“A Big Adventure” is an intimate and poetic documentary in which filmmaker Hero Hemmingsley captures the final journey of his father, Winston Hemmingsley, following his terminal cancer diagnosis in Glasgow. After a year of silence between Hero and his father, the news of his father's heart attack unexpectedly brings them back together. Hero immediately flies to Glasgow to care for him and begins filming—driven by the desire to create a lasting, beautiful memory of a special father who could be b
Documentary Shorts
Moon Belly
In a small place in the Highlands of Chiapas, a Tsotsil girl who will give birth for the first time, invokes the memories of the women who preceded her in order to face this moment. Amidst the fears and uncertainties of giving life, she discovers motherhood from the cosmovision of her world.
How The World Is Going To End
A short documentary film captures the public's fleeting feelings about the world's future and potential ending. Capturing the beauty and fragility of the planet on 16 mm film, allows to navigate in an uncertain world seen through the eyes of people living in all corners of the UK.
Burcu’s Angels
For thirty years, Burcu’s Angels has been more than a vintage boutique—it’s been a space of belonging for Vancouver’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community. As Turkish queer elder Burcu Özdemir prepares to leave its latest location, the film becomes a quiet celebration of resilience, memory, and chosen family.
Translocations
Centred on sphagnum moss, Translocations highlights the mutual aid and reciprocal exchange that exists between species in the restoration of a lowland peatbog. Featuring the voice of botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and a tactile soundtrack score, the film documents the human and more-than-human life, energies and actions that are transforming an intensively farmed and damaged terrestrial environment back into a flourishing wetland habitat.