Sex, birth, fire and fingerprints…this rock n’ roll passion play considers the events of conception and results in mayhem.

Drawing its inspiration from a song by Les Colocs, this animated film deals with the death of the band's harmonica player and offers a gripping and relentless account of the banality and cruelty of death.

The title refers to the famous tower designed by Russian constructivist architect Vladimir Tatlin, erected to celebrate the glory of the proletariat. While paying homage to the genius of constructivist artists, this film presents a mordantly ironic perspective on the marriage of art and ideology.

cNote is an exuberant creative synthesis of picture and sound, animation and music. Filmmaker Chris Hinton stretches his formidable animation skills in this masterful opus, where the dynamic movement of his visual art dances in syncopation with the bold musical strokes of an original modern classical composition. This music was created by Montreal-based composer Michael Oesterle.

Dawn, a young woman and the end of the day comprise this three-part unstable biography.

Based on the true story of a father who takes his sons on a fishing trip in the untamed forests of Montreal, this hilarious animated short by Academy Award nominated director Chris Hinton is a paean to the joys of family travel and the multiple wonders of fast food.

Wassili Dudan pays tribute to pioneering Canadian animator Norman McLaren.

The mind-bending, ever-changing images in animator Michèle Cournoyer's latest work lay bare her innermost feelings. A powerful and at times disquieting piece steeped in black humour, Accordion draws its energy from the clash of our different urges and conveys sexual attraction and the search for love.

A woman's voice leaves messages on her lover's answering machine. "Where are you?" she asks. On the screen, a small fish is snapped up by a big one. A bigger fish snaps up the sun. This visual poem, hand-rendered in black-and-white drawings, invites viewers to lose themselves in its singular beauty.

At the start of the film, Jacques Drouin sits down in front of the pinscreen like a musician at his keyboard, preparing to leave his mark on the work. When the animation begins, the pins and the music answer each other, vibrating in unison like the rhymes of a poem. The repeated harmonies of a rondo for harpsichord by François Couperin give the film its rhythm and shape.

This short abstract film, full of dark undertones, comes like a fleeting dream, where forms appear and disappear like ghosts in the midst of nocturnal chaos. It was created with an inventive use of digital technology and grew out of an unusual process of interchange between the painter Jean Detheux and the composer Jean Derome.