Michael O'Sullivan

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

A fascinating exploration of the mythologies surrounding the hundred-year-old statue The Golden Boy. Incorporating dance, animation, and re-enactments, the film, directed by queer filmmakers and artists, imagines the lost identities of the models used for Parisian sculptor Georges Gardet​’s work Eternal Youth. From hermetic Greco-Roman cult to two-spirited heritage, this film, told from the filmmakers’ point of view, offers a unique perspective on Winnipeg’s famous mascot as seen from a rent-controlled building.

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

A hedonistic soccer mom embarks on a strange journey of self-discovery, seeking to reconnect with her estranged son by returning his pet rock back to the island of Menorca, Spain.

Beth, a volunteer watch person of an isolated northern city batles a plague that transforms the few remaining residents into empty, zombie-like automatons. She discovers that by entering an alternatve dimension through her own dreams, she’s able to stave of the illness during the long, possibly endless winter. But will her power be enough to sustain her?

Villosh is a small-time Russian gambler hiding from the KGB in a dreary perogie factory in Winnipeg. He dreams of rolling the dice in Atlantic City - but he needs a lot of money to make the move. So he concocts a scheme to kidnap a Finnish hockey star that steadily goes awry.