Toronto International Film Festival

Little Bird follows the journey of a young adult struggling to face the paramount loss of their mother. In this semi autobiographical film, we are taken on an afternoon journey through grief. This short film will break your heart and help piece it back togethe...

imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival

An incredibly sweet story of a single mother who has dedicated her life to her child and, working hard for her family, goes out for a night of fun. She meets someone special and has to navigate her feelings during the initial parts of a queer relationship...

Toronto International Film Festival
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
SXSW

We are transported to the arctic and beyond as a young shaman apprentice is met with her first obstacle. On a guided journey to the underworld she is tasked to find the answers needed to help heal an sick comm...

Winner Best Actor, Best Animation, Best Director - Wild Bunch Film Festival 2023
Winner Best Cast - Alternative Film Festival 2023
Winner Best Director, Best Editing - Indie Shorts Mag 2023

Lem tirelessly seeks the prized Boonashy, a notoriously taxing and addictive creature to hunt. But then a...

Captured across a span of three years amidst the cultural transmission camps in the community of Manawan, this documentary sheds light on the critical need for cultural preservation. ANISKENAMAKEWIN is a testament to the power of film as a tool for advocacy and celebrates the resilience and stren...

Centering protests, poetry, and the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is heralded as a voice for the next generation of Native Hawaiians as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, reinvigorates her art.

USA - 2021 - 12m 16s
Directed...

Sky Hopinka combines audio recordings of his father with increasingly abstract video images of the landscapes they separately traversed. “Jáaji” is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language.

2016 - USA - 7m 40s
Directed By: Sky Hopkina

The Kari trees in New Zealand are dying from ideas created by the encroachment onto their country. Kauri is a moving poem, a warning from Mother Earth to remember the impact society has on other living beings like the trees, oceans, animals, and land.

New Zealand - 2019 - 5m
Dir. Alex Lazarowich...

Canada Shorts Film Festival
San Jose International Short Film Festival
Roma Short Film Festival

Flyer Boys is the story of a Ukrainian grandfather and his Canadian-born grandson who find themselves at both generational and cultural odds as they spend long summer days working together delivering ...

Created by filmmaking collective Anarca Filmes, Usina-Desejo contra a Indústria do Medothe is the group's first interactive film, bringing alternative endings (see Screening Instructions below) for the viewer to choose from. Directed by Amanda Seraphico, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorran Dias, the film...

Vancouver International Film Festival

This distinctive short film from directors Chloe Van Landschoot and Niamh Wilson examines the relentless nature of healthcare work, the exhaustion that the job can elicit and the toll it takes on body and mind. Utilising movement, rhythm, and dance, Tidal is...

Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival

A 10-year-old, gender non-conforming student navigates his way through the school, in search of a safe washroom.

Canada - 2016 - 6m
Directed By: Charlie Hidalgo
Written By: Kathleen Hepburn, Charlie Hidalgo
Starring: Jonah Kaplun

Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

Caroline Monet's short film Mobilize flows seamlessly through the rushing waterways of the far north parallel to the fast-paced urban south, witnessing the hasty streets of a city and the charging force of a canoe on water. In tandem wi...

Winner Canada Shorts Film Festival
HollyShorts Film Festival
Santa Monica International Film Festival

A sex toy mishap leads to a night in the emergency room where a just broken-up couple are forced to confront their issues on love and relationships.

Canada - 2018 - 14m
Directed By: Corey Shurg...

"Juno Rinaldi’s Such A Small Thing addresses the cultural inertia around intimate partner violence" - The Globe and Mail

Hamilton Film Festival
Toronto Shorts International Film Festival

A woman in her 40s returns to her small hometown to confront her ex-boyfriend about an assault that happene...

An eccentric one-line actor, keen to save his characters from extinction, uses costumes from past roles to tell their stories and inadvertently wins over a world weary wardrobe mistress into his theatrical imagination. This deeply affecting short film is anchored by the exquisite performances of ...

SXSW Film Festival
Fantasia Film Festival

A man, who is having an affair with a young woman, gets home late as usual. But that night, he finds something wrong with his wife Satomi. Since then, he gets strayed into her dark side, the "labyrinth".

Japan - 2018 - 14m
Directed By: Reiki Tsuno
Writt...

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival

Nowhere Land focuses on Bonnie Ammaaq and her family as they remember the vastness and irreplaceable richness of living on the land. When the family relocates to Igloolik, they face the confines modern society can impose and how col...

Vancouver International Film Festival

This short film is a portrait of Tofino, BC intertidal artist Pete Clarkson as he crafts his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. He, like so many of us around the world, was deeply affe...

Oaxaca Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival

Emmie, a young kick ass rock singer, is consumed by the voices in her head telling her what she should be instead of what she wants to be. It's not until she finally overcomes her self destructive patterns and gives over to the ...

Vancouver International Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival

In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve's short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Ca...

Newport Beach Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival
Blood in the Snow Festival

Mark is a fool for love. With the help of his closest confidant, Kyle, he decides to go after the woman of his dreams. When Katie notices a creepy figure lurking outside her workplace, she hurries home. These clashing ...

Toronto Short Film Festival

The story of two friends in their mid to late 30's who aren't married, who aren't mothers, who aren't failures, who are both named Jessica. Two woman, one name, same problems. Thank God they have each other.

Canada - 2018 - 13m
Directed By: Jasper Savage
Written By:...

Susan Coyne stars as a recently divorced woman continually confronted by the titular question and struck by the fact that those asking don't really care. Like any joke with a good punchline, this one slays thanks to a surprisingly operatic ending.

Directed By: Martha Burns, Susan Coyne
Writte...