Writer
A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he's sworn to protect.
Director
A black police officer is pushed to the edge, taking out his frustrations on the privileged community he's sworn to protect.
Sound
A woman deciphers a message received in her dreams, sent by a colony of bees.
Director
When 15 year-old Talia challenges the assistance envelope given to her by her school, she's suddenly thrust in a daisy chain of errors that lead her to face a larger system: growing up.
A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of its protagonist's graveyard-shift fantasies. After opening with disquieting archival footage of the demolition of Africville, the film shifts to an austere observational portrait. A palatable sense of the duration of midnight work slowly shifts into subtle gestures that hint towards choreographed events. Eventually, a breech occurs as the protagonist fuses with an emergent dreamscape, where ruined landscapes and a resurrection of an extinct community intertwine. Using the protagonist's disembodied point-of-view, the audience floats above a reconstructed Africville, one forever present, nesting in a bed of saltwater fog.
Tree Voice
Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?
Cory
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie — лишь небольшой кусок вселенной трейлерпарка Саннивейл, придуманной тремя школьными друзьями из Новой Шотландии. Задумка, сделать героями монкьюментэри-шоу трех закадычных друзей, ведущих категорически антисоциальный образ жизни, из малобюджетной черно-белой короткометражки превратилась в целую эпопею.
Cory
Вы наверно видели хоть раз отрывки из популярных на западе реалити-шоу в духе: «один день из жизни патрульного полицейского». Теперь представьте, что в центре внимания не образцовые бобби в отглаженной форме, а два абсолютно антисоциальных типа, зарабатывающих на жизнь толканием травы местной шпане и оказанием населению услуг по умерщвлению надоедливой соседской живности. Имитация документальных съемок настолько правдоподобна, что через пять минут вы всецело погружаетесь в это реалити-шоу о нелегких криминальных буднях парней из трейлер-парка. Съемочная группа трех-четырех человек ловит каждый миг жизни Рикки и Джулиана и всюду следует за ними, откровенно раздражая своими видеокамерами местный электорат.
Music
This documentary presents two young women from Halifax who are organizing rock concerts to raise money for the group Eastcoast Against Racism. Bronwen and Yaffa believe that the universal language of music will help unite the community. At the same time, they struggle to renew their friendship with Scott, a former Ku Klux Klan member. This moving film is set against a vibrant soundtrack of punk and rap music.
