Lonely, isolated and disconnected from his roots, Manolo is an Afro-Cuban man who has reached a low point in his life. But he’ll find new hope after a chance meeting in the community centre where he works. A short film set in Montreal (Tio’tia:ke), Canada, in English, French and Spanish.

Ruby follows the ruminative and nostalgic day of Pakistani woman, Ruby, who’s recently immigrated to Canada. The fatigue of her journey gives way to a melancholic anticipation as she waits for her husband and son to come home.

A short film about a set of encyclopedias, A Parent’s Wishlist is a story about upward mobility and working class aspirations. Dragged from one city to another and across the country by Jean’s Chilean father, his encyclopedias came to symbolise his hope for a better life for both himself, and for his son.

Cry Harder’ is a dark family dramedy that explores the various ways different generations of a Chinese family deal with grief. After seeing her father emotionless and stoic at her mother’s funeral, Lyn and her grandfather work together to try and make her father cry in an effort to bring out his humanity.

Content warning: thematic material, irreverent humour, some mild language.

Shamso Mohamoud and Shamso Elmi both lost their sons to gun violence and watched their alleged killers walk free without so much as a legal prosecution. Now, the two Somali-Canadian mothers have organized a group “Mending a Crack in the Sky” to combat gun violence while facing cultural and racial barriers.

On the day of her release from a psychiatric facility, Mira, an Arab American woman, attends her grandmother’s 90th birthday — only to discover that her sister Lara has lied to the family that she was on a trip to Florida.