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George Bassler’s Perpetual Motion Machine

By Berny Hi | 00:03:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 13/01/2014

Following his familyâs untimely demise, prairie homesteader George Bassler bizarrely spends 1945 crafting a Perpetual Motion machine uncannily echoing similarly named inventor Johann Besslerâs 1712 invention, the Perpetuum Mobile. Based on actual events, this film explores obsession with employing mechanical devices to trick time and make everything last forever.

Controversies

By Ryan McKenna | 00:16:37 | Documentary | 01/03/2014

Using archival audio from the popular Action Line talk show, when it was a cultural phenomena in Winnipeg in the 1980s, the moderator â Peter Warren â has been edited out, focusing instead on the colorful characters that would call-in. Controversies unfolds like a filmed picture book, as we watch people listen to the various…

F*%K YEAH

By Shane Belcourt | 00:09:36 | Narrative-Fiction | 01/09/2010

Things are going really well for Jim, the lead singer in a rock band. His band really rocks. He really rocks. They are really rocking awesome. Substitute âreallyâ with profanity at its best and you have a hilarious short about band mutiny gone really, âreallyâ wrong.

This Halfway Place

By Gertrude Hambira | 00:04:38 | Documentary | 19/01/2014

One womanâs very personal story about her journey from hardship in Zimbabwe through the rigors of the immigration process to Canada.

Bridges of Anna, The

By Forrest McGregor | 00:12:36 | Drama, Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 10/02/2014

As Anna wanders secluded areas of the city, the âsingingâ of freight trains passing through the woods evokes memories and dreams that are echoed by her present. Annaâs odyssey is a subtle reminder of the roots of identity and the internal struggles facing those on the edge of absolute obscurity.

May We Grow

By Erika Macpherson | 00:22:30 | Documentary | 01/03/2013

Following the illness and removal of a boulevard elm tree, the residents at 10 Ruby Street in Winnipeg develop an extraordinary relationship with the remaining elm, whose fate is uncertain. 10 Ruby belongs to the elms -the whole street does - and, as we discover in this film, we belong to the trees. Original music…

Alice and Kevin

By Sam Vint | 00:12:20 | Documentary | 21/03/2014

Alice became one of the first outspoken First Nations people in Canada to file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Her fight for her son may well end up bringing proper care to disabled people on reserves all over Canada, forever.

Of Truth and Magic

By Curtis L. Wiebe | 00:18:58 | Animation, Narrative-Fiction | 28/02/2014

When the secret Department of Unusual Occurrences (DUO) discovers the case files of a missing agent, it is up to the chief of the department and Agent W to discover the truth about Agent Y's disappearance. Was she on the verge of unearthing the secrets of self-proclaimed 'true magician' Autumn Greywooly? Is Autumn Greywooly all…

Out of Reach

By Madison Thomas | 00:10:22 | Drama, Narrative-Fiction | 01/10/2013

For unknown reasons Carmen has locked herself in her apartment. Her parents, her friends and her boyfriend all try to persuade her to leave but Carmen must find the strength to leave on her own.

Backlanes

By Madison Thomas | 00:12:34 | Drama, Narrative-Fiction | 01/09/2013

On the night of their university graduation, five lifelong friends decide to pull one last all-nighter wandering the back lanes of their town. What seems like a night of fun and goofing around is soon overshadowed by the groups fear of the future as well as the mortality of their ill friend Chloe.

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