Laurence Wells

Mist. Dust. A bowling alley in the crosshair of a thunderstorm. A pregnant woman, a businessman and a widower find shelter in its midst. Pins are knocked down until gloomy moths kindle an outage.

A wealthy family withdraws from society after something unforeseen happens. When one of its members leaves the house on the pretext of paying an innocent visit to someone outside, the family’s fragile equilibrium is disturbed. In Broad Daylight presents an inscrutable, tantalisingly elusive fictional world enhanced by a colourful array of absurd characters.

A personal tribute to the filmmaker’s grandfather, a first-generation immigrant to Canada from Jamaica in the 1950s. Through both digital and super 8mm found footage, Michael’s past catches up with him as he struggles with difficult memories of his immigration to Canada, finding comfort in his spectacularly over-grown garden.

An intimate insight into the life of Ilana, a single mother of three, and how her passion for pole dance has affected her young daughters and their family life.

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.

Since she has witnessed a conflagration, Adèle cannot stop playing with matches. The day after, while walking to school, she's caught on the act by a strange firefighter-dressed figure which starts following her. Unable to beat the figure away, the schooler resigns herself to revisit the still fuming ashes of a painful end of high school day.

A father who indulges in nebulous experiments in the basement, a mother secretly in love with her karate teacher, a cocaine-addicted son who wanders between musical experimentation and love affairs: the portrait of a dysfunctional family.