1829. Louisa is a convict trapped in the living hell of a British prison in faraway Van Diemen's Land. She ignores warnings from her prison mate and places her hopes for freedom in becoming the servant of the mysterious Mr Black. On his remote farm, Louisa befriends an orphaned lamb as she adjust...

Apples fall off a tree due to an electric fan, it works so well that the old cider mill breaks down from an overload, and the cider in the old-mill stream has an odd effect on all the animals in the vicinity. A cow gives 100-proof milk and a fisherman's hook catches fish by their tail.

The Animated Films of Patrick Smith have been a favorite at film festivals world-wide for the last decade. Smith's morphing style and symbolic stories of identity and emotion have influenced a new generation of traditional hand-drawn animators.

In a country where men seem more interested in their electronic gadgets as their fellows, a group of lonely women take the Limbo Limbo bus to a new adventure. En route to a distant exotic country in the hope of finding happiness as hoped. They landed on an island inhabited by a tribe of men musta...

After the death of their mother, three sisters try to figure out how to move forward with their lives.

A never before told story about men who fought as allies during the war.

Let's Love tells the story of Mai, a young Laotian lesbian struggling to find acceptance and love in a socially conservative society that is not open to her sexual orientation. Through Mai's complex relationships with her family, friends and wider society, LET's LOVE illuminates the many obstacle...

A young man’s progress into the New Year is hindered because of one thing he hasn’t let go of.

Pierre Molinier, painter photographer, was found dead on March 3, 1976, shot in the head, in his room at 7 rue des Faussets in Bordeaux. The documentary Les Jambes de Saint Pierre highlights the life of this enigmatic and sulphurous character whose unity results from an astonishing fusion where h...

A troubled couple attempt to repair their relationship at a strange roadside motel, but before they get a chance to unpack, they discover a dark secret that puts both their lives in danger.

Caught between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood, Laurence and Laurence (Lou and Laylou, respectively) embark upon the summer of their seventeen’s.

Layers of fear is a short animation that explores the boundary between real world and dreams in the mind of a child as he's experiencing a typical childhood trauma and how his dreams are influenced by it. The project is stemmed from the premise that dreams can be used as a source of inspiration i...

A couple meet in a Laundry mat and a small misunderstanding leads to an unexpected end to their "conversation."

Now in her seventies, ballad singer Sheila Stewart is the last in the line of the Stewarts of Blair, a long lineage of traditional travellers and storytellers. Her final quest is to ensure that her culture does not die with her. But it’s not an easy battle, as she is ignored on her own doorstep. ...

Sometimes there is no right choice to make.

Last Chance by Paul Émile d’Entremont travels the world to tell the stories of five asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. Here in Canada, they face hurdles integrating into society and fear deportation. As they anxiously await a decision in their refugee cl...

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

A wayward duck misses the migration south and struggles to catch up to his companions in this hand-drawn animated short.

Lady Lash Hip hop/Jazz MC of Aboriginal and Greek decent is a creative mother and songstress who will take you on a journey. From the streets of Melbourne in her DIY guerrilla style sound booth to wild ocean, sea scrub and red sandy earth of Kokatha country for women’s business (far west coast -S...

An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery.

The story of the passage of a renowned psychoanalyst. From the tree of her childhood dream’s first emotions, through a shaded neighbourhood conflict leading to kill a centenarian tree without qualms as if to clear a memory, to the logs of this tub collecting both rain water and the outpouring of ...

LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug documents the International LSD Symposium held on the occasion of Dr. Albert Hofmann’s 100th birthday in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Hofmann discovered LSD in Basel in 1943. 80 speakers and 2000 attendants gathered for three days of talks, art, blotter design and mu...

In the chaotic 'old city' of Hyderabad, 18-year-old Raisa hatches a dangerous and improbable plan to save her younger sister from becoming a one-day bride.

Raisa lives with her Ammi and three younger sisters in Hyderabad's Old City. When Ammi promises her 13-year old daughter, Zainab, in marriag...

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society. 

A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another. Complications ensue.

Anas al-Basha, 24, is not a simple Syrian citizen. In the heart of an Aleppo torn apart by civil war, his only weapon is his red nose and the smile of the children around him: he is the last clown of Aleppo.

The picture of suburban happiness as it clashes with pure evil.

Percy Crease is in love with his brother's wife.

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

A transgender teenager navigates a romantic encounter, confronting her fears of discrimination in an effort to assert her gender identity.

Zaman, a sixteen-year-old Afghani, works as a hairdresser in a small, makeshift salon in the middle of the "Jungle" in Calais. He has fled war like thousands of others. But the massive camp is to be dismantled and Zaman's dream of getting to England is threatened.

Julia Julep is a short magical tale about Julia, a very young girl who makes peace with her mother’s recent death.

Hitch-hiking conmen Bad News Johnson and July Jones arrive in a Midwestern small town with a capital of 25 cents. Taking a room with Mama Lou, whose daughter is entered in a local beauty contest, they pose as Hollywood actors who can train Honey Dew in stagecraft. Meanwhile, Mama's other daughter...

Judith is a short movie about a woman who's dealing with the end of her relationship. An asteroid, a red purse and a Caravaggio painting will lead to dreadful consequences.

Is Juca coming? On a full moon night, a group of friends must cycle away from the city lights in search of a place dark enough to watch a meteor shower.

In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers with...

A women's struggle with the fine line between doing something bad, and being a bad person.

Jaime Lo, a shy Chinese-Canadian girl, observes the world around her through her drawings. When Jaime's father is sent to Hong Kong for a year-long work assignment, Jaime must use her creativity to cope with his absence. This story offers us a lighthearted glimpse into a common dilemma that many ...

After finding his older brother's lifeless body, the suicide prompts cathartic changes in a young man. A true story about discovering the importance of humor amongst life's darkest moments.

A short film based on real-life events that shook a small town and turned a family’s world upside down, Ja...

Jordanne is a short portrait film about 22 year old British female disabled tennis player, Jordanne Whiley.
Jordanne was born with brittle bone disease.
The film is narrated by Jordanne, and filmed in her hometown of Halesowen, UK, in the lead up to the US Open 2014.

You Pay Cash, They Kick Ass.

For every crime, there can be justice.

They sell everything – cloth, food, curtains – in the streets of Istanbul, and some of them have been at it for more than 50 years. But their way of life is about to change. With their city quickly gentrifying, the authorities want to create a “modern and clean” environment. In just five years, w...

This short film offers a portrait of the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayou’s of Southern Louisiana. The film explores the changes taking place on the island through the lives of two residents whose families are facing a future where rising seas, coastal erosion and storms are ...

Island & Flight looks at the world of aviation to capture the emotional feeling of being suspended 35 000 ft in the air, between a distant past and an uncertain future. Narratively, the film is a collage of testimonials’ discussing transit. The movie is a visual and collage of intimate moments fi...

"Isabelle's Garden" is an uplifting story of a community coming together in reciprocity, through the dreams of a young Choctaw girl and her garden.

A dimwitted young man is interviewing for most important job of all time and doesn’t even know what the job is.

In the first of our new series, "IndieFlix in Conversation" Douglas Horn is joined by actors Dan Southworth and Martin Noyes, for a memorable conversation the art of combat in film.

The oppressive and silently rigid atmosphere created by his parents pushes the son to suppress his homosexuality in order to please them and not suffer their rejection. Their personalities based on the appearance and the absence of the soul makes them live like "mannequins".

Today could be your day.

A moment in synchronized swimming training makes twelve-year-old Mira intrigued about her middle-aged coach, Lucy. She remains in the building after class, fakes an injury and lies about her absent mother. Lucy is captivated by Mira’s imaginary world and invites Mira to her home. When Mira procee...

A large threat is menacing the village. The mythical demon Garmah – half squid, half bird – has awoken and brings utmost darkness…The tribe shaman, disturbed by the vision of the mythical monster's coming, chooses a young warrior who needs to go to the end of the world and find the White Girl, th...

An interrogation with a distinction.

At dawn, a cannon shot shatters the plain. Horses gallop across the beaten earth. Eva, 21 years old, wants to join the hunters of the Imperial Guard, a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men. In her quest for romanticism, she hides her identity so that she can set foot in...

He was a guy who marked 100 men for death.

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Through an artful blend of Eisenstein’s drawings, inventive animation and the author’s own voice, the film weaves together personal and global history. Ei...

An around-the-world tour of language, culture, and play through the lens of pickup soccer.

Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.

When a social worker comes home, a couple of men embellish their love story to get what they desire most in the world...
This movie highlights the desire between two boys before gradually evolving.

“How to Make a Film” features the greatest array of film-making experts ever assembled; internationally acclaimed talent responsible for 33 Oscars, over $11 billion in Box Office receipts, thousands of Film Festival awards and even a Nobel Peace Prize; the most comprehensive reflection on the ess...