Canada
Running time: N/A
How far will a man go to outrun his own grief? A doctor becomes emotionally attached to a young patient. Who decides the medical course of treatment? The patient, the family or the medical staff? The compassion is palpable as the doctor, Jim, (Gord Rand, Orphan Black), faces his own humanity in a grueling competition. If the doctor cannot save his patient, can he at least save himself? Through spellbinding story-telling, the beauty of nature is juxtaposed against the stark environment of the hospital.
Running time: N/A
To give or to receive; which is the best way? Why do we give to others, especially in a society that seems to say that our primary goal is to accumulate wealth? Follow artists working for a year on an ephemeral project that lives only the week of Burning Man, and experience artists whose works protect a building (and its inhabitants) by transforming it into a living museum. Watch the public respond to art that gives or asks people to give a flower or a song. See a community that thrives in a giving economy and suggests that when you give away everything, you find real wealth in return.
Running time: N/A
Pilates, internet dating, and fear of unemployment. Uncertainty abounds in this biting comedy about life while working in a controversial oil and gas industry. Circle of Steel follows Wendy Fong, a young engineer just getting started in a new company when rumors of layoffs threaten her future. She fights the monotony of her wintery surroundings with Pilates workouts and internet dating, but her routine soon falls apart as the likelihood of losing her job becomes a probability.
Running time: N/A
Mothers' actions have the biggest stakes. Maura Mackenzie, a talented concert pianist and loving mother of two young girls. What starts as an ordinary summer day, ends as an unfortunate event jeopardizes Maura's world. Her husband decides it's best he takes the kids. Maura spends her days wandering around until one evening, a kind stranger intervenes. With the encouragement from her new friend, and an ever-supportive father, Maura acquires the strength to rebuild her life and win her daughters' love back. Will it be too late though?
Running time: N/A
Stranded in an arctic Mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.
Running time: N/A
Everyone has that friend - the one who shows up uninvited, drinks all your booze, and hits on your girlfriend - who we all secretly hate and wish would just go away; one night, a group of friends decide enough is enough and theres only one way to get rid of him for good they MUST KILL KARL.
Running time: N/A
A surrealist rom-com about the push and pull of modern dating.
Running time: N/A
Due to a colonial history, Indigenous youth from a small remote reservation use square dancing to heal the trauma from the recent suicide epidemic.
Running time: N/A
A non-spoken short film that tells the surreal stories of nine characters evolving in the same space in a complex choreography of interlaced paths. The tight human pattern they weave often comes really close to overlapping, yet they remain invisible to one another.
Running time: N/A
Charlotte, Mathilde, Marie, and Diane reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, sexual awakening comes hand-in-hand with discovering their desire for other womenand a joyful new self-awareness.