A Montreal video artist and New York poet reflect on their complicated relationship in Me and My Victim. Maurane is a Montreal-based multimedia artist specializing in video art and Billy Pedlow is a poet living in New York. The two met while Maurane was on a trip to New York and their story is told …
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A young man tries to save his girlfriend from a chainsaw-wielding maniac, all while singing about it, in Chainsaws Were Singing. Tom (Karl Ilves) is distraught when the new love of his life Maria (Laura Niils) is kidnapped by the chainsaw-wielding Killer (Martin Ruus), who has been terrorizing the countryside. Tom hitchhikes a ride with …
A transgender podcast returning home for the holidays reencounters her town’s legendary serial killer in Carnage for Christmas. Lola (Jeremy Moineau) is the successful co-host of a true-crime podcast who is travelling home for Christmas, to the small town of Purdan, for the first time since running away and transitioning. Lola stays with her sister …
After the death of her best friend, a woman obsesses over their missing cat in Booger. Anna (Grace Glowicki) is a young woman grieving the death of her best friend Izzy (Sofia Dobrushin). While cleaning, Anna is bitten by Izzy’s grumpy cat Booger, who proceeds to jump out the window. To the concern of her …
A drunken applejack salesman has to rebuild his fortune by becoming the world’s greatest fur trapper in Hundreds of Beavers. Jack Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) is an applejack salesman who finds his business destroyed by invading swarms of beavers. Left freezing in the wilderness, Jack has to build himself back up and catch various …
Bodysnatching aliens try to make a home for each other on planet Earth in The Becomers. An alien forced to evacuate their planet lands on Earth and takes the form of first Francesca (Isabel Alamin) and later Carol (Molly Plunk). “Carol” is eventually reunited with their lover, who takes the form of Carol’s husband George …
A Chinese immigrant between a powder-keg romance with a skid-row punk in Baby, Don’t Cry. Baby (Zita Bai) is a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant in Seattle, who has a troubled home life with her mentally ill mother (Helen Sun), which she escapes by shooting home movies. One day Baby confronts 20-year-old drug dealer Fox (Vas Provatakis), in …
A cafe owner discovers he has the ability to communicate with himself two minutes into the future in Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. Kato (Kazunori Tosa) is the owner of a cafe, who arrives home at his upstairs apartment to discover a version of himself communicating from the cafe’s computer monitor two minutes into the …