Between Nations
Between Nations follows how a mixed indigenous family struggles and how they navigated a difficult upbringing and history using their culture and ceremony.
Blood or Water
Dara, a thirteen-year-old Macedonian immigrant, lives in a low-income Toronto high-rise with her father, Robert. Kind when sober but volatile when drunk, Robert struggles to connect with Dara, who prefers speaking English while he speaks Macedonian. During a sweltering summer, Dara spends her days with her neighbour, Georgia, until their friendship is disrupted by a new classmate, Annette. As Georgia grows closer to Annette, Dara's jealousy deepens, and she retreats to the peace she finds underwater.
How to Make a Baby
On the night of their first at-home insemination, Alex and Natalie have planned for everything… except each other. Alex has probabilities and odds calculated to the fourth decimal while Natalie has enough sage burning to raze the house to the ground.
Kasra
When a disgruntled Iranian Canadian mama's boy and his dead-beat mom embark on a heist to alleviate family debts, tensions boil over between them mid-robbery.
Nu9ve
A theatrical and experimental short film that follows Camila, a mother navigating the chaotic emotional landscape of motherhood, identity, guilt, desire, and anxiety. Through surreal memories, dark humor, performance, and fragmented moments from her life, Camila confronts the beauty and contradictions of becoming a mother in a society filled with expectations about womanhood.
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