A Place

The documentary blends fiction and non-fiction to tell the story of a young woman whose encounter with the intense natural beauty of Iceland inspires her to examine her comfortable notions of sanity and creativity. The island's intensity reminds Andrea of her schizophrenic brother Jacob, a young man who isn’t bound by the conventional standards. “Delusional” thought and “erratic” behavior seem not so different from Andrea’s untamed surroundings in which the wind rants, the clouds are grandiose and the seasons bi-polar.

In a rapidly changing and unstable region, young Egyptians like many others around the Arab world aspire to migrate in order to find economic, cultural or religious stability. Four young Egyptians take a journey on different paths to find the place they can each call home. Whether it is for financial, family, religious, career or personal reasons, they search to find true belonging. For some the answer is immigration and for others the answer is right around them.

Nestled deep within British Columbia, the Gostlin family finds solace in the spirit of the mountains and culture of powder skiing, after an unexpected tragedy changes the family's dream forever. "Dreaming of a Better Place" tells a heartfelt winter tale nestled deep within the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia. The short film is directed by 24-year-old Cannes YDA nominee Cameron Thuman, with a sensational soundtrack recorded in Berlin's Funkhaus Cathedral by Liam Mour and co-stars Canadian professional skier Mark Abma. "Dreaming of a Better Place" received a sold-out worldwide premiere at the Canadian Screen Award Qualifying Whistler Film Festival and has additional festival play scheduled throughout 2023 spanning America, Canada, and Europe, including a Director's Choice Award and Academy Award Qualifying selections.

No Place To Call Home chronicles the lives of several people born and raised in Jesus People USA Evangelical Covenant Church, a religious sect on Chicago's north side. The film is essentially a story within the story as the director details how he began exploring his past of growing up in the sect, and his discovery of dozens upon dozens of cases of child sexual abuse, of which many were allegedly unreported by the sects leadership.

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.

Jean is preparing to leave her home that she shared with her late husband Brian who was taken from her in a tragic accident. She recounts the pivotal moments in their life together and the loss she feels now that he's gone. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

A comedy short directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young and himself.

The story concerns the love of Henry Little for Grace Carden and its reciprocal sentiment, with the time-honored interference of those who attempt to arrange the affairs of Cupid to suit social exigencies.

Filmed with unprecedented access to unreleased archives and interviews with the musicians, friends and family closest to him, Burn The Place You Hide is the first time the extraordinary life of Thomas Hansen has been fully documented.

One man and his fishing boat catalyzed the Ojibwe people’s reclamation of their treaty rights. This documentary short tells the story of A.B. LeBlanc, who was arrested for fishing without a license and fought the state of Michigan to preserve his community’s identity.

A film about virtue signalling.

A spaceship travels back in time to the age of dinosaurs.

Starting one Christmas when Tim McCloone volunteered to feed the homeless: "It was so quiet. So depressing." Something was missing. Music.

Set in the middle of a breathtaking South Dakota landscape, a love affair between Dong and Laurin, two women of different backgrounds buds, flowers, and fades.

Located in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, a full-scale concrete adaptation of Stonehenge is an active observatory and portal to other worlds. Shot on Super 8mm, this end-of-time silent film navigates science fiction tropes through spatial circularity and cosmic rhythms.

"In Japan, they say there are several tortures, such as a blood pond, a needle mountain, and a place with burning fire in hell. I picked one of these, a blood pond, to create my image of animation. There is a heaven and hell in everyone’s mind and I think that people dance because we feel heaven and hell inside ourselves. I made many of the images using a kids’ graphic computer called “My First Sony,” which was very easy to use, and I edited these graphics into animation by using a Sony Handicam V-88 in its animation function." - Tamami Asada

Dave and Sonia lived in Campbelville, Georgetown. Everything was going well until Sonia's friend Donna makes an appearance 3 o'clock one morning claiming that her home has been demolished in a storm. Sonia takes her into her home against the wishes of her husband and offered her to stay until she found a place. But things took a turn when Sonia had to leace temporarily to the USA and Donna was left alone in the house with Dave.

Phnom Penh-based dancer Prumsodm Ok—a Cambodian-American and pioneer of the first Cambodian gay dance company Prumsodun Ok & NATYARASA—demonstrates the meticulous form of Khmer dance. This short draws a parallel between the nature of film as a time machine and the dancing human body as both fundamentally dynamic and temporal. Within the frame beckons a prayer for healing and empowerment in the face of violence and conflict.

A professor of physics is abducted by her counterpart from an alternate dimension--one where her husband has died. Replaced by her doppelganger, she struggles to rebuild the machine and reopen the gateway between worlds to regain the life that should be hers.