2006

2006 People's Choice, Best Performance (Andrew Cownden). A musical that explores how ridiculous m...

Comedy (6:18)

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It Haunts Me

Richard J. Olak - Vancouver, BC

Drama (8:23)

Best Film, Best Performance (Haley Sales). A man, lost in sadness from the tragic loss of the gir...

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Still from "How to get a Man to Love you"

How to Get a Man to Love You Forever

Comedy (5:50)

2011 People's Choice. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride? Martha shares her secrets.

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Canada Man

It's Canada Day eh? Featuring The Arrogant Worms.

Comedy (5:36)

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Dictators on a Plane (Best Music)

Todd Jones - Nanaimo, BC

An African dictator hires a wily English mercenary to restore him to power with disastrous consequen...

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All May Be Well

Matt Smith -

Drama (9:49)

Best Performance (Erik Richardson). Brian has a good job, good friends and good life. However, ...

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Android 207

Paul Whittington - Qualicum Beach, BC

Animation (9:42)

2007 Technical Production, Best Film and People's Choice. A stop-motion animated film about an ...

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How to Talk Like a Pirate

Best Writing. In honour of Talk like a Pirate Day, we present this informational video for the l...

Comedy (6:27)

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Gone

Tash Baycroft - Nanaimo, BC

Drama

Cory Monteith (Glee, Kayla, Kyle XY) and Frederic Robinson (Dark Waters of Crime II, Sight Unseen, G...

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Eyewitness Account

Best Writing, People's Choice. An incident at the Twin Oaks Mall creates quite a stir in this quick-...

Comedy (5:39)

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A Part of Our Heritage

If you are not Canadian and you don't get it, don't worry, it's not for you.

Comedy (3:07)

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Slacking for Gold

Do you have what it takes?

Comedy (4:10)

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Secret Life of Toast

Simon Berman - Austrailia

Comedy (6:00)

What did you do today?

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Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat

Art 1:35

2008 Best Music.

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What Suffers Inside Me (WSIM)

Jennifer Hardy CK - Canada

Animation (2:50)

2009 Best Film. The main character sees himself as an incomplete stick figure with a crossed line on...

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Right to the Source

Sure ice cream is delicious, but where does it come from? This film explains how one company goes to...

Comedy (4:02)

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Mercenary Solutions

When you need a job done very, very thoroughly.

Comedy 2:45

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The Secret of the Sauce

2010 Best Writing (Graham Stark). Once again, Johnny gets pulled back into the dark world of pizza.

Comedy 6:32

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How to Get a Man to Love You Forever

Comedy (5:50)

2011 People's Choice. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride? Martha shares her secrets.

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Close Your Eyes

Todd Jones - Nanaimo, BC

2012 People's Choice. For decades, scientists, governments, and everyone across the world has tried ...

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Informational Presentation

Everything you ever needed to know about graphs.

Comedy (4:46)

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Split Decisions

Employment agencies can find a job for anyone.

Comedy 4:22

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A Warning

We would like to tell you more, however the very act of providing a more detailed synopsis of this f...

Comedy (3:48)

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The Money Pet

Gary Hawes - Vancouver, BC

2013 Best Film, People's Choice and Best Writing (Gary Hawes). A slacker is bewildered when he disco...

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Pocket Planes

The ups and downs of the world's least consistent airline.

Animation (5:07)

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Floodplain

Jeremy Lutter - Victoria, BC

Drama (10:00)

Rafting across a floodplain in the Rockies, a small-town teen must learn to let go of his childhood ...

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NASA Conspiracy

This puts the entirety of the NASA program in a new light.

Comedy (4:57)

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Seasick

Eva Cvijanovic - Winnipeg, MB

Animation (3:28)

Nominated for Best Technical and Best Film Soaking in the sand, a forlorn figure seeks the refuge o...

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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

Nominated Best Orignal Music at the 2014 VISFF

Music (5:25)

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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!

Nominated for Best Writing and Best Performance Spring is basically the best season ever, bro.

Comedy (2:56)

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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

Nominated Best Writing, Winner Most Promising Performance Rich Travale John Gardiner (Nanaimo, BC) ...

Drama (6:44)

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Bome Gnomeski

Curtis L. Wiebe - Winnipeg, MB

Comedy (2:43)

2014 Best Original Music Curtis L. Wiebe & Marlon Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) A cautionary tale about...

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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 (Best Technical)

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 (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)

Evan Britz - Delta, BC

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

Helena Marie - Vancouver, BC

Drama (11:55)

2015 Best Technical, Best Writing (Helena Marie), Best Performance (Helena Marie) and Best Film. Sam...

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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

Michael Chen - Nanaimo, BC

Drama (11:40)

2016 Best Film and People's Choice A little girl attempts to reunite a lost stuffed animal with it�...

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The Home Show

The home show you bring in when other home shows have failed you.

Comedy (1:07)

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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

People's Choice. Doing laundry has never been so briefly exciting, and then so enduringly embarrassi...

Comedy (4:37)

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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)

2017 Best Editing, Best Writing, Best Technical, and Best Film. Two children experience a lifetime ...

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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

A married couple is trying everything they can to have a baby, but the husband is starting to have s...

Comedy (8:47)

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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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Pétage (Breakdown)

Greg Tudéla - France

Comedy (9:49)

2018 People's Choice. Michel is desperate. He’s just been fired. He decides to rob the bar he goe...

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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

With only one minute to live, a man turns to his happy thoughts in hopes of finding peace, but will ...

Drama (1:21)

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Small World – Milad Kassiri

Small World is a VISFF 2018 Official Selection.

Music Video (3:43)

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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 - Victoria, BC

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 -

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

2019 People's Choice. Two idiots try to hide a dead body before a local gangster finds out what the...

Comedy (11:55)

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Living With

'Living with' is a documentary short film that follows Dexter, a young man who was diagnosed with a ...

Documentary (8:56)

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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

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)

2020 People's Choice. New bodyguard Chow feels puzzled by a strange woman who shrugs her shoulders,...

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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

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

Documentary (6:45)

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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)

2021 People's Choice. An unfortunate reality: our fish are disappearing. Not our Salmon or our Hali...

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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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MILK

Montgomery Langford - Canada

Comedy (4:50)

MILK, a not-so-futuristic short film, loosely explores the concept of freedom in a controlled enviro...

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Eureka

Miida Chu - United States

Drama (14:50)

A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the...

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A Barbaric First Date

Kaliandra Capri - Nanaimo, BC

Comedy (5:13)

A comedic short about easily-influenced, basic Karen, who is a bit of a " beautiful fool" type, casu...

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To Life

Stefanie Gartmann - Germany

Documentary (12:00)

Lene lives in solitude by a fjord in Iceland. She calls herself an "old lady," but her curiosity and...

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Mani Pedi

Marlene Goldman - Toronto, ON

Drama (14:07)

Mani Pedi follows Raymond, a young immigrant from Laos, who learned to fight in the refugee camps, b...

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Mahi

Hoda Ahmadi - Iran

Drama (14:00)

A girl named Mahi comes to the Iran's capital city, Tehran, to work.

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Dream Book

Connor Gaston - Victoria, BC

Comedy (10:01)

After discovering his daughter's ability to draw things into existence, a layabout father exploits t...

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Break Any Spell

Anton Jøsef - Canada

Drama (13:00)

A teenage girl uses Live-Action-Role-Playing to cope and escape from her mother who suffers from ear...

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Cannibal

Ramin Samani - Iran

Drama (9:00)

While an unknown virus is spreading in Iran, a tow man whose main task is to help others commits a h...

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Orbed

Purple Ear - United Kingdom

Animation (4:42)

Orbed is a magic realist story about a boy who visits the moon.

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Hail Marie

Arthur Rodger 'Harley' Maranan - Vancouver, BC

Comedy (13:17)

Having recently moved to Canada, the youngest son of a Filipino family struggles to win the respect ...

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Shadow of the Fox

Noushin Meraji - Iran

Drama (11:00)

Shahram's wife has left, and while dealing with a terrible mental crisis, he must try to answer his ...

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Are You My Mommy

Gavin Michael Booth - United States

Comedy (14:30)

2022 People's Choice. While filming his latest blockbuster, Hero, a famous action star, is badly wo...

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MeTube: August sings ‘Una furtiva lagrima’

Daniel Moshel - Austria

Comedy (8:00)

Intergalactic music nerds August and Elfi conquer the opera stage and orchestrate their final advent...

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KC

Mike Palmer - Peterborough, ON

Art, Documentary (4:13)

Katrina paints canvases bursting with colour and expression, but what separates her is the ability t...

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Rascal News

Amélia Simard - Vancouver, BC

Documentary, Experimental (06:45)

Kyra and Amélia create short video capsules with a Polaroid digital camcorder; these are episodes o...

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En Dehors de Toi

Kajsa Eklund - Vancouver, BC

Drama (13:21)

When Mia and Sasha are alone, everything is easy. They are free to love each other, uninhibited by t...

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Johnny The Dime

Joseph Blake Menzel - United States

Comedy (07:17)

A brash and arrogant man catches a peeping-tom spying on his sister. He vows to take revenge, and di...

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Joanna Makes a Friend

Jeremy Lutter - Victoria, BC

Drama (15:00)

A young girl, Joanna, is ostracized from kids at school. Lonely, she retreats into the books of HP L...

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Half Samurai

Rashad Haughton - Japan

Action (11:00)

An ode to Hollywood Westerns and Japanese Samurai Films about a mysterious drifter who wanders into ...

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The Lovely Sky

Amir Mehran - Iran

Animation (14:00)

An impatient fighter pilot bombs cities every day. He returns to his little girl every night after c...

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Lucid

Jim Watson - Hamilton, Ontario

Drama (09:27)

A schizophrenic man has a brief moment of clarity, and finds his way back home. LUCID shines a li...

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Curiosa

Tessa Moult-Milewska - United Kingdom

Animation (09:30)

Curiosa tells the story of overly curious Mary, who visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, ...

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Məca

Ritchie Hemphill & Ryan Haché - Victoria, BC

Animation (08:18)

Məca is a stop motion representation of the late elder Ida Smith telling her grandson the 'Nakwax'd...

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BIRDS EYE

Mike Daniel McKinlay - Vancouver, BC

Documentary, Experimental (05:17)

A single House Finch gives it's viewer a glimpse into the human world from above, beside, and below....

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Zoe and Hannah Forever

Rachelle Younie - Vancouver, BC

Drama (07:48)

When Zoe falls in love with her best friend Hannah, she recalls conflicting memories of their time t...

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time together

Pauline Gallinat - Victoria, BC

Animation, Experimental(02:32)

Babe? … Are you listening? Enjoy the main character’s attempt to garner their par...

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Island TRADIES

Shane Watt - Duncan, BC

Comedy (4:55)

Island TRADIES, like The Office, presents a fly on the wall mockumentary style sitcom where our new ...

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Mystery Meat

Hannah van Dijk - Vancouver, BC

Drama, Comedy, Horror (10:06)

After a series of bad reviews, a nervous chef must impress an intimidating food critic in order to s...

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Split Ends

Alireza Kazemipour - Iran

Drama (14:15)

A bald girl and a young boy with long hair whose car has been confiscated due to lack of proper hija...

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What the Dirt Don’t Like

Jenn L Ashton - North Vancouver, BC

Animation, Experimental, Short (00:37)

A short spoken word Land Back film.

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Culicidae

Greg Moran - Sydney, Australia

Comedy (6:58)

A late night intrusion leads to a life and death struggle.

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Year of the Tortoise

Connor Gaston - Victoria, BC

Drama (12:20)

A young woman sets out to prove to her sister that their mother has reincarnated as a tortoise.

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Death & Ramen

Tiger Ji - NYC, United States

Comedy (14:16)

On his final night alive, a ramen chef goes on an unintended late night odyssey with the Grim Reaper...

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THE SPRAYER

Farnoosh Abedi - Iran

Animation (08:45)

In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either ...

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The Breakthrough

Daniel Sinclair - California, United States

Comedy (14:00)

Jane and Teddy are on the brink of divorce – but when their marital problems come to a sticking po...

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Mystic Tiger

Marc Martinez Jordan - California, United States

Sci-Fi (14:55)

After the accident, nothing has ever been the same.

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27

Flóra Anna Buda - France

Animation (10:38)

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents ...

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The Steak

Kiarash Dadgar Mohebi - Iran

Drama (08:13)

A birthday ceremony preparation gets turned upside down as something horrible takes place.

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The Gold Teeth

Alireza Kazemipour - Iran

Drama (15:00)

Sahra, an Afghan refugee in Canada arrives at Iranian ex-Dentist, Hamed's doorstep for help extracti...

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CHICKEN

Lucy McNulty & Emma Pollard - Vancouver, BC

Comedy (14:00)

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mot...

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Reflection

Cameo Wood - San Francisco

Drama (05:23)

A 911 call thrusts Elliot into a scene of violence and destruction and they find themselves making t...

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The Dog – A Rapidly Condensed Guide to Treading Water

Michael Makaroff - Victoria, BC

Drama (14:18)

An underwriter recounts his career in body part insurance sales in an attempt to affirm his life cho...

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Chat Mort (Dead Cat)

Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet - Montreal, Canada

Comedy (12:30)

2024 Best Writing and People's Choice. What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat...

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FÁR

Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter - Iceland

Drama (05:13)

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to i...

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Simone

Aisha Amin - NYC, United States

Drama (06:30)

One hectic morning, a young mother attempts to navigate the New York City subway to get her baby to ...

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Ah Boy Yah!!!

Gerald Ng - Vancouver, BC

Comedy (02:00)

After returning from his studies abroad, Ah Boy finds himself in a sea of questions from his fellow ...

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The Girl with the Red Beret

Janet Perlman - Montreal, Canada

Animation (05:35)

A girl takes a wild ride on the metro in Montreal. Traveling from station to station, she encounters...

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Groove, Slam, Work It Back

Amélia Simard - Vancouver, BC

Drama (11:01)

Groove, Slam, Work It Back gives a glimpse into Sayla and Ishi's grief, as they meet at Sayla's moth...

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Cranberry Juice

Rebeca Spiegel - Vancouver, BC

Animation (3:50)

After a threesome proposal, Beatrix drinks cranberry juice non-stop hoping it will improve her sexua...

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Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake

Javier Badillo - Vancouver, BC

Comedy (04:23)

When Lupe gets stuck in space, she uses her abuela's cooking lessons to kick alien butt. The last...

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Nalujuk Night

Jennie Williams - Labrador, Canada

Documentary(13:07)

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradi...

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Soleil de nuit

Maria Camila Arias & Fernando Lopez Escriva - Montreal, Canada

Drama(13:30)

During an astronaut training in an abandoned open-pit mine, a crew of Canadian astronauts is interru...

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The Money Pet

Gary Hawes - Vancouver, BC

2013 Best Film, People's Choice and Best Writing (Gary Hawes). A slacker is bewildered when he disco...

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Close Your Eyes

Todd Jones - Nanaimo, BC

2012 People's Choice. For decades, scientists, governments, and everyone across the world has tried ...

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How to Get a Man to Love You Forever

Comedy (5:50)

2011 People's Choice. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride? Martha shares her secrets.

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What Suffers Inside Me (WSIM)

Jennifer Hardy CK - Canada

Animation (2:50)

2009 Best Film. The main character sees himself as an incomplete stick figure with a crossed line on...

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Eyewitness Account

Best Writing, People's Choice. An incident at the Twin Oaks Mall creates quite a stir in this quick-...

Comedy (5:39)

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Chat Mort (Dead Cat)

Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet - Montreal, Canada

Comedy (12:30)

2024 Best Writing and People's Choice. What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat...

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For Roy

Vivian Cheung - Vancouver, BC

Family, Drama (11:58)

2023 People's Choice and Best Film. Inspired by true events, an imaginative Asian-Canadian girl att...

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The Secret of the Sauce

2010 Best Writing (Graham Stark). Once again, Johnny gets pulled back into the dark world of pizza.

Comedy 6:32

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Android 207

Paul Whittington - Qualicum Beach, BC

Animation (9:42)

2007 Technical Production, Best Film and People's Choice. A stop-motion animated film about an ...

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Suspend your Disbelief

2006 People's Choice, Best Performance (Andrew Cownden). A musical that explores how ridiculous m...

Comedy (6:18)

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Are You My Mommy

Gavin Michael Booth - United States

Comedy (14:30)

2022 People's Choice. While filming his latest blockbuster, Hero, a famous action star, is badly wo...

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Before the Beauty is Gone

Mackai Sharp - Comox, BC

Documentary (13:58)

2021 People's Choice. An unfortunate reality: our fish are disappearing. Not our Salmon or our Hali...

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Sonatina

Wong Hoi - Hong Kong

Drama (8:00)

2020 People's Choice. New bodyguard Chow feels puzzled by a strange woman who shrugs her shoulders,...

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How to Hide a Dead Body