Fiction

THE HIVE

20 min, Fiction, Canada, France, 5.1

On a lush Corsican estate, Adeline joins the Hive, a sorority of pregnant women devoted to a single purpose: sustaining a constant supply of breast milk for a centuries-old prophet believed to hold the secret of immortality. But behind the apparent harmony of this idyllic community lies a far more gruesome truth.

FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN

20 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

11-year-old Justine believes her missing mother was abducted by aliens, until the claustrophobic reality at home shatters her fantasy.

SITTING BIRD

17 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

An immigrant stay-at-home father, struggling with feelings of inadequacy within his family, sees a lost flamingo and decides to rescue it.

ROTTING / LOVING U

14 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

After an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting the pages of her diary, she relives—violently—what she never dared to say. Desire, sorrow, fear, femininity, illness—emotions surge and blur, blending into chaos, swallowed by an absurd algorithm overwhelmed by too much data.

ON A SUNDAY AT ELEVEN

9 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

A young Black girl navigates exclusion in her all-white ballet class, reclaiming her beauty and power in an ethereal and jubilant celebration of Blackness.

MY SON CAME BACK TO DISAPPEAR

80 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

After years apart, a woman living alone in the forest is troubled by the sudden return of her estranged son. Against her will, she must accompany him on his final journey.