Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)

The Agnostics follows freshly-relapsed alcoholic Suzanne and her father Mark to an Easter gathering, which they hope will result in a much-needed cheque from their senile Uncle Raymond.

Alyssa and her friends make their way home from school and spend another afternoon in the suburbs, navigating the new pressures they face while teetering on the cusp of girlhood and womanhood.

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

A woman deciphers a message received in her dreams, sent by a colony of bees.

Regular life is still a struggle for John years after his fall from grace. If he was marvelled at by the world again, life wouldn't be so bad.

Short film made during the COVID-19 pandemic about two estranged former lovers spending Christmas Eve together in isolation.

A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

Two Black Nova Scotians are pulled over by a white cop while on their way to do a CBC radio interview about police racial profiling.

A blood-red sky. A man descends into darkness.

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea and worked with and around boats, fish, carnivals, and animals most of his life. While convalescing during an extended period in the Halifax infirmary in 1973, he was encouraged to paint. What began is therapy and a pastime developed into a way of representing a lifetime of images and experience

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.

A portrait of Larry Loomer, the owner of an antiquarian bookstore located in a small town. Larry is a colourful and amusing character who shares his wry take on the world.

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

Madame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm.

A young woman leaves the comfort of her small rural community to pursue opportunities in a big Canadian city. She encounters obstacles that almost force her to return home, but she eventually picks up the skills to adjust to the city.

A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a Norman McLaren short, a light attached to a fiddle bow traces a dancing dot of light in darkness. The music was composed and is performed by Gordon Stobbe on fiddle and accompanied by Bill Doucette on guitar.

Incomprehensible meta-film

The year I turned nine I became pathologically afraid that my parents would die. I stopped letting them leave the house at night, even for a walk around the block. I'd call them repeatedly at restaurants if they tried to go out for dinner and once threatened to kill myself if anything happened to them. That's when they sent me to a psychiatrist. This is the story of the year I was nine.

A banana gets invited to a party