Content from Concordia University

Male prostitution in a Montreal brothel run by a hard-nosed procuress.

France, 2012. A teenage boy tells an intimate secret to a friend, but quickly regrets it while watching the news.

The Clock is Ticking transports its audience into a collage of creative multimedia animation. This short animated film explores the passage of time. Angst grows stronger as Emily questions her purpose in a waiting room, surrounded by strangers with a similar destiny. At the sight of a teddy bear sitting alone on a chair, Emily can’t help but identify with the plushie. She dives deep into her subconscious, reliving her past and expanding into a potential future doomed to destruction. Time doesn’t wait, and the clock keeps ticking. Faced with this realization, Emily snaps out of her dream, deeply changed. She grabs the plushie and escapes the waiting room in a hysterical demonstration of freedom. Emily will no longer wait !

In 2011, the people of Cherán, Michoacán, rose up to reclaim their forest and community, fighting illegal loggers, cartels, and systemic oppression. Guided by P’urhépecha traditions, their autonomy weaves resistance into daily life and the natural landscape.

Eli must leave to find the wild woman who lives inside her.

Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.

Visceral is an exploration of love and vulnerability found in new relationships. Meat and organs mix under the camera in a beautiful union to represent the intricacies of a relationship.

Following an exchange of text messages with her mother about her newly adopted dog Abby, a young woman sees her experience as a transracial adoptee reflected in this adoption.

After their physical education class, the guys can't manage anything more than tugging at each other and calling each other names. Lou, watching from afar, waits for them to leave before taking his turn in the shower. When he returns, he's surprised by Manu, where they use this intimate moment to redefine their relationship.

A jockey rides off course and the horse race soon devolves into a disorienting detour. Cut-outs, collage and cel animation combine on a multiplane camera to create a barrage of unexpected environments.

An exploration of light in everyday life.

Rudy the horse uses his extendable telescope to see far beyond the naked eye and into distant wartorn lands.

As Carmela continues preparing for war, she faces challenges in recruiting the final member of her army.

What would it be like if people played life the way kids do? Play tries to answer this question by giving you a glimpse of Frank's strangely organized and somewhat melancholic hand-crafted world.

Mechanical and organic loops morph into each other in an experimental exploration of saturation and breath as a never-ending quest of presence.

Olivia and Aude have played rugby sevens together for a few years. After the new girl's first game, Oli only has eyes for her.

After an encounter with an angel, a young girl embarks on a series of changes. Enamoured by aesthetics she finds herself dreaming of being divine.

In the land of the happy, people have everything. They receive everything they need, in abundance, except… cockroaches.

A surreal, horrific and disturbing film that explores the sensation of waking up.

The 19 is an anthropological comedy about the state of awakening and the purity of the behaviors that result from it. The film seeks to touch our shared humanity and what is universal and unifying about it.