director: Heather Frise

Toronto, Ontario

April/May 2020

3min

Snippets of night-time conversations and drawings create a sense of the pandemic world Heather finds herself in - juggling work, homeschooling her daughter, and taking care of her mother who has Alzheimer’s.

director: Mike Rollo

Regina, Saskatchewan

June 15-21, 2020

5min 20sec

Days of the week blend together.

director: Lisa Rideout

Toronto, Ontario

April 23, 2020

3min 40sec

Director Lisa Rideout explores what’s missing in a neighbourhood impacted by social distancing.

director: aAron Munson

St. Albert, Alberta

June 21 & 22nd, 2020

3min 45sec

An impression of a family on pause.

director: Julia Hart & Samantha Kaine

June 17, 2020

3min 10 sec

Two friends share a phone conversation an ocean apart – “if all of this wasn’t happening, where in the world do you think you would be?”

director: Yuqi Kang

Inner Mongol; Calgary, Alberta

June, 2020

3min 45sec

An intimate and very personal look at how even the most certain things in life can be taken away in the blink of an eye.

director: Kelly O’Brien

Toronto, Ontario

March - May, 2020

6min 55sec

A young girl describes the struggles of life under quarantine in letters to her grandparents.

director: Katerina Cizek

Toronto, Ontario

Images and Illustrations from March - June 2020

2min 50sec

Window Visits documents a family’s weekly afternoon visits to a long-term care facility from a child’s perspective.

director: Alan Zweig

Swansea, Toronto, Ontario

May 23, 2020

6min 10sec

A search for a place to walk, a space to dance and a mask that fits.

director: Anna Maguire

London, England

March 18th - June 15th, 2020

4min 30sec

My door is my keeper. It keeps me safe, keeps me isolated, keeps me disconnected. I’m lucky I have a door. If eyes are the window to the soul what are doors?

director: Christina Battle

Edmonton, Alberta

May 26 – May 31, 2020

3min 10sec

Slowing down, looking closer, and listening to what has always been there just under the surface.

director: Shabnam Sukhdev

Toronto, Ontario

May 13, 2020

6min 45sec

A filmmaker experiences a spattering of recollections as her daughter’s recent hospitalization comes to an end.