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The Armoire
Canada, 22 min.
The disappearance of a young boy's best friend leads to more questions than answers.... more
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The Audit (Line Item: Foster Child)
Canada, 2009, 9 min.
From the director of My Name is Poschsy: An Industrial Film (PSISF 2008) comes an insidious new sort of tax evasion. This time out our perhaps naive starlet, easily both victim and perpetrator, presents her case to the lens as she waits for the audit to begin.... more
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Bare Knuckle Duet
Canada, 2010, 11 min.
In the battlefield of divorce, even the smallest claims take on monumental importance.... more
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Break a Leg
Canada, 2009, 7 min.
A jaded gangster spells out his view of the job, while his tablemate sits in silence, waiting for him to hit his mark.... more
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Carmen
Canada, 2009, 5 min.
The iconic aria from Bizet's beloved opera about a tempestuous gypsy femme fatale gains clarity from this exquisite subtitled rendering.... more
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Do I Come on Too Strong?
Canada, 2010, 4 min.
A musical moment of revelation and redemption sung as the soundtrack to our heroine's sexual conundrum.... more
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Don't Walk Out That Door
Canada, 7 min.
A domestic squabble between a young couple leads to the archetypal challenge: "If you walk out that door, don't even think about coming back." Will our young lovers kiss and make up?... more
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Envy
Canada, 2009, 13 min.
Two sisters meet up at the home of their recently deceased mother, and their longstanding tug-of-war involving sibling rivalry reasserts itself.... more
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An Eyeful of Sound
Canada, 2009, 10 min.
I saw the most beautiful sound... Synaesthesia is a brain condition when as one sense is stimulated, two are trigged. In this animated doc, the interviewees can not only hear but also see music and sound.... more
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Flawed
Canada, 2010, 12 min.
Artist/filmmaker Andrea Dorfman's drawings burst colorfully into life as she animates the story of her long distance relationship with a man whose profession, plastic surgery, gives her plenty of fodder.... more
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The Freshwater Plague
Canada, 2010, 10 min.
The annual life cycle of the shadfly turns nasty when these flying hell-raisers become the biggest pain in the neck for the inhabitants of North Bay in Ontario.... more
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Hamlet, but You Didn't Hear It from Me
Canada, 2009, 11 min.
A funny little film about a huge royal tragedy.... more
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life
Canada, 2010, 25 min.
Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Spike Jonze and Jackie Burroughs lend their voices to this delightful animated short based on a Maurice Sendak story about a terrier who has everything a dog could ever wish for, but leaves home in search of something more.... more
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How Eunice Got Her Baby
Canada, 2009, 16 min.
Florence, a small town cashier with big dreams, has every intention of getting out of town -- until Darryl Dean Chipman wanders into the store where she works, holds her at gunpoint and steals her heart.... more
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Inuit High Kick
Canada, 2009, 3 min.
The grace, strength and precision of the traditional Inuit sport of high kick is artistically demonstrated in this cinematic treat from the far north.... more
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Lipsett Diairies
Canada, 2010, 15 min.
A strikingly moving exploration of an artist, his demons and, ultimately, his fall.... more
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Little Inconvenience
Canada, 9 min.
Waking up on a beautiful spring morning, a man soon finds that this day will be a day like no other.... more
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Losing It
Canada, 2009, 12 min.
A harried father lets his job come before his family and lives to regret it, when his young son disappears in this riveting cautionary tale about the priorities of parenting.... more
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Love & Volts
Canada, 2009, 20 min.
Francine runs a pet shop in a small town; Donald works in a slaughterhouse. Can true love – and a deftly wielded stun gun – help them overcome their differences and find true love?... more
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Man v. Minivan
Canada, 2009, 17 min.
On the brink of wedlock, Shane gets a fully-loaded gift from his in-laws that sheds light on the road ahead, causing him to have major second thoughts about his impending wedding.... more
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A Moth in Spring
Canada, 2010, 26 min.
Filmmaker Yu Gu returns to her hometown of Chongqing in China where she grew up to shoot a student film. What she encounters is a chilling deja vu experience of the political forces that caused her artist father to be exiled during the '89 student movement.... more
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Notes on Lying
Canada, 2010, 10 min.
A curious thing happens to a man when lying, cheating words come out of his mouth.... more
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Nuit Blanche
Canada, 2009, 5 min.
The fleeting yet explosive first moment of attraction, just before reality shatters it.... more
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Off Season
Canada, 2009, 13 min.
Stealing from summer cottages during the brutal off-season winter months, a transient and his faithful dog make a tragic discovery.... more
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Ormie
Canada, 2009, 4 min.
Ormie the Pig has a simple, obsessive goal: to get the cookies that are just out of reach on top of the refrigerator.... more
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Sad Day
Canada, 2009, 15 min.
Francois and his wife Sophie are headed for his mother's funeral when fate intercedes with startling suddenness.... more
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Soap
Canada, 2009, 15 min.
Eileen, an unhappily married woman, finally decides to put an end to her affair. After a wild and passionate farewell, her lover takes a quick shower, and Eileen's simple plan begins to spiral out of control.... more
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Subway Harmonies
Canada, 2010, 9 min.
Mrs. Wong's daily drudgery belies a secret, and extraordinary, gift from her past.... more
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The Trembling Veil of Bones
Canada, 2010, 13 min.
In this visually ravishing animated short, a clockmaker gets an unexpected package from a love of 30 years prior, throwing his stagnant life into disarray.... more
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