Content from Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.

In the distant future, within the city of LOS MUTANTES, FREDA DAVIS and LUCILLE NERO, two spies from the National Union of National Spies (N.U.N.S.), ask BETTY POWELL to help bring down the Catholic Association of Quebec (C.A.Q.) and its oppressive leader, JEANNE VERSACON.

Vuk, a 30-year-old ex-convict haunted by his best friend's suicide, is trying to save his younger brother, Zizi.

As an older woman is cleaning her home, she remembers that she is all alone in her home and dreams of the boy that once lived with her.

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.

A young woman's television stops working, so she gets a telescope to watch TV through her neighbor's window.

Two acquaintances desperately wish they didn't have to shake hands.

On Valentine's Day, a young couple preparing to spend a romantic moment in the spa has their evening messed up by the appearance of a monstrous creature.

A woman dances out the effects of Lithium, a white crystalline solid used to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Lithium helps to control the symptoms of mania, which may include a reduced need for sleep, poor judgment, hyperactivity, and sometimes hostility.

An animated documentary about a memorable event: in spring 1997, a coloring contest is launched for the release of a new variety of ketchup.

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

A perverted boy looks through a peephole. He sees something he is not suppose to see, a woman farting in a bathtub.

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.

Mathieu comes back from Alberta after his elder brother's death in order to dig out memories from the town where they grew up.

A chase encounter between a wild woman and a rabbit. It is a union with otherness in a forest bathed in blue shadows.

A film about human interaction and attachment, The People explores the mark people leave on each other and the space they occupy. The watercolor’s fluidity and transparency are the tools used to communicate the emotional tone of the film.

The Plaza Saint-Hubert was long shunned by the petty-bourgeoisie of Montreal for its too "kitsch" allure or the questionable choices of town planning which shaped the layout of its facades. However, the biome of the Plaza is no longer resisting the tendencies of gentrification that are affecting the city of Montreal as a whole. This short film focuses on the real open wound that is the repair site of the mythical Plaza. An incongruous universe where wedding dresses dance with mechanical shovels.

The Thing Is Lost is an abstract audiovisual experience inspired by the ever monotonous, oppressive and omnipresent existence of inner dialogue. This film is an emotional journey through expressions, confusions, colors and affections. A journey in the hope of “finding” or “being found.”

Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the body lands becomes a simple tomb.