Fantasia… Festival Spotlight: Fantasia 2025 15 Aug 202526 Sep 2025 It was our second year at Fantatsia at Short Ends, and it was a whirlwind of some of the best international genre films collected at the 29th edition of the…
Outtakes Recipes for the Future: Family Archives and Memory Work in Endless Cookie 18 Jun 202529 Sep 2025 Endless Cookie (2025) is a feature animated documentary, directed by Peter and Seth Scriver, that follows two half-brothers —one Indigenous and the other white—on an adventure to create an animated…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2025 17 May 202526 Sep 2025 It's our third year attending the Hot Docs Film Festival at Short Ends Collective! Juan Ospina and Elya Myers have gathered a short compilation of our time at the 32nd…
Festival Spotlights… Oh Canada! : My time at FNC 2024 18 Nov 202426 Sep 2025 Throughout my time at this year’s FNC, I decided to focus nearly exclusively on their Canadian film selection. I chose to do this because I believe we are in the…
Festival Spotlights… Capsule Reviews: Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2024 18 Nov 202426 Sep 2025 Caught by the Tides, Dir. Jia Zhangke There is little to add to Jia Jangke’s argument as one of the most engaging filmmakers of his generation, not only in China…
Festival Spotlights… Spotlight on International Resistance and Resilience for Hot Docs 2024 17 May 202429 Sep 2025 For the Hot Docs 2024 festival, I focused on documentaries centered around resistance and resilience. Now, more than ever, apathy and detachment has become a mode of being. We’re presented…
Hot Docs Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2024 17 May 2024 For the second year in a row, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 31st edition of Hot Docs and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety…
Festival Spotlights… The Digital Ethnographic Potential of Animated Documentaries in Knit’s Island 6 Feb 202429 Sep 2025 In the realm of independent animated productions, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) remains a strong player in North America and an engaging and communal experience for animation lovers, almost…
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