An interracial couple sees the struggle of their story mirrored in a painting as they try to find their way together across a racial divide.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: A Walk in the Sun

A cleaner, Charlie, is struck with a vision of an ominous forest. Hopes fade; in an internal confrontation, they snap out of it and are determined to battle on through tough times.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Tidy

In this uplifting documentary, featuring an original score by the Atlantic String Machine, artist Arlene MacAusland is forging her own path. "Anything's possible," she says. "You choose your own adventure."

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Arlene

A diaristic interrogation of the self; framed within a tube-set fever dream. DISCOFISH swims through an unraveling social safety net, examining corporate pink-washing, and the lobster fisheries of Nova Scotia.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Discofish

During a quick check in the mirror, Brian gets a deeper look than he anticipated.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Reflections

Jessica doesn't know if the monster is in the house or in her head, and she's determined to find out if what she sees in her peripheral vision is real or only her imagination.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Peripherals

A young woman struggles to find her place in a family lineage that feels both familiar and foreign. Hers is one of many stories examining the journey to rediscover a disconnected family heritage, and question how culture affects her sense of identity.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: MÉtis

As a pandemic rages on, a mother and daughter clash over restrictions.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Sorry, Mommy

In this animated short made of delicate paper-cut figures, two boys share an unexpected connection on the night of a bonfire.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Kettle Harbour

Invisible shows us that sometimes our perception of ourselves narrows and we only see the things that confirm our self-imposed narratives, not the evidence that disproves them.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Invisible

Rachael is being 'renovicted' from her apartment. As she hits rock bottom, an unlikely figure offers her some much-needed hospitality.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Flat

A high-strung reporter, hot on the tail of a rampaging murderer, returns home to find his partner hosting some old friends. He’s already started to unravel, leaning on alcohol to calm himself, as the gathering gets bigger and louder. Things soon take a turn for the worse.

NextGen Atlantic Shorts: Thumbs Up

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