Genres: narrative

  • Copsi

    A young couple (Mojdeh and Reza) are hosting Reza’s old friend Edmon in their house. Mojdeh has always wanted to become a journalist for Boojga news network. Not willing to adapt to the reality distorting culture of media, she never gets accepted. Reza is studious but an unsuccessful film maker. From the beginning Edmon grows fond of Mojdeh who is a reclusive painter. After multiple attempts Edmon finally gets close to Mojdeh but realizing her rebellious personality backs away. Edmon leaves the country and the circumstances get worse for Reza and Mojdeh who both suffer from Melancholia. The story is…

  • The Phoenix

    The Phoenix takes place in the not so distant future. Mankind has developed the ability to transfer the mind and soul of a human being into an android host body. Mars Reveille is a dying man whose life is now moment to moment. He decides to undergo this miraculous procedure for the sake of his grandson Ben. Who without his grandpa would be alone in this world and left to fend for himself. Mars’ transformation is a success but the connection to his grandson is frayed and there are quiet gnawing doubts if Mars is real at all. Mars and…

  • The Lion

    Every night for the past three months begins and ends the same for Atom Sprengja…in tears. Atom and his father Joachim quietly exist parallel to one another on a picturesque farmstead in the middle of nowhere. Two of a dwindling lineage of Icelandic farmers, each day begins and ends in almost silence. Grief commands both father and son, stricken by the recent loss of the woman who was the light and sound of the small family, Atom’s mother and Joachim’s wife. Joachim remains silent; hoping time and routine will heal Atom’s wounds. Atom suffers having his father silent and distant,…

  • Soft Core

    Two bridesmaids form an unlikely connection over their bizarre sexual awakenings.

  • Silvia in the Waves / Silvia dans les vagues

    Noa struggles to honor the identity of his recently deceased parent while his mother tries to uphold the appearance of a conventional family. Grief and fantasy entwine to reveal the complex relationship between history and erasure, identity and memory.

  • The Writer

    A lady writer goes to her favourite restaurant to write her new romance… will it be her own ?

  • Death of a Gentleman

    Playing tour guide, the director takes the audience through his own disintegration as an old man. Hints of his past loom about in the form of himself as a young boy and a beautiful woman who emanates a relinquished love – or love relinquished. All this, and eventually his own death, must play out in front of the dismissive narrator.

  • 16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself

    Matthew Lancit’s 16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself wryly plays with the concept of selfhood, traversing themes such as neuroticism, introspection and self-denigration. By allowing us an intimate look at sixteen of his supposed personal flaws from the physical to the psychological, Lancit posits the idea that we do not determine our identities but rather they determine us. (Sullivan+Strumpf Gallery)

  • Protector

    “Protector” is the first in a series of short documentaries that explores Osborne’s relationship with their uncle/godfather and his experiences with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), institutionalization, and working in Mental Health.”Protector” attempts to portray a person living with DID in an authentic and multi-faceted way. This documentary was funded by the Ontario Arts Council.