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2007
Gone
Tash Baycroft
- Nanaimo, BC
Drama
Cory Monteith (Glee, Kayla, Kyle XY) and Frederic Robinson (Dark Waters of Crime II, Sight Unseen) s...
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2014
Floodplain
Drama (10:00)
Jeremy Lutter (Victoria, BC) Rafting across a floodplain in the Rockies, a small-town teen must lea...
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NASA Conspiracy
Comedy (4:57)
Graham Stark (Victoria, BC) This puts the entirety of the NASA program in a new light.
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Seasick
Animation (3:28)
Nominated for Best Technical and Best Film Eva Cvijanovic (Winnipeg, MB) Soaking in the sand, a fo...
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Backward Fall
Drama (10:14)
Nominated for Best Original Music & Best Technical, Winner Best Student Film, Best Performance, ...
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White Rhythms, Short Breath
Experimental (6:50)
Olga Zikrata (Winnipeg, MB) A direct experience of tactile sensations, film texture, and contact da...
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Greyscale
Mystery (12:00)
Michael Chen & Aaron Colyn (Nanaimo, BC) A man will do whatever it takes for his loved ones.
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The Evening Cigarette
Animation (1:00)
Matthieu Van Eeckhout (Paris, France) Two years after quitting smoking, a filmmaker offers a tribut...
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The Magic Ferret
Childrens (11:39)
Nominated Best Film Alison Parker (Vancouver, BC) When Sam’s most amazing trick flops, he is def...
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KRUPA
Raymond Knight
- Nanaimo, BC
Music (5:25)
Nominated Best Orignal Music at the 2014 VISFF
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Rain
Sci-Fi (11:29)
Winner Best Technical Shimon Machida (Vancouver, BC) In 2030, the wireless internet has become pow...
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Spring!
Comedy (2:56)
Nominated for Best Writing and Best Performance Graham Stark (Victoria, BC) Spring is basically th...
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Expect Something and Nothing at Once
Experimental (3:36)
Michelle Elrick (Winnipeg, MB) Poet Michelle Elrick approaches “home” through blanket forts, po...
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M22
Documentary (1:00)
David Stevens (Breda, The Netherlands) Made from the desire to visualize in a clear and concise man...
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The First Time We
John Gardiner
- Nanaimo, BC
Drama (6:44)
Nominated Best Writing, Winner Most Promising Performance Rich Travale John Gardiner (Nanaimo, BC) ...
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Bome Gnomeski
Comedy (2:43)
Winner Best Original Music Curtis L. Wiebe & Marlon Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) A cautionary tale abo...
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2015
Sweet Dreams Norma Jean
Drama (7:00)
“Sweet Dreams Norma Jean” follows a girl seeking revenge for the terror brought forth upon her f...
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Tugende Baseballer
Documentary (8:40)
Against all odds, baseball is thriving in Uganda. In 2011, a team from Uganda became the first Littl...
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I am not Perfect
Drama (6:15)
A determined boy who just so happens to be into basketball tries to beat a rival but struggles on th...
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Vancouver Island Traditional Food Conference
Documentary (7:14)
Every year a different community hosts the Traditional Foods Conference. This year up in Fort Rupert...
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Mind Game Demon
Comedy (6:28)
Roxy tries to rebel against her parents. To prove herself, she hangs out in a bad area of town. She ...
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Unlock (Winner
Best Performance
)
Drama (9:17)
People called him the living dead. Ho Jing Man, 35, is a popular author for horror fiction who lived...
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Dude, Where’s My Ferret?
Comedy (12:00)
Skeezix has grown a righteous marijuana plant for the Colorado Cannabis Cup Contest, whose grand pri...
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With Dad
Drama (8:00)
A concerned son extends his visit home to take care of his aging father.
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A Late Thaw (Winner
Best Technical
)
Drama (12:00)
When Tara’s boyfriend presents her with the perfect house, memories of a lover who died years ago ...
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Kindergarten, Da Bin Ich Wieder (Winner
Best Writing
)
Comedy (10:25)
When word gets out that up-and-coming TV jingle writer Audrey Ragnarson doesn’t have a complete ed...
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Moth (Winner
Best Student Film
)
Drama (6:14)
A father beckons for his daughter
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George Bassler’s Perpetual Motion Machine
Documentary (3:30)
Following his family’s untimely demise, prairie homesteader George Bassler bizarrely crafts a Perp...
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Just Shoot Me
Comedy (6:10)
A seemingly desperate man with a gun to his head finds temporary redemption when an unexpected phone...
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CRAZY LOVE
Drama (11:55)
Samantha has learned to get through most days by giving into her boyfriend Alan’s torturous, demen...
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Teenage Dance
Drama (2:35)
A lonely teenager dresses up for the school dance and learns that to trust other people, you must fi...
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Habit
Documentary (7:26)
Everyone has something that they rely on and something that they find solace in.This film is about t...
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Smart Home
Sci-Fi (6:32)
A man lives in a home with smart appliances and technology, but the devices seem to conspire against...
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2016
LOST (Winner
Best Film & People’s Choice
)
Drama (11:40)
A little girl attempts to reunite a lost stuffed animal with it’s rightful owner.
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The Home Show
Comedy (1:07)
The home show you bring in when other home shows have failed you.
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At Death’s Door
Comedy (9:35)
This is the story of Owen Baines, who meets St. Zed at the end of the bright light that follows deat...
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Fingers Cutting Glass
Drama (3:30)
Two sisters caught in a storm.
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Project Heart – Honouring Residential School Survivors
Documentary (11:56)
Project Heart is the story of an extraordinary school event in Courtenay, B.C. Teacher Susan Leslie ...
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Craven
Drama (9:47)
Dean has been on this drive more times than he’d care to remember – only this time, it’s diffe...
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The Pair
Comedy (4:37)
Doing laundry has never been so briefly exciting, and then so enduringly embarrassing.
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Good Beastly Bad
Mystery (11:55)
A murder mystery novelist is tormented by a killer in the motel room next door.
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Alice and Kevin
Documentary (12:00)
Alice was one of the first outspoken First Nations people in Canada, filing a complaint with the Can...
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The Dreamer
Animation (5:37)
A young dreamer embraces his curiosity and discovers an attraction for the moon, which he longs to r...
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2017
Ingrid and the Black Hole
Leah Johnston
- Truro, NS
Drama (6:39)
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‘Mia
Amanda Strong
- Vancouver
Animation (8:00)
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Found
Drama (10:00)
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It’s All in Your Head
Greg Jeffs
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Thriller (5:49)
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Women’s Christmas Night
Commissioned by TG4 and the Arts Council of Ireland in association with Galway Film Centre, "Splanc!...
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Lemonade Mafia
Anya Adams
- Los Angeles
Comedy (9:02)
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Leonor’s Lullaby
Quentin Paquignon
- Shanghai
Animation (5:30)
Leonor sleeps quietly in her bed until some gentle creatures, the Bobops, take her on a mysterious j...
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Sweat
Kristin Snowbird
- Winnipeg
Documentary (4:44)
A filmmaker explores the transformational experience of a sweat lodge ceremony and grapples with pa...
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Descrambled Eggs
Kayla Jeanson
- Winnipeg
Experimental (4:14)
Poet Steve Currie grapples with the origins of his existence and limitations of his corporeality. Po...
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Drifter
Drama (10:10)
A ruthless bounty hunter discovers the true cost of revenge.
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Reproductive Cycles
John Gardiner
- Nanaimo, BC
Comedy (8:47)
A married couple is trying everything they can to have a baby, but the husband is starting to have s...
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Me, Baby & the Alligator
Jean Faucher
- Montreal, QC
Animation (10:37)
A young couple stop to eat at a roadside cantina in rural Mexico, where the Colonel who runs the to...
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Fish
Saman Hosseinpuor
- Iran
Comedy (4:00)
An elderly couple discovers the power of laughter.
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Croissant
Marius Conrotto
- Barcelona, Spain
Comedy (6:29)
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Cradle
David Holechek
- Los Angeles, CA
Thriller (11:20)
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Isolamento
Carmelo Zucco
- Ottawa, ON
Experimental (5:23)
Carmelo Zucco (Ottawa, ON) Shot on wonderful Super 8, Isolamento is a grand culmination of the them...
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2018
Trying
Shauna Johannesen
- Vancouver
Comedy (11:15)
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Breakdown
Comedy (9:49)
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Do No Harm
Marielle Woods
- Los Angeles, CA
Action (7:32)
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The Contender
Isaiah Berra
- North Vancouver, BC
Documentary (9:23)
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Creature from the Lake
Animation (5:10)
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Oculus Malus
Comedy (5:16)
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Happy Thoughts
John Gardiner
- Nanaimo, BC
Drama (1:21)
With only one minute to live, a man turns to his happy thoughts in hopes of finding peace, but will ...
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Small World – Milad Kassiri
Raymond Knight
- Nanaimo, BC
Music Video (3:43)
Small World is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection.
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#FAFATL
Sean Osorio
- Atlanta, Georgia
Documentary (10:02)
#FAFATL is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection.
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Lemon & Elderflower
Ilenia Cotardo
- UK
Animation (2:41)
Lemon & Elderflower is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Cuba no Vaca
Erik Anderson
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Documentary (3:59)
Cuba no Vaca is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Behind Barres
Sophia Bender
- Australia
Drama, Dance (12:00)
Behind Barres is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Princess Syndrome
Zachary Tannar
- Nanaimo, BC
Comedy (4:36)
Princess Syndrome is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Just One Word
Jani Lauzon
- Toronto, ON
Drama (11:52)
Just One Word is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection.
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Films to Break Projectors
Tim Grabham
- UK
Experimental (5:07)
Films to Break Projectors is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Methodic
Colin Williams
- Calgary, AB
Drama (10:00)
Methodic is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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Real Artists
Cameo Wood
- San Francisco
Sci-Fi (12:00)
Real Artists is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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This is Inala
Daniel Kooman
- Red Deer, AB
Documentary (6:33)
This is Inala is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection
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2019
Lifelines
Catherine Parke
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Drama (8:30)
Overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations of high school, Arielle finds refuge in a dangerous habit...
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Inanimate
Lucia Bulgheroni
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Animation (8:36)
Inanimate is a classic stop motion short film featuring Katrine and Patrick. When Katrine makes the ...
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A Boy’s Fear
Comedy (5:00)
A terrified boy must face a very personal fear.
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Fisher Cove
Sean Skene
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Thriller (8:29)
A Fisherman and his dog hunt down a creature that does not belong in Falcon Lake.
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Claire
Spencer Ryerson
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Dark Humour (8:00)
Following a brutal attack, a young woman's seemingly inevitable fate is rudely interrupted by a piec...
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Positions
Justin Ducharme
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Drama (12:00)
Positions tells the story of a queer, Indigenous, male sex worker in Vancouver. Note: This film ...
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Alternating Current
Rowan Gray
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Drama (7:06)
A woman aging out of a thankless job faces a life of poverty after being suddenly stripped of her ha...
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Piece of Mind
Erin Hembrador
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Drama (8:33)
An elderly Filipino man finds a young, distraught woman rummaging through his yard. After realizing ...
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The Importance of Dreaming
Tara Audibert
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Animation (11:42)
The forbidden love between an Owl and a Fox drives them away from friends and family as they search ...
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Roses and Stitches
Drama (8:10)
Losing a loved one is terrible. When Abigale's beloved is killed, her mad scientist father brings hi...
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How to Hide a Dead Body
John Gardiner
- Nanaimo, BC
Comedy (11:55)
Two idiots try to hide a dead body before a local gangster finds out what they did. *Winner 2019 Pe...
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Living With
Raymond Knight
- Nanaimo, BC
Documentary (8:56)
'Living with' is a documentary short film that follows Dexter, a young man who was diagnosed with a ...
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The Wrestler
Drama (11:59)
As a masked wrestler, Terry just wants to be seen as a good guy.
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