Films
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Solemates
Mike Feswick & James Rathbone
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Solemates is the story of a love triangle between a shoe store owner, a customer, and an old pair of shoes. When Andrew walks into William’s store to replace his own worn old pair of brogues, interest is piqued. Tension builds between the two men as Andrew tries on a new pair of shoes, and with that, questions of intention appear.
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Game Rules
Christian Zetterberg
Sweden, Fiction
Best Yought short film Award winning film offered by Cégeps de Chicoutimi, de Jonquière, d’Alma et St-Félicien and Alliance Média Jeunesse
A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, facing professional players, talent scouts and sponsors, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.
A youth handball team is about to participate in their first major tournament. As they aim for the top, facing professional players, talent scouts and sponsors, the game is suddenly interrupted by adults questioning who’s really allowed to play.
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Tea
Blake Rice
United States, Fiction
While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet.
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The Archivists
Igor Drljaca
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
In a dystopian future, a trio of musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.
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The Body/transmutationem
Bleue Pronovost-Teyssier
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
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The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, Animation
Short & Queer Award winning film offered by MainFilm.
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
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The Lemonade Stand - Making Medecines
Paul O'Bomsawin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The Lemonade Stand is a project about the relationship between Paul and his daughter Lyric in the context of their learning about plants and remedies. Through this project, Paul aims to provide a strong foundation for his daughter so that she can integrate and grow within her community. In this film, Paul and Lyric aspire to share the lessons they have learned along their journey with other children.
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Tout ce qui gronde
Ève Saint-Louis
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
On a dark winter evening, in 2001, siblings from two families gather to go tobogganing. Among them, fifteen-year-old Cléo is going through a rough patch and losing her bearings. What starts off as a regular outing will, in the end, be turning her life around.
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Tule
Jocelyn Garcia
United States, Animation
Tule is a poetic 2D animated mixed media short film championing awareness and hope. A modern day Pomo girl is empowered through poetic reflection on conversations with her Native community about the culturally vital, but now suffering Tule plant at Clear Lake.
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Two of Hearts
Mashie Alam
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Faced with an uncomfortable dilemma, a brother and sister engage in a battle of wits.