Best Canadian short movies
A curated collection of popular short movies from Canada.
Mi Madre, My Father (2018)
Mi Madre, My Father (2018)
Reared by an abusive, pill-popping mother and an absentee playboy father, six-year-old Valentina must fend for herself. She does what she can to craft the illusion of normalcy: makes herself lunches that look just like the ones her classmates tote, dresses and grooms herself expertly, and lies to cover up for her mother Anita's erratic behavior.
HPL Insurance (2015)
HPL Insurance (2015)
You can't control the gibbering madness that lies waiting on the edge of our reality but for a small monthly premium you can ensure that you don't pay for it when things go eldritch.
Hedgehog's Home (2017)
Hedgehog's Home (2017)
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.
Little Grey Bubbles (2019)
Little Grey Bubbles (2019)
Devastated by her best friend Marlon's death, Kim travels from NYC to Canada to attend his funeral. There she meets his family and friends for the first time and awkwardness ensues as she tries to explain how she never met him in person because their friendship had been exclusively online.
Apart from Everything (2017)
Apart from Everything (2017)
After a two-year absence and a recent stint in rehab, Fran returns home to Toronto. Struggling to live soberly for the first time in her adult life, she must face the emotional fallout of her disappearance and make amends with the girlfriend and the brother she left behind.
The Devil's Toy (1966)
The Devil's Toy (1966)
This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion. Jutra's 1966 mockumentary film The Devil's Toy (Rouli-roulant), is a faux-anti-skateboarding propaganda film.
The Exit (2010)
The Exit (2010)
It's the morning after - and four is a crowd. Couple Samantha and Peter negotiate a thoroughly modern and thoroughly awkward situation.
Pink:Diss (2017)
Pink:Diss (2017)
The colour pink has been ascribed many meanings, from a reflection of the feminine to a symbol of reclaimed humanity by LGBTQ2S communities. In his latest work, avant-garde filmmaker John Greyson explores the colonial implications of the colour pink, from its association with activist movements to its colouring of the water in Grassy Narrows due to mercury poisoning. Pink this.
The Art of Drowning (2009)
The Art of Drowning (2009)
Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.
The Selfish Giant (1971)
The Selfish Giant (1971)
A giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but then winter sets in permanently. Children's classic story by Oscar Wilde.
B.O.O.O.M. (1979)
B.O.O.O.M. (1979)
A view of man's perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone's lives.
Chinatown (2016)
Chinatown (2016)
A florist borrows $10,000 from a pawnbroker. When it’s time to pay, he can’t come up with the money. Short reckonings make long enemies.
Broken Face (2014)
Broken Face (2014)
Loik, a disfigured sailor, is posted to a remote lighthouse with Morlaix, a tyrannical head keeper. But soon, the two men find themselves besieged by a strange storm.
I Like Girls (2016)
I Like Girls (2016)
Four women share funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they’re attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness.
Life in the Alley (2016)
Life in the Alley (2016)
This is the story of four people: ODNEY, RAJNI, ALUKI and MUFEEDA. Four lives, four journeys that led them in a search for freedom. Together they decide to live on the fringe of society and to finally find a place where they can do things their way.
Plain and Simple (2016)
Plain and Simple (2016)
Plain and Simple” is a window that gives on the lives of 4 different characters that share an acute sense of loneliness while striving for a secret desire of belonging.
10 Seconds of Carla (2016)
10 Seconds of Carla (2016)
During a party, Gaby begins to suspect that spreading rumours of a football team gang-bang may well involve her best friend, Carla.
Le cirque (2010)
Le cirque (2010)
Directed by Nicolas Brault
Midnight Confession (2017)
Midnight Confession (2017)
West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own sordid history of deceit.
Croft (2013)
Croft (2013)
A woman will risk everything for the life of a young girl held hostage by a group of Mercenaries that hold her hostage high in the mountains.
Get Consent (2016)
Get Consent (2016)
Commissioned work for Concordia University's Sexual Assault Resource Centre, to be the basis of a sexual assault awareness campaign throughout the university campus.
Masters in Crime (2018)
Masters in Crime (2018)
An aspiring criminal mastermind (Owen Roth) assembles a crew (Mena Massoud, Ayinde Blake) and schemes to steal an experimental drug from a high profile medical facility.
Ruby's Secret (2013)
Ruby's Secret (2013)
A man and a woman hit it off at a bar and decide to go back to her place. The man soon realizes that she is more than he bargained for.
Expecting (2020)
Expecting (2020)
An awkward dinner party among friends from an infertility support group takes an unexpected turn.
TiCK (2018)
TiCK (2018)
In a post-pandemic society, a vampire in hiding is forced to make a stand when confronted with the oppressive regime who kidnapped and enslaved her family.
Elder Sign (2009)
The Astronomer's Dream (2009)
The Astronomer's Dream (2009)
When a hungry Astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.