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- In a dystopian future, three musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.
- A crisis-of-faith drama about reincarnation and the power of belief.
- Carmen Aguirre and Tony Nardi star in a remarkable story of friends, lovers, seekers and thieves. Set at the intersection of the Latin American, First Nations and Italian communities, "Bella Ciao!" captures a struggle towards solidarity in East Vancouver's urban mix.
- Join Martin on a personal journey spanning 30 years through the unique perspectives afforded by autism and psychosis.
- A social worker (Nancy Sivak) tries to help a woman (Jillian Fargey) addicted to drugs, who has two children and an abusive husband.
- When the Zapatista National Liberation Army took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico, the government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild traveled to the jungle canyons of southern Mexico to film the elusive and fragile life of the rebellion.
- On a summer day in the 1950s, a native Cree girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman's gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.
- A dramatic short about a young girl's growing awareness of the powers she has - and doesn't have - Valentines is the heartbreaking story of three teenagers caught in a tangled web of sex and money.
- A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love.
- In a remote region of Northern Pakistan, young villagers learn that the line between public and private can become fatally blurred when digital media enters the room.
- The story of 8 year old Zoe, who must swim - or sink- facing her fears on testing day at the swimming pool.
- On an elevator, Stuart sees an attractive blond woman in black boots, but loses his nerve before speaking to her. His life is dull: typical chores include watering his cactus and buying a toilet brush. That Friday night, he sees the woman from the elevator get into a cab. He gives chase and watches her enter a house where a party is going on. Deciding to live dangerously, he crashes the party. The somewhat-stuffy host and hostess have a "shoes off!" policy to protect their new carpet. Before Stuart (plagued by a hole in a sock) can reach the blond, disaster strikes. Will Stuart be booted from the party and shooed away before he can connect with the mystery woman?
- Set in 1994, a group of young people drive from Lethbridge to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's vigil.
- The Lantern follows Jo after graduating high school and facing a life full of promise. Three months into her first term at art school in a competitive environment, she develops the debilitating symptoms of depression and anxiety.
- After an all-nighter painting creamers, Ester's fantasies begin to take over her reality.
- Commissioned and produced by EMPAC, If It Bleeds is a moving-image work inspired by recent events in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Historically, MMA was promoted as something very distinct from both boxing-a sport so corrupt that the best hardly ever fight the best-and from pro wrestling, which is totally scripted and driven by mic skills, costumes, and bad acting. But in seeking to expand the audience, MMA promoters increasingly court the artifice of wrestling to privilege the showman over the sportsman. If It Bleeds follows the fighters, commissioners, reporters and a promoter as they battle through post-fight pressers, promotional tours, and disciplinary hearings. The narrative unfolds in a game of one-upmanship as the characters are seduced by their public image and driven by the fiction that everything happens "for a reason." If It Bleeds uses the pageantry of sports-entertainment to explore the grotesque and sublime spectacle that is everyday survival.
- Newlyweds George and Anna check into the Sparkle Lite Motel expecting a night of marital bliss only to discover that their honeymoon suite has other plans for them.
- A young man returns to his hometown after five years away, and remembers why he left.
- "ELECTRIC MESSIAH" is a slice of life from an office after hours. Kevin the temp lets us into his secret occupation: an anthropologist studying the Corporate office worker. While Kevin is keenly informed of the species he is studying, he has lost sight of his own sanity. Live cadavers, vaudeville entertainers, and a book full of fingernail clippings are just the tip of the iceberg. Kevin embarks on a lucid examination of corporate malaise through the window of his own collapsing mental state.
- When you wash dishes for a living, your mind wanders. 'Lifers' follows Kevin on his journey through the inescapable nightmare of working full-time in a kitchen.
- The Okanagan Valley is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation and wealth. Behind this facade is a largely invisible labour force, comprised of temporary migrant workers from the Global South.
- The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political campaign in China launched and led by Zedong Mao from 1966 to 1976. Nearly ten million people, including outstanding scientists, artists, intellectuals and ordinary people, died during these "Ten Years of Turnmoil" or "Ten Years of Holocaust." This animated short film is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to the countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures which is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red guards since it was linked to western culture. The film mirrors tragedies that befall children and families who are forced to leave their homes, due to war, colonization and political campaigns - unfortunately a situation which is all too common today.
- Language, communication, culture, disability, and family. Conocerlos is a genuine, non-sentimental film about what can happen when a young couple is faced with all of those barriers on a single night, over a single meet-the-family dinner.
- The rise and demise of a long-distance relationship plays out over a game of tennis.