HUV568, Austin, TX

A case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. How does the way we talk about natural resources reflect how we perceive and treat them? How do we begin changing those broken systems? What can we learn from our past mistakes?

Fed up with the cost of living in Canada's most populous city, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of "Wildmen" in the city's vast ravine network.

Seven-year-old Maggie desperately wants to get her elderly dog, Taco, a cake for his upcoming birthday. As her mother repeatedly refuses, Maggie learns her reason for not wanting to order one.

During a tense family Christmas party, Luci, a queer Peruvian-Canadian woman with a massive chip on her shoulder, slips away to give her beloved nephew the gift of his dreams: a beautiful sequinned dress.

An elderly man spends his days online, watching livestreams, as the turbulence of the real world threatens to impede on his isolation.

Tilly, the youngest member of a multigenerational home, attempts to render her turbulent family dynamic into art.

Marcus, a 23-year-old international student has just graduated and is now looking for a job in Toronto while his girlfriend travels to London for a violin competition. All alone and homesick, he finds himself living in fleeting moments with little money and a slow apathy towards his film production degree. As he waits for his work permit, he must reflect on whether to stay in Toronto or to return to Hong Kong.

Classmates Samantha and Melissa get carried away while finishing a project for their high school English class.

A locksmith’s date night becomes a waking nightmare.

A young woman sparks a friendship with a kid filmmaker on the Toronto Islands.

Following the death of her dog, a girl orders a new pet from a mysterious online pop-up ad.

A teenage girl must come to terms with her tense relationship with her mother while reckoning with the suspicion that she may be eating far more than just fruits from their garden.

Adelaide must look to her painful past for inspiration in order to finish composing the score for a romance film.

The boundaries between fiction and reality blur when an aspiring actress is hired to play the missing daughter of a grieving couple.

A young car wash attendant discovers his cantankerous old boss' secret.

Struggling for her mother's affection during a getaway trip, an imaginative young girl discovers a mythical creature.