Kayla Fragman

Beyond the cultivated lands of the Quebec countryside (in Canada), barns stand like guardians of the secrets and stories that haunt them. A catalogue of spooky Eastern Township landscapes.

With eight marriages and divorces under his belt, the film delves into how Muhammed ended up in this situation and whether he's learned anything from it.

Barely 20 years after the Sydney Olympics when water polo was first opened to female athletes, Canadian national team polo players are getting ready for the Tokyo Games, following paths barely trodden by their predecessors. Aiming to be both immersive and contemplative, this documentary transports the audience in the middle of a match, on the players' bench, between the stands and the surface.

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.

As he grieves his father’s recent death, Kevin Rainha searches for answers within the traces left by José and the family members who surround him. An intimate portrait, Tio Kevin explores the support between a niece and uncle, a director and their subject. The film follows their return to the family cottage for the first time since José’s death, a place which holds the foundations of many family memories.

A young woman is chased across a schoolyard by faceless people. She escapes by entering a car that drives by the schoolyard, and she is brought to a garden.

When Felix returns home, he realizes that his mother has put their house up for sale. In the evening, the memories of a bygone era come alive and reappear in the darkness of the corridors, crawling down the stairs like threatening ghosts.

A film crew is shooting a scene. Their gestures gradually slip into dancing, revealing the beauty lying in the choreography of film sets.

Director Kayla Fragman presents a deeply personal, sensory piece on Parkinson’s disease and her Portuguese grandparents who lived in Quebec for 45 years.

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.

After spraining her ankle fleeing a terrible date, Zahrah is forced to spend an evening with her estranged ex.

A poetic crossover in a ruined world where each one survives alone in the collective disarray. The bodies in movement, dance and physical prowess replace the word and embody and reveal bruised characters, haunted by a past that is sweeter than this crumbling world.

Employing archival materials, interviews, and 16mm and digital film, the experimental documentary explores the political and cultural forces that have come to bear on the site—from its halted construction to its imposed abandonment and attempted reappropriations. How has architecture been instrumentalized in the ongoing construction of a national narrative? What is the role of architects in shaping society within corrupt ecologies of power and failed financial engineering? Film becomes a plastic medium to reframe the positivism of urban masterplans and architectural monuments and formulate a social critique. Modern structures under threat of collapse stand in as protagonists to tell the story of a promised metropolis that never came to be, while the fairground acts as a lens to look at implicit collapse beyond the perimeter of the site.

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.