dir. Colin Nixon | Drama | 13 Minutes

In the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan's final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan's, her 50-year-old son. This fiction short-movie is a dive into death and grief, a tribute to maternal love comprised of nail clippings, aquarelle, strawberry jam and a ghost radar.

dir. Alexa-Jeanne Dubé | Drama | 15 Minutes

Oddly affected by the discovery of a dead racoon in their yard, an elderly couple decides to return to Joutel, a now-deserted town where they once spent the best years of their lives, to bury the animal.

dir. Romain Dumont | Drama, Comedy | 17 Minutes

A dramatic comedy that resembles a revolutionary tale, which attempts to explore the encounter between the well-coated contempt of the political class and a sudden awareness of its people.

dir. Allyson Glenn | Animation | 8 Minutes

In the Fray is a hand-drawn (digital) animation simulating the phenomena of sound synesthesia made as a multimedia collaboration with the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra. Through a series of abstractions, the audience will experience a simulation of the artist’s chromothesia (timbre-shape) perception of music.

dir. Weeda Azim | Drama | 7 Minutes

Eager for an escape from family, Safiya moves out to a sublet of an acquaintance, Ahu. Her new place is peaceful, but she soon comes across a journal with entries that take her on a reflective journey.

dir. Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Documentary | 14 Minutes

Churchill, Manitoba, is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We’ve seen the majestic images and classic wildlife TV programs - but what do these bears see of us? Nuisance Bear shifts our perspective revealing an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom bears must navigate during their annual migration.

dir. Stéphane Nepton | Documentary, Other | 5 Minutes

An ode to the land in relation to my double identity as an urban Indigenous person. A story that is both personal and poetic.

dir. Clara Milo | Drama | 14 Minutes

Aska oversees the pilgrimage of two young sisters through the landscapes of Iceland in their quest to appease an ill-tempered volcano. Having trapped their mother’s spirit inside a box, they race against Nature’s decay and prepare to feed her to the Snake of Fire before he brings death upon their land.

dir. Benjamin Nicolas | Drama | 11 Minutes

It's Christmas Eve, Martin drives customers in his VTC, suddenly, without warning, his body begins to make uncontrolled movements.