NIFCO

Phillip Early recounts the months spent investigating a cold case. A police interrogator presses him for answers while trying to decode the role of a retired detective/successful author in the mystery.

Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.

A young man struggles with the death of his parents. He connects with a psychic to find answers.

A teacher attempts to teach his students to properly enunciate the letter 'R'.

When a boy from Darcy's cadet corps insists she attend the Trampoline Social, she sets off for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.

Conceived, written and shot in Newfoundland, this study in grief and adolescent longing is a sure sign of local filmmaker Adriana Magg's huge potential. The plot centers on Crystal Janes, a young girl with an odd relationship to her dead brother. Typically moody and self absorbed, Crystal is nonetheless sensitive and smart. Growing up is hard enough in average families, let alone one still working through its grief and guilt. A strong performance by Marthe Bernard as Crystal helps to anchor the story in a strong sense of realism, ghostly presences and all.

This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.

When two halves of a young couple can't get to sleep one night, a petty argument starts over nothing. As their frustration grows and the fight escalates, it becomes clear that what they aren't telling each other is what's really bothering them.

Struggling to deal with the loss of her husband, Mary has not yet been able to enter the room in which he took his own life, let alone even open the door. After starting to hear tormenting voices and strange noises coming from inside, Mary must finally confront the reality of her situation and open The Door.

Young Leia is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, Mom's old friend and current employer.

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.

A young girl named Pearl tries to help her father navigate the world of online dating.

When there's a knock on their apartment door Thanksgiving Day, Jay decides that today's not the day to introduce his girlfriend and common-law partner, Sam, to his Cameroonian parents.

A short film by Jacqueline Hynes made through Nifco's First Time Filmmaker Program.

It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning.

Ginok Song, a South Korean artist living and painting in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, explores what home is, who she was, and where she is now. Ginok examines the choice to become an artist as a need to explore self-expression, an intimate journey to know herself through the female gaze.

The morning after a drunken romp, Henry and Evelyn reveal that they have shared more than just a simple night.

This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.

A young man who is riddled with dread about identifying his calling in life seeks the advice of an older man who is all too familiar of the insidious tragedy that connects the both of them in the claustrophobic space they occupy.

A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned.