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This animation is a visual interpretation of a poem, "Crime of Passion" written by a Taiwanese poet, Hsia Yu. It is selected from her 1984 poetry collection, Beiwanglu, Memoranda. She reveals her emotions of love and sadness intertwined with one another and connects them with abstractions and metaphors. It expresses the preemptive feelings and desire for love regardless of reality. With the artist's way of interpretation, the poem transforms and alters its original forms. The artist wishes to present the poem in a different aesthetics from words to images.

Ben Chan stars as a man assign to retrieve a briefcase in order to clear some of his debts to the Fixer.

Meet Canuck – a wild crow who formed an unlikely bond with his human friend, Shawn. The mischievous crow has captured the hearts of Vancouverites and garnered global attention through his antics.

In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.

A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a mysterious power. His illusion gets worse as he actually has his lovers kill themselves. But after…

The peaceful evening of some rich and condescending folk comes to an end when he meets his fate, in the form of a killer dressed as Scooby Doo, with... a bread knife? Will his son and his friends survive the same destiny that sent his father to the other world?

When the clock runs out on an impossible debt, a drummer choses to face the music head on.

Adam, a drifter, arrives in a small town after a long journey in search of his lost brother. There, he encounters a prostitute who offers to help him in his hopeless search, and after a long conversation, it seems she truly might. But the next day, Adam realizes that the town itself is toying with his sanity, his memories, and his very soul, as everything spirals into a Kafkaesque nightmare of labyrinthine plotlines and shifting personalities.

A guy is addicted to social networks and the image he's showing the world through selfies. But does he still exists in real life?

This experimental short film is about a little girl who lost her home to urban renewal, and asks her wealthy neighbor, "why?" The film is a prequel to Andrade-Watkins' documentary trilogy about the Cape Verdean community in Fox Point. "Hi, Neighbor" had its world premiere at the 2011 Cape Verdean International Film Festival and was awarded Jury Selection (first prize), in the 2012 Black Maria Film Festival.

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.