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Cinema Spectacular 2021

B-Side is the Coming of Age story of 17-year old Mal, who when invited into a group of female skateboarders, is challenged to face her longtime, repressed fear of getting back on the board. She ends up falling for Britt, a skater, who tries to help her overcome her affliction. Forced to confront the grief of the loss of her father, a once legendary Pro Skateboarder, Mal must de

B-Side

It's Katherine's birthday and, as a surprise, her girlfriend Alex takes the staff of a restaurant hostage. The two women then argue over how to use their psychic powers.

BEST BITCHES FOREVER

Léanne is in confinement at home, far from Gabrielle.

Contained

The Curtain: Two hospitalized strangers develop an unlikely friendship by revealing painful, intimate details about their lives through the safety and anonymity of the room's curtain divider. They bond through grief and humour, encouraging one another to make brave choices that hold personal consequences.

The Curtain

Dadaji/Ode is a video tribute to poems written by Roshni Kashap and Anjalica Soloman. The video lays the poets’ family photos over people’s silhouettes. The ghostly visuals capture the feeling of memories that live inside us the way we carry our loved ones with us even after they are gone.

Dadaji/Ode

Days Like These is an animated piece that celebrates dance in the midst of a global pandemic. Visually challenging and exciting, we watch a lone dancer whose image is constantly changing. Exploring tension and anxiety, it is story of the difficulty in overcoming the very natural desire to touch someone - to make contact when this is now unsafe.

Days Like These

Exercises in Being Close to You: A Story for the Arctic Refuge

In this experimental documentary a group of hikers travel through Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in hopes of intercepting the Porcupine Caribou migration. Documentary footage is intercut with experimental vignettes — exercises to rethink our relationship to the land and animals we hope to protect.

Exercises in Being Close to You: A Story for the Arctic Refuge

Based on Danielle Braund’s experience, FALLING IN is the story of Kailey, a struggling artist who returns to her small town, at the request of her father, Jim.

Both have secrets, and today is the day they open up.

As Kailey and Jim reveal their true selves, they create the space needed to start a new relationship. One based on honesty, acceptance, and love.

Falling In

Fish Bone

Fish Bone

A convenience store worker is having a rough night when she is greeted by a very unusual customer.

Girl And A Polar Bear

Hesar (Gate)

The music video is the backdrop to the song Hesar, a persian flamenco exploration of themes around immegeration, uprooting and planting roots in a new land, belonging and nostalgia. Farnaz explores her journey from Iran to Candada tackling mental health issues along the way.

Hesar (Gate)

Home Cooking

Home Cooking

Influenced - Social media star Rose is thrilled with her boyfriend’s beautiful Christmas gift until her followers throw its origins into dark doubt as she live-streams an unfortunate Christmas Dinner

Influenced

A young woman describes what it was like to fall in love in the locker room with her classmates. A rock song ensues as they fumble through romance and sports.

Play the Field

A little girl struggles to understand her uncontrollable anger.

Rage Monster

After a young woman loses someone important in her life, she struggles to find the happiness she once had.

Reflected

Alex, a woman in her thirties, and Kianna, an eighteen-year-old girl, trudge through the British Columbian forest. Both women are splattered with blood. They find a beautiful river and take the moment to rest and wash away the blood. The two women commiserate on their experiences with men as they make their way out of the woods.

A Safe Distance

Exhausted, Mark is ready to throw it all in, move to Mexico or take up a hobby. In his particularly niche and unusal profession he seems to be endlessly giving to those in his tiny, northern island community. We follow him through his last night on the job - comforting those most in need. As he ponders his path to a different life, he learns that perhaps he has as much to gain

Snug

Think of You

Think of You

Annie, Alicia and Michelle are three friends who have a picnic then a walk in a stretch of urban forest behind Annie's house. They encounter food hazards, bugs, dogs and shaky bridges on their little exploration, and with this- interesting reactions come about. Michelle records these reactions and her iphone saves them under the name "voice memo 9".

voice memo 9

"...Free, free like a bird!"

Wheels of Life is a short documentary that covers a single summer day in the lives of three long-term care residents as they enjoy a bit of freedom on an adaptive bicycle built for two.

Wheels of Life
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