affluent employer calls in his live-in nanny to settle his dues. Set in contemporary Texas, Subtract Nine Sundays is adapted from Anton Chekhov’s short story The Wimp. A story of power and personal agency. This film is sponsored Jan and Lindsey Vereen

Subtract Nine Sundays

An elderly man goes to the ocean, as he seems to do often. He undresses and bathes there in the middle of winter. Underwater, he finds an imaginary world (partly created using animation), a protective universe he has invented for himself where he can be himself, vulnerable. Back on the surface, we wonder if all this really happened or if it was just a journey of his mind as he gazed out at the sea. Film sponsored by Barbara vz Howard.

L'Océan Dans le Cœur

Guided by posthumous instructions to release her ex-wife’s ashes, a reclusive book publisher embarks on a Surrealist odyssey (a dérive) across New York City, experiencing a series of spontaneous connections along the way that inspire her to engage the world anew. Film sponsored by Sheila and Robert Goodwin

Dérive

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