SECOND HAND

With everything to prove, a determined young painter competes in a twelve-hour art competition. But when her model becomes mysteriously frozen in time, she is forced to confront the truth that real creativity needs movement, vulnerability, and connection.

A short film about two former lovers who accidentally meet in purgatory after the(ir) world ends.

Tony, a middle-aged man, is sitting at a table with a chessboard setup. Brent, in his early twenties, walks into the cafe and takes a seat across from Tony. They play a game of chess while they talk about business, through the lens of chess. Tony is clearly a veteran that has been playing a long time, and knows his way around the board. Brent is new to the game, but has a creativity and strategy that Tony can’t read.

When a regretful woman heading to the past meets a rebellious teen escaping to the future at a time-travel station, their bitter clash over the burdens of adulthood inspires one to alter her destiny while the other hurtles toward it.

When a struggling young drug dealer unknowingly steals from the city's most feared crime family, he becomes the unsuspecting pawn in a silent war orchestrated by a brilliant underground mastermind.

Time flows backward through the last moments of a man’s life, where gestures precede their meanings and emotions echo before they are felt. As the world rewinds around him, fragments of presence dissolve into silence, revealing a final truth hidden at the beginning of it all.

Anaya, a young Barbadian woman living in Toronto, is forced to confront her growing disconnection from home after she realizes she can no longer remember a song her late grandmother used to sing to her. When two Caribbean folklore spirits appear in her apartment offering to help, what begins as a search for memory transforms into a haunting test of identity, ancestry, and cultural belonging.