*Please note: All films are geo-locked for viewing within Alberta only.
A CLOCKWORK BETA
Directed by: Mr. Kaleidoscope | 2020 | 6 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of The Penny Black
Artist Matthew Pleva creates illustrated narratives composed of cut-out drawings mounted on brass armatures, making multi-dimensional dioramas.
BAJO: Guardians Of The Reef
Directed by: Alice Colfox | 2020 | 4 min | UK
🔹Screening ahead of Wild Things
In these times when we are so easily detached from the natural world, a group of people called the Bajau are still inspiringly close to the water.
BITING THE BULLET
Directed by: Lizbeth Calingasan | 2020 | 11 min | Australia
🔹Screening ahead of Love, Oran
Biting the Bullet is an observational documentary about Junqing (Tamie) Tan, an international student forced to try and find a better life in Australia.
CLOWN
Directed by: Shane O'Neill | 2021 | 10 min | Ireland
🔹Screening ahead of Forevermoore: The Angelo Project
A seasoned professional clown on the eve of retirement reflects on a lifetime of adoration, rejection, humour, and heartbreak.
DANI BURT
Directed by: Brian Olliver | 2020 | 11 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Not About Me
Dani Burt is the story of a recent amputee who garnered the courage to become a doctor of physical therapy and the first-ever women's World Adaptive Surfing champion.
DEAR KILAH
Directed by: Caroline Cannon | 2021 | 10 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of GO-GO City
Russ, a young, Black father experiencing homelessness, struggles between trying to provide for his daughter and wanting to be a part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
DEVIL’S GOLD
Directed by: Daniel Agre, Alexander Sworik | 2020 | 3 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of Ophir
This is one miner's story of hard work, courage, and suffering at the Kawah Ijen mountain mine, all in the name of family.
JOE BUFFALO
Directed by : Amar Chebib | 2021 | 16 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of The Line
Joe Buffalo showcases the Maskwacis Cree Nation skateboard legend and the variety of demons he battled en route to becoming a pro.
GUARDIANS OF THE GRASSLANDS
Directors: Ben Wilson, Sarah Wray | 2021 |12 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of To Which We Belong
Guardians of the Grasslands is a collaboration between conservationists and local ranchers seeking to showcase how cattle continue to create hope on what’s left of these iconic landscapes.
HEARTS & STRIPES
Directed by: Sorin Pavelesco | 2020 | 4 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave
Artist Eric Waugh talks about his latest work, "Hearts and Stripes," a monumental painting in which he honours the victims of COVID-19.
HOMESTREAM
Directed by: Lily Blackham, Giulia Gandini | 2020 | 11 min | UK
🔹Screening ahead of Someone Like Me
Lily, a woman experiencing homelessness in London, has been given a phone to document her story.
I DON’T DO THIS FOR LOVE
Directed by: John Dower | 2020 | 12 min | UK
🔹Screening ahead of Vinyl Nation
The film follows American Singer-Songwriter Nathan Bell as he tours Scotland, Wales and England.
IT’S ROCKET SCIENCE
Directed by: Rachel Knoll | 2020 | 5 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Alien on Stage
It’s Rocket Science is an inspirational look at the self-named Rocketman and how his struggle with dyslexia and dropping out of school pushed him to forge his own unique future.
LLAVES (KEYS)
Directed by: Nicholas Manting Brewer, Mayra A. Flores | 2020 | 3 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Missing in Brooks County
A young mother shares her story about her family being separated by the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE).
MACLEOD
Directed by: Seymour | 2021 | 24 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Hail to the Deadites
Kevin MacLeod is a film composer who has created over two-thousand songs and offered them for free to the world. His music has been heard more than most contemporary pop singers, yet almost no one knows who he is.
MADE IN THE MITTEN
Directed by: Zeppelin Zeerip | 2020 | 9 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of The Last Villains
Made in the Mitten is an homage to the humble beginning of snowboarding—on a skinny piece of wood in the backyards of the Midwest.
MAN WITH A BROOM
Directed by: Lydia Leiber, Caroline Nouhan, Joel Rader | 2021 | 11 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Hell or Clean Water
Man With a Broom follows Fred, an unsheltered resident of Connecticut who sweeps the streets.
SEAWOLF
Directed by: Alexander Sworik | 2021 | 9 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of End of Line: The Women of Standing Rock
Seawolf explores the perspectives of Mike Willie and K̕odi Nelson, two First Nations men looking to conserve their land, protect their culture, and find reconciliation.
STILL I RISE
Directed by: Jeni Lee | 2021 | 3 min 48 sec | Australia
🔹Screening ahead of Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution & Islam
Namrah the Brave survived being trafficked, but she continues to feel shame. How will she rise up and own her name?
THE WALKING MAN
Directed by: Anaïsa Visser | 2020 | 10 min | Canada
🔹Screening ahead of The Paper Man
The Walking Man follows an 82-year-old man with a passion for the cosmos who has walked the equivalent of the Earth's circumference nearly four times.
THE TREE CARVERS
Directed by: Cory Ford, Christopher Halmo | 2020 | 9 min | USA
🔹Screening ahead of Operation Wolf Patrol
The Tree Carvers follows a Polynesian woodcarver and his son, who use an energy called “Mana” to bring out the spirits that lie within a historic tree stump.