The Inheritance ★★★ 1/2 Hollyshorts 2026

The Inheritance is a strong, unsettling short that explores the challenges mixed-race couples face as they delve into their ancestors’ past. Destinee Stewart keeps her audience uncomfortable throughout the fifteen-minute runtime. When Venus (Arie Thompson) joins her wife Harley (Hetty Abbott) on a remote family estate, unsettling visions collapse past

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Aurora ★★★ 1/2 HollyShorts Film Festival 2026

Writer/director Angad Aulakh swings for the fences with his fantastic sci-fi short film Aurora. For the most part, he succeeds, especially visually. It’s a short film that deserves your time. Stranded in the farthest reaches of space. When on a mission, the sole survivor, Freddie (Guy Kent), of a catastrophic

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Bagman ★★★★★ (Short) Fantasia 2026

Connor and Vaughn Gaston’s horror short Bagman brilliantly twists the consequences of wanting a character to check something they really shouldn’t. As the mystery turns to horror, we soon learn that maybe some things are left untouched. A fantastic horror mystery that fills you with dread. Graduate researcher Nat (Sam

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Borbulha (Pimple) ★★★★ (Short) Fantasia 2026

Gloriously absurd, Borbulha (Pimple) throws everything it can to shock and surprise its audience. Director Fernando Alle has made a terrific four-minute short that revels in its body horror. A young boy is having a difficult time in life; getting through school as a young adolescent is hard, but having

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The Intimacy Coordinator (Short) ★★★★★

Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s The Intimacy Coordinator is an intense, gut-wrenching short film. A clever film that grips you with a horrible sense of dread. From beginning to end, this is a sensational short film from a filmmaker whose work becomes essential viewing. Kate (Louisa Connolly-Burnham) is an intimacy coordinator working on

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Atəm kʷaθ nan (Namesake) – ★★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Atəm kʷaθ nan (Namesake) is a tremendously emotional and necessary documentary, showing us how lost some communities are in their efforts to recognise and respect Indigenous people. If we could all live with the attitude of the Tla’amin Nation, we would be a lot better off for it – A

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The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Unveils Its 2026 Programming as AKI and Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) to Open and Close the Festival

May 7, 2026, Tkaronto/Toronto—The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (imagineNATIVE) is pleased to announce the programming for its 26th festival year, taking place June 2–7, 2026, in Toronto and June 8–14, 2026, online. As the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content, imagineNATIVE celebrates Indigenous film and media arts

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Searching for Drug Peace ★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Searching for Drug Peace is a raw, but careful conversation starter on the benefits of safe drug use and effective but still illegal methods of tackling the overdose crisis. Director Alisher Balfanbayev’s compelling and important documentary will reframe how people think about this highly political topic. Amidst a deadly overdose

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