Panoramic Sleights

Visual artist Alicia Nauta embarks on an ambitious new project in which she is both the creator and the canvas. Unfolding nearly wordlessly to the percussive music of John Cage, UNTOLD HOURS captures the painstaking labour of an artist at work with a singular blend of absurd humour and unexpected beauty.

A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.

Filmmaker Joële Walinga documents a moment of faith and waiting in the life of her Christian mother, a French-Canadian living in the Bible Belt who has opted to forgo cancer treatment.

Cave Small Cave Big is a film written by five-year-olds Madeline Harker and Adelaide Schwartz. Made to respect the gravity of the material, the film jumps from character to character as they cope with the transience of ownership, capturing that moment in a young mind when new muscles are stretched to grapple with ideas about possession and loss.