Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

6 or 7 A mime reflects on the death of her childhood pet

The O Show This documentary looks at the life and work of Orene Askew (aka DJ O Show) as a motivational speaker, DJ and inspiration to youth and her many peers in Vancouver, BC.

Night in the Garden of E... An LGBTQ coming of age story during turbulent times.

Measuring Stick You can’t measure your self-worth in six, seven or even eight inch increments, as one young woman is about to find out.

Daisy Boy When Jameson, known to his small-minded town as a wilted wallflower, meets an open-minded stranger, his unapologetically queer identity-Daisy Boy-blossoms through the vibrant dreamscape in his head.

Blinded Nightmares plague Adria's sleeping and waking hours, exacerbating her mental illnesses. Her typical coping mechanisms are no match for the lack of rest and unsettling feeling she has over the dream. This forces her to find counseling despite bad experiences in the past, though the help she seeks may not be what it seems.

The Absent Director A young theatre company is rehearsing Macbeth in their director's home in Tehran. The director works with them from Paris over Skype. Their rehearsals are disturbed when the director's lifeless body shows up on their doorstep.

Boys Will Be Boys In response to recent media coverage regarding sexual assault, this film shows the steps that women take every day to make sure they are not assaulted.

Alone Time Working on his latest book, novelist Colin May becomes incapable of separating fact from fiction and within weeks of moving into his new home in the Hollywood Hills, he begins to hear voices, see images, often waking up to a distant deep calling from somewhere on the property. Colin’s novel, a masterpiece, grows in its intensity as his imagination and terror wreck havoc with his grasp on reality. All those around him, his nephew, his agent, his husband try desperately to help Colin return to reality, but the calling, the voices from the house's bomb shelter are growing louder, louder, louder. As Colin battles the demons in his head, he finishes the final chapter of the book with a climactic and terrifying meeting of an old acquaintance in the bomb shelter.

Fresh Hell During the dog days of the pandemic, a group of old friends fall prey to a psychotic troll. Blood. Chuckles. Very cool ;)