On The Fri(n)dge

Ximena Baeza: Para una tarde de lluvia / For an afternoon of rain

Mexico/Canada, 2026, 8:30 min, Spanish and English, color, 16:9

Lightning strikes on a summer night, reflections of silhouettes wandering around a house. The radio informs current events of water politics between Mexico and the United States. The containment of the house is broken with a cowboy trying to drink water from a dry river. Still shots of drought in a dessert. The cowboys' clothing over a bed.

Credits

A film from: Ximena Baeza
Colorist: Marcela Echevarria
Song: Kimia Moayyed
Poetry: Perla Arely Hernandez Barbechán's “Lluvia” and Yesenia González's “Polvo”

Cast

Rodrigo Baeza, Maria Jose Baeza, Ximena Baeza, and Paula Valenzuela

Abhayjeet Bhangu: The Stage Manager

A high school theatre stage manager attempts to lead a crucial rehearsal while trying to ignore the political and social tensions surrounding their Punjabi community.

Content Warnings: Intense moments, mentions/depictions of violence & death

Credits

Director & Writer: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Producers: Abhayjeet Bhangu & Maggie Johnson
Associate Producers: Emma Ciprian, Stacy Inglin
Casting Directors: Anneliese Wong, Kimia Moayyed
1st Assistant Director: Maggie Johnson
2nd Assistant Directors: Erin Docherty, Jack Bruce
Script Supervisor: Elyana Moradi
Location Supervisor: Mars De Menezes
Director Of Photography: Carlo Marchet
1st Assistant Camera: Aria Amirmoini
2nd Assistant Cameras: Griffin Ford, Jessie Bartsch
Sound Mixers: Ethan Ukrainetz, Ximena Baeza
Boom Operators: Stella Markovska, Julia Statnikova
Gaffer: Mason Flint
Key Grip: Joshan Heer
Grip: Valeria Mondragón Vargas
Production Designer: Sara Van Gaalen
Art Assistants: Bri Mei, Ella Fekete
Costume Designer: Sara Van Gaalen
Prop Masters: Khushi Sheenmar, Christine Yang
Makeup & Hair Artist: Sara Van Gaalen
Poster Artists: Palki Mahengra, Cardinal Maku
Editors: Joshan Heer, Abhayjeet Bhangu
Colourist: Cheryl Shiu
Sound Designer & Editor: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Composer: Atticus Gilchrist
Production Assistants: Misha Aneja, Shubreet Chhena, Harveen Kaur, Emmanuel Elegbeleye

Cast

Reet: Tejas Dhah
Arash: Raunak Chand
Kara: Esther Lee
Connor: Jaden Reinson
Jacklyn: Denise Zhang
Flag Student: Joshan Heer
Live-stream Actors: Madison Lee, Aikus Nagra
Phone Voice: Stacy Inglin
Arash’s Friend (Voice): Abhayjeet Bhangu

Alden Doyle: Extension / For No Reason at All / Walking in Tongues

A collection of four short works, three of which are three minutes in length and one which is one minute in length, encapsulating a personal world in the flux of healing, being carried away by the hurricane of transformation. The camera dangles off the edge of a cliff as I try to pull myself away from it. Four audio/visual poems that attempt to fortify one another, while standing alone in their own light and darkness.

Marcela Echevarría: Mateo y la Yaya

It’s the last day of vacation, and Mateo is enjoying the comfort of his home when he begins to fear coming back to school. That night, he decides to escape into a dream where he will be carried through the playful depths of his imagination. Leaving us the question of whether he will find the courage to come back.

Credits

Directed by: Marcela Echevarría
Production: Dana Elizondo Pulido, Marcela Echevarría García
Actors: Nicolas Garcia Cobian, Karina
Puppets: Lars Vargas, Andrea Paulina Vargas, Marcela Echevarría
Costumes: Andrea Paulina Vargas, Fernanda Sauvage from Alternate
Art: Ximena Baeza, Dana Elizondo, Soléne Pango, Daniela Ochoa, Lars Vargas, Andrea Vargas, Fernanda Sauvage, Camila Rueda Furuzawa, Lucia Chio, Kimia Mohammadi, Mimi Hustzi, Adelya Mullasheva, Leif Nordby, Stella Maekovska, Radin Khodadadi, Stevan Oostenbrug, Tatiana Patricia García, Natalia Echevarría, Manolo Echevarría, Patricia Aguado Bresso, Juan García, Mariana y Martina García, Jeanny Cervantes, María, Lucas y Camila, Marlene Del Río, Greco García, Javier Del Río, Marlene, Monica Cobian
Animation: Marcela Echevarría, Lars Vargas, Dana Elizondo, Ximena Baeza, Lucia Chio
Light design: Ximena Baeza, Marcela Echevarría, Soléne Pango

Joshan Heer: Fight After Fight

After swiping legendary treasure from a fearsome gang, A Driver both brave and bold is stranded in the middle of nowhere! Shadowy figures stalk ever closer to our hero, as every step forward could be his last!

Credits

Director/Writer: Joshan Heer
Cinematography: Ethan Ukrainetz
Producer/Sound Mixer: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Gaffer: Tyler Roberts
Sound Mixer: Harvey Jay Juan
Grip: Emmanuella Paul
Grip: Colette Chang

Cast

The Driver: Kye Cartwright
The Stranger: Terrence You
The Scout: Darian Ngai

Mimi Huszti: You’ll feel some slight pressure

Canada, 2026, 12:09, English, Color, Stereo, 16:9

During the late-stage era of the universe, a spirited teenage girl is offered a radical surgical “procedure” – one that will twist her spine to the precise angle required to transport her soul to a utopic version of earth.

Content Warning: Blood from fake animal dissections.

Credits

Writer, Director, Set Designer: Mimi Huszti
Producer: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Director/DP: Mimi Huszti
Sound Mixer: Kimia Moayyed
AC/Grip: Elyana Moradi, Valeria Mondragon Vargas
Costumes: Abby Ridd
Gaffer: Chloris Au
AD: Mikayla Luchinski, Abby Ridd
Boom Op: Carlo Marchet

Cast

Megan Battad: Noam
Violet Turnbough: Golda
Brian Forrest: Dr. Louis

Background Actors: Nala Corazon de Guzman, Jennifer Rees, Simon Lorca, Ayub Hassan, Sameera Aladina. Bailey Doering, Marcela Echavarria

Yousif Kairee: Facemasking

Canada, 2026, Color, stereo, 2:1

A self-destructive voice pushes Stef to the edge when she’s invited to the birthday of someone she’s determined to support, in spite of the fact the attendees have left them both feeling uneasy.

Content Warning: coarse language, allusions to domestic abuse and self-harm.

Credits

Director: Yousif Kairee
Producer: Aimee Swartz, Natalie Turnbull
Director of Photography: Akhil J. Narayanan
1st Assistant Director: Radin Khodadadi
2nd Assistant Director: Brianna Vergara
Gaffer: Patrick Maka
Sound Recordist: Alden Doyle
Boom Operator: Reza Negaresh
Sound Engineer: Kyle Wilton
Dialogue Editor: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Composers: John M. Stewart & Alden Doyle
1st Assistant Camera: Lianne Guo
2nd Assistant Camera: Quinn Masselink & Will Fitzsimmons
Key Grip: Solene Pango Salas
Grip: Caris Simmons
Best Boy: Kris Vogel
BTS Photography: Kris Vogel & Caris Simmons
Script Supervisor: Natalie Turnbull
Production & Design: Aimee Swartz
Production Assistant: Lizz Buchholz

Cast

Taryn Pedersen: Stef
Yousif Al-Rahmani: Rasheed
Gabriela Mattos: Gina
Kairo Chiang: James
Stephen Hass: Tommy
Moore Bailey: Diana
Sarah Shepherd: Maria
Aimee Swartz: Hostess
Extras: Lizz Buchholz, Brianna Vergara, Caris Simmons

Carlo Marchet: So It Goes

Canada, 2026, various duration, English, color and B&W, dual mono sound,three sets of two speakers, playing mono sound, 4:3, 3:2, 1.34:1

In a 3-Channel mixed medium installation, bittersweet feelings of belonging and loss are explored via close examination of a familial space.

With Thanks To: Esterida Colussi, Linda Marchet, The Colussi Family, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Corbin Saleken, XINEMA, SFU Live, Abhayjeet Bhangu, Kimia Moayeed, Samson Chan

Kimia Moayyed: Morf

A malleable creature with no origin or name spawns into a world that unreasonably throws obstacles in its way. In an attempt to survive its unpredictable environment, it mimics, adapts, and tries to defend itself until it grows into a mosaic of everything it's ever encountered.

Credits

Director / writer / composer: Kimia Moayyed
Co-animator: Theo Badzio
Featuring paintings by: Mimi Huszti, Abby Ridd, Ximena Baeza, Marcela Echevarria
Sound advisor: Chaucer Gilson

Elyana Moradi: Project Future

Canada, 2026, 10min, English, colour, 5.1 sound

A graduating filmmaker, lost and struggling to find work in her field, volunteers for “Project Future” a one-way mission to become one of the first human settlers on planet Mars, unaware of the possible dangers of this beautiful promise.

Credits

Director and writer: Elyana Moradi
Producer & Sound Mixer: Abhayjeet Bhangu
Assistant Director: Dana Elizondo Pulido
Director of Photography: Mason Flint
1st Assistant Camera: Aubin Spitzer, Carlo Marchet
2nd Assistant Camera: Franklin Lee, Colette Chang
Aria Amirmoini: Gaffer
Grip, Set Builder, Security Guard #2: Tyler Roberts
Grip: Saba Kazemeini
Production Designer: Valeria Mondragón Vargas
Set Builder, Security Guard #1: Jamal Allad
Art Assistant: Pamela Mondragón Vargas, Sloane Ainsley Kerr, Jessie Bartsch, Hanna Moradi, Allyson Mah
Makeup Artist: Frida Antopia
VFX Artist: Akhil Narayanan
Music Designer: Nicholas Haddad Amorim
Colorist: Kai MacDonnell
Graphic Designe: Sara da Sliva

Cast

Sahara Richards, Nelly MacLeod, Brennan L. Henderson, Omid Moradi, Tyler Roberts, Jamal Allad

Reza Negaresh: Shadows and Glimmers

You would always say that the Revolution started at that cinema.

Abby Ridd: To Burn our Sacred House

Despite the distance between them, two old friends keep in correspondence with each other, using one another as a diary with which to share their innermost thoughts.

Content Warnings: Swearing & smoking.

Credits

Writer and Director: Abby Ridd
DoP: Carlo Marchet
Animators: Abby Ridd, Mimi Huszti, Kimia Moayyed, Carlo Marchet
Gaffer: Mason Flint
Music by: Coraline Chen
Set and Character Design: Abby Ridd
Sound Mixer: Mimi Huszti
Editors: Abby Ridd, Mimi Huszti (VFX)

Cast

Kimia Moayyed, Alicia L’Archeveque

John M. Stewart: The Harvest

In Manitoba’s Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, within the historic homeland of the Métis Nation, an elk hunt unfolds, revealing the intimate connections among humans, the environment, food security, and life and death.

Content Warning: Real-life hunting practices, death of an animal

Credits

Co-created by John M. Stewart and Damian Racine
Editor, sound and images: John M. Stewart

Natalie Turnbull: A political: relationships can be hairy

When Hailey’s boyfriend Jarrett says he won’t go down on her unless she shaves, she figures it’s her only option. However, when she goes to do the deed, she finds that her pubic hair is sentient and has a very strong desire to live.

Content warnings: nudity, sexual content, abusive language, coarse language

Credits

Director: Natalie Turnbull
Producer/Director of Photography: Yousif Kairee
First AD: Ella Fekete
1st AC: Tahlia Hunt
2nd AC: Ally Barabonow
Gaffer: John Stewart
Sound Mixer: Reza Negaresh
Boom Op: Brianna Mei
Production Designer: Aimee Swartz
Intimacy Co-ordinator: Kyra Fequet
Puppet Maker: Ava Jane Stanley
Art Assistant: Lucia Chio-Felix
Hair/MUA: Nix Dobson
Puppeteer: Abbey Schwartz

Cast

Erin Purghart: Hailey
Della Haddock: Pubes
Patrick Linn: Jarrett
Serena Gatti: Savannah
Stephen Haas: Conservative Grifter
Jesse Del Fierro: Beauty TikToker
Sue Rutherford: Pool Chiller

Ethan Ukrainetz: Frame of Reference

A personal documentary about hobbies and faith.

Credits

Directed: Ethan Ukrainetz
Edited: Ethan Ukrainetz and Miranda Smit

Cast

Laurie Ukrainetz, Ethan Ukrainetz, and Nathan Ukrainetz