Fantasia… Art Lives! My Experience at Fantasia 2025 3 Aug 202526 Sep 2025 The Fantasia International Film Festival has been offering a space to screen the unscreenable for 29 years, providing a platform for the type of cinema that resides on the fringes,…
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…
In Conversation In Conversation: Marie-Michèle Wyland and chosen homes 27 Jan 202526 Sep 2025 As an outsider it is rare to have been present since the inception of a film, that is why I knew Fleurs Secheés was a special project from the get-go.…
Outtakes Intercepted: Resilience through the Barren 23 Jan 202529 Sep 2025 Intercepted is the latest documentary by Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych. Recipient of the Grand Prize award for the National Feature Competition at the RIDM 2024, Intercepted shows the destruction left…
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…
Fantasia… In Conversation: Tony Zhou, Taylor Ramos and a date with Cinephilia 17 Aug 202417 Aug 2024 Never meet your heroes they say. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos defined much of my formative years in cinema and many others in my generation through their video essays on…
Fantasia… Capsule Reviews: Fantasia 2024 17 Aug 202415 Aug 2025 It was Short Ends first time at Fantasia Film festival and we couldn't have been more happy to attend Montreal's largest genre film festival! Below is a selection from Juan…
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…
