Marcia Connolly

A taut drama set in a travelling pickup truck about an all-female love triangle, Swerve is an unsettling examination of contemporary love and friendship.

Architect Todd Saunders’s buildings on Fogo Island, Newfoundland embrace the excitement of being on the edge of nature and contemporary design while fulfilling the goal of doing ‘new things with old ways’. Saunders and commissioner, Zita Cobb, provide a personal account of the ideas and traditions that inspire this bold and socially ambitious architectural venture. Gorgeously photographed over the Island’s seven seasons, the film is a flowing, visual narrative that unfolds over time as the principal stage of the project, the Fogo Island Inn, approaches completion.

A young woman mulls how to terminate her unwanted pregnancy and whether to leave her boyfriend.

Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?

The love between Canadian artists Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs is tested by impending illness.

Exquisite Corpse: 100ft of film, exposed three times and hand-processed in one day. This in-camera triptych documents the landscape, people and filmmaking process at Phil Hoffman's legendary experimental film camp.

Never Too Old follows 81-year-old PhD candidate Olive Bryanton as she navigates the final year of her doctorate program at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her research involves her peers, ten women between the ages of 86 and 91, living in rural PEI. As a life-long activist for the rights of seniors, Olive always worked for change but never liked writing. As she prepares her thesis, she struggles with procrastination and self-doubt.

Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns of her property. Resilient, determined, self aware and funny, Colette embraces the transformative power of art as she restages the significant art performances of her thirty-year career. With the camera as her audience she transforms the quotidian into a playful world of the imagination with elaborate costumes and idiosyncratic self invented rituals.