Movies

Shenzhen, New York. The 16th typhoon of the year is approaching the Chinese coast. In the sweltering night, two queer voices call out to one another from each of the cities. Slowly, the two metropolises, filmed on celluloid, overlap and merge. The two voices then fear another typhoon approaching, one that is even more threatening.

The voice we hear comes from far off-screen, thousands of kilometres away from the vistas of Toronto unfolding before us. These are countless voicemails from Colombia left by the director’s loving grandmother.

Radio Galère, an independent radio station in Marseille, has been on the air for over 40 years, giving voice to what we hear far too little of: the anger, the struggles, the hopes, and the stories of those whom society renders invisible in their daily lives. Through its volunteers and staff, the station is a place where speaking out becomes a political act and a tool for empowerment.

A BroHo documentary that tells the story of 4 schmucks, and how they sought to change the Overton Window by creating bizarre videos and pushing a philosophy of loving the corrupted.

A century-old fishing club on Canada's west coast faces an existential crisis as salmon populations dwindle and members wrestle with their legacy, realizing that their biggest catches might be a thing of the past.

Aspiring screenwriter Louis has finally caught a big job but what looks like his dream come true turns out to be much harder than he thought. With help from his spiritually lost and borderline-alcoholic best friend, Pierre, he takes on the challenge.

Cut, drowned, burned, buried, and evaporated, Myeong Wol's body eumhwa blossoms in a dream. Eumhwa is erotic image, negative, and secret story. Part I traces colonial courtesan body, exploring erotic of rumor via peach, parasite, and film metaphors. Part II reworks 79 experimental films as negative found footage. Work in digital and film, letting vanished body's eumhwa blossom.

After agreeing to drive him to a job interview, Dean reconnects with his old friend Travis.

Jakob and Konne, two adventurous fathers bring their two year old sons, on a six-day mountain bike tour through the Swiss Alps. From rumbling stomachs and croissant crises to unavoidable tantrums – what begins as an ideal plan quickly turns into a test of patience for all four.

A person's suicide attempt is interrupted by a strange magician.

Santiago was born prematurely, with little hope of survival and the risk of being forgotten by both his biological parents and a system that rarely guarantees a stable home. The documentary follows Víctor and Fernando, the first gay couple to marry in Baja California, as they face years of discrimination and bureaucracy in their fight to adopt. Their struggle sheds light on thousands of children left in institutions and affirms a simple truth: every child deserves to grow up in a loving home. Santiago’s arrival, "love at first sight", transforms a legal battle into an act of justice and tenderness.

Paralyzed by the fear of the misty unknown, the protagonist was self-imprisoned, only to break free from their confines after confronting the reality of their stagnant self.

I work at a call center making a graduation documentary. One ear to the phone, straining toward the past, the future, anywhere but here—calls find me: their voices, silences, sighs—worthless, discarded—passing through me into the partition as faint, indelible stains. Messages accumulate in a voicemail left unopened.

A trip to the valley with two young children.

When the steel factory she’s working to dismantle comes back to life one night, immigrant Morana must face the fragility of her own existence - and how much she truly has in common with the laid-off workers.

‘The Bridge’ follows a young woman who hears a mysterious phone ringing in the forest and follows it into a surreal world, where inspiration resides but cannot manifest. It is a meditation on the creative act as a passage between fantasy and reality; a concept I was very much in touch with throughout the process of manifesting this film.

A girl faces her guilt after receiving a message.

Finding accord among the photosensitive inhabitants of Frankfurt's Palmengarten as they absorb, transform and transfer the late summer light.

After the end of a short relationship with her best friend, Clara, Sophie struggles to understand what went wrong and has to decide who to blame for all that happened.

A short documentary film on the trials and triumphs of a young man's obesity journey.