Winner of the Canadian ShortWork Award. During an idyllic family vacation by the sea, Marie, the matriarch, develops an irrepressible urge to escape. As days go by and the languor of the vacation envelops them, her relatives feel a growing threat weighing on their clan. To the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, Atlantis opens a window into the final moments of a family on the brink.

Atlantis

During an idyllic family vacation by the sea, Marie, the matriarch, develops an irrepressible urge to escape.

Zoe, bride and soon-to-be mother, has a miscarriage at her own rehearsal dinner. When her attempts to hide her miscarriage and shame go completely awry, she finds a way to overcome her guilt and grief — by stealing a dying fish. Honourable Mention for the International ShortWork Award.

Fish Bowl

Zoe, bride and soon-to-be mother, has a miscarriage at her own rehearsal dinner.

Meet Melody; at fifteen, she is outspoken, intelligent and creative. Melody enjoys hanging out with her friends, keeping up with 70s pop culture, and dreams of performing in her school talent show. The problem? Her strict father, a traditionalist who shakes Melody's world overnight after sewing a zipper onto her mouth on her sixteenth birthday. Honourable Mention for the Canadian ShortWork Award.

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Meet Melody; at fifteen, she is outspoken, intelligent and creative.

Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, shimmering clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation in this intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two headed monsters everywhere.

Two One Two

Two One Two, by animation filmmaker Shira Avni, combines shimmering clay on glass animation with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental…

Based on past heartbreak and present friendship. Soap is a film about the value of platonic intimacy in the queer community. Honourable Mention for the Canadian ShortWork Award.

Soap

Based on past heartbreak and present friendship. Soap is a film about the value of platonic intimacy in the queer community.

Despite the undeniable complicity between them, Manue, 11 years old, suffers from her mother Isabelle's uncontrollable anger. To what extent will that violence echo inside of her daughter's life?

Echoes

Despite the undeniable complicity between them, Manue, 11 years old, suffers from her mother Isabelle's uncontrollable anger.

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in a imagined reality where they grew up together. Winner of a Special Jury Award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.

Healer

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in a imagined reality where they grew up together.

In rhythm with the footsteps of her Atikamekws ancestors, Catherine immerses us in the dreamlike universe of her morning runs.

English, French

6 minutes per kilometer

In rhythm with the footsteps of her Atikamekws ancestors, Catherine immerses us in the dreamlike universe of her morning runs.

'You Are the Blue' is a gripping coming-of-age film about teenage Kay, an aspiring dancer who reckons with her identity amidst the struggle with an invisible illness and an all-consuming secret.

You Are the Blue

'You Are the Blue' is a gripping coming-of-age film about teenage Kay, an aspiring dancer who reckons with her identity amidst the struggle…

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