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HotHouse 15
Abbey Collings, Mégan Dupont, Katie Finn, Mitchell Keys, Max Ma, Aerin Wu | 2025 | 6 X 1 min. Working out of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, they were given only 12 weeks to each create a one-minute film on the theme “People...
How to Make your First Film in Three Months
Inside HotHouse 15 | Director:Simon Girard | 2025 | Part 1 (11 min), Part 2 (17 min) and Part 3 (11 min). Six emerging animators face sleepless nights, setbacks, and breakthroughs during their time at the NFB's coveted three-month creative...
Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove | 2024 | 17 min. Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?.
Hairy Legs
Andrea Dorfman |2024 | 17 min. Questioning why she “has to” shave her hairy legs launches one 13-year-old girl on a journey of self-discovery.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong |2024 | 19 min. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
Paradaiz (soon in the programming choices)
Matea Radic | 2025 | 9 min. Welcome to a place filled with houseless slugs, bullet-ridden walls, never-ending cigarettes and exploding tomatoes. This must be Paradaïz.
Bread Will Walk (soon in the programming choices)
Alex Boya | 2025 | 11 min. A devoted sister races to save her brother, a bread-turned zombie. A mob of hungry living pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason crumbles. Can love defy appetite?
Good Luck to You All (soon in the programming choices)
Cordell Barker | 2025 | 8 min. A young girl plays with her toys, unaware that she might just be holding humanity’s remote control. Voices of tech experts blend innocence, hope and mild panic about AI.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (soon in the programming choices)
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski | 2025 | 17 min. A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
Society of Clothes
Dahee Jeong | 2024 | 15 min 7 s. When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, a shirt and a pair of pants step outside the closet, transforming into a human figure.
Samaa
Ehsan Gharib | 2024 | 2 min . A caged bird, yearning to fly, finds release through the transcendent power of music and movement.
The Girl with The Red Beret
Janet Perlman |2023 | 6 min | Song in French with English subtitles. A girl takes a ride on the Montreal metro, which becomes the unlikely venue for a strange and wonderful musical journey.
Loca
Véronique Paquette | 2024 | 5 min . Through the energy of tango, a woman finds a path to freedom. A mesmerizing visual performance created with waves of ink and black-and-white geometric shapes.
Boat People
Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma| 2023 | 10 min. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.
Corpus and the Wandering
Jo Roy | 2024 | 7 min. One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind.
Aphasia
Marielle Dalpé |2023 | 4 min. Aphasia is an unsettling sensory experience that immerses us in the world of people with Alzheimer’s disease who are facing the loss of their language capabilities.
What the Hell (soon in the programming choices)
Valerie Barnhart |2024 | 9 min. Dante’s classic Hell is falling into oblivion. Charlotte, a sharp-witted Harpy, navigates the chaos and sets out, despite the odds, for a new life and destiny.
The Sounds of Things Ablaze (soon in the programming choices)
Hayat Najm | 2025 | 7 min. Told through animated charcoal drawings, this is a story of resilience about a woman still haunted by the horrors of war.
Imprint (soon in the programming choices)
Duncan Major | 2025 | 5 min. Chance encounters can leave a lasting effect, like ink on paper. Imprint is a heartfelt animated short about the lasting creative bond between two kindred spirits.
Hypersensitive (soon in the programming choices)
Martine Frossard | 2025 | 7 min. Hypersensitive recounts the turbulent, surrealistic journey of a young woman struggling to rebuild her self, in defiance of social norms that tell us to repress our emotions.
Themes
- Animated films
- Art, Music, Literature
- Celebrate French, next March
- Teen Zone
- Black History Month suggestions
- International Women’s Day Suggestions
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21)
- Climate Change
- 2SLGBTQI+
- Science and Environment
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Voices in society
- Youth