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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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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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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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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 -

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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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 -

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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Lifelines

Catherine Parke -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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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Asteroid Season

Earthstar Smith - Vancouver

Animation (3:59)

In a lonesome frozen land, a feisty hermit lives a charmed life. When an enormous asteroid arrives o...

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Bargain Bin Bed

Rob Shaw - Canada

Horror, Comedy (9:39)

A woman is haunted by her poor decision to buy a used bed.

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Sheep

Theo Chasson - France

Drama, Social, Suspense (3:33)

A painting as a single window. Buried in silence, fragments of childhood resurface.

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Mandatory

Javad Khorsha - Iran

Drama (15:00)

A soldier faces a dilemma. *Winner 2020 Best Writing Goldie* *Winner 2020 Best Film Goldie*

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Such a Small Thing

Shelly J. Hong - Toronto

Drama (9:31)

A woman in her 40's goes back to her small hometown to confront her boyfriend of the assault that ha...

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Minor Accident of War

Diane Weis & Piotr Kabat - California

Animation (10:00)

"Minor Accident of War" is based on a true story written and narrated by the man who lived it -- Edw...

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Wawatay

Neil Affleck - Toronto

Animation, Non-linear Narrative, Indigenous (4:40)

“Wawatay” is an Oji-Cree word that translates as “the Northern Lights”. The film is an indig...

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Dust

Shane Book - Victoria, BC

Adaptation (8:32)

A young poet’s final evening with his girlfriend sparks memories of an afternoon spent with his ai...

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Bark

Ryan Irving - Calgary

Horror (6:00)

Two women desperately try to escape a stalking axe murderer through a city park. Unfortunately for t...

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Twinless

Sapir Danan & Ronalee Israel - Israel

Animation (6:20)

On her birthday, Millie is drawn through her birthday cake into the depths of her pain, loss and con...

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Rust Bucket

Mo Wynne & Roddy Hyduk - U.S.A.

Documentary (2:15)

A portrait of an Edmonton-based artist and his unlikely canvas.

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Laura

Kaayla Whachell - Abbotsford, BC

Drama (12:15)

Laura, a young half Indigenous woman undergoes a conversation with her lawyer Mr. Wilson to determin...

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Peete

Simon Madore - Toronto

Drama, Silent (10:00)

A washed-up misfit named Peete moves temporarily into a quiet suburb. As he waits for a loved one to...

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The Girl/La Fille

Keegan Connor Tracy - Burnaby

Fantasy, Horror (6:45)

A young girl playing in the forest comes across a mysterious curio which transports her to 1920s Fra...

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Deepness of the Fry

August Niclasen - Denmark

Animation (4:02)

An absurd existential crisis told through a series of animated vignettes that question "Can anyone t...

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Going Up

Forman Howes - Vancouver, BC

Comedy, Crime, Dark (12:06)

Finn joins a hitman on a ride to the sixth floor in the world's slowest elevator.

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Square One

Emily Jo Sargent - London, UK

Drama (12:00)

A semi-autobiographical film about the writer/director's experiences of being in a closeted relation...

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Sonatina

Wong Hoi - Hong Kong

Drama (8:00)

New bodyguard Chow feels puzzled by a strange woman who shrugs her shoulders, shakes her head and sm...

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Nothing to Say

Aubry Mintz - L.A.

Animation (9:35)

Nothing to Say is an allegory in which a recent arrival at the zoo challenges the zookeeper and othe...

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Tampon

Erica Orofino - Toronto

Comedy (5:30)

Katie's about to have a romantic night with her guy but her period keeps getting in the ...

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Giltrude’s Dwelling

Jeremy Lutter - Victoria, BC

Sci-fi, Fantasy, Drama (14:30)

When a life or death dilemma comes knocking, Giltrude must look beyond her front door and learn to f...

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Safety

Fabrice Joubert - France

Drama (13:54)

On a bright sunny afternoon in November, Michael and eleven other children face a life or death situ...

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River Therapy

Raymond Knight - Nanaimo, BC

Documentary (6:45)

Richard finds his solitude fishing at the river where he experiences the returning salmon while refl...

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Osuba

Federico Marsicano - Italy

Drama (5:32)

Osuba is a visual expression and emotional trip about domestic violence.

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Always Dani

Rosa Carranza - Mexico

Drama, Coming of Age (12:00)

Jaime is a family father that recently found out that his son, Dani, is transgender. In the process ...

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The Blue Bed

Alireza Kazemipour - Iran

Drama (14:10)

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young wor...

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Excluded by Design

Simon Madore & Gabriel Tougas - Toronto & Winnipeg

Documentary (3:55)

Writer and community organizer Dave Meslin thinks that bad public notices are hurting our democracy ...

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Cool Affections

Josh Terry-Brand - Victoria, BC

Comedy (8:20)

A melancholic man has a turbulent relationship with his refrigerator.

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All-In Madonna

Arnold Lim - Victoria, BC

Drama (12:40)

When 17-year-old Maddie attends public school for the first time, she discovers dark secrets about h...

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Ohrwurm (Earwig)

Vaughn and Connor Gaston - Victoria, BC

Drama/Surreal (13:40)

An ex-Stasi informant, holed up in her apartment, has her world upended when her estranged son arriv...

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Before the Beauty is Gone

Mackai Sharp - Comox, BC

Documentary (13:58)

An unfortunate reality: our fish are disappearing. Not our Salmon or our Halibut, but those will soo...

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Barrier

Sohee Hong - Mill Bay, BC

Drama (7:32)

A short coming of age dramatic film about an Asian girl facing a subtle prejudice in her class in Ca...

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Gyoro Goes To The Theatre

Shoichi “David” Haruyama - Japan

Musical/Animation (3:31)

Covid-19 has shuttered theaters everywhere. This film was made as an ode to the power of the theater...

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Baba

Jay Kamal - Burnaby, BC

Drama (14:30)

12-year old Samir must come to terms with the tragedy of his father’s death while fulfilling his r...

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Freebird

Michael Joseph McDonald, Joe Bluhm & Nick Herd - Montreal

Animation (5:32)

Freebird is the coming-of-age story of a boy with Down Syndrome who learns to navigate the world wit...

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Rent Do

Gavin Michael Booth - United States

Comedy (14:51)

Rent Do follows Rich, Winnie and Pete, roommates and reluctant best friends. When each one is uncere...

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Son of the Wind

XU Qi - China

Magical-Realist Fantasy (9:56)

The fateful encounter at a wind farm in Inner Mongolia prairie makes a lonely young watchman fall in...

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Unsheltered

Brian C O’Malley - Greenville, RI, United States

Animation (6:21)

A young boy tragically loses both his parents and is forced to grow up fast, learning from his nomad...

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If I Were President

Andrea Arteaga Cote & Andrei Ramos Puerto - Mexico

Documentary (8:05)

The women of Tahdziú, Yucatán speak about their right to vote as indigenous women, they demand to ...

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2007

Gone

2014

Floodplain

NASA Conspiracy

Seasick

Backward Fall

White Rhythms, Short Breath

Greyscale

The Evening Cigarette

The Magic Ferret

KRUPA

Rain

Spring!

Expect Something and Nothing at Once

M22

The First Time We

Bome Gnomeski

2015

Sweet Dreams Norma Jean

Tugende Baseballer

I am not Perfect

Vancouver Island Traditional Food Conference

Mind Game Demon

Unlock (Winner Best Performance)

Dude, Where’s My Ferret?

With Dad

A Late Thaw (Winner Best Technical)

Kindergarten, Da Bin Ich Wieder (Winner Best Writing)

Moth (Winner Best Student Film)

George Bassler’s Perpetual Motion Machine

Just Shoot Me

CRAZY LOVE

Teenage Dance

Habit

Smart Home

2016

LOST (Winner Best Film & People’s Choice)

The Home Show

At Death’s Door

Fingers Cutting Glass

Project Heart – Honouring Residential School Survivors

Craven

The Pair

Good Beastly Bad

Alice and Kevin

The Dreamer

2017

Ingrid and the Black Hole

‘Mia

Found

It’s All in Your Head

Women’s Christmas Night

Lemonade Mafia

Leonor’s Lullaby

Sweat

Descrambled Eggs

Drifter

Reproductive Cycles

Me, Baby & the Alligator

Fish

Croissant

Cradle

Isolamento

2018

Trying

Breakdown

Do No Harm

The Contender

Creature from the Lake

Oculus Malus

Happy Thoughts

Small World – Milad Kassiri

#FAFATL

Lemon & Elderflower

Cuba no Vaca

Behind Barres

Princess Syndrome

Just One Word

Films to Break Projectors