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- While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
- An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
- On a secluded prairie farm, adolescent boys labor in wheat fields for a sexually predatory warden. One boy begins to receive secret visitations from a mysterious girl who promises to help him escape, but with hope comes punishment.
- One man's materialistic pursuit of happiness is derailed on the eve of his fortieth birthday by a ghost and three spirits who teach him the value of family over adrenaline rushes and the party life
- The sisters of the Delta Omega sorority won a free weekend at a luxurious hotel & spa. They planned on having a fun and steamy weekend. However, things go from steamy to bloody when an escaped serial killer checks in to the hotel and crashes their party. The heat will be on at the HOT TUB PARTY MASSACRE!!!
- ShortJack Brodie puts his back out rushing to a job interview with a big oil company. Unexpected turn of events puts Jack in an unconventional situation to have the Interview. He ends up landing the job but not without some shenanigans along the way.
- Nick has a hard time fitting in with his suburban life and conforming to the macho stereotypes expected of him, unlike his rival, Corny Blower.
- Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies.
- Under the pretends of a kind samaritan, a homeless youth is dragged into an underground fight club and pitted against the champ.
- An experimental dark comedy that follows the nic-fit induced hallucinations of film reviewer, Ashley Tray, as he descends into madness and desolation. This stylish short film is part French Film parody, Camp Classic, Anti-Smoking Propaganda, Social Satire with a twist of Kink.
- Biography of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, who committed suicide in 1986.
- Owl dreams of having his own family. He finds a skulk of foxes. Owl thinks they are beautiful and watches over them for many days and nights. The forbidden love of one fox drives Foxx and Owl away to try to find happiness together.
- 'Seven Drinks' is a romantic drama about two young men, Mitch and Bobby, who meet for coffee one afternoon and quickly fall for each other. The film follows the course of their relationship through seven scenes in a story spanning years, exploring how they come into their own identities and struggle with challenges to their relationship and future happiness.
- Friendship comes in many forms.
- 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.
- Amerika, Zed and Kyle are good friends until the excitingly undermedicated bitch goddess Trasha enters the frame, cutting Kyle off from his friends and their vacuous and unencumbered world of beer and porn. Amerika and Zed aim to free their friend from the clutches of his nutburger girlfriend by enlisting the aid of the Sappho Carpet Cleaners for some wet work. The plan goes awry when Trasha and her psychosis find themselves a paying gig and tables are turned, trashed and burned.
- Our hero, Frank the business man, peruses the Adult Classifieds in search of a lunch hour "quickie". He and his co-worker get more than they bargained for when they encounter a "real" dominatrix.
- When Katrina asks Dmitri his opinion on her artwork, he scrambles to find an answer that's not going to get him in trouble. But their relationship is put to the test when Dmitri's tepid response forces Katrina to expose Dmitri's secret.
- The Last Moment is a multi-fractured, multi-genre narrative which uses five styles of film history; Film Noir, Dogme95, Late-era Hitchcock, Tarantino and 60's New Wave to explore the final moments of a man's life and the ill fated relationship woes that have lead up to his death.
- A tyrannical director and a spoiled actor get into a vicious argument during a shoot, with fatal results.
- On his way home from school a young boy will make a choice and decide whether or not he will show his mother his failing grade.
- In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.
- What do you do with a radar station no one wants anymore? Under a Cold War Sky explores the stories from the communities of Skrunda, Latvia and Hall Beach, Nunavut, Canada-two places on the margins, locations of radars built by the Americans and Soviets during the Cold War. The film reveals the stories of those living in places that were swept up in the conflict, people that still have Cold War stories to tell.
- The bold new girl at school inspires three classmates to follow her down a blissful path of self-realization, where they stumble upon a dark truth that forever galvanizes their friendship.
- On a white, wintry beach, two women from the Belle Epoque explore sexuality.
- On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an avalanche of VHS tapes while working late to finish the programming calendar. His workaholic ghost returns to the land of the living to finish the calendar and haunt the Cinematheque by night.
- A lonely nurse develops an unexpected passion for her unconscious patient in a 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium.
- From deep within Edward's fragmented mind, his deepest fears have surfaced. Now to regain his hold on sanity he must decide whether to run from his fear, or destroy it.
- When the race walking champion bows out of the competition due to injury, the rest of the field will stop at nothing for a taste of glory.
- Everyone owns a "Finky." A small, rounded creature that was returned to Earth years ago aboard the first manned mission to Mars expedition. Several different species of Finky make up their race, each possessing its own distinctive characteristics by which they are named after: Resonators react to sound; Scenters spin wildly when exposed to odor; Tactiles are stimulated by touch; Reactors respond to visual movement and Pulsators do nothing but...pulsate. All is fun and games until one day the Finky's reveal a darker and more sinister side. The docile critters start to metamorphose into grotesque, slimy blobs and begin escaping...but to where? Resident scientist Dr. Harlock draws a fatal conclusion as to why this is happening. Before it's too late, Dr. Harlock, together with ten year old Willy Popcorn race against time to prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
- X has been captured, and is being tortured by someone. He escapes, but the Agent is hot on his heels. In the outside world things are no better. Is he dreaming? After a series of confusing interactions and bad decisions, X finds himself in surroundings that seem familiar.
- When the real world turns sour, ten-year old Talia finds shelter in a fantasy world of ice and snow. But as life becomes more and more difficult, Talia's daydreams become less protective and more menacing. An NSI ZeD Drama Prize film.
- A character study of a group of petty thieves who seem to have no specific direction or place in life.
- Bunky Blum is picked on in school and bullied relentlessly by the other kids. During lunch hours, he and his mentally ill mother visit a 83 year old train, now a caged monument, in the center of a children's park.
- The Winnipeg general strike as seen through the window of a bath house.
- A cinematic poem about dreams and realities, The Strangers is a film about one mans metaphoric meltdown after a brief romantic encounter.
- The people of South Indian Lake Manitoba are slowly leaving behind a long period of social crisis brought on by the damming of their namesake lake in the 1970's. The environmental devastation still exists, but the community returns to their original village site once a year for a gathering called 'Kewekapawetan,' meaning 'going back' or 'looking back' in the Cree language. Using archival film and photographs spanning 50 years, this film tells the story of this community's success, demise, and recent efforts to improve their quality of life. The film also traces the film-maker's own disconnected personal history to her Cree homeland where she has never resided. This story reminds us of the link between fragile ecosystems and healthy humans.
- Riff Raff is a real life glimpse of city panhandlers and the lives they lead. This hand-processed film presents rough urban outcasts in a distinctly luminous style.
- A man is tortured both mentally and physically by his television. As the man is suffering, the television plays commercials representing his life, both past and present.
- A look into the minds eye of a girl, or a boy, during a kiss.
- Sadness embodied in gently captured personal artifacts permeates even fragments of unrelated sentences torn from unknown contexts.