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NSI Online Short Film Festival Films by title

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• 133 Skyway | Drama, 21:46 minutes, English, ON, 2006
• 2 Strangers and a Foosball | Comedy, 23:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• 30-Love | Comedy, 5:00 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• -40°C | Documentary, 13:40 minutes, French, YK, 2007
• A Change in Tempo | Drama, 7:00 minutes, English, NS, 2007
• About the Girl  | Drama, 18:05 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Acts of Blindness | Comedy, 5:35 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• The Adventures of Ratman | Comedy, 13:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• Aerial Artistry | Experimental, 2:00 minutes, No dialogue, MB, 2010
• Afghan | Drama, 12:00 minutes, English, NS, 2008
• Against the Grain: The Legacy of the Indian Residential School System | Documentary, 23:35 minutes, English, AB, 2009
• Ahousat going? A Portrait of the Ahousaht | Documentary, 18:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Alternative Parents | Comedy, 4:23 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Alone in the Dark | Music video, 3:30 minutes, English, QC, 2007
• And You Keep Going | Comedy, 17:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• The Animator | Animation, 3:00 minutes, No dialogue, ON, 2010
  
• The Arctic Circle | Animation, 3:40 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• The Art of Contact | Experimental, 11:42 minutes, English, BC, 2006
• Ausländer | Documentary, 3:32 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Babysitting Andy | Comedy, 10:40 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• Bad Dad | Drama, 16:00 minutes, English, AB, 2010
• Basin | Documentary, 8:00 minutes, Cree, English, BC, 2010
• Be Free | Animation, 2:00 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Bee Man | Documentary, 11:00 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Bernard the Magician | Drama, 14:21 minutes, English, NS, 2010
• Birth Day | Drama, 6:34 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Blanc Comme Neige (White as the Driven Snow) | Drama, 18:00 minutes, French, QC, 2009
• Blue-Eyed Boy | Drama, 9:30 minutes, English, AB, 2010
• Bon Voyage | Drama, 7:52 minutes, English/French with English subtitles, QC, 2009 
• Breakdown | Comedy, 13:00 minutes, English, BC, 2006
• Breathless | Drama, 1:45 minute, English, BC, 2007
• A Brief History of Life | Documentary, 6:00 minutes, English, QC, 2007
• A Bright Idea: Behind the Scenes of Bright Lights Theatre | Documentary, 19:06 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• The Bunker | Drama, 11:42 minutes, English, MB, 2009 
• Bus 11 | Experimental, 2:23 minutes, English, ON, 2006
• Buttonpushers | Comedy, 17:33 minutes, English, 2008
• Car Wash | Documentary, 6:00 minutes, English, QC, 2008
• Carleen | Music video, 2:57 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Carpe Diem | Experimental, 5:20 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Catalyst | Drama, 2:55 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Catechism | Comedy, 14:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Cavallino (Pony) | Drama, 14:30 minutes, No dialogue, QC, 2008
• Charlene Sardine | Comedy, 17:20 minutes, English, MB, 2011
• The Cheese Container | Drama, 5:00 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Chenrezig | Documentary, 10:40 minutes, No dialogue, ON, 2010
• Chère | Comedy, 7:00 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Chocolate | Comedy, 2:35 minutes, English, MB, 2010
• The Chronicler | Documentary, 13:40 minutes, English, MB, 2009
• Choir Boy Lucky | Documentary, 17:58 minutes, English, MB, 2010
• City Express | Drama, 3:36 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Clayton & Clayton | Animation, 3:36 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• Clearly Blonde | Comedy, 5:12 minutes, English, ON, 2011
• The Claw | Drama, 6:15 minutes, English, MB, 2007
• The Coffee Maker | Drama, 8:17 minutes, English, MB, 2006
• Coming Home | Documentary, 7:46 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• Connexions | Drama, 8:26 minutes, French, QC, 2008 
• The Conversation | Drama, 16:56 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Conversations with Nana | Experimental, 6:52 minutes, English, BC, 2006
• Coo Coo | Animation, 4:29 minutes, No dialogue, AB, 2009
• Cortez the Killer | Drama, 15:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Critical | Drama, 9:00 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• Curse of the Jade Falcon | Comedy, 8:14 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Cyburbia | Sci-fi/Horror, 9:45 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Damian and Ende | Drama, 10:07 minutes, English, BC, 2008 
• Dave Foley & Fans | Comedy, 2:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• Day Before Yesterday | Drama, 11:43 minutes, English, QC, 2009
• Deception | Drama, 3:25 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Dedashka | Experimental, 7:00 minutes, 2007
• Defensive Aggressive | Drama, 12:00 minutes, English, AB, 2010
• Desiderata | Drama, 22:47 minutes, English, QC, 2009
• Dinx | Comedy, 13:00 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• The Dirty Truth | Comedy, 4:05 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Don't Call Me Zombie | Comedy, 13:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Do Not Bend | Comedy, 6:00 minutes, 2007
• Doppelganger | Sci-fi/Horror, 8:37 minutes, 2007
• Doppelganger | Comedy, 7:24 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Down and Derby | Documentary, 4:10 minutes, 2008
• Eat Roses | Drama, 13:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Ellen's Shoes | Drama, 19:00 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• The Empty Room Club | Drama, 5:19 minutes, 2007
• The Engagement Party | Comedy, 15:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007 
• Everything Burns | Music video, 3:00 minutes, English, NS, 2009
• Evolucity | Animation, 4:45 minutes, English/French, ON, 2010
• Father Fred | Comedy, 4:00 minutes, 2007
• Fester's Nephew | Animation, 5:10 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Fighting the Demon | Drama, 5:53 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Fine Line | Drama, 8:10 minutes, 2006
• Fish & Loaf | Documentary, 5:15 minutes, 2007
• ForGive | Documentary, 14:35 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Fortune Cooking | Documentary, 9:10 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Four Sisters | Drama, 11:48 minutes, English, NL, 2010
• Glimpse | Comedy, 9:00 minutes, English, BC, 2007 
• Go Get Dad | Drama, 2:31 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Go Kill Yourself | Comedy, 5:00 minutes, 2007
• Going Outside | Experimental, 3:00 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• A Good Indian | Drama, 8:00 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Good Looking | Comedy, 20:00 minutes, 2007
• Goons | Comedy, 10:18 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• The Gourd of Life | Comedy, 8:08 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Grad Day | Drama, 8:43 minutes, English, MB, 2009
• The Grandfather Paradox | Sci-fi/Horror, 7:40 minutes, English, QC, 2006
• Grand Wheel | Experimental, 6:00 minutes, No dialogue, 2008
• A Great Day For Death | Comedy, 5:28 minutes, 2008
• The Grind | Sci-fi/Horror, 10:00 minutes, English, AB, 2009
• Grover's Mill | Drama, 9:17 minutes, 2006
• La Guérison (The Healing) | Comedy, 8:00 minutes, French, QC, 2010
• The Hall | Drama, 7:55 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Hand to Hand | Experimental, 2:40 minutes, 2010
• HAPPENchance | Comedy, 9:30 minutes, 2010
• Hidden Cities | Animation, 2:00 minutes, No dialogue, ON, 2009
• Histoire de Pêche (A Fishing Story) | Drama, 12:25 minutes, French with English subtitles, QC, 2008
• Hollyburn | Drama, 12:00 minutes, 2008
• Horsed Out | Documentary, 11:12 minutes, English, MB, 2010
• The House | Drama, 7:48 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Humanesque | Comedy, 17:00 minutes, 2007
• Hungarian Salami | Comedy, 15:00 minutes, English, ON, 2006
• "I" | Experimental, 9:13 minutes, English, ON, 2011
• I Tell Em | Music video, 4:59 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• I Want to be a Desi 2 | Documentary, 6:00 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• If Key-Lime Pie Could Scream | Comedy, 13:25 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• If My Silence | Music video, 2:54 minutes, English, PE, 2010
• I'm Going Home | Documentary, 7:01 minutes, 2005
• I'm Not The Indian You Had In Mind | Drama, 4:41 minutes, 2007
• I'm That Fool | Documentary, 11:30 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• In Translation | Drama, 5:40 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• Inside | rama, 15:35 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Inside Out | Drama, 11:46 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• In/Te/Gra/Tion | Experimental, 2:16 minutes, 2007
• Intervention | Sci-fi/Horror, 11:52 minutes, English, MB, 2008
• Invasion of the Buddy Snatcher - Bad Dad | Comedy, 6:42 minutes, English, NS, 2009
• It Was Going So Well | Comedy, 3:24 minutes, English, ON, 2011
• It Won't Be Long | Comedy, 9:34 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• The Janitor's Office | Sci-fi/Horror, 7:26 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• Japan | Experimental, 6:56 minutes, No dialogue, NB, 2009
• Jigsaw | Drama, 22:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Joe's Gotta Go | Comedy, 5:00 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Johanna | Documentary, 2:34 minutes, English, QC, 2010
• Jon and Roy - Get Myself a Gun | Animation, 3:30 minutes, English, BC, 2011
• Judder | Animation, 3:51 minutes, 2008
• Julie's Story | Documentary, 6:47 minutes, English, NB, 2009
• Junko's Shamisen | Animation, 10:51 minutes, English/Japanese, ON, 2009
• Karim | Drama, 10:55 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• The King of Siam | Drama, 23:00 minutes, English, ON, 2006
• Kisses & Tears | Animation, 3:18 minutes, English, 2007
• Knots | Drama, 8:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Kodiak | Drama, 12:00 minutes, 2007
• The Lake | Drama, 8:22 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Lake Cop 2: Ripple Effect | Comedy, 2:47 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Last Communication with Laura | Experimental, 3:30 minutes, English, QC, 2009
• The Last Feast | Animation, 6:00 minutes, No dialogue, ON, 2008
• The Last of the Redheads | Documentary, 14:53 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Last Stop For Miles | Drama, 7:00 minutes, 2007
• Lenny the Raccoon Slayer | Comedy, 6:27 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Let Go | Experimental, 3:00 minutes, No dialogue, ON, 2007
• Letter to Myself | Documentary, 22:00 minutes, English, BC, 2007
• Lie Down | Music video, 2:52 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Life Lines | Documentary, 10:14 minutes, 2007
• Lift | Documentary, 5:28 minutes, English, YK, 2006
• Little Plank Walk |  Experimental, 5:30 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Little White Wires | Sci-fi/Horror, 5:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• The Line | Documentary, 9:59 minutes, English, ON, 2009 (mature content)
• A Lion's Tale | Drama, 14:38 minutes, English, NB, 2008
• Loonie | Drama, 7:40 minutes, 2007 (no longer available)
• loss studies | Experimental, 6:00 minutes, English, MB, 2008
• Man's Best Friend | Animation, 3:30 minutes, 2007
• Man of the Family | Drama, 13:33 minutes, English, QC, 2008
• Margaret and the Dollhouse | Drama, 13:56 minutes, English, BC, 2011
• Marya et son Amant (Marya and her Lover) | Comedy, 12:40 minutes, French, QC, 2010
• The Masculine Mystique | Drama, 14:30 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Max O U/W | Documentary, 4:30 minutes, No dialogue, NS, 2008
• The Morning After | Comedy, 5:27 minutes, 2008
• Midnight Matinee | Animation, 9:44 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• The Milk Crate Recovery Team | Comedy, 6:30 minutes, 2005
• Mime Vs. Junkie | Drama, 4:44 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Miranda & Gordon | Drama, 6:00 minutes, 2007
• Momentum | Animation, 4:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
  
• More Than Alive | Music video, 4:20 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Murder at Insomnia Station | Drama, 9:07 minutes, English, NS, 2009
• Murdoch's Other Eye | Drama, 7:00 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Muttonbuster! | Documentary, 4:45 minutes, English, MB, 2010
• Naked | Comedy, 6:00 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Nightclub Story | Drama, 17:20 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Nightfall | Experimental, 3:52 minutes, English, QC, 2009
• Nobody Likes a Mime | Comedy, 3:48 minutes, 2007
• No One Thinks About the Garden | Experimental, 8:00 minutes, Farsi, ON, 2008
• Occurrence | Sci-fi/Horror, 5:40 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• The Office Farm Series Part One: Electric Messiah | Comedy, 14:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• On the Way to the Videostore... | Comedy, 6:00 minutes, English, AB, 2009
• Oops | Comedy, 5:44 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Our Son is A... | Comedy, 6:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Outward Gate | Drama, 7:00 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• The Pact | Drama, 28:00 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Paternity Test | Comedy, 7:35 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Paper Fates | Comedy, 6:16 minutes, 2007
• Papikatuk | Documentary, 4:00 minutes, English, NB, 2009
• The Passengers | Comedy, 11:20 minutes, 2006
• Pawnshop | Comedy, 6:00 minutes, English, NS, 2008
• Peninsula Valdes | Experimental, 2:32 minutes, English, ON, 2011
• Photosynthesis | Animation, 5:34 minutes, 2006
• A Pickle | Drama, 12:00 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Pigmalion | Drama, 6:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Pillow Fight | Comedy, 6:10 minutes, 2007
• Playing Through | Drama, 19:00 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Pleased to Meet You | Comedy, 14:00 minutes, 2007
• Porn For Women | Comedy, 4:00 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Portrait of a Corpse | Sci-fi/Horror, 3:09 minutes, English, NS, 2009
• Pride War | Drama, 9:30 minutes, 2007
• Project: Icing | Comedy, 9:04 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• The Projectionist | Sci-fi/Horror, 7:35 minutes, English, MB, 2009
• Prom Night | Comedy, 10:38 minutes, 2008
• The Quarry | Drama, 12:45 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Red Birds of Happiness | Animation, 3:32 minutes, 2008
• The Red Hood | Drama, 9:00 minutes, English, MB, 2010
• Remote | Sci-fi/Horror, 19:20 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Road Regrets | Animation, 4:42 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Rock Pockets | Documentary, 6:00 minutes, English, AB, 2007
• Roofies and Romance | Drama, 12:09 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Room For Rent | Comedy, 9:12 minutes, 2007
• Run For Your Life | Documentary, 5:00 minutes, English, MB, 2008
• Sanguine | Drama, 13:15 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Seelenheil | Animation, 3:48 minutes, 2007 (mature content)
• Self Labelling and Identity | Documentary, 9:29 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Senseless | Drama, 6:00 minutes, No dialogue, BC, 2010
• Shark out of Water | Drama, 18:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Shuffleboard King | Comedy, 10:00 minutes, English, SK, 2009
• Skate Date | Comedy, 11:15 minutes, 2008
• Sleepless | Comedy, 12:00 minutes, 2007
• Snow Angel | Drama, 12:00 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• The Snow Fort | Drama, 5:00 minutes, 2006
• Something Old, Something New | Drama, 5:05 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Sounds From Hell | Sci-fi/Horror, 9:00 minutes, 2007
• Spinning | Comedy, 10:53 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Spring to Come | Music video, 3:25 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• State of Yo | Documentary, 8:00 minutes, 2007
• Status | Drama, 5:31 minutes, English, on, 2010
• The Steady Rolling Man | Drama, 11:00 minutes, 2007
• Sterile Atomic Fly | Animation, 5:00 minutes, English, AB, 2010
• Straight and Narrow | Drama, 11:07 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• The Strawberry Confession | Comedy, 7:17 minutes, English, MB, 2009
• String Theory | Comedy, 10:20 minutes, 2007
• Stuicide | Comedy, 10:00 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Sweet Pickle | Comedy, 11:00 minutes, English, NL, 2009
• The Sweet Science: The Boss | Documentary, 14:00 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Tah-Dah | Animation, 2:22 minutes, No dialogue, BC, 2009
• Tell Me | Comedy, 2:13 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• That Was Easy | Comedy, 7:36 minutes, 2007
• A Thaumatrope | Animation, 3:49 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• There's a Woolly Mammoth Hair in the Gate | Comedy, 2:30 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• This is a Woman | Experimental, 2:30 minutes, 2008
• Three Mothers | Drama, 15:28 minutes, English, QC, 2008 
• Those Ten Minutes | Drama, 9:48 minutes, Punjabi with English subtitles, BC, 2009
• Throw Me to the Rats | Music video, 4:34 minutes, English, NS, 2008
• Time & The River | Experimental, 8:00 minutes, English, QC, 2008
• Time to Fire Your Agent | Comedy, 1:00 minute, English, ON, 2009
• Time to Kill | Music video, 3:58 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• Tomorrow's Love | Drama, 13:12 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Touch | Drama, 14:00 minutes, 2007
• Toute la Vie (All Life Long) | Drama, 2:30 minutes, French, QC, 2008
• The Tragedy of Henry J. Bellini | Comedy, 9:14 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Les Travers de la Route (Crossing the Road) | Drama, 12:00 minutes, French, QC, 2010
• Triptych | Experimental, 23:50 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• Truce | Drama, 16:08 minutes, English/German, MB, 2009
• Tsi Tkahehtayen (The Garden) | Drama, 11:51 minutes, Mohawk/English, ON, 2009
• Tucked and Folded Away | Drama, 23:03 minutes, English, MB, 2008
• Tucker | Comedy, 9:59 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Tutulungan Kita (I'll Help You) | Drama, 4:40 minutes, English/Tagalog, MB, 2010
• Tying the Not | Comedy, 18:10 minutes, English, AB, 2008
• Useless Things | Drama, 16:00 minutes, English, QC, 2009
• Vagina Vacation | Comedy, 8:06 minutes, English, BC, 2009
• Vanitas | Animation, 6:18 minutes, No dialogue, QC, 2008
• Ventra | Sci-fi/Horror, 8:00 minutes, English, BC, 2010
• Vet Bill | Animation, 6:35 minutes, English, NS, 2008
• Vintage | Drama, 11:35 minutes, English, BC, 2008
• Voice-Over | Drama, 17:00 minutes, English, 2009
• Watchmaker | Music video, 4:38 minutes, English, NS, 2008
• Watering Mr. Cocoa | Comedy, 7:00 minutes, English, ON, 2007
• A Well-Lit Life | Comedy, 14:00 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• When Life Gives You Lemons | Comedy, 8:20 minutes, English, ON, 2010
• Worked for Me | Drama, 5:25 minutes, English, ON, 2009
• Would You | Documentary, 9:45 minutes, English, ON, 2008
• Windows of the Soul | Sci-fi/Horror, 12:00 minutes, English, NS, 2009
• X + Y | Experimental, 1:00 minute, English, ON, 2010
• Xplosion | Drama, 1:00 minute, 2006
• The Year You Were Born | Music video, 4:50 minutes, English, NB, 2007
• You're a Good Man, Antimin | Drama, 25:44 minutes, English, ON, 2009

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